Busy, Busy

Lowan was five months old yesterday, time has flown. And I am so busy it seems. Between school starting last week, and work, and family time, and personal time, I can't find a spare minute. I guess personal time is the spare minute. I read a book for pleasure, probably the last one until Dec.


But then it's over. School is finished. Unless I decide for a Masters. Well... or I become a CPA, which I intend too. So that will be some hard core studying and possible schooling.

Today, I am going to post a lot of pics. They show all the cuteness of my life. Above is Lowan asleep (obviously) in his crib with puppy in hand. He lays in bed playing with this little guy all the time. He LOVES him!



In crafty news, I worked on the Yoda Sweater a bit a couple of weekends ago in Sacramento. And then some more last night and tonight. I have almost finished the second front. Then it is on to the sleeves. Still no pictures, but I'll take some pretty soon. It is coming along nicely and I hope to finish it before this winter. School permitting.


Here are Kyle and Lowan in bed in the morning. After I get up and nurse Lowan, I drop him off in bed with Kyle. It is such a sweet time. They were so cute, I had to jump into the shot with them. Often, the morning gets away from me because they look so cozy and I join them. Then I don't get out the door on time. I don't have as much choice for school but I can get in late to work if I need to.


Here is Lowan getting prepped for his first meal. We did not feed him, but I put him in the high chair with a spoon to play with.


I know this picture is blurry, but I love it so much. These are the kind of faces Lowan gives a lot of the time. He is very expressive.


Lowan is getting a lot stronger on his belly. He is flipping over from front to back. And back to front. But he won't do both at the same time. He will keep flipping the same way over and over again (with us flipping him back), but has yet to master the double flip.


I whipped this bag up today to put the dirty diapers in while we are out. It is cotton on the outside, polyester as the lining, and a cotton flannel liner. I am hoping the polyester will stop major leaks and if there are any, I hope the flannel absorbs it. The diapers are not really wet or leaky, but this will help if there ever is a problem. I made two bags and they turned out really cute. I can't wait until we don't need them for dirty diapers anymore and then we can use them at the farmers market. We've been trying really hard to stop using any plastic bags whenever we go out. It's kind of hard to see, but the fabric is made up of turtles.


Here we actually get to eating. Lowan was happy... until he got some food in his mouth. He kept getting the willies. But some went down. We don't know how much he ate. We fed him again this afternoon, and he did better, but was still not that excited. We're going to start feeding him every day. And then I'm thinking sweet potatoes will be the first solid food at six months.


Finally, I found this cute tutorial for turning a toddler t-shirt into a onesie. We bought this shirt on clearance for a couple bucks and I made this for Lowan a week or so ago. And he is not really standing, but he leans really good. He has some strong legs (but weak arms) and I fear his walking will come too early!

Alright, I've got to go to bed, so I better end this now.

Headbands and More

There has been much going on around here. As usual. Kyle and I went to Sacramento for the weekend. We went to the zoo, a yarn store, a tea store, and Ikea. Always Ikea when we head to Sacramento to visit Kyle's mom.

Ikea is kind of funny and I don't really think you can go there too many times because you have seen it all before. I think we are going to limit our trips to once per year after the "new" stuff comes out. But it was eventful, there was a table we fell in love with. No boxes, so we asked. All that was left was the floor model. We examined it for at least 30-45minutes. Then went to have a bar code printed. It was originally $130 (I think), marked down to $80. We were hopeful for additional discount due to floor model status, but received none from the manager who helped. Then when the man printed the bar code it was... $39.90!! YEA. We were very excited and caused quite a commotion when manager came back by and saw price tag. She yelled at man for giving us a deal and I was worried she was going to take the price back up to $80. Then she told man that the difference was coming out of his departments budget and stormed away. Then Kyle and I searched the store for I'd say at least an hour for some chairs to go with the table. They had these reclining type, but we really wanted the stationary type. We thought they would be more stable. There was one and the store showed four in stock. The hour passed as we scoured the store and gave up and bought two of the reclining chairs. All of this to get home and find that the table won't fit in our car (we were in Kyle's mom's car) to bring it home with us. Good thing, she is coming down this weekend and will bring it with her. We have the legs and leaves, she has the table top.

Then on Sunday we bought Kintoki at a Osaka-Ya. I saw this in Sunset magazine and really wanted to try it because Kyle and I have seen this treat on some ice cream PBS show. Kintoki is shaved ice, ice cream, and sweet red beans. We also had the green tea powder on top, but I would not get that again. It was the sweetest part and was really overkill. Then we went to Coloma for the day. Kyle did some gold panning, I did some knitting, and Debbie (Kyle's mom) did some Sudoku. It was nice weather and a nice park along the American River.


Before we left I cranked out three of these. Here is my first one. The second was a variation that I made up that I am luke warm about. And the third is the same style, different print as the first. I am having some sizing issues. The last one is a little too loose. I think I need less elastic. I find I often have head band tightness issues. I will work at it.