I’m test knitting a super cute girl top. I love it. It will be perfect for Sophia. If I ever finish it……
Have you ever worked on something and you knit and knit and knit and it seems like you haven’t added ANY length? That was me last night. Knit, knit, knit….2 hours later, still 4 inches long.
Someday, it will be finished. Hopefully that day will be SOON.
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I know, I know. It’s July. I haven’t blogged in many, many months. But in my defense, it’s been quite a year thus far. I can’t catch you up on everything, but let’s hit the highlights, shall we?
In December, I looked like this.
In January, I gave birth to this.
Liam Davis Holcomb, born January 14, 2010. The end came on rather suddenly. I went in for a dr’s appointment, my blood pressure was super high and I got sent to the hospital for testing. The next morning I was back to be induced. Liam took his sweet time making an appearance, and was born in the wee hours of the morning.
Let’s see some more of him, shall we?
And 7 months later….
He’s a bundle of happiness and smiles. The kids adore him. He’s rolling all over the floor and loves it when the kids play with him. I can’t believe he’s gotten so big!
So, after the birth of Liam, I found I had hurt myself. I pulled some muscles pretty badly and 2 days later discovered I had also hurt my knee in the process of having baby Liam. I tore the meniscus in my right knee. Two surgeries and months of physical therapy later……I’m still not all the way better. My dr has no idea WHY I’m not better, so I have more dr appointments in my future. It’s OK. I’m back to taking care of the kids and I’ve just started going out of the house again by myself. It’s been a long year so far, to say the least.
But there has been knitting! Including some super adorable baby stuff, including….
Summer Swing Tank, by Tina Good in Yarn Love’s Anne Shirley, colorway: Valentine
In Three’s: A Baby cardigan, by Kelly without a Net in Madelinetosh Vintage, colorway: Nostalgia
That’s my SIL up there. This was at the baby shower last month. Baby Lucy was born a few weeks later and is super adorable!
Last but not least I have this:
In Three’s: a baby cardigan by Kelly without a Net in Madelinetosh Vintage, coloway: Dahlia
This sweater is something special. Starting Friday it will be on auction for a good cause. Kim of Green Strings has had a pretty rough year. You can read about it all here. On top of a terrible year, they recently found out that their son has cancer. He’s been getting fantastic care, but the bills pile up. In an effort to help, her business partner, Tina has put together this auction. Please go and bid, and bid high! There are so many gorgeous things up, including yarn, handspun, knit items and more.
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Nothing really exciting happened, but Cedric’s preschool had their annual fall festival this year and we took the kids. They have it at a local farm, Kimball Farm. It’s a fun place if you need something to do this weekend! They have a kids hay maze (Cedric loved this!), animals, a hayride, a GIANT corn maze and the favorite of everyone…..pumpkin launchers!
Look at my adorable children. You would never know that 2 seconds after this happy moment Cedric was trying to push Sophia down. Sibling love. LOL
Isn’t she getting big? She informed me two weeks ago that she wanted to grow her hair and her bangs out so she could have (and I quote) “long pretty hair!”. So, we’re trying it out. She looks so different without her bangs!
more sibling love.
The kids running through the hay maze. We could barely get Cedric away from here. He was fascinated with running through it. You can also see a corner of the corn maze in the background. We were going to go, but they said it takes about 2 hours to do and at that point we had already been there for almost 2 hours and the kids were starting to get hungry. Maybe next year!
Cedric, with my ever-growing belly as a backdrop, on our hayride. We went with a bunch of people from preschool and it was a lot of fun, but very, very crowded! They have 3 or 4 giant Belgian horses that they use to do pull the carts. The kids were fascinated with how big these horses were.
I believe this would be right around the time Cedric yelled “Cow! I PET YOU!” and proceeded to do just that. The best part, the cow moo’ed quite loudly at Cedric and instead of being scared Cedric moo’ed right back at him. He thought the animals were great. And Jared and I were laughing because he kept calling the goats “moose” because they had horns.
Potato launching! They had two launchers (basically bungie cords!)…one kid sized and one adult sized. The kids got to launch potatoes. It was so funny to watch!
And here’s Daddy launching his pumpkin. It went over 300 feet! The kids thought it was hysterical to watch Daddy do it.
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The upside of being sick this weekend was that it gave me lots of knitting time. This was good, because I’ve been trying to finish this darn sweater for a week. But it’s done now and looks SO cute on Cedric. Don’t you think??
(don’t mind the dead plants in the background…..I haven’t gotten around to ripping out our flower beds yet. Of course, it might be easier if I could bend over! LOL)
Pattern: Wonderful Wallaby by Cottage Creations
Yarn: Mosaic Moon BFL in Blue Goblin
This pattern is great! It’s worked from the bottom up, all in one piece, which was really nice. The directions are easy to follow and I LOVE the pocket. It’s Cedric’s favorite part too. LOL The only thing I found was that I needed to size up, as it seems to run a little small.
I can’t say enough good things about this yarn either. SO soft. So yummy and squishy. And the colors are BEAUTIFUL! I love the way it came out! And I might have just enough to squeak out a newborn soaker for the baby.
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Nobody faint. It really is me! I promise! I know, I know…..I suck at blogging. But let’s all get past that and I’ll tell you what I’ve been up to. LOL
There has been some knitting, though apparently morning sickness hinders my ability to knit quite badly. I’ll post more of my knitting next time.
In the meantime, we’ve had a busy summer! We’ve had lots of visitors…including Jared’s parent’s (see pictures below), Jared’s grandparents (we had lots of fun at the Children’s Museum!)
(Cedric playing in the bubbles at the Children’s Museum)
(Sophia climbing)
And last but not least, Jared’s brother and his family visited……and apparently I have no pictures! But really they came to visit. LOL
We had lots of warm days and trips to the farmers market. The kids love the farmers market. Probably because mommy gets them icecream every time we go. Who can pass up homemade Maple icecream!?! We got a membership to the Science Museum and went a couple times. I was even brave and went all by myself! Oh, and we moved the kids into a room together! They love their new room and it helped make space for the new one to come.
We went to Maine for my cousin’s wedding where Sophia and Cedric got to meet a whole bunch of family members that they didn’t remember and I got to snuggle all the new babies! The wedding was lovely (and HOT! OMG…the weather was SO hot that weekend!).
My baby girl turned FIVE! It’s hard to believe that 5 years ago, she was just a tiny, tiny baby and she’s grown into this independent, funny little girl.
Here’s Sophia dressed up in her princess clothes (she got dress up stuff for her birthday and it’s been a huge hit!) with her friend Nora. We had a party at my parents, complete with Spiderman birthday cake! And then on her birthday we had a few friends over and had cupcakes. Very low key. Just what mommy was going for! LOL
And she started Kindergarten! With much trepidation and plenty of reinforcements…..
we went to the bus stop for the first day. (And this is where things kinda went off track…..the bus never showed up and we all had to troop back home and I had to run her to school in the car. But thanks for coming for her first day, mom and dad!) There was much excitement (on Sophia’s part) and a lot of tears (on mommy’s part!), but she really loves school and riding the bus. She’s learning lots and making new friends. Kindergarten has been great for her, so far!
Cedric, also had his first day of preschool. Talk about your double whammy. I had to send both my kids for their first days on the same day.
Cedric seems to love preschool…..whenever we ask him if he likes it he says NO. However, he’s always excited to go. LOL And it’s helping him make strides in his speech. Speaking of speech…..Cedric passed through his 6 month early intervention evaluation with flying colors! He’s still behind, but has made a LOT of progress. My little boy, who said only a handful of words has a 70 word vocabulary and in the last week or so has started to make his own sentences, count to 10 and sing the ABC’s. Everytime he uses a word it’s like a miracle to me. I can’t express how grateful we are for EI and the wonderful therapists he’s been assigned.
And last but not least…….I’ve been growing us a brand new baby boy! Here he is…
at 18weeks. Much to the sadness of Sophia, we will be adding a new baby brother in January. Everything has been great so far, but I’m tired and forget I can’t push myself as hard as I used to. Growing babies is hard work! LOL
Here’s me at 22 weeks (today!)
Next time, knitting!
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There hasn’t been much knitting around here as of late, but I have a good reason! I’m working on a new project that has been taking up most of my energy.
We’re having a baby! Morning sickness and the sheer exhaustion that come with the first trimester have pretty much ground my knitting to a halt, though I have a few things in the works. Lots of baby knitting coming up though!!!!
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We spent the last half of April preparing for my husband’s dad and step-mom to visit. They came for 2 whole weeks!! It was so fun to see them……it had been a REALLY long time since we had last seen them. And their visit was SO fun. Full of fun activities and house projects. Jared and his dad replaced our front door, fixed our staircase, hung 2 brand new ceiling fans and did various other odds and ends around the house. It was so nice to be able to cross some of that stuff off our to-do list! Plus, we never would have been able to replace the door without Wayne’s know-how!
Now, on to the fun stuff! We spent 3 days on Cape Cod, enjoying the ocean breezes (just not the ocean water….it was chilly!). We also spent a whole day in Rhode Island touring the old mansions. The kids loved seeing the big old houses and running on the giant lawns!
Jared, his dad Wayne, Sophia, and Cedric
my son, king of the castle! LOL
Sophia, at the beach. She loved the water and we came home with a bunch of shells and rocks. We also got to watch a pod of whales just off the coast…..we watched them jump in and out of the water for over an hour.
The kids (including Jared), hamming it up in Provincetown.
Cedric, at Sturbridge Village, a working village modeled after a New England village in the early 1800’s. We saw all sorts of cool stuff….including a tin-smith, tons of animals and a man firing a musket!
Jared and Sophia behind the grain mill on a little bridge. Sophia was fascinated with how the water turned the wheels!
We also spent two days in Boston-sightseeing, visiting the Aquarium, taking a trolley tour and having some REALLY good seafood!
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This is the funniest thing I have seen all day. Go, look!
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It’s snowing. Again. Just when the ice had finally all melted from the driveway and I was beginning to think we might escape the cold clutches of winter……….nature plays a cruel trick and we get 14 inches of snow. Luckily, Jared decided to stay home and shovel, which is good because there is a lot of it.
LOL…check out my van, it’s buried in snow! Ah, well….at least the road crews are great here and do a pretty good job keeping the roads cleared. And, we thought the worst was over when I took this picture, but……it’s snowing again now.
Let’s move on to something more fun…….gadgets!
It’s been quite a gadget-laden month for me. First off, my new cell phone….a t-mobile G1. My mom started working for t-mobile about a month ago and they get a really amazing phone plan and added me to theirs. It’s a great phone and I love being able to stay in touch with everyone on text messages. My other gadget came this weekend…..a kindle! I’ve been wanting one for a while now, and now that people are buying the Kindle 2, I found a sweet deal on this kindle 1. I’m totally in love with it!
Oh, and there’s been knitting!
Pattern: Starflower by Jeannie Cartmel
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Mediumweight Socks that Rock, in Sugarplum
Start: February 3, 2009
Finished: February 28, 2009
and I started this….
A koolhaas just for me! I’ve been wanting one since I made this pattern for my dad and this yarn is so purty I decided to go for it. I’m hoping to finish it soon!
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