Spoon feeding...

It is crazy to me how fast kids grow up....it is Eme's 7 month birthday today (Happy Birthday to you sweet Eme) and yesterday morning she decided that she was going to help me by assisting in feeding herself. Now, I still got the food on the spoon and took it to her hand, but she took the spoon to her mouth and ate it. Crazy and very fun.

I am currently trying to get her to go down for a nap. As of late this is not an issue at all, but today she has decided that she is going to roll over in her crib and after about 5 minutes of fussing I was going to check on her when she went quiet, so I gave her a few minutes and then went to check and she had fallen asleep, but one of her arms was out of her sleeper, she was on her stomach with her head in a corner and one hand through the crib slat...hmmmm. As I suspected this snooze didn't last long and so when she woke up a mere 30 minutes later I fixed her sleeper and rocked her a little and tried again. Well I have just rolled her over again and we shall see. No luck and so we will have to wait and see what the day brings.

Funny how she can roll over and over again on the couch, so much so this morning that she almost rolled off, but in her crib she just stays on her tum and complains. Ahh, the intricacies of the infant mind.


I thought a few pictures of her highness were in order as I have recently been posting about other things more than her. And who couldn't use a dose of this to brighten their day?

I especially love the "MIND THE GAP" bib that FIL brought back from England. Ahh tube humour.

Nope, I am not kidding around here...

It is true, you can believe your eyes. I have actually finished a knitting project that I started, and it hasn't yet been a month! What? Unbelievable I know! And to boot I have also ventured into a sweet but simple experiment with another real pattern! Too much.

I don't know what came over me, it was as if I was inspired or something wierd like that. I am very happy that I will have something to show at knitting club this Monday, it is a long time coming.

These are the result of a post I did a while ago - I was excited because I actually did something at our last knitting club and felt that I had to share, and look where that got me. In fact I actually ripped out the ribbing I did at Knaughty Knitters and started over so that I could knit both mittens at the same time. I would reccomend this whenever possible, that way you don't finish one and not start the other. That is my usual MO.

This is a little practice square that I did to try and get the hang of following a template. Pretty cute I think. I thought it might make a cute addition to the next quilt that we make as a group. The down side of course is the flip side, it isn't quite as cute as the front, so perhaps no.

I guess I better think up a new project for Monday's meeting.... any ideas?

Who says procrastination doesn't pay off?

This is a picture of the meal that my husband prepared for me the other night - after a "What are we going to have for dinner?" conversation at 6:00. As I was mulling over the speediest and most uninspiring options in my head he says from the corner of the room, "How about garlic- chilli prawns with peanuts, noodles and broccoli?" - "I'm sorry what? I don't think I heard you right. Did you mean to say grilled cheese and soup from a box?"

As you may have noticed the noodles were replaced with rice (I am a bit noodled out at the moment) and the broccoli with chard (as FIL doesn't like either and we had chard in the house)
and voila! It was sooo tasty and has given me the idea to be less organized a little more often. God bless Martha Stewart, by the way, as it was her FOOD publication (left here by FIL's mom) that gave him the idea.

Hmmm... I just don't know what we should have tonight! FIL, any ideas?

Pomello out my kitchen window

i love the colours in this for some reason.
have you ever tried a pomello?
this one was nothing to write home about...