If anyone has emailed me in the past few days hoping for a reply, we’re trying out DSL and I’m having trouble getting my outgoing mail working. (Incoming mail is working fine – I’m getting all my mail, including spam!) So, I’m not ignoring you, we’re just figuring out how to make it work. Hopefully it will, because switching from the cable modem to DSL will save us a bit of money every month, and it appears to be faster.
OK, off to go draft my fantasy football team.
I’ve joined the September Challenge. The goal is to finish two projects this month, preferably projects that were started prior to this month. Of course, being the over-achiever I am, I’ve picked more than two projects to finish. So here are my goals:
That’s not too many goals, is it?
And I still can’t believe it’s already September.
Tonight, I finished a project that has taken me ten years to complete. Honest! This is a relic from my junior year of college. I’ve been slowly chipping away at the mess that I call my craft room, and I found this project only 150 stitches short of being done. Actually, I’ve found this project every single time I’ve organized my craft supplies, and I’ve put stitches in it each time.
Obviously, it’s a really large, complicated project, right?
Do you really want to see it?
Are you sure?
Then click below:
You know it’s time for bed when you’re just sort of randomly skipping around the internet, and you try to remember what you’re looking for, and all you can think of is nice soft pillows.
Would you believe she ate all the ice cream in that plastic helmet? OK, not really, but she did get a few tiny tastes of it. I think she likes ice cream!
We had a busy day, and Carrie didn’t nap – despite being given several opportunities – so I put her to bed a little on the early side. Unfortunately, if I’d just put her to bed 10 minutes earlier she would have avoided falling and getting a huge bump on her forehead. She had reached super-tired-danger-baby mode. My poor little girl!
By 8:00 Carrie was sound asleep and we realized that we had a whole evening free to do…whatever. It says something about how geeky we are that we immediately pulled out one of our many variations of crayon rails. I love crayon rails. It’s a competitive game, but only peripherally – I mostly enjoy figuring out how to make an efficient track, and let’s face it – how often as adults do we get to use crayons? And a bonus tonight is that I won! It’s been ages since I beat Denis in a two-player game of crayon rails!
Anyway, one of our errands that made today so busy was to get a new shower head. Our old one was only half-heartedly trickling water down the wall of the shower, which made washing anything – except that wall – very difficult. We ended up getting one of those new-fangled hand-held ones with 7 different spray settings and a dial to control the water pressure. I’m (rather pathetically) looking forward to taking my shower tomorrow morning!
Oh, and I finally finished hiding all of the million ends on Carrie’s ladybug sweater and tacking up the hems. Now I need to finish digging out enough of my craft room to have a flat place to steam block it, and then it will be time to steek. I did make a dent in my craft room earlier. You can now see that there is, in fact, a bed in there, and it’s not just a pile of books and yarn. If I could just find a half hour every day for the next week, it might actually get to the point where I could call it “clean”…
Carrie’s been pulling up on furniture and people for quite a while now – since Mother’s Day, actually – but today she actually just stood up in the middle of the room without any assistance. She’s been getting so much steadier on her feet, and choosing to walk instead of crawl more often than not. My guess is that she’ll be running (and climbing) around the house for her birthday party!
And I think it’s the way she stands now, but she looks so much more like a little girl than a little baby that it takes me by surprise sometimes.
Doesn’t this look a bit like candy corn? Devan is just flying off the needles, and I love it! It makes me happy just to look at it.
But for those of you who love the ladybugs, never fear: I’ve been sneaking in a row here and there and only have 10 rows left on the second sleeve! The plan is to spend the rest of Carrie’s naptime knitting those last few rows, and then to hide ends at Sit & Knit tonight. There are approximately one million ends though, so I’m going to bring Devan for when I get bored of that. (I’d guess that will be after hiding approximately 2 ends.) But if I can keep the momentum going, it might mean a steeking party this weekend – assuming I can dig out enough of my craft room to get to the sewing machine!
Dear Carolyn,
You are ten months old today. My adorable little baby is rapidly turning into an adorable little toddler! I’ve already started planning your birthday party…well, I’ve picked out the cake and set a date, does that count?
Once again, there are no teeth to report. I promise if you haven’t gotten them by kindergarten we’ll get you baby dentures so you can smile with all your classmates. It doesn’t seem to bother you in the slightest, though. We’re entering a new phase of solid food: anything on a spoon is automatically yucky. This month you’ve tried: nectarines, papaya, wheat germ, cheese, lentils, chicken, red peppers, onion, beef, parsnips, tomatoes, turkey, mandarin oranges, asparagus and pickles! You could live on peas, ditalini pasta tossed with butter and romano cheese, blueberries, black beans, grapes, cheese, graham crackers (a.k.a. cookies) and cheerios. Thankfully, you’re generally willing to eat other things too.
You now have a vocabulary of three signs: “milk”, “more” and “all done”. You’ve figured out how to point to things, and generally get your meaning across, although sometimes I’m a bit slow on the uptake. There are times that I think you might be saying “duck” (like in the bath, with your 6 duck bath toys) and times when it sounds like you’re saying “dog” (also generally in context) but we haven’t quite declared either of those an official first word.
Love, Mommy
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