Spinning and Swimming

It's too hot to knit. I made a major mistake in the lace shawl I am working on.



It's too hot to spin. I plied an entire bobbin in the same direction that I spun the singles


This is the lovely BFL I am spinning- this bobbin plied in the appropriate direction.

Thank goodness it is going to cool down tomorrow.

Little Sir thought water was a better medium than wool.


The next Michael Phelps, perhaps?








He was so happy that he could kick and swim around the pool to his heart content.

We Have Lift Off!

At long last, I am returning to the online knit world, and delighted to announce the launch of our adoption blog

Might Be Baby Wright

Please take some time to visit and find out how you can help us adopt our next little family member.

With the adoption blog comes the opening of my Etsy store, the proceeds of which will go to our adoption fund and to children's charities.

Pamangkin

In addition to hand knit baby items knit by myself and my family and hand painted onesies, I will be putting my treasure hunting skills to the test and adding vintage and hand made items that I find in second hand, consignment, and thrift stores.

There aren't a lot of items listed right now, but I have a lot more to list. Inventory will increase in the coming days and weeks.

Here is a little taste of some of the treasures I have found in the last few weeks. Most of these things are all ready spoken for, but they will give you an idea of what to expect.

Sleep is Over-rated. . . No, Not Really.

I have been knitting baby hats any time that I am sitting still. Soon I will tell you why, it is just taking longer than I thought.

What me overestimate my ability to get things done in a timely manner??? Never!!! You mean I DO need to sleep? When did that happen?

Anyway, here is some knitting to admire while I try to capture the headless chicken running through my life.

Summer Fun

We've been having so much fun this summer.



Little Sir *LOVES* going to the wading pool.







We've also been getting to know the city's beautiful parks better.







Oh, the cuteness is enough to kill me!





Mama, I think I've got this swing thing figured out. . . maybe. . .



Also, here is our sad sad sad garden. (This isn't our backyard, we co-garden with some friends of ours and it is their yard.) Are any other North Westerners experiencing a bad growing year? There just hasn't been enough hot days yet this summer. Last year at this time we had cucumbers coming out our ears and big bushy tomato plants. Sigh. . .



And here's a fun shot of the Duke, as he is often neglected, photo wise, here in Yarnnation.

We are all enjoying a fun and very busy summer.

I've been knitting like mad. I'll let you in on my secret sometime this week.

Swamped

It's mainly of my own doing, so I won't complain. Here is a little preview of one of the many things I have up my sleeve.

Summer School

I have a ton of stuff to blog about. Baby stuff, fiber stuff, good stuff. I don't have time due to things such as a nine month old baby and summer school. You'll have to wait until the weekend. In the mean time I have had several super fun kids books come across my path in the past week or so. I thought I would share.

A sweet sweet friend of mine came across Derek the Knitting Dinosaur by Mary Blackwood, Kerry Argent (Illustrator) and knew that Little Sir and I needed it. It is adorable. He even drinks tea.







If You Were My Bunny
by Kate Mcmullan (Author), David Mcphail (Illustrator)
I found this one at a children's consignment store. I love it. The author has written new words to some well known traditional lullabies as if the parent animal were singing to the baby animal.



Good Boy Fergus! by David Shannon was recommended to us by a nice neighbor (who we don't know) while we were out walking. He was running and saw our dogs and Little Sir. He told us that we needed to get this book for Little Sir, that it was about a dog that was the same breed as Logan. Turns out, Fergus is actually a West Highland Terrier, not a Cairn Terrier, but he's pretty dang cute none the less. We don't have the book yet, but from what the helpful runner said, it sounds as if they have the same MO.
Any other wonderful children's books that I need to know about?

My Pattern in the Wild- or Link-a-Thon.

Ms. Knitting in Mind has knit up my Rhapsody in Lace and Ruffles (ravelry) in ShibuiKnits Baby Alpaca DK from Knit/Purl in Portland.

She blogged about it HERE- go an see her beautiful photographs of it. (Which are beautiful both because she did an amazing job knitting it (that color is perfect) and also because she did a great job photographing it.)

Then

She went into Knit/Purl to show them her beautiful creation and they blogged about it HERE.

I love it!

Nine Months

• 28 inches tall
• 18.4 lbs
• big noggin
• super stinkin' cute!

Two Full Weeks

That would be how long it has been since I last posted. Here's why.

1. Needed to get ready for 1 week long vacation with 8.5 month old.
2. Throwing a baby shower for Lucy (good thing too, he's here and he's adorable)
3. My house has to be clean for baby shower.
4. I need to make a giant mess of my house in order to get ready for trip
4.5 Go Crazy
5. Clean house
6. Leave for vacation about 6 hours late (we were driving)
7. 2 hours from home realized that I brought my camera, I brought my lenses, I forgot my fully charged battery on the charger.
7.5 Purse lips in frustration at self
8. Spend 1.5 hours on the phone determining that there is not a camera shop within an hours drive of Seaside, OR.
8.5 Pout and declare that I will move there and open a camera shop.
9. Consider not taking Little Sir on his first outing to the beach because I can't document it.
10. Snap a few shots with a hijacked camera (thanks S.)


I like sand mama. . . I think.


We don't know the extra guy in the photo, he just jumped in. No, No, that's the Duke's Cousin, T. His fiance'e was the photographer that actually showed up ready to shoot. (Oh- and he gave her her ring while they were there- congrats you two!)

11. Enjoy the rest of the vacation (with short periodic sulky moments when I want my camera.)
12. Realize that baby is off his schedule, but not too bad.
13. Save all homework for the day after returning home- they day of class.
14. Send baby and husband away to watch cousin play basket ball.
15. Go to class.
16. Come home at 9:30pm and wonder where baby and husband are.
17. Give husband dirty looks for keeping baby out too late when his schedule is all ready off.
18. Get mastitis.
19. Suffer.
20. Think that you really should go to the doctor.
20.5. Don't
20.7. Entertain husband's family at home.
20.8. Don't care that they house is a wreck- feeling too crappy from mastitis to care about much.
21. Feel more or less better two days later.
22. Go with husband and baby to watch cousin play more basketball.


Cool photo, huh!


The spectators- very important to any game. Hey, at least we know how to support our team. We even brought our own mascot! (He's the cute little one.)

23. Stay out WAY too late again.
24. Go through lots of guilt about keeping baby out too late and making him grumpy.
25. Spend the entire next day diligently trying to correct previous days' parenting mistakes.
26. Think it's going pretty well.
27. Get knocked off the parenting pride step when baby won't go to sleep until 10:30.
28. In the midst of baby not sleeping take part in volunteer's conference call for FSA conference.

Yes, it has been a tough re-entry after vacation, but the vacation was great (minus the forgotten camera battery.) I love the Oregon Coast. It's beautiful, and peaceful and somehow it's easier to breath there.
Little Sir got to meet several of his family members for the first time and had lots of smiles, cuddles, and general adorableness for everyone.
I bought yarn. I made it to four yarn stores. I didn't really buy anything amazing, but I have some fun projects planned. A new family tradition is in the works (and it revolves around yarn, what could be better?) I will share more later.
To keep you in good spirits, though, I'll show a little of what I found in

Astoria (Custom Threads)

"Smart Wool" destined to become a vest for Little Sir.

and

Raymond (A Willapa Connection)

Brown Sheep's Nature Spun Sport thinking it wants to be some fingerless gloves.

Oh yes, and one more vacation tradition to share.
The Duke and I always buy more salt water taffy than two people should ever eat in a lifetime, let alone the couple of weeks before it goes stale.


Come on over and get yourself some. We have lots to share.