i finished abby's longies!!!! they took me 4 days to make. i started out on size 16'' 8 circulars then changed to size 8 DPNs for the legs. i must say that DPNs are a PAIN IN THE BUTT!!! i used universal yarn deluxe worsted LP 100% wool. colorway is apple orchid.

i LOVE the way these turned out. they are by no means perfect -- if you look hard you'll see a lone purled row on the right leg! but i am so excited with these and that they fit!!!

i love our mailman! he has to be the world's BEST mailman ever!!

just wanted to throw that out there!

a few pictures from our vacation in connecticut! i'll add more later!

abby has learned how to feed herself. i LOVE this video! she has great smiles in it!!!

From Oct 08

today we went to abby's first pumpkin patch!!! pumpkins are one of my favorite parts of this time of the year and i ALWAYS carve a pumpkin!!! so this year, being abby's first "pumpkin season", we HAD to go get our own pumpkin from a real patch!!! here are some pics from our day!

so the snelson household is a very sick household right now. abby had a stomach virus. then mommy got the virus yesterday. my stomach isn't as bad today but i am very weak and dizzy. now daddy has the virus on top of a sinus thing. it's not a pretty sight in our house right now. but at least abby isn't sick anymore!

thank you to BECKY for the fabulous banner!!!

so after our adventures with grilled cheese yesterday, abby decided that it would be fun to have a new adventure: keep mommy and daddy up all night by throwing up! yep. my child was up until 4:30 throwing up. this has been the one thing that i have dreaded since i found out i was pregnant. those of you who know me know my phobia of throwing up. and here i am, with an 11 month old baby who ONLY WANTS MAMA - won't stay with daddy - and is throwing up. i was scared out of my mind. but she seems fine today. hasn't thrown up since the middle of the night so hopefully we are past it.

(((shiver)))

abby is 11 months old. (where did the time go?!) i have been wondered the past week or so if it's time for her to have real table food for her meals instead of just boring old pureed chicken, vegetables, and fruits. so today i decided to give it a go and gave abby her first grilled cheese sandwich. she did so well!! i was so proud!!! my little baby is growing up!

just want to say how awesome it is to sit and do nothing with your best friend. if you haven't done it in a while, DO IT! it's the best.

that is all.

seriously, is there anything cuter than a baby in some really nice woolies?!

sick babies are no fun. abigail has been sick for 3 days now so we are finally going to the dr today. she's not sleeping at night at all unless we hold her. she's not taking good naps unless we hold her. it's miserable. poor baby....

Happy 3 Yr Anniversary, Robert!!!

 

we went to abby's first braves game over the weekend. we had a great time!! here are a few pictures from our outing!

abby and pete van wieren
the whole family!

jojo and abby


hanging out in the stands

abby conked out in the first inning....she was a tired baby girl!

so like my previous entry said, i'm TRYING to learn to knit. at this point in time i'm very discouraged with it. i have no idea how to read patterns or do any of the "techniques" that you have to do. i'm not good at learning anything from just reading about it - i'm a visual learner. i need someone to SHOW me how to do it! erin has graciously offered her services as expert knitter (!!!!) but getting together to do actually do it is hard! we live forever away and with gas prices the way they are, neither of us can afford to go anywhere! (stupid gas!)

but i guess in reality i'm not really discouraged about the knitting per se. i'm really discouraged with a lot of things right now. knitting is just getting the brunt of it. but the biggest thing is that i am about to take my mom to the airport to move to dallas for real this time and i'm having a really rough go with that. when she left for europe earlier this summer it wasn't that bad b/c she wasn't "moving" then. but today when she leaves, she isn't coming back. i know there are those out there that would say (and have said, thank you very much for your insensitivity) "get your own life, jill" but what you don't understand is the closeness that my mother and i share and how we have NEVER lived more than 4 hours apart from each other. throw abigail into the mix and it makes for an even harder move. we all lived together for the first 6 months of abigail's life and now her grandmother is moving 12 hours away and won't be around on a daily basis. that's hard for me to swallow.

i guess i'm just wallowing in my own self-pity right now. arent' we all allowed that from time to time? even if we aren't, i'm taking license anyway.

i've decided to recycle a sweater that i absolutely LOVED...until it shrank when it "accidentally" got dried in the dryer. it's 40% merino wool, 30% viscose, 20% angora rabbit hair, and 10% cashmere. i'm going to try to make some longies and/or soakers with this wool -- i've got QUITE A BIT! the pictures make it look smaller than what i actually have.

here's to a new project!!! (and ps. my vacuum cleaner is broken.)

the original sweater...

...cut up in pieces...


...then the unraveled yarn put into balls.

we're back from sweden and norway and can i just say that i am SO happy to be home!!! we had a good time, but i was ready to be home. we did 13 concerts in 10 days. it was insane!!! scandinavia is cold and rainy...but beautiful!!! here are a few pictures of our travels. some sillier than others!!!

check out my picasa album for all of our pictures.

alright. i've found a new love in my cloth diapering world. FLATS!!! and what am i using for this new-found love? MY RECEIVING BLANKETS!!! that's right, folks, i'm using abby's receiving blankets!!! and it's great!!! AND i get to use my wool as actual soakers now too!!! (too bad i just sold off a ton of it!) anyway, for those interested, here's how it works:

Step 1: lay receiving blanket flat on floor.



Step 2: Fold blanket in half.

Step 3: Fold blanket in half again.

Step 4: Take top corner and pull so you have a triangle shape on top of your blanket.

Step 5: Flip entire thing over so that the triangle point is on the right.



Step 6: Take the left sides and start folding them in little sections a little at a time...

Step 7: ...keep folding in sections...

Step 8: ...and one last fold. You have now created the absorbent part of your diaper. You could add a hemp insert in between the folds if you like. I have to do that with Abigail because she's such a heavy pee-er!

Step 9. Fold the bottom up about 2/3 of the way up. This creates your "pocket" for poop and stuff!



Step 10. Take the right wing and fold in.

Step 11: Take the left wing and fold in.

Step 12. There's your diaper! I've knotted it here but when it's on a baby, you'd pin it.

and here it is (with a different blanket) on Abigail!!!!