bella’s blanket in action
lincoln safari: colonel dinsmore park
We woke up on Thursday to a beautiful day: 60 degrees in February! I looked at the Lincoln Safari map to see if there were any posts close by and there was one right up at the library. We pretty much dropped everything and just went.
It was hard to convince M to follow the clues. We haven’t done this before and all she knew was that we were at the playground. Why leave the playground to follow some clue? So, we stayed at the playground until she was all played out, which was almost two hours. She ran around and I followed her with my knitting. (Hey, there’s only so much for an adult to do at the playground!)
After she was tired and ready to leave, I did manage to convince her to go do the rubbing. We hung out for a few minutes at the big rock before heading back home.
retro photo: who is this little girl?
Seriously! Is she my Mirabella? She’s so tiny! Her hair is so straight and dark!
This is another photo from my cell phone. It was taken in February 2007. It’s hard to believe that this is the same little girl who is sitting next to me at the kitchen table “doing her crossword.”
This growing up stuff is happening way too fast!
retro photo: picking dandelions
This weekend I accidentally figured out how to download photos from my phone. I say accidentally because I was having trouble with my camera cable and while checking “connected devices” I saw my phone.
I don’t have a very fancy phone, so the photos aren’t that great. They remind me that spring is on the way, though. I’m pretty sure I took these last April while T was away at Driver Education School.
Oh, and about the camera cable. I wasn’t plugging it in properly. Doh! All is well.
bella’s blanket. finally!
There are lots of reasons why this blanket took so long to complete. When I was pregnant, most of the time I was too tired to knit. Plus, my wrists hurt from wearing sea bands to help with the nausea. Then, when M was born, well, you know how it can be with a newborn.
The blanket got tucked away in the closet for awhile. I had terrible bouts of startitis. My projects were scattered all over the place. I knit a lot of socks. I knit a hat and mittens for M. I knit squares for charity blankets. I knit an afghan for my parents. I discovered sewing.
Then I found the coolest fabric. It was the perfect colors for the back of the blanket and M loves monkeys—especially Curious George. I ordered it instantly and made a commitment to finishing the blanket. No other knitting would come first.
It’s much bigger than I had originally planned, but M is a lot bigger now. What was once a baby blanket is now a toddler blanket. Maybe I thought that by not finishing this blanket I could keep M from growing up so fast. I’m glad I got it finished before she went to college. That would have required a lot more yarn.
my kind of snow day
Today was sunny and warm. There used to be a time in my life where 34 degrees was cold. Nebraska has changed that.
All M has been asking to do the past few days is to go outside and play snowballs. She got this from watching Charlie Brown Christmas almost every day for the past month. Remember the scene? All the kids are throwing snowballs trying to knock a tin can off the fence and then Linus uses his blanket to nail it. M thinks this is very cool.
We’ve had a good deal of melting and the snow is really wet. Perfect for making snowballs! We threw them into the snow, at each other and on the ground. We squished them with our feet. We used a cup to make snow bricks and snow castles. We picked tiny icicles off of the car. And most importantly, we made our first snowman. (Snowperson? Snowcreature?)
M insisted we make him a snowdog.
He has an icicle for a tail and sadly has no ears. The snowman seemed happy to have the company, though. Especially since shortly after I was able to convince M to come inside for some hot cocoa. 34 degrees is warm, but not that warm!
we’ve joined the children’s museum!
I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile. Last week we purchased a membership to the museum and the zoo. We met up with Lisa, Elsa, Christy and Eva for an afternoon of fun. I can see us going a lot. We were there for two hours and didn’t even explore half of the cool stuff. M had an awesome time.
my cutie pie
