Here's a couple pictures of Dress #1....
Front
Back
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Knitting Progress
I am finally feeling some progress is being made on the dresses that I am knitting for Anna and Lily. I finished the front piece the other night though I want to get the opinions of my knitting friends on Wed night since I think that the front and the back might not exactly match lengthwise on the neck pieces.. In the meantime I have decided to forge ahead and started the sleeves for dress #1. It seems to be moving quickly. I am still not in love with doing Picot Rows but I think that I am getting better at them.. I might actually have a chance at having most of the first dress done by Christmas. Dress #2 I know won't be done in time at all since I am barely even done with the skirt part on the back piece.
Here's a couple pictures of Dress #1....
Front
Here's a couple pictures of Dress #1....
Front
Tantrums R Us
Awww yes... we have entered Tantrum land now that the girls are 18m old. Actually Lily isn't too bad.. mostly will get overly upset when I try to leave her or go out of her sight. It's Anna that is having the full blown tantrums. I swear in the last week or so we have hardly gone a full day without her having a tantrum for what seems like no reason at all. It's such a joy to go through. I can hardly wait till she can actually tell us why she is upset. Till then we will do our best to get through the food flings and the full body throwdowns that she does. They are hard for me to ignore (ped's advice) and make me feel like the world's worst mom ever at times. Eventually my smiley happy girl returns but I never really know when she's going to have a tantrum. I hope that this is just a phase...
Monday, November 16, 2009
Fun at the Zoo
What a fun day we had today... We were supposed to go out somewhere yesterday but it was Pouring Rain most of the day and it just didn't seem worth getting the girls in and out in the rain so we put off outside plans till today. So once I woke up (yeah I slept in till almost noon - it was nice) we quickly decided to try to go somewhere... we wound up at the Stone Zoo.. I tried to put in a vote for the Franklin Park Zoo but I got voted down. Plus it was 1:30 by the time everyone was dressed and ready. Anyway.. we had a nice time.. Lily loves animals so we wanted to see her and Anna's reactions to the animals. They seemed to like the exhibits but the clear favorite was the Bear exhibit since we could get their strollers close to the glass and the bears kept walking past them and looking at them. The squeals of delight were so nice to hear as was hearing Anna say "Ted..Teddy" as she looked at the bears. Hope we can go back soon since Zoo Lights starts the day after Thanksgiving . Hopefully we can buy a Membership in the near future. Hmmm that might make a really nice gift for our family for Christmas.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Almost 18m old
Oh boy are we getting to be Big Girls or what? We (ok I) got sick and tired of having the girls riding backwards in the car and all the crying and whining that I would hear.. So about a week or so ago I took the time to take the carseats out, redo the belt paths and then reinstalled the carseats so that they now face forward. Oh yeah... Anna and Lily love the new view... They look like such big girls back there.
They are also now officially big kids at daycare.. since there is a new kid at daycare that is only a couple of months old. Anna likes to help feed the baby and both girls say 'Hi Baby' when they see her (ok they also say it to each other and whenever they see themselves in a reflective surface).
We survived Halloween. They went to 3 parties and then did Trick or Treat (approx 5 houses in my mom's neighborhood). Anna didn't want to do her costume on Halloween but once we got her into it and outside, she was fine and did great. Both girls even walked a little bit of the distances between the houses that we went to.
Looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas this year... already have a few ideas brewing for toys as presents from Santa.
They are also now officially big kids at daycare.. since there is a new kid at daycare that is only a couple of months old. Anna likes to help feed the baby and both girls say 'Hi Baby' when they see her (ok they also say it to each other and whenever they see themselves in a reflective surface).
We survived Halloween. They went to 3 parties and then did Trick or Treat (approx 5 houses in my mom's neighborhood). Anna didn't want to do her costume on Halloween but once we got her into it and outside, she was fine and did great. Both girls even walked a little bit of the distances between the houses that we went to.
Looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas this year... already have a few ideas brewing for toys as presents from Santa.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
No no no no no said the babies
Oh yes these are the words that we are hearing now more than ever from the girls.. which is so fun... not. Funny but I did a little experiment with this and to see if the girls are really paying attention... at dinner the other night I offered them many many things and kept getting the no no no response... I finally asked if they wanted milk and got a Yeah from them...
In other news... Lily is totally walking now.. she's getting good at it.. though she has a small issue with her eyes now,... her eyes are starting to cross at times. We'll definitely be asking Dr P about this at our 18 month appt with him. Let's all hope that she doesn't need to wear glasses..I don't know how she'll ever keep them on.
Lily is starting to make small sentences.. she's always loved our kitty Nora and Nora is very tolerant of Lily's love to her. Lately when she sees Nora (or Squirt) she will say "Hi Kitty".. It's really really cute. Anna cracks us up on a nightly basis.. she resists going to bed sometimes, so for a good 30 to 45 minutes we get her renditions of the ABC song , Twinkle Twinkle and what I call her Beatles tribute song (Yeah Yeah Yeah)..
In other news... Lily is totally walking now.. she's getting good at it.. though she has a small issue with her eyes now,... her eyes are starting to cross at times. We'll definitely be asking Dr P about this at our 18 month appt with him. Let's all hope that she doesn't need to wear glasses..I don't know how she'll ever keep them on.
Lily is starting to make small sentences.. she's always loved our kitty Nora and Nora is very tolerant of Lily's love to her. Lately when she sees Nora (or Squirt) she will say "Hi Kitty".. It's really really cute. Anna cracks us up on a nightly basis.. she resists going to bed sometimes, so for a good 30 to 45 minutes we get her renditions of the ABC song , Twinkle Twinkle and what I call her Beatles tribute song (Yeah Yeah Yeah)..
Monday, October 5, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
The Smoke is clearing
Ahhh where to start??? I feel like I haven't been here in forever to post anything.. Mommy has been really busy lately.. Last week I finished the back piece of the first of the two knitted dresses that I'm making for the girls and then promptly started the back piece of dress #2. It's coming along really well I'm almost done with the 4th inch of 14 inches on the skirt. I think it helps that I have been trying my best to work on it everyday and to take it everywhere with me just in case I have time to knit.
Lily has finally decided to start walking and she literally went from tentatively taking 1 or 2 steps at a time to taking 5 or 6 before she drops down to the floor. She's still much more comfortable getting places with her fisher price walking toy but she's very slowly giving it up..and I do mean s-l-o-w-l-y. It's great seeing her standing on her own also.. she's finally getting to be a big girl just like Anna. She just had to do it on her own in true Lily fashion. So now that I've stopped obsessing about that I can move on to other things to obsess over. Such as how to keep Lily from rocking her chair in the kitchen back. I usually catch her and get her righted before she can flip it back far enough to make the chair fall over but this past Friday morning I didn't see her do it and I heard a thud and then nothing for a couple of seconds and then the screaming started.. Lee and I paniced and called the Pedi who told us to get her to the hospital ASAP to be checked out just in case and that she might need a CAT Scan.. how do you ever do one on a baby/toddler btw.. so we flew into action. Got the girls changed into clothes and grabbed what we could and stuffed things into the diaper bag (I later found out that we had only brought 1 diaper with us for 2 babies) and got ourselves to Winchester Hospital's Pediatric ER. Two and a half hours later (most of it due to waiting) we were told that she was fine and to keep an eye on her and to return if she didn't seem to be ok. Thankfully she has been totally herself since then.. heck she's even walking more.. but I'm quite sure that this will not be our only ER experience with these two girls.
Anna has been learning all sorts of new vocabulary words.. we thought that she had added "sh*&" to her vocab but on closer listening it's actually "sit" (but it sounds like the other word).. I have already talked to the person with the worst potty mouth (it's not me, Lee or our daycare lady) and she said that she'd stop but then 5 seconds later that person said a word that I really don't want the girls to be repeating. ARGH.. She also has been saying "jamma jamma jamma" alot and then I realized that she's reciting a line from one of our bedtime books (Pajama Time)... the line is 'Jamma Jamma Jamma PJ!' and apparently she likes that line since she says it while getting her pajamas on at night.
Lily has finally decided to start walking and she literally went from tentatively taking 1 or 2 steps at a time to taking 5 or 6 before she drops down to the floor. She's still much more comfortable getting places with her fisher price walking toy but she's very slowly giving it up..and I do mean s-l-o-w-l-y. It's great seeing her standing on her own also.. she's finally getting to be a big girl just like Anna. She just had to do it on her own in true Lily fashion. So now that I've stopped obsessing about that I can move on to other things to obsess over. Such as how to keep Lily from rocking her chair in the kitchen back. I usually catch her and get her righted before she can flip it back far enough to make the chair fall over but this past Friday morning I didn't see her do it and I heard a thud and then nothing for a couple of seconds and then the screaming started.. Lee and I paniced and called the Pedi who told us to get her to the hospital ASAP to be checked out just in case and that she might need a CAT Scan.. how do you ever do one on a baby/toddler btw.. so we flew into action. Got the girls changed into clothes and grabbed what we could and stuffed things into the diaper bag (I later found out that we had only brought 1 diaper with us for 2 babies) and got ourselves to Winchester Hospital's Pediatric ER. Two and a half hours later (most of it due to waiting) we were told that she was fine and to keep an eye on her and to return if she didn't seem to be ok. Thankfully she has been totally herself since then.. heck she's even walking more.. but I'm quite sure that this will not be our only ER experience with these two girls.
Anna has been learning all sorts of new vocabulary words.. we thought that she had added "sh*&" to her vocab but on closer listening it's actually "sit" (but it sounds like the other word).. I have already talked to the person with the worst potty mouth (it's not me, Lee or our daycare lady) and she said that she'd stop but then 5 seconds later that person said a word that I really don't want the girls to be repeating. ARGH.. She also has been saying "jamma jamma jamma" alot and then I realized that she's reciting a line from one of our bedtime books (Pajama Time)... the line is 'Jamma Jamma Jamma PJ!' and apparently she likes that line since she says it while getting her pajamas on at night.
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