Jack has learned how to whine. He’s got this high pitched undulating squeal-type thing that really just gets under my skin. I know that this is due partially to he discovery of this new talent, and he uses it at any opportunity: to express frustration, boredom, hunger, happiness, you name it. I am trying not to let it get to me, but sometimes it is strikingly similar to teaching middle schoolers.
Part of the reason I think he has been developing some of these interesting traits is due to his desire to be moving. He really wants to be picked up and walked around forever, since he’s not quite able to do that for himself. He’s so very close to crawling, and he knows it. That makes it worse for him, in my mind (and probably his), since he knows if he just got all the bits of his body to work together he could move! by himself! Poor kid. I think we’ll all be happier when he’s mobile due to his own efforts.
In the oven today:
Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread
Beef Stew
mashed yellow turnips with crispy shallots
So yeah, remember how your mother always used to warn you that iff you chew things off with your teeth (like price tags, threads, etc.) you’ll chip a tooth? Listen to her. Someday you will chip a tooth. Like I did last week.
On the hunt for a Christmas tree!
Turkey Stock after TG
OK, so here’s the post on my stocking. I am going to make one for each of the boys, but of course I wasn’t working from a pattern except for what I had in my own head. If I was smart, I would have made lots of notes. But I didn’t. So anyway, here’s how it worked as close as I can remember, which is not very close at all.
After I sketched out the rough shape I wanted on some paper, I cut out the outer layer using a cool mod print I found last year, and then cut out a similar shape from white flannel, but extending the top of the sticking by about 8 inches so I could make the fold-over-cuff.
Then came the fun part: trying to wrap my brain around which would be right-side/wrong-side/inside/outside and how to sew the right sides facing each other so there wouldn’t be any raw seams showing. I enlisted help (Ben), and then o a deep breath and embroidered my name and two little snowflakes on what I was hoping would be the correct face of the flannel. It was, but I am not sure how! I still ended up sewing the same two pieces of fabric 4 different ways before I figured out how to do it. Did I take notes? ha! no. The next stocking I make should be fun.
So, here it is! Pictures of my stocking as a work in progress. I will post more of my finished piece as well as
Ben’s and Jack’s once the fabric Ben chose shows up… Like I said in a previous post–I am really proud of this.
We had a really nice (if cold) weekend, going out to the downtown area and getting some shopping done for Christmas. While we were out, we checked Jack’s foot size, since I am looking to get him some kind of wind-proof shoe. AAaaaaaannnd… he wears a 3 or 4. And he’s 5 months old. Somehow this seems to be rather large, but then, what else is new?
On Sunday, we geared up for a big storm! 6-12 inches by Monday! but it ended up being barely 2 or 3 inches. I did manage to start working on my Christmas stocking, breaking out fabric that I had been hoarding from last year. I had been thinking about this stocking for a while, and had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do. It would have a white flannel interior that would fold over the outer patterned fabric, and the cuff made by the flannel would have my name embroidered on it. Eventually, it worked out, but that’s another post. Probably one I will write next.
Lastly, I hosted playgroup for the cloth-diapering-nursing-organic-eating-plastic-free moms today and it was really nice. I made chicken pot pie (using my homemade turkey stock and the chicken I roasted last night) and had pears and honey for a light dessert. Ben says they can’t be crunchy granola types because the don’t wear Birkenstocks. It was really cute with all the little girls–Jack came down from his nap, though, and when he got a good look at everyone in the living room, he got really upset. He’s not really used to alot of people around all the time, and he got a little freaked. I need to get him out more, I think. Or wait, is that Ben?
Enough summary! I will put up another post on my stocking. I am really proud of it.
