We attempted to take BG to the pool today, she spazzed out just as before and cried half the time there, but even so she seemed thrilled with it. This time when she asked to get “down” or attempted to step into the deeper sections we gave her nice little dunks, which quickly changed her mind. She seemed to learn a little bit, and we got to the point that we could sit on the edge of the pool and she would play with a water toy. Mostly she wanted to get in, and get out again, get in and get out again. So we took the opportunity to try and teach her how to get in and out. She had no interest in the other children and very little interest in the toys accept one near the end called splash bomb balls that I now need to go out and buy. A nice girl handed it to her and it was the only toy that she would play with (thereby giving us some sort of a breather, but I bet if I get her one she won’t touch it, hah). The husbeast was great with her and I was in pain most of the time just like the beach. Just not physically capable of doing something like that with her, after having picked her 25 pound self up about 40 times a day.
My last pregnancy the doctor said not to lift anything over 20 pounds, so I never did. How good I had it and never knew. I hate how my body can’t keep up with her, and I find it highly frustrating. But the husbeast and I will continue to take her to the pool on the weekends until she learns to calm down and how to enjoy it better. We can tell she loves it and I refuse to avoid the pool. I honestly don’t like being in the sun so much but I love the water.
I had a wonderful photo shoot on Saturday, and the fruits of many nights labor will be revealed in just a few short weeks. I have a BIG surprise for all my readers. Just you wait!
As we have not been able to do much the last 3 weeks (husbeast out of town etc) we dedicated sunday to making progress in the house. Here is the current state of his former office, the future baby’s room:
A sad mess indeed, and I am freaking out we don’t have more done. We need to paint the walls, replace all the window stuff, and re-carpet all 3 bedrooms. The main question I get asked all the time by numerous family members and friends is, “where is your husband going to work” and oh that question now drives me crazy. We have dicussed as a family several options and at this point we are taking it as it comes, step by step and working through it as need be, we do not have a set plan and it will work out just fine. One option is a sun room we would like to build onto the back patio. This requires cash, and good timing and so it’s just a thought in the back of our head. There is the garage, and some other alternative small spaces. For now we wound up putting him in what was/is to be my knitting pattern space (for packaging up and mailing wholesale patterns). It will work for now, and he and I will work it out as we need to. We live in a small house, and there are always pros and cons to that. I like our low mortgage and so does he (please note it was his choice to cage himself in like that! He wanted the grandfather clock that is out of the shot to his left to be well protected and our wireless router/hub/printer will eventually live under the table).
Up until today our living room was a mess of toys and toddler stuff and the dinning room was wasted space with boxes in it. We’ve been working over the last few weekends to empty it out and get it ready for this transformation. It now houses the majority of the toys. This gives the toys a designated space, I plan to buy a toy shelf from target that I like to help with storage. BG can pull them out into the living room, which is fine, but it gives the toys a place to live not all over the floor in the living room, and we now have room for the various swings for the new baby. We used them all with BG at various stages but I must say I will be glad when I can get rid of them!
Please excuse the mess below, we had only just moved all that stuff you see in the photos above OUT of this space. The highchair gets to be moved to the garage for a while, BG is in a little booster seat now and quiet likes it! Honestly it’s easier to clean then all those cracks in the highchair, but it’s not as secure as a highchair is. The room looks rather dreary but you sort of give up on interior decorating with babies and toddlers in the house.
As for my next pattern, well this one I can show you! It’s for the new baby and it will be in a newborn size. it’s going to made very particularly for a newborn, and I may also offer a 0-3 month size as well. First I swatched in some lovely natural colored Wollmeise, then I cast on. Isn’t it lovely looking?
My name is Brandy Fortune, and I design knit-wear for kids. I spend my time knitting, sewing, taking pictures, co-editing the web-zine 
We’ve enrolled S in two different sessions of “swimming lessons” (don’t really think they learn to swim!). Each session is TWO WEEKS long (weekdays, not weekends), EVERYDAY for 25 minutes. Crazy, but we’ll be committed. S takes a while to like the water too, so hopefully we won’t have to get to the pool like an hour before class starts so she’ll be ok! LOL!
Home decor? What’s that? My living room looks like yours!
Our house is small too and you have to get creative on how to use space. We’ve been too tired to be creative with that, so it’s just a disaster instead. Hopefully that’ll change.
The Wollemeise is oh so pretty and looks like butter!
I can’t wait to see the new pattern. Do you know if your having a boy or girl?
It look like you have alot of work a head of you, good luck!