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  • I am so not. The craft den is turning into a holy disaster:
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    My wanting built in cabinets in here (and ah curtains) might go from a want to a NEED. I have to keep all this space on the floor open for crazy baby paraphernalia. I should put this on flickr and add notes but I think there would have to be too many notes, like how I'm sitting on that ball right now because someone (cough – Tuesday – cough) decided being worn was not enough. She must be worn and bounced. Crazy monkey.
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    Red tongue courtesy of my horrible father who has no scruples and gave us this for Christmas:
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    Which is probably why my baby weight loosing has slowed down. Mmmm I should put the rest of those on some ice cream…
    I started another project yesterday during Tuesday's epic nap on mama (while I watched TV!!!):
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    A baby surprise jacket that's already been on four sets of needles and is about to be put on it's fifth. I have a knit picks options set and the size 6 tips are MIA. I asked Sciarirno about it (I think she gets at least one call a week from me that starts like this, "hey I know this is a long shot but have you seen my _____________") and she said that yes she did have them and attached them to my Christmas present so they wouldn't get lost. Of course once she said that I remembered her doing that, now I'm just hoping I didn't throw away the box with the needles on it. And I'm admitting right now that Bj and I can not remember what you got us for Christmas and we're terrible people and could you remind me so that I can… oh wait the bowl! Hmm, no no needles in there, damn. Anyway who only has one size 6 sets of tips? I hear a knit picks order in my future because straights are a no go for this project, and those plastic circulars masquerading as knitting needles? Those are going in the garbage, yuck! Not even good enough to goodwill (which might be where I got them). On a side note I love this Socks that Rock yarn so much, why am I freaking out about Sundara updates?

    I would like to tell you that Tuesday wakes up cuter each day. I didn't think it was possible but this morning she was even cuter smiling at me like I wasn't the crazy sleep deprived person I am (or maybe that is why she was smiling). I brought the camera up last night thinking she might do this again (yesterday she started it), but my wonderful photography skills managed to get this as the best shot:
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    Ah ha ha ha. Someone mentioned they see grandpa in her, and I do here! I was going to leave it at that but I put her in this cute outfit Carmen made, so I unwrapped her and took her to the couch during a brief period of only semi-overcastness (vs. near constant gray):
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    "ugh mama no -too bright" (I'm beginning to see less and less of myself in this child and more of Bj, seriously.)
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    Stretch it out.
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    It's hard work being such a cute little baby. Side note: I have got to find more of these Zutano booties on sale!

    Carmen we want another one of these in the next biggest size please! When you get that crazy nesting energy start sewing!

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  • Today Tuesday and I had a big adventure – we went shopping alone! Not just a little dash in either. It was a bit of work and involved a few breaks – nursing and a diaper change, but we did it! She totally rocked today:
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    Had to get some more changing table pictures of her because this is the last time in the Oregon onsie!
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    We love Erin's batiks!
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    And our special green diaper from Katie. ๐Ÿ™‚
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    "Enough mama! It's time to eat!"

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  • The last few days have been all about baby holding. Bj's mom came to visit and nana was a big hit (nap time for mama!). Sarah (I just looked at her blog, duplicate entry ๐Ÿ™‚ came over on Saturday and we had a so much fun visiting, eating cake, and going on a walk.
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    The last pictures of crazy face with the green sweater, she's getting so big!
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    Hehehe. Because of all the holding I was able to open and photograph some new stash enhancements.
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    This yarn is from a local etsy seller and is made up of reclaimed sock yarn… a cool idea, I'll let you know if it really knits up with out noticing the joins. And here is some of the yummy fiber I got from Squoosh:
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    I have already spun up one chunk of fiber, this lovely merino/bamboo blend:
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    I made a single last night during a little nappy nap.
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     But it's been a while and the extra twist was insane:
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    I hung it weighted and it's drying now, I think most of it will come out. And I think I am going to leave it as a single, maybe make a really soft hat? I don't know when I'll get much knitting time. I was knitting while nursing, but now that Tuesday eats so much faster I don't have the time. I have just been staring at her while she nurses. She's so wonderful, and getting so expressive, I love it. I can't believe she's a month old already! Today I got to experience my first parent inflicted baby torture; Tuesday had her newborn hearing screening.
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    They had to scrub her head extra hard because of all the fine little hairs there. And we had already kept her up and hungry for the last few hours because she needed to be ready to sleep hard when she got in, and I knew that was the only way she would. So by the time they hooked all this stuff up to her she was like, "why mama, why?!?!" But then she nursed and slept through the whole thing (1.5 hours). I wanted to sleep so bad. A dark, quite room and I was sitting in a recliner. It's sort of new parent torture. Bj was on a little chair next to me and he was so close to crashing too.
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    It looks comfortable, but I couldn't move because of all the wires. Oh, her hearing is perfect by the way ๐Ÿ™‚

    More adventures to come!

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