oh baby refrain from breaking my heart
it got less hot last night, & everyone slept until 9.30 this morning, with brief awake interlude of fun playing for dread pirate baby fish.
when we got up I gave her a bath, which is such a different experience than bathing her brother at this age that I always forget that I don't really have to have anxiety about it. she just wiggles around with her fat little tummy & her v excellent thigh-folds, sure, mama, wash my head!
this afternoon I'm going to go to the Church of Craft & hopefully get some knitting done, although as I will be packing miss pirate baby along in the sling, it may just be baby-a-thon instead. I'm working on the second sleeve of the red sweater for the baby of my friend (who has now been born), & I have to give it on the 21st, & normally that would be no problem, as sleeves for baby sweaters are small enough & after I'm done with this sleeve I only have to do the collar & pocket edgings, but the moss-stitch + cable pattern of this sweater requires counting, which requires paying attention, which is kicking my ass these days. but I want to get this done because I want to make something super super cute for my girlie, & I need to clear my needles so I can figure out what that might be. but it should be fun regardless, since one of my friends, who I have barely seen since they moved back from NYC, is the one who runs it, & the crafting crowd that shows up is all alterna-artsy-fun, so it seems like a pretty good way to spend a Sunday afternoon, no matter how much knitting I get done.
but I also need to figure out where to put the lavender plants. we're having this problem with the front yard of our house, which is that it's southern exposure with no shade & so everything just burns out unless we use gallons of water on it all summer, which we don't want to do. the laughable part about it, though, is that since neither of us are especially skilled in the area of landscape design, we just buy stuff at random & put it in & then see if it dies or not. so far, we're losing. I think I want to find some sort of smallish fruit trees to plant in our parking strip, to give a little shade + also delicious fruit.
these all feel like such Sunday sorts of concerns. the baby will be 5 weeks old tomorrow, & it's starting to feel like life is sorting itself back out.
when we got up I gave her a bath, which is such a different experience than bathing her brother at this age that I always forget that I don't really have to have anxiety about it. she just wiggles around with her fat little tummy & her v excellent thigh-folds, sure, mama, wash my head!
this afternoon I'm going to go to the Church of Craft & hopefully get some knitting done, although as I will be packing miss pirate baby along in the sling, it may just be baby-a-thon instead. I'm working on the second sleeve of the red sweater for the baby of my friend (who has now been born), & I have to give it on the 21st, & normally that would be no problem, as sleeves for baby sweaters are small enough & after I'm done with this sleeve I only have to do the collar & pocket edgings, but the moss-stitch + cable pattern of this sweater requires counting, which requires paying attention, which is kicking my ass these days. but I want to get this done because I want to make something super super cute for my girlie, & I need to clear my needles so I can figure out what that might be. but it should be fun regardless, since one of my friends, who I have barely seen since they moved back from NYC, is the one who runs it, & the crafting crowd that shows up is all alterna-artsy-fun, so it seems like a pretty good way to spend a Sunday afternoon, no matter how much knitting I get done.
but I also need to figure out where to put the lavender plants. we're having this problem with the front yard of our house, which is that it's southern exposure with no shade & so everything just burns out unless we use gallons of water on it all summer, which we don't want to do. the laughable part about it, though, is that since neither of us are especially skilled in the area of landscape design, we just buy stuff at random & put it in & then see if it dies or not. so far, we're losing. I think I want to find some sort of smallish fruit trees to plant in our parking strip, to give a little shade + also delicious fruit.
these all feel like such Sunday sorts of concerns. the baby will be 5 weeks old tomorrow, & it's starting to feel like life is sorting itself back out.