I managed to make it to Target yesterday. It drained me. Last night my stomach killed me all night. It still hurts me and now I feel I am getting a bladder infection (maybe from getting dehydrated?) Sierra started throwing up last night. Poor thing. She is doing better. It is amazing how when kids are sick it doesn’t seem as severe as when adults are. I hope we are both on the mend soon. She is so excited about valentine’s day (tomorrow,) but I don’t think she will be able to go to school for her party. They are off of school on Thursday, Friday, and Monday.
Archive for the ‘My Kiddos’ Category
For My MOM:
February 8, 2007Apparantly, yarn and socks are not very exciting to my mom. She has been visiting my blog looking for the kids…
Here they are…
Madeleine is very enthusiastic, but kept blinking when the flash would hit her, so this is the best pic:
Don’t ask my why Sierra has these things on her head or why she looks so grumpy. Just one of those days, I guess:
Not a baby…
January 7, 2007Madeleine has verbally made it clear to me that she is no longer a baby. She has been telling me this for the past few months, our conversation will go like this:
Me: Come here, baby and let me snuggle you.
Maddie: I am not a baby.
Me: What are you?
Maddie: I am a kid.
She knows she isn’t quite a big girl and instead of me accepting her being a toddler or a preschooler, I keep holding on that she is still my baby. After all, she has that baby/angelic face with those curls.
Today, however, I went to teach my class and when I came home I noticed that Madeleine seemed taller to me. It is weird that leaving the house and kids gives me this new, fresh viewpoint. After examining her I noticed that her baby belly is gone, her legs are longer, and really she is a little girl and isn’t really my “baby” anymore.
A tear came to my eyes when I thought…hmmmm…I need a baby.
Well, since then, I have come to my senses, ha ha and no I will not be having a baby any time soon, knock on wood.
I almost finished the Baroque jacket from the Happy Hooker. I am just working on the border, so should have it done later tonight, though I probably won’t take a picture until tomorrow.
Letter to Santa
November 30, 2006Yesterday, Sierra got the idea to write a letter to Santa. Every time she asks for something I tell her to put it on her list for Santa. She didn’t tell me she was going to write it though and in Sierra-fashion, she grabbed any piece of paper on my desk, which happened to be a snowflake pattern, a pencil, and an envelope (the car insurance envelope.) She wrote the letter and then glued it. She then put it in the envelope and glued it. Then she glued plastic jewels on it. On the envelope, she wrote her version of Santa Clause, our house number, and her phone number and name.
I told her that we couldn’t mail the letter like that and asked her if I could open it. So she let me and I was pretty surprised what I saw. I had her read it to me. I told her we will rewrite it as even she was having a hard time reading what she wrote. Then we will mail it to Santa. I do have to admit that she probably won’t get what she has asked for in this letter.
(It is clickable)
Interpretation: “Hi Santa Clause. I want a Disney Princess Television. Santa Clause, Have a merry Christmas.”
Do you see it? I do. Not bad. She is in Kindergarten and is still learning to read and write. I am very proud! Tony and I got a little laugh out of it, but unless the Disney tv comes on woot sometime soon, I don’t think that is doable.
I am feeling better. I picked Sierra up from school today. I am still pretty achy and still on meds, but am feeling more myself.
The urologists wants those stones, so I guess no keepsake earrings will be made from them. Yes, that is bad humor. I am looking in to seeing a new urologists for my followup treatment. I am going to be calling around and asking questions first. I think that there should be some law that mandates doctors use some type of anesthesia when removing stents. I shake when talking about it. Seriously, it is something that falls along the lines of torture.
I have had catheters and I have had a blocked catheter, which is not a good thing and is up there in being bad, bad, bad…but that was an “accident” and this is a medical office procedure. It isn’t like I live in the backwoods were medicine isn’t available. I have good health insurance that covers for me to be comfortable while being medically tortured, so I just don’t get why it was necessary that I had to go through that. I swear I have a small bit of post traumatic stress over stent removal.
The pain for that is up there with dislocating your kneecap or having a discography. Which the first one is something you don’t ever want to happen and the second one is done under anesthesia.
Okay, I have ruined the Letter to Santa post…now I must eat dinner and go lay down. I will try not to come over to your blog and whine about myself. I will get past this mentally, I swear!
“I knit at night…”
October 26, 2006…and go to school during the day.” That is what she tells her grandma on the phone. She started off with long size 10 needles and some spare green yarn. With the long needles I was able to direct were to put them by holding the ends. However, after one night of helping I was no longer needed and it was apparant she needed her own needles. Oh, and her own yarn (and grandma if you read this…pretend you didn’t see the color of the yarn…it would break her heart if she knew that you knew her surprise.)
Silence=trouble
September 9, 2006
Madeleine, it isn’t Halloween yet! There goes all the toothpaste. Atleast you know who got the creative genes.
Paton’s One Skein Patons Classic Wool Merino - Leaf Green I made this scarf for the Michael’s class I will be teaching in October. It will be for the display. I did want it to be like the on in the pattern, same color and all.
First Day of Kindergarten
August 9, 2006Sierra could not wait for this day to come. She loves school so much it is hard to contain her enthusiasm. She didn’t cry and almost laughed when I asked her if she was going to. She was confident, got her name tag from the teacher and was probably the happiest kid in her class. School went fine for her, her biggest problem was that she apparantly locked herself in the bathroom, but was later saved by a big kid, you know a “six of seven year old.” When I picked her up from school she accused me of being late when I was right on time, they were all early. The nice thing about her school is I can volunteer their whenever I want to and it is only a block from my house.
I have a story to tell about a local park I went to today, but will have to tell it later.
4th of July Weekend
July 7, 2006We went to Mendocino to see my folks. It was fun and we are all tired from the drive.
Here is a picture tour of our weekend. First, the girls and my husband saw deer out the kitchen window. I was in town with my mom at the local yarn store. My mom could not believe how much yarn there was. She agreed the owner is super friendly and you almost feel guilty if you don’t buy anything because she is so nice and wonderful to be around. Of course, we can’t have guilt, so I picked up some sock yarn to be auctioned off as knitted socks to support Beth in her 3 Day Cancer Walk.
The next day we go to the beach and look at the tidepools. Tony finds a star fish, a purple and white one. I didn’t have the digital so you will have to wait for my film photos to come back. Tony did get a picture of two people having lunch with a turkey. I am not kidding. There are all of these people sitting around having lunch with their kids and dogs. Then there are these two with a wild turkey sitting on their towel.
I decided to give Sierra the camera while we were sitting in the car. She took a lot of pictures, mostly of kites in the sky. I would share them, but well you can imagine what a kite looks like with a digital camera pointed by a 5 year old. She did get a nice shot of her sister sleeping.
While Madeleine slept in the car and Tony read his book (grumpy,) Sierra and I explored. We looked at tide pools, hiked along the headlands, talked to the kite man, and more important than anything else, we picked flowers (sh…you aren’t suppose to pick wild flowers…but you know, tell that to a 5 year old.)
I cannot wait for the day that I get a digital SLR, but until then you have to put up with our 5 year old digital point and shoot.
Before we left we went to the 4th of July parade in Mendo, where for the first time we did not see a marijuana plant. There is usually some type of legalize pot float in every parade, but not this year. We did see a lot of Peace floats, which I loved, Old Broads for Peace is just a hoot.
Also, did you ever wonder what it would look like if you went to grandma’s house and grabbed every knick knack off of her shelves and glued it to your car? Well apparantly this guy did. Tony couldn’t get the camera out fast enough so we only could get a picture of the tail end of it.
When we got home we were able to catch the local fireworks show and the kids did some fireworks also. Love the helmet?
Last but definately not least and probably the most surprising…
On the way home from Mendo we stopped through the redwood forest and I picked up some branches from a fallen tree. My plan was to mail them to Jimbo for one of his next projects. However, being the curious creature that I am I went up stairs and got out my spyderco, not your ideal carving knife, but it worked and started carving. I also used some sand paper and then oiled it up and here is my very first carved redwood crochet hook. It isn’t perfect by any means but I am so proud of myself I can barely stand it. I know Jimbo would be proud of me too.
I did finish one sock this weekend and am to the heel of the second sock. I hope to have it finished by Monday. Still working on changing my diet, no sugar, flour, potatoes, corn syrup, juice, or red meat. I corn chips and salsa today, not necessarily good but not super bad, either. Atleast it isn’t on my list of dont’s.
Swing Tank
June 19, 2006
Pattern: Summer Swing Top
Needles: size 5
Yarn: Cotton-ease in color Banana Cream
Pattern notes: This pattern worked up very easy and quick. I was a little thrown off by the circumference of the bottom of the top, but it looks cute on Madeleine so I think it is fine. I was 1 1/2 off in the length, but it is for a toddler who is smaller than Madeleine, so I think it will be okay. If I were to make this for Madeleine, I would do one more pattern repeat in the skirt part. It would change the yoke a bit, but since it is ribbing I think it would be fine.
I am happy to have finished something, of course it isn’t one of my work’s in progress…because apparantly I have some type of attention problem.
And…because I have a category for bugs, I found a moth today in a bag of wool roving. Can you believe that? It was in a sealed zip lock bag. I checked the seal and it was fine. Ick! I looked through all the bags of wool I have and that was the only one.
If I told you the past three days have been hot here is an understatement. The problem is that last week it was so cool, 75 degrees one day. Then, Friday it was 100 degrees and felt about the same Saturday and today. I love the sun, but I hate 100 degree weather. My ideal is low 80’s. We almost went to see my parent’s this weekend, but we really needed some time at home. Maybe tomorrow I will show you a picture of my flower garden.
I had planted flowers about a month ago and they all died (except the lavender, it is still doing really well.) Yesterday we went to home depot and bought some more flowers. I also bought some mulch and hopefully my flowers will have a better chance now of living.
Dragonfly
June 8, 2006
Nope, not a new pattern.
A few weeks ago Tony’s parents asked Sierra what she wanted to be when she grew up. Her answer: “Protector of Animals.” (((HUGS))) I love this child.
So, it was no wonder today when we were in the backyard she spotted a dragonfly and wouldn’t you know it, the dragonfly landed on her hand. I was able to run into the house and get the camera.
