gratuitous cuteness

isn't he one of the cutest babies you've ever seen??? :)

First Steps!!!

I just had to post this - Nia took her first steps last night!!! AHK! :) So excited, yet so emotional about it - my little baby girl is growing up!!!

actual knitting!

I FINALLY finished this little baby jacket for my friend's baby - of course, he's gotten so big, that if he even fits into it at all, it will be for like 5 more minutes! Oh well, not much I can do about it now! I decided not to do the velvet edging, because just the knitting was taking so dang long, and I couldn't figure out how to do it without being such a pain.

I think it turned out pretty well despite the lack of trim :) Hopefully there will be a baby fashion show picture shortly.

I have now started a little baby blanket for another friend, but all I've done so far is wind the yarn into a ball - well really, SEVERAL balls because it was such a tangled mess!!! It seems there were 2 lengths of yarn (at least) and they got wound really weirdly, so it was impossible to find the right end, and it was pulling from the outside of a center section of the ball!! That was rather a nightmare...

Hopefully I'll be able to make more time for knitting in the future so this blanket doesn't take forever. Luckily, it's not a sizing issue to worry about :)

Don't you hate it when...

...you don't have any time to do anything but the absolutely necessary things??

Baby has been growing like a weed, is now cruising around the furniture, crawling everywhere super fast, and saying a few things - "uh oooohhhh," "mama," "dada," "memo" (Elmo), "hi," and "buh bye." Craziness!!!

Catch-up

Hi hi!!
I'm a terrible blogger - I think it was Ann who decided to not feel guilty about that, maybe I should try to join her. Anyway! I have been knitting, but since there is a baby to take care of, and my husband pretty much monopolizes the computer when we ARE home, I don't have many pictures to show you. I am hoping to take some this weekend, and I want to update my Ravelry stuff too, 'cause it's just too cool a tool to NOT use it! :)

I just finished a baby shrug for my cousin's baby, and before that one for my little one, a baby hat for my other cousin's baby (but then determined that a cotton, small, thin hat is not good for a growing baby in October in Buffalo, NY), and am now working on a baby raglan sweater for that same baby. THEN I will work on a velvet-edged jacket for a co-worker's baby (she's still preggo), and then a baby shawl for another co-worker's baby (who is 5 days younger than my daughter!). SO MUCH BABY KNITTING!

I will try to post some new pics this weekend - around DD's portrait appointment, how FUN!

oh - and in other news, I'm starting a NEW JOB on the 20th! YAY! I'm super-excited!! wish me luck, I think it's going to be more intense, but more fulfilling at the same time. AND I get to work at home 1 day per week to take care of DD, so YAY!

hope everyone is doing well!

WOW

I don't know what else to say - I have been gone WAY too long. Suffice it to say that baby girl is now living here:



instead of in my tummy!

It's been a wild ride, that's for sure. I'm finally getting the hang of it I think, and am back at work unfortunately, which throws everything off again. Obviously, I haven't had time to blog, but I have done a smidgen of knitting - nothing that turned out well though. I'm making another little green dress for another new mom for her baby girl though, but since I've already made one, it's not that great blog-fodder. So, instead, see cute baby pictures!