I did not stay home today. I did not knit today. Today I went to the doctor. Doctor says I have a virus. Know what’s fun about a virus? Nothing. Especially when you’re breastfeeding and can’t take the nice medicine that makes one extremely drowsy and takes the edge off of the extremely raw throat, the sore face, the runny nose, the cough and did I mention the raw throat? Since I can only take that nice medicine (Hycodan syrup, if you’re wondering) in very small amounts and only just before bed after feeding Jakob for the last feed of the night, my daytime hours are limited to a medicated gargle and saline nasal spray. And tea, ice cream, soup, yogurt, anything either cold or hot that I can slide down my throat.

So…no knitting. Maybe tomorrow. I think I’m going to hibernate this week.

Jakob is 5 months old today. I look back at photos and video of the squishy little dark-haired infant I brought home from the hospital, and can’t even see the resemblance to the bright, alert, active, pale and fair-haired, solid little boy I get the pleasure of seeing every day.

I know this post should have photos, but my camera is downstairs and truthfully I’m too tired and lazy to go get it. I am planning on getting up early to go meet up with a stroller walking group in the morning, which means I need to go to bed earlier than my usual 1:00am or later.

So I will be going to bed as soon as I search the internet for a Cliff-Notes version of Beowulf so I can summarize the story for Yannick (who looked intrigued by the upcoming movie so I made the mistake of telling him I’d read it in university, which I did…but that was almost 8 years ago).

Check back here tomorrow for my usual monthly summary, along with some cute photos and the latest on the Superman Costume.

p.s. Happy Anniversary Julie & Rich!

😦 One of the perils of designing your own knits, is that you don’t have the (implied) guarantee of the knits working out. You could be whizzing along, thinking you’ve got this great piece of fabric goin’ on, when all of a sudden- wham! Knitting speedbump.

I tried the costume on Jakob last night, and while it fits…I’m not super happy with it (no pun intended!). The legs don’t seem to be long enough so the “underwear” line falls in the wrong spot. It also appeared to be pulling a bit around the waist.

I added some short row shaping for the tushie area to take the excess bulk of a diaper, and have decided that there is no alternative for me but to lengthen the legs by about an inch and a half each. I refuse to rip back so I will be taking the other way out- cutting, reknitting, grafting.

Photos to come…once I get up the desire to actually take scissors to it…

I just realized I forgot to post last week’s “weekly” photo, so here it is:

Mommy with Jakob at 20 weeks

First of all, to Joolz…thanks for the tiramisu recipe! I’ll have to try it out since it is Yannick’s favorite dessert!

To Anonymous…our square dishes (with matching smaller plates, cups and bowls) were from The Baie from our wedding registry. We got 4 boxes (with service for 4 in each) for our engagement party from my 3 siblings. Unfortunately they were discontinued, but fortunately for us that meant the price was knocked down, which is why we ended up with the service for 16. I’m such a klutz that we are able to have enough for our everyday use and have spares in case some break!

And to Lindsay…congrats! You are the first to guess the costume correctly! I bet you wish I’d offered a prize to the first correct guess, huh? 🙂 Jakob WILL be Superman for Hallowe’en!

Hi all.

I’m still here, don’t think I’ve forgotten about you. It’s just been a really hard week for blogging. First of all, I’ve barely taken out my camera, so I don’t have much to show you. Secondly, Yannick is still sick and still sleeping in the spare bedroom/office, so my usual blogging time at night when either he watches Jakob or once Jakob is in bed is no longer available since we’re avoiding him to try not to get sick. (Did that come out right?) Anyways, besides all of this, Jakob has been REALLY clingy the last two days. He cries if I put him down, even sleeping he’d rather do on me. He had his vaccines last Friday and it’s been a week so it shouldn’t still be affecting him, but something is going on. Either the teething, or…I don’t know. His head is boiling hot but his body is cool and he has no fever, plus he’s been on Tylenol for his teeth every 4 hours, but his head is still super hot. There have been a lot of demands on my time and blogging has not been the priority, but I’m still here and still trying to find what few moments I can! I also try to find time to read your blogs, so keep posting and I’ll keep reading.

When I placed my online order for the anniversary and birthday books, I accidentally ordered & received 2 copies of Family Circle’s Easy Baby Knits.

http://www.amazon.ca/Family-Circle-Easy-Baby-Knits/dp/1931543267/ref=sr_1_3/702-6380868-9014457?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190907565&sr=8-3

I have until the beginning of October to send it back for a refund. Before I do that, is anyone interested in a trade? Make me an offer!

Whoops. Thanks to the astute Maaike for noticing that in my last post I kept talking about my crocheted items and saying “I knit…” or “if I were to knit this again…”. Yes, I’m crazy. I CROCHETED all 4 face/wash/dishcloths, and clearly everything that I did to them or would do to them in the future would also be crocheted.

I’ll try to wake up before my next post.

So I didn’t blog over the weekend ‘cus it was the High Holidays, and then every night since then something has come up, and last night I was going to sit down and blog…and Yannick was sick and decided to sleep in the spare bedroom/office. We’re off to the movie today but I’m taking two seconds to write this first. I will catch up later, I’m going to upload some photos now so I can blog from my mom’s later.

Just wanted to share though- got my Ravelry invite today! Woot! Something ELSE to have no time to do LOL.

Ok, more later…