Where's my baby??

Look at this cute little baby...dimpled hands, cheeks so adorable you can't help but pinch them, and long wispy hair.


Someone took this sweet little baby and turned him into a little boy. See?

I know his hair was too long and in his eyes. I know it looks neater this way. But oh! my baby! He looks like such a little boy, now! Luckily, he still acts like my baby ;-)

But even that is changing. And so quickly. Just last week Chase figured out how to move from the coffee table to the couch without sitting down first. He would only "cruise" a step or two along the edge of the table or couch. Then at IKEA on Tuesday, we bought him a little pushcart and all of a sudden he's taking long walks from one side of the living room to another!

We were lucky and James caught his first lock-steps on video.

Chase types!

Finally, FINALLY, Mama let me get on the computer so that I can blog. ALAH!

Life has been pretty good for me lately. Did you know I have two more teeth now? One in front on the bottom, so that makes three there. And one in the back on top. Mama says it's a molar and it will help me chew tough things like chicken and carrots. I hope it finishes coming in soon, 'cause I don't like it when Mama doesn't share ALL her food with me.

Speaking of food, I found a new favorite. At my buddy Kiran's birthday party, my buddy Liam and I shared beans that his mama made. They were easy to pick up, and easy to chew, and TASTY. My mama made some yesterday and we ate them today with leftover steel-cut oatmeal and chopped tomatoes. It was yummy :-D

Ooo, my favoritist new game is so much fun! maybe you do this too? I love to take things out of drawers and boxes. And I like to put them in, too! Only sometimes I think it's funner to put them in something else, like the black cylinder with the cool lid in my room [Mama says: it's the garbage pail for disposable diapers, and mostly what he likes to put in there are his shoes or Duplo blocks].

Doggy is getting friendlier. She almost lets me pet her twice in a row now, although sometimes I forget I'm only supposed to pat and I end up with her hair in my hand. When that happens, I always show Mama. Oh, and doggie ate out of my hand the other day! It was so cool I didn't even mind that I had meant to eat that Cheerio myself.

I've discovered all these cool things in my room called "books". I love to take them off the shelf and put them on the floor, or hand them one at a time to Mama or Daddy. There are a couple that I even ask Mama or Daddy to read to me...it's so much fun to hear the same one 10 times in a row! Some of them have flaps and things I can touch and turn myself, and some have pictures of other babies. My favorite is a picture of a laughing baby. I make Mama go to that page over and over again and it never fails to make me smile.

Uh oh! mama says it is time for a nap. She might be right, because my eyes keep needing rubbing, but I really don't wanna. Oo, but naptime means I get milkies and to snuggle with Mama! All right, Mama, let's go!

My first for my first on his first

...sweater...child...birthday...

I started this sweater in what I thought was plenty of time to have it done - wrapped up with a bow, even - for Chase's first birthday. But life intervened, as it does, and on his birthday I was a sleeve-and-a-half short of completion.



No matter. At one year of age, a child does not know what day his birthday is, or that there is anything special in having been in the world for an entire year. He might notice the extra attention, the visit from relatives, or the appearance of new toys. But he doesn't notice the absence of The Birthday Sweater.


It is done now, just a couple of weeks late. In Portland, there is plenty of time for sweater wearing into spring and even early summer. With any luck, the sweater will still be wearable next fall.

Item notes:
PATTERN: An adaptation of Double Scoop from Knitty.com
YARN: Shine from KnitPicks.com in Grass (3+ skeins) and Cream (~0.5 skein)
NEEDLES: Harmony Options from KnitPicks.com in sizes 7 and 5
CHANGES: Letter instead of ice cream cone; two colors instead of three. I worked the neckband and sleeves in the round rather than flat.
MISTAKES: One three-row stripe in cream at top of sleeves. Turned it from a "bug" into a "feature" by repeating it on the second sleeve ;-)