It’s not cold here yet.  I am talking about the other kind of cold.  The common one.  Davey has had his for about a week, and his cough is starting to subside finally. He’s had the hoarsest little voice.  Now mine has kicked in.  I slept with Davey last night to make sure he stayed propped up on his pillow.  It seemed to help with his cough to be more propped up.  As David says, “it’s like we slept on top of the bed all night instead of in the bed.”  Davey and I ranged all over the bed.  I also determined that his new sheets are scratchy.  There were too many pillows, the sheets were scratchy, my throat was incredibly scratchy, Davey was coughing.  Fairly miserable.  Meanwhile David slumbered in peace in the other room.  (To be fair, he’d had the night of a wanderer the night before.  A coughing miserable 2 year old is like having a newborn again!)

So Davey and I went and bought new sheets today.  On sale at Kohl’s!  They are washing now.

We don’t really have a pantry in this apt, so we bought some shelves at Lowes for our groceries. Oh Davey enjoys this thoroughly.  He just got out the Nilla wafers.  I watched him dole them out – one for Timber, one for Davey.  Don’t know where Koko disappeared to.  Timber is patiently waiting for Davey to give him another one.

You know the produce has really been good in Colorado.  I bought red and orange bell peppers today.  They were on sale for $1.00 each.  They are usually so expensive.  They had the nice skinny asparagus too.  So tonight I am sauteeing asparagus, peppers, onions then mixing in some petite diced tomatoes and fresh parmesan to have over pasta.  In the world where I could take a decent food shot, I might try to take a picture of it, but unfortunately I don’ t live in that world.

Another wonderful thing about Colorado?  I found cinnamon ice cream in the King Sooper’s (same as Kroger just a different name.)  I have looked for a long time in grocery stores for cinnamon ice cream.  It’s better that I couldn’t find it as I shouldn’t eat it, but it sure is good.

On the knitting front:  I am almost done with the leg and should be starting the heel tonight.  (As I watch the season premieres of Castle and House!)  I will take a picture tomorrow.  No photos today.  I had classes most of the day, and then Davey and I went looking for sheets.

Ok the Nilla wafers are quickly disappearing.  I better go rescue them before Davey’s dinner is completely spoiled! Actually he’s now feeding them all to Timber.   (No chance of Timber ever spoiling his supper.)

Davey has also just informed me that he is taking good care of Koko and Timber and that it is time to take them out.  He tells me that they need to Poop!

Ok first of all.  I need to learn how to spell Breckenridge.  Not Breckinridge.   But we did not end up making it to Breckenridge.  Instead we stopped in Frisco.  Frisco’s just about 10 minutes away from Breckenridge, but we decided to just have lunch there and stroll around that town.  We’d realized that we were not going to have as much time as we thought before we had to get back to Denver.  (We’ve had an offer on our house and had to fax papers back.  Yay for that – we are hoping everything goes through smoothly, but you never know.  I am cautiously optimistic.)

So we stopped for lunch at a place called Silverheels.

We wanted to eat there because David’s brother had worked as a chef there a few years ago.   It was really good.  David had this salad with smoked trout, and I had fish tacos.  We’ve given up ordering food for Davey at restaurants for now.  It’s like throwing money out the window when we do! He ate pretty well from our plates.  He’s not had much appetite with that cold.  We came up with a new game while we waited for our food.  We couldn’t have played this when I was a kid.  He told me to take a picture of something, and then he’d want to see the picture.   He’d point and say, “Mommy take a picture of this!”

So when I went to download my pictures this morning, I found lots of photos like this:

“Mommy, take a picture of the exit sign!”

“Mommy, take a picture of your watch!”

The food was a little slow in coming,  so it was a great way to pass the time.

Davey also colored.  Not with one crayon, not two, but he wanted to have at least three going at one time:

After lunch, we went strolling.

Frisco is beautiful.  Just beautiful.  There are patches of gold in the mountains already.

We strolled downtown and looked at all the shops.  One thing I always love about mountain towns are all the dogs.  Relaxed, healthy, happy dogs lounging outside their respective shops.

We found a good soft serve ice cream place:

Frisco also has my top main requirement:  a yarn shop.  I didn’t take photo of it, but it was called “What’s Needling U?”  Cute.  They had a nice selection.  I wanted to buy some sock yarn for one of my Joy of Sox patterns, but I didn’t see anything that I just had to have.

We had fun “strollin'”.  Davey didn’t want to stop.  We all liked this statue:

Fun Saturday.  It was a beautiful drive out to Frisco too.  I am not a fan of the Eisenhower/Johnson tunnels though.  (I put in a wiki link.  It’s actually very fascinating reading about these tunnels.  They are at around 11,000 feet and about 1.6 miles long.  I got a little claustrophobic feeling in there.   It was already easier on me though on the way back through.  It’s a little overwhelming to think about going through that massive mountain at that high elevation.  One of those engineering marvels.)

Anyway, I got some more done on my sock last night while we watched a fairly lousy movie  (Prince of Persia). There were a bunch of gross snakes and stuff, so I kept my eyes on my fair isle.

Ok time for a trip to Walmart.  We may get some pizza too.  Something that Davey will eat when we eat out!

I taught all this morning so  the Davids spent the morning together.  They went to the playground, and then they went to Chick Fil A.  David figured out where the closest one was, and off they went.  Apparently Davey was really missing Chick Fil A.

The first thing he said to me when I walked in the door was, “MOMMY!!!  There is a Chick Fil A CLOSE to us!”  He’s been talking about Arkansas a little less each day, and today after the Chick Fil A visit, he said, “Daddy, Colorado feels like home to me now.”    I am not sure why he likes Chick Fil A  so much.  Maybe it is the combination of the great play area and the fact that the chicken and waffle fries are pretty darn good there.  So Yay for Chick Fil A!  (They should pay me for advertising!)

Continuing on news about Davey, he’s doing great on potty training today.  Maybe that’s another sign that he is starting to settle in here.  After all, we did yank him up and move him just a wee bit quickly.

Knitting.  UGH.  Not a stitch yesterday.  My poor heel-less Boyfriend Sock.  Those poor beautiful new balls of yarn ready to go for the Breakfast Sock.  Hopefully tonight.

Ok the discovery of Chick Fil A led to the discovery of Super Target, so we are going to go check it out!

Ok, all the ends are woven in on my “Boyfriend” sock.  I am proud to say that the seam is much improved over my attempt on my first sock!   Now I’ve picked up the stitches to knit the heel.  Unfortunately, I didn’t get them all picked up.  I should have 35 on one needle and 36 on the other, but I am short a couple.  This is a problem.  But I don’t see any dropped stitches either, so I am not sure what is going on.  I will try to get that figured out tonight.

I am ready to get going on my next pair of socks.  The book has titled them as “Breakfast in Bed”.  From this point forward, I will refer to them as the “Breakfast Socks.”  Here’s the yarn I will be using:

Here’s another photo, I don’t know why.

My wireless on my computer is so hinky today.  It’s making me nuts.  It works and then it doesn’t and then it does.  Meanwhile, I dragged David’s pc down the hall to plug directly into the router.  It continues to work just fine throughout.  So something is causing interference.  I moved the cell phone.  I moved the home phone.  I moved my computer around a little.  Maybe it’s Koko’s snoring?  Or Timber’s hulking self lying in the path between the router and the computer?  I don’t know.  I still can’t grasp that I walk amidst all these wireless waves.

This morning I took Davey to story hour.   To say that he enjoys it would be a huge understatement.  Last week, we went to Toddler Time on Tuesday.  First time he’d ever been to a story hour.  We sat down together on the floor.   He sat on my lap.  The kids and parents made a kind of half circle around where the librarian was going to be.  However, as soon as she arrived and got started, Davey was up like a shot.  He sat down front and center.  Right in the middle.  Practically in her lap. I had to caution him about kicking her shoes when he’d get excited.

They do all kinds of little songs between books.  They wave their arms and jump around. Davey just ate it up. He’d look around at everyone else to watch them, and he was just grinning.  He loved it.   I’d like to have taken some photos!

Ok gotta get my classes ready for this evening and tomorrow.  Davey’s got a cold and is not feeling too well.  I’ll go sit by him and work a little.  This teaching is great, but it is seriously cutting into my knitting time!

First off, Boyfriend Sock #2 is almost done!  I have loved making these socks, but I have been working on them for over a month now.  There have been a few interruptions and extenuating circumstances, but I am finally almost done.  I have to get the heel knit in and weave in all these ends.  I didn’t disclose all these ends on sock #1, but I thought there should be truth in sock making.

So I hope to finish these up today.

Yesterday, we went on a walk.  There are trails all around us.  It just takes a few minutes to get to them.  We first walked into an area that looked like this:

Once we got over to this area, we came upon large prairie dog villages.   I tried to get some pictures of them.  This little prairie dog was letting me have it because I was getting too close.  She was chirping at me, but it was more than a chirp.  Very loud and insistent.

As we walked, we saw signs that said “Coyote Country”, and they explained what you are supposed to do when you see a coyote.  Davey and I had read that sign when we’d been walking a few days prior.  I’d heard coyotes barking in groups before, but they were always pretty far away from our house.  I never considered them coming close to us humans.  Of course then I wasn’t standing in the midst of thousands of tasty prairie dogs either.   I read that we were supposed to speak in “loud and firm” voices, and we were not to run.  I kinda thought running might be a bad idea, and I can definitely be loud if I see one, but the firm voice might be hard to pull off.  A hysterical shrill screaming voice might be easier.   After Davey and I looked at the sign, he explained to me that coyotes were friendly.  Then every time the grass would blow, he’d ask if there was a coyote nearby.  The first few times, I’d about jump out of my skin, but when no friendly coyote appeared, I got over it.

So anyway, on Sunday, we kept walking and and ended up by a small lake.   Davey got out of the stroller and took a look with Daddy.

Then we had to stop for a snack.  Davey always loves a picnic of any size.

Ok now to go work on weaving in those ends!

I finished up my Hermione hat, and I wanted to get some pictures of it.  I tried having David take some of me wearing it, but those just were not much fun.  Plus I had the hat on inside out.  I was wondering why it looked funny with the cables inside.

So then Davey came to my rescue.  He’s working the pose here.  He’s not unhappy!

Actually Daddy helped us with the hat modeling:

This is a really fun hat to make.  It would be a great first cables project.

So Davey has taken on another important role in addition to hat model.  He loves to help me walk the dogs.  Timber would still be a little much for him, so he has been walking Koko.   He talks to her all the way through it.  “Koko, come on!”   Of course he has to throw out some “Good Grief Koko!” and “For Cryin’ Out Loud!”  He also directs her:  “Koko, that is NOT the pooping area!”

I get the feeling here that Koko is rolling her eyes at me and saying, “Seriously?”

But Davey was good with her and knew to be gentle.  He was happy to be outside walking the dogs with Daddy!

Now we are headed into Coyote Country to check out the prairie dog village.  I’ll take pictures!

It’s so nice to be back online at home.  It’s nice to write on my blog at home.

It was so nice outside today and we are all settled in now, so we decided to head to the Denver Zoo.

Davey was very excited.  He loved to take the map and look over it and tell us where things were.  He did very well with the little graphic/pictures.

Davey also liked leading our little expedition.  We’d stop at an exhibit.  When he was ready to move on he’d say, “Next!”  Off we’d go.

He loved riding the train and the carousel.

I really enjoyed the tiger cubs.  There were 4 of them chasing each other and wrestling all over the place.  They were a lot of fun to watch.  Then, we were on our way out, and we started to hear this steady loud thumping.  It sounded like a bass drum.  Boom boom boom boom.  We got closer to the sound.  There we saw Mimi and Dolly the elephants.  (They’ve been at the Denver Zoo for 40 years I think!)  Well I don’t know who is Mimi and who is Dolly, but one of them was steadily (like a metronome!) thumping her trunk against the closed door to their tall house where they live.  They were ready to go in for the day!  I loved that.

Davey was in and out of his stroller all day.   I just asked him what his favorite animal was and he told me “Giraffes.”  They were very fun too.

We also enjoyed the mountain goats and big-horned sheep.  I refrained from taking too many animal shots though.  They are always so much fun to take at the zoo, but they are never all that fun to look at at home.  Much less on a blog I would imagine.  So here is Davey giving David a kiss in front of the mountain goats!

I really got some good knitting in on my sock last night.  I am almost finished with the chart of the foot.  Then I have the toe and the heel left to do.  Yay.  They will be done.

It’s been a fun day.