I was all excited to photograph my finished Roll in the Hay socks this morning.  All that was left to do was to graft the toes.  I did that and wove in my ends.  I was looking at my sock and admiring how nicely I had woven in the ends, when I thought “hmmm”.  My sock looked a little short.  Sure enough, I’d left out an entire pattern repeat.  20 rows short.  So I had to take out the toe.  Undoing my nice kitchener stitch is not high on my list of favorite things to do, but I got it.  I had a bit of a mess as seen below:

Here is the top of my sock.  It lacks one repeat:

But I have order once again, and I am good to go to finish up this sock for real this time!

Davey woke up seriously volatile and grumpy this morning.  Sometimes he is so not a morning person.  He is so like me in that way.  I’d prefer not to talk for an hour or so after I wake up.  I had a nightshirt forever – finally had to throw it away – but it said it perfectly:  “I don’t do mornings”.   Davey is coming around though to his usual cheerful self.  He was playing catch with David a little while ago.  Davey preferred to head butt the ball each time though.  I think we have a little soccer player in the making!

He’s now playing with Daddy, and I am going to get on the treadmill.   Happy Friday!

Davey is very excited this morning.  He wants to go get his beanbag.  He’d talked with Daddy last week about the possibility of getting a beanbag.  This was initially Daddy’s idea.  The plan was that as Davey mastered part of his potty training, we’d get him a beanbag.  Somehow it has transformed into something he is ready to get right now, and now he also wants David and me to get one too.   He’s got our colors all figured out.  I guess we could get rid of the couches and go total beanbag.

We went out to Glenwood yesterday to Mama Pearl’s.  Davey promptly threw up as soon as we arrived, but after that he was fine.  It’s a hilly curvy road to Glenwood, and I always get carsick, so I think that’s what happened to Davey too.  But after that, he had a wonderful time.   We looked for tomato worms in the garden.  Pearl found one.  They are huge!  Davey was pretty fascinated by it.Davey played with Mitzi, (their Schnauzer), he played with a flashlight for a very long time, he watched Daddy and Papa Jerry build the closet, he ate cookies, he played outside, he wore himself out!

I didn’t knit much on my sock yesterday.  I did manage to knock all the stitches off one needle, and I still need to go make sure I picked them all back up and get that going again.  I am still trying to get my other thing done.  As soon as it’s done in the next few days, I look forward to getting back to my socks.  I very much like knitting the other things, but I am rather possessed by socks these days!

Time to go look at beanbags before it gets too hot to move!   Oh and a final picture of Davey having a cookie on the swing with Pearl.  They have the best porches at their house!

Hard to be alliterative early on a Monday morning.  I started with moist, but I am not crazy about that word for some reason.  I am very happy with Mighty Muggy, because it certainly is.  Took Davey’s diaper outside at about 7:30, and it’s already too warm and humid.  Let’s not even mention how that makes his diaper trashcan smells.

David and I have realized that we are way behind on movies.  If it was made after November 3, 2007 (Davey’s birth day), it is likely that we never heard of it.  So we learned about and watched State of Play last night with Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck.  Good show!  Thank goodness for Netflix.

Roll in the Hay Sock update:  Cuff of second sock is over halfway done.  It’s going much more quickly this time as I kinda sorta know what I am doing.

Ok, it’s time to get the day rolling!  Davey has been kind of anti-breakfast lately, so it is a challenge to find something to eat.  I think so far he has had part of a hot dog bun.   Going to go see if we can do a little better than that for him!

I need to take some new pictures too.  But gotta have at least one photo, so here’s one I took last week of Davey playing “silly hat”.

It’s a hot humid Saturday.  Trying to get Davey to take a nap, but he just started yelling, “Mommy, where are you?”  Not sure this will work out today.  He’s got a bit of a cold.  Seems to not be feeling too bad though.

Working on the 2 inches of ribbing on my 2nd sock.   In the next week I also have to finish the 2nd of two secret projects.  I can’t wait to show pictures of them.  Unless they are complete disasters regarding fit, and in that case, I won’t be mentioning them again.

This week we bought some local produce.  Typically when we buy locally grown things,  we just can’t wait to enjoy the wonderful fresh home grown flavors.  Well, we bought some green beans that we just couldn’t eat.  I cooked them until they were limp, and they were still tough and kind of hairy (fuzzy?).  I guess I need to learn how to pick out green beans.  That’ll be awhile though.  We are kind of scared of them for now.  In this case it was a good thing Davey wouldn’t try one, or he’d have been possibly ruined on them forever.   On the positive side, Davey had a great time helping me to prepare them.

Then the other day we were feeding Koko, Timber and Daisy some of Davey’s leftovers.  It’s not easy to take a picture of them standing together.  Sweet old dogs.

And then, I just love this picture of Davey walking.

And…he’s asleep!  Happy Saturday. 🙂