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Fall

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It’s fall. And it’s cold. And we’ve got gourds and pumpkins decorating the living room. I love fall decor! And I also love our new (to us) blue piano.

We just got back from Tacoma last night. My dad, Erika and I worked out a surprise for my mom and we managed to pull it off! It’s not easy keeping secrets from my mother! We had a great surprise birthday party for her, thrown by my dad and my aunts and we all had a blast being able to celebrate her 50th together!

Quick note, if you’d like to place a Christmas order, please do so soon. I have limited space this year due to some large custom orders- so I may run out of room sooner than normal.

 

 

Family Pictures

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We had our family pictures taken last weekend. Sam was a bit of a grump, but we managed to get several decent ones.

 

Thanks, Laureas for giving us some great family shots!

Pizza and Books

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A few weeks ago I decided to make some mozzarella cheese. It was a lot of fun, but it wasn’t the most stringy mozzarella, it turned out a bit more crumbly, so we decided to use it on a pizza!

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We used ginormous heirloom tomatoes and fresh basil from the farmers market and my homemade tomato sauce, homemade crust and some sausage. It was hands-down the best pizza I’ve ever eaten in my life. 

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After dinner Sam ran off into his room. When I peeked in to see what he was up to, he was chillin’ in his basket of books.

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He’s really into books these days. He’ll grab a book and run it over to you and sit on your lap and wants you to read it, but he never sits longer than the first page, then he’s off to find a different book or toy.

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In knitting news, I made a monkey hat. 2T size. For some reason I feel like this one ended up a little bit bear-like. But I can’t quite figure out why, because I made it the same as the other ones, only larger. Oh well. Image

 

Rainbow Hat

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Sam picked out the colors and order of this one. We wanted to make a fun hat for his friend Caden’s first birthday. I thought it’d be more fun to let Sam pick and choose!

I grabbed all my worsted weight acrylic and let him pick and choose. It was pretty funny to watch him contemplate over colors, deciding which ball of yarn to pick up first.

He thought it looked better off of his head.


View from the top!

He is my friendly little ghost! This shirt was actually given to us LAST Halloween by his grandparents and it finally fits him this October! Who could have predicted that mine and Paul’s child would be so tiny? (Not us, especially given the ultrasound tech constantly telling us that we had a giant baby!)

 

 

 

 

Button Beanie

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A flowered beanie for a little girl.

Complete with button flower!

AND it’s own Knittybutton tag!

If you want the hat, it’s available down at Hansel and Gretel (511 N. Main!), (Or it will be once I take it down there today…) along with a few other baby hats. If you buy them from there, you’re supporting two local businesses, so win-win all around, right?

Sam Plays Football

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Paul took Sam out into the yard the other day and played a little bit of football. Sam loved it. It was adorable! He loves to throw around the football.

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I love this kid.

 

Fall and Leaves

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The weather has been stunning so far this fall, clear blue sky and multicolored leaves falling onto our yellow grass. Sam loves to run around in the leaves.

 

He kept using the pumpkin like a pacifier. A little bit big for that, buddy.

We’ve really been enjoying the cooler weather and be able to play outside at the park without getting sunburns or heatstroke. Also happy to note that we are all healthy again after a nasty bout with the stomach bug, which we unfortunately passed on to Charissa who got to come visit us! And nothing ruins a fun weekend like the stomach flu. Luckily it was a 24 hr bug, so besides having the flu-hangover for a few days afterwards we were back to normal within a day. Sam didn’t get it, which is great- but it’s so hard chasing after a kid who is intent on scaling the walls while you have your head in the toilet.

Yeah, we had to take this toy out of rotation because he kept climbing on it and trying to jump off!

He also likes to be my workout buddy. He loves my 1lb weights.

He’s also started fake laughing, which is HILARIOUS. He feels left out when we’re laughing and he’s not in on the joke, so he chimes in with his “Ha ha!” I love it, and it just makes us laugh even harder. He is such a ham.

As far as knitting goes: ONE MORE Sock Monkey and I am done! Whew. Then to start on my Christmas orders! I will be happy to not knit another Sock Monkey until next Halloween…. Im just hoping people order them sooner rather than waiting until mid September to ask about them! But I’m not complaining- I am so glad to have work and an opportunity to get my knits out there.

Also- for any locals- there are some of my hand knit baby hats now at Hansel and Gretel downtown!

 

 

 

Sam’s First Haircut…

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On Sunday I finally got tired of Sam’s rat-tail that was on the top of his head. I tried to cut it of with scissors…but that didn’t work, since my little guy is so wiggly I made a few unfortunate cuts and it looked terrible. So we pulled out the clippers.

It looks a little funny, but hoping it grows back a bit more evenly. I wasn’t planning on shaving him almost completely bald, but I think it is kind of charming.  He definitely looks older without his baby wispy hairs! I saved a few of them for the baby-book.

Sam is also graduated to a “big boy bed”, since he decided it would be fun to jump out of his crib. So for now we have a mattress on the floor. The last two nights he’s done great, but I’ve heard from a few moms that night 3 was the worst, once they figure out they can get up and play if they want to. We’ll see how he does! If not we can try the pack ‘n play. I hear the walls of that are a bit harder to scale than the crib.

I’ve also been trying to do more things with my hair, instead of the “mom ponytail” everyday. I’ve seen this hairstyle cropping up a lot…not sure if my thick hair can pull off the “Heidi-braids” or not.

Does anyone have any good suggestions for hairdo’s for medium length thick hair? I get bored with my bun and ponytail.

Annnnd, since I haven’t shared much knitting stuff with you recently(other than sock monkeys)… here is a pixie hat I’ve just finished! I’ll get some pictures of Sam modeling it for me up soon.