Wow, the last 3 weeks have been insane as BG transitioned from 7 to 8 months. She will turn the pages on a book when I read to her at night, she can crawl and crawls with gusto. She pulls herself to a stand constantly and this very evening let go of what she was holding onto and was in a true un-assisted stand for several seconds. She let go on her own and stood there. I was shocked. I thought it would be crawling for a month or so and THEN standing and THEN walking. I think it's going to come faster then i expected. Some kids don't walk until a year old and I haven't been in a hurry anyway.

We also tried feeding her some puffs the other day and not only can she pick them up but she put several in her mouth and ate them. I also didn't expect her to catch onto that the second time I gave them to her. I thought she would play with them for a few weeks before "getting it".

She has a bad cold right now, but it seems to be at the tale end of it (of course she gets better right after I take her to the doctor!). It's been the first time she has had a runny nose or cough, so that has been an adventure.

She went through a period of time around 6-7 months where I didn't have her use her little potty often enough and she seemed to forget, but after about 3 days of putting her on it ALL DAY and getting nothing, suddenly she started going again. I am hoping if I am GOOD and keep up with it that this will make potty training easier when the times comes.

It's been a crazy month, and I'm sure going from 8 to 9 months will be just as crazy if not even more. I am going to attempt to start going to the YMCA regularly and start doing Yoga and putting BG in the childcare they have there. I've been saying that for months, it is I think the time to really do it. It will be good for her and good for me

Oh I forgot to mention, she has a total of 4 teeth coming in, 2 bottom center and then two up top on either side. I'm amazed she's not more cranky really!

posted by pixie, May 13, 2008 | permalink | comments (4)

There are some photos on the camera but I don't think they are worth even uploading to the computer. I'm too lazy to do it anyway. I finished one entire sleeve in 2 nights on the Bolero. W00t! I am now nearly halfway done with sleeve #2 and then only have a smaller front side left after that. Then I can seam and the ribbing I imagine will take a little work as it's a large part of the design.

I'm *not* knitting on a deadline however it would be nice to wear to the beach, tonight I have the back and one front blocking.

Today is (was) mothers day. BG has a bad cold (no fever) and is very whiney and miserable. The husbeast had her laughing up a storm over his feet earlier today though. She's 8 months old now and I need to get some cute photos of her and do an "8 month" blog entry. I've been spending a lot of my free time knitting, and my neck pain has been really bad lately which totally kills my energy. When we are at the beach I am going to find a Chiropractor and get an adjustment and maybe even a message. This I know will make me feel LOADS better. I've been saying for the past 8 months that I need to do both of those things.

I also looked at the schedule at the YMCA and now that BG can crawl and entertain herself much better I'm going to attempt to take some Yoga classes. It's all included in the membership I already have plus they will watch BG while I am in the classes. I'm not sure how I feel about leaving her with someone, the two of us are so attached at the hip and very rarely away from each other for very long at all, let alone with someone I don't really know. It's going to be an interesting experience. I wish i could see what happened when I won't be with her, will she enjoy herself? Will she have fun? I know she loves new things so I have a feeling she will be fairly entertained by the strange toys and people. She is crawling all over the place now, but I guess I should save that for my "8 months" post which may be a little late at this point.

If you are a mother, I do hope you had a lovely day!

posted by pixie, May 11, 2008 | permalink | comments (0)

I had no idea's for a title, so that will have to do. So I was playing with my pretty new yarn from Maryland and I wanted to knit a Tom-Ten (Elizabeth Zimermann pattern) but I couldn't find my 10.5 Denise needles. I recalled they have been in a box in my dinning room for nearly a year. I started the Bolero Jacket (Debbie Bliss Simply Soft Book). I thought hrmm, might be good to use that yarn and I see no reason to rip what I started.

So far I have finished, the back, one front and part of a sleeve. (I had only started the back back a long while ago so that's great progress for a few nights) I am going to finish at-least one sleeve before hitting the other front, hopefully to make it easier to get through two sleeves.

I'm using the called for cashmerino chunky so it's a fast knit, and so far the sleeve width looks very promising (not too big/baggy). I did some ktfbl when I worked on one front and then wound up using a more "invisible" increase. I could have gone back and ripped the more obvious ones but figured, what the hell. I left them. I'm getting far more laid back about my knitting, it's a good thing. I might finish more stuff this way, hah. I have so many unfinished sweaters, think about if I actually finished Sahara, I could even wear it this summer. That would involve having to find the UFO and the yarn.. which I believe are not together. Slacker knitter!!!! :)

We are headed to the beach very soon and I am totally freaking out about it, I think I mentioned it but now it is mere DAYS away. I can NOT wait. Maybe I'll finish the bolero to wear on the beach at night, with my big fluffy gap skirt (just like the skirts in the pattern book!). Then I would have to pack my blocking board, not sure how the husbeast would feel about that!

posted by pixie, May 09, 2008 | permalink | comments (1)