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The letters for the day are F and O.

Today’s post is brought to you by the letters F and O.

F is for fall. In the fall, leaves fall off the trees. Eventually Daddy rakes the leaves into a pile (or, for our house, one pile and one line…. long story). Then Mommy and Daddy torment the baby by trying to make him play in the leaves.Yeah, he didn’t like that. So I guess O is for . . . offensive and oops.

In knitting (or in the world of knitting blogs) F and O stand for Finished Object. These rare completed works are deeply reverenced.

Behold!
It’s a green baby sweater. Okay, so technically I still have to block it and put on buttons, but still. This took me almost exactly six days, which I think is pretty quick for any project. I was pretty pleased.

In case you can’t tell, the sweater is a raglan sleeve sweater in stockinette stitch with a seed stitch border. The pattern was in the summer 2003 issue of Knitty. I added the patch pocket to cover up a particularly ugly failed graft.

I love Knitty. I’ve just begun Ivy, which I’ve been talking about for several weeks now. I really hope my annual knitting kick lasts long enough for me to use up at least most of the (somewhat expensive!) yarn I’ve gathered so far this season.

Patch pocket pattern: CO 8 sts. Row 1: Knit. Row 2: p1, m1, p to last st, m1, p1. Work 8 more rows in stockinette stitch. Row 11: * k1, p1, rep from * to end. Row 12: * p1, k1, rep from * to end. Row 13: as Row 11. BO all sts. Sew onto sweater, seed stitch edge on top.

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Happy Nine Month Day, Hayden Dear

Hayden is nine months old today! What a big boy!

In honor of Hayden’s “nine month day,” we have . . . Hidden Talents of Parenting in the First Nine Months!

  • To know when he’s been quiet too long, knocked something important over or about to fall.
  • To hold him and still use two hands to feed the cat, wash dishes and cook dinner. (Not all three at once, though; maybe in the next 9 months.)
  • To jump into the Love Sack safely while holding him and not snapping his neck.
  • To “wrestle” in a vaguely convincing way and make Hayden “uuuuTHE WINNA!!!”
  • To really wrestle him down to change his diapers, dress him, cut his nails or clean his nose—including holding him with both legs and an arm.
  • To appreciate the struggle—don’t always save him from his frustrations. Just sometimes.

And now the short list of Things You Can Never Get Enough Of:

  • Patience
  • Time
  • Hands
  • Confidence
  • Ways to show him how much you love him

Hayden adds “000000000000000000000000.” Got a little too close to the keyboard with him.

Today is interesting—it’s like the end of the third trimester of our married life. The first 9 months was just Ryan and me, the second nine months we were expecting and this last nine months we’ve had baby Haydie.

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Reunited

This is for Mom and Jaime. I’ve never heard the Peaches & Herb song, but I have heard them sing it quite a few times.

Ryan got back from Chicago last night after Hayden went to bed. So tonight they were . . .

Reunited and it feels so good!


Look at how Hayden looks at Daddy—he loves Daddy!

OOH STINKY FEET! Hayden loves that game. He starts laughing when you sniff his feet.

Happy all ’round!

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Pictures and a picnic

I went just a little crazy with the photos today… I took like 20 something. Here are three:

Hayden “pulled” himself up to standing using the wall. I don’t know how.


Then I fell in love with his new outfit, so I decided to try some “professional” type photos. Not much success, but here’s a pretty cute one:

Then we met Lindsey and Sadie in the park for a picnic lunch (mostly for the adults; very delicious!) and play time. Okay, so play time was mostly for the adults, too, since we just stuck around the swings and talked.

I talk a lot. I tried to blame this on the fact that, other than the check out girl at Walgreen’s, I hadn’t had a face-to-face interaction with a person that can talk back in almost three days. I probably talk a lot anyway. Lindsey is terribly patient!

Here are Haydie and Sadie playing together. This was about 5 seconds before I discovered Hayden was eating handfuls of seeds from the cement, and not liking them, either.

It was a great way to spend a lovely afternoon! Other than the seeds, of course.