I am a master of the 6th Sense: Mothervision.

Eventually every mother gains this extra sense. It lets us know when an offspring of ours is jumping on our bed upstairs, its how we know who wrote that word on the wall, and its how we know that the sound of the glass candy jar lid coming off from under the table means that SOMEBODY is attempting to sneak a piece of candy without our knowledge. Silly kids.

Obviously I failed

I totally forgot I had a blog. Obviously. Oh well :)

I am a slacker.

I'm slacking on -everything- right now. Cleaning. Blogging. Taking pictures of my kids. Keeping in touch with my friends and family.

So, I'll try harder. No promises, of course. Off to make dinner :)

I have been jealously viewing information about a Knitting Cruise to the Carribean. It sounds lovely. Many of the women on my parenting forum are hoping to win the lottery soon so they can afford to go, LOL. I don't know what they'd do with their kids for that long.

Its been quite a while since I posted!

I had a baby boy on November 8th, Liam Alrik, 8 pounds 15 ounces, 21.5 inches long. He was 3 weeks old on wednesday. He's a good sleeper for me, once he falls asleep. It probably helps that he sleeps next to me in bed. Right now he's in the swing. He's wearing a cloth prefold diaper, held on with a snappi, and covered by a pair of wool longies. And one of those t-shirts that wraps around and snaps on both sides of him. Here, I'll add a picture :)

Its really amazing how quickly he's been gaining weight. He was born on a Wednesday night, and we left on Friday morning. When we left, his "check out" weight was 8 pounds 11 ounces. A week later he weighed 9 pounds 13 ounces at his first doctors appointment. And 3 days after that, at our WIC appointment, he weighed in at 10 pounds 11 ounces, although that last one was with all his clothes on.

I guess I'm the equivalent of a jersey cow... high milkfat content!

Our next appointment is on December 8th, and I can't wait to find out how much he's gained.

More knitted projects.

So, I discovered that I can bring myself to knit when the house is really messy, so after a week of no knitting, I finally managed to get things back to a semi-respectable state. The first thing I did was another pair of longies out of the wonderful rainbow yarn. This time I made them the right size! The picture is a little lopsided, because they were laying on the bed, and I was standing at the end of the bed. It makes the right side look bigger than the left side, but they're actually symetrical. This time, the waist is 10 inches (stretches to about 16, I think), the hips are 14 inches, the rise is 14 or 15 inches, and the legs are 5 inches. I did a seed-stitch for the last inch of the legs, because I decided I didn't want a ribbed edge, and I didn't want a rolled edge, and a rolled edge is what I was likely to get if I just finished off with knitting. I think they turned out pretty cute, if I do say so myself ;)



My next project was to knit a second pumpkin hat. The first one went over great, and I still haven't posted any pictures of it! Here...





Rowan likes his hat pretty well, and he loves the camera :) The only way I got him to look away from the camera to show the stem was by turning on the tv (clifford the big red dog was on, on PBS).

The new one is just now finished, well, except for tucking in the last little tail of green.

Longie confusion :)

I have now succefully completed (well, mostly... some need yarn ends woven in still), 1 soaker, and 2 pairs of longies.

The soaker looks like it will fit right. Its a from the punk knitters soaker pattern, made to be size newborn.

Soaker: rise=14 inches, waist=maximum of 14 inches (smaller with drawstring), hips=12 inches, inseam=cuffs

The longies I thought I was making of a similar size, but it turns out they're MUCH bigger. At least to look at them.

White-longies: rise=16 inches, waist=12-18inches, hips=16 inches, inseam=9 inches

Rainbow-longies: rise=15 inches, waist=12-18 inches, hips=18 inches, inseam=9 inches

So now I'm asking around on my fluff communities what size of baby they think the longies will fit. I'm thinking maybe 3-6 month size, over a prefold diaper. I guess I need to go back to the drawing board when it comes to what measurements a wee-baby diaper should be. Hopefully the same communities can tell me what measurements I should be aiming for, if I want a newborn or 1 month old baby to be able to wear these :)