Bloody Hell!

Well, it's been a LOT longer than a month this time....I've been meaning to sit down and blog, I swear....but as Niblet's getting bigger and more mobile, he's even more demanding of my time....it's play, play, play ALL the time!....and resucing him from potentially precarious situations....not that I'm really complaining that much....it's been so lovely being at home with him.

So much has happened since the last post....in the last few months we've gone from sitting to crawling to standing to almost walking....also lots of conversing in jibbersh....Hugh's just a bit over 10 months....which means it's only a couple of weeks till I'm back at work full time.

The thought of leaving him 5 days of the week is so awful I can't stand it, but I also know I have to get back into the real world....it's a pretty insular world being a stay at home mum, even though we go out lots and see lots of people, there are some weeks when you think crap, I haven't left the house for 3 days....although, I'm very proud of the fact I always managed to be showered and dressed before lunch time, even on the worst days.

My huge to do list has hardly been touched, no surprise there....I've been chugging along with the knitting and I managed the christmas dress sewing....the one thing I have done though is gotten a bit more interesting with my cooking....made a quinoa veggie curry the other week....YUM....and there have been some great pantry raids, chuck it in the pot sort of dinners....like, lamb fillet, tin of toms, potatoes and onion, with a handful of fresh herbs....bubble away, worked a treat.

There have been many treats courtesy of the Domestic Goddess cookbook, I think the absolute gem was the fresh gingerbread with lemon icing....sorry, no photos, it all got eaten.

Anyway, I still find it amazing that this little guy:

Has grown up into this not as little guy:

Now all I have to do is sort out his First Birthday party!

Crap, it's been nearly a month!

Since I last posted....

Things have been busy busy busy!....First, lots of firsts

Sitting:

Solids:

And I made risotto (I know, easy....but I've always been a bit weary)....it was YUM!

Hmm, what else....I found some rocket in the garden I thought had died....so it has it's own pot now.

One day a gorgeous beetle crossed my path.

I made a bazillion moth bags for sorting and storing all our old clothes and some of my fabric stash that I know I won't get to for a while:

Eliza got a new cardi:

and I got new yarns....all from Etsy....BAD ME!....but hey, I'm dying to start some summer knitting....and nothing in my stash was inspiring me.

and after all that, I think I'm going to find time to whip up a few pairs of pants for niblet!

You know Spring is on it's way when....

you smell the Jasmine....

Jasmine is one of my all time favourite flowers / scents....where I grew up there was a huge vine wending it's way through the side fence. Every so often it would have to be hacked back because we couldn't open the gate....it was just so divine!

A week of endings

I know I say I don't get a lot of time to knit these days and it's true. I've also never made secret the fact that I HATE weaving in ends, etc of knitted things....even though finishing a project is the most satisfying thing ever....handing over that handmade gift and seeing happy little faces or getting all smug when someone comments on your new scarf and you can say "oh this, I made it, was just a trifle"

And those of you on Ravelry can see on my projects page that I've supposedlt knocked out a heap of scarves....well, in all honesty a lot of those scarves still had ends that needed sorting out!

So last week I sat down during sleep times or daddy play times and wove in a zillion ends!....and have added 5 scarves to my wardrobe!

Of course there's still a list as long as the proverbial of projects only half knit....but that'll be another post.

Somedays....

Somedays I go a bit spare at home, just me and the monkey....so today I baked.

Found the recipe here, I added some orange zest, just to lift the flavour, not for taste....and the mix made a lot more than 30 cookies!!

A life in song

If someone had said to me once you have a bub you'll start narrating your daily doings in song I would have slapped my forehead in dismay, yet that's exactly what I'm doing. Life has become a stream of constant short and sweet ditties.

Little one is 16 weeks today, nearly 4 months old and I have no idea where the time has gone. He's still the sweetest thing with 2 legs....at the moment he's trying oh so hard to roll over, it's gorgeous to watch.

Although there hasn't been much of that today, poor thing has a case of the snuffles and on top of that big mean mummy took him for his 4 month jibber jabbers yesterday and he's all over the place because of those.

He still has the cooler than cool mohawk happening, god knows what sort of hair the poor kid's going to end up with!

As for anything else going on....I mentioned hubby got made redundant, well he found another job with in a couple of weeks, so it's just bub and I filling in the days!

And I've had sod all time for knitting, even though I did get some of the new Tapestry Craft brand lace yarn. The colour range is pretty impressive. The idea is to knit a couple of soft lace weight cardis for summer (pfft, yeah right)....well, the first idea was for a couple of stoles but then the cardi idea came up when I spotted the Whisper cardi that everyone is knitting.

But who knows when I'm going to get the time to concentrate on anything knitty for now!

Kiel finally got his pirate jumper though:

10 Weeks

I won't go on about how much he's changing and growing and developing....or about how super cute he is!