Monthly Archives: March 2012

The Pioneer Woman and Davey (kinda)

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Last Saturday Ree Drummond (the Pioneer Woman) was in Denver for a book signing.  Davey really enjoys watching her cooking show with me so he was excited to go meet her.  Davey and I had picked up a ticket earlier in the week.  This put us in group 1 so we had high hopes of not having to wait for too long.

When we arrived we received a number:  293.  We were in group 1, but then within that group we were 293.

Alas, this is as close as we got to the Pioneer Woman.

We waited for quite awhile to see how quickly the line would move.  We still had hope.

The Pioneer Woman began signing books.  She’s so warm and friendly.  She took pictures with people and she took a moment to chat.  David was doing math to try to calculate how long it would take us to get to her.  I didn’t really want to hear the cold hard facts, but as we watched, I realized that he was right.  Basically, it was going to be  long while.   We had 293, so this was better than what we could have had.  There were people who had numbers 600 +!   She started signing at 4:30, and I don’t know how she left before 10.

David held Davey up for a picture in front and above Ree Drummond.  She’s in the picture, but she’s behind the bookcase so that’s why you don’t see her.

So we handed off our number to someone who had number of 500+, and off we went.  It was fun though.  We’d not been to a book signing before, and this was a really neat huge bookstore with all kinds of stuff.  Davey and David spent quite abit of time with comic books and action figures.

And, we found and got Davey his first camera.  He was very excited.  The photo quality is not great, but it’s sturdy and he’s having a lot of fun taking pics of everything.

Boomerang!

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It’s a beautiful Spring day here in Colorado.  We headed outside.

We threw a frisbee around for a little bit, and then we remembered that we’d been wanting to try out the boomerang that David’s parents had brought back from Australia for us.

Davey wasn’t quite sure what to do with it.

So we let Daddy take over.  If I remember correctly, he’d tossed around a boomerang some as a kid.

It took some practice before David got the hang of it again.

He started to really get the “form”.

At one point, the boomerang spent a little time in a tree.

Davey found David’s efforts hilarious.

And exciting.  There was a moment when the boomerang was coming right at Davey  and me (instead of back to David), and we were scurrying around like crazy.

Fortunately Davey found a sword with which he promised to protect us.

Next Davey decided that Daddy needed his help.

Davey tried not to get bonked on the nose while staying as close to David as he could.

They were starting to get the hang of it.  Here was a mighty effort to meet the boomerang on its return.

So close and one of my favorite pictures of David ever!

 

 

 

Lemon Drop Cowl

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I’ve finished the final cowl in the Great Cowl KAL!  5 cowls in 50 days!  It was another fun knit.  I had purchased some Misti Alpaca back in Arkadelphia, and I had a few skeins of it.  I still have one left.  I may make a tam or some kind of hat to go with the cowl.

The pattern is called the Blueberry Scowl, but my cowl is very yellow!

Since the yarn is solid, I thought it would be fun to have 3 different buttons.  I found them at my favorite yarn shop Fancy Tiger.

Love the tiger button!

This is my kinda interesting shot of the cowl.

The pattern was not a hard one.  I had to cast on 300 stitches though, and somehow, my brioche stitch got a little wonky for abit.  I got it back on track though.  There’s also a 1 by 1 rib and 2 by 2 rib.  It’s a neat pattern.  I probably should block this out.  I’ve not done that yet.

I’m at the Little Gym right now watching Davey in his tumbling class.  On the way here he told me, “I have so much to do today Mommy.  Little Gym, and then I have a pretend meeting and a pretend class and then another pretend meeting and another pretend class!”

He has been to a couple of meetings with me at achool in the past couple of weeks.  He sits so quietly.  Not a peep.  He draws and plays on my iphone and has done great.  So he’s gotten into the spirit of our school life.  Teaching and meetings.  It’s very fun for him.  “Mommy.  I love to come to Rocky Mountain High!”  (that’s what he calls our school).

If I can just teach him to grade for me.  I’ll be set! 🙂

 

St Patrick’s Day and a Cooking Show

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Davey loves a party.  So yesterday, he didn’t want to wear green, (“little kids don’t have to wear green”) but he wanted to make cookies and have cupcakes.  We ended up buying some cupcakes because I have not mastered the high altitude cupcake yet, and we made cookies.

Hobby Lobby didn’t have shamrock cookies cutters so we went with kind of a flowery shape.  It worked just fine – as long as Davey was doing the cookie cutting.  I was having difficulty, but Davey had a technique that worked much better than mine (I have limited experience with cookie cutters.  I never make sugar cookies with icing because I have no self control when it comes to that type of cookie).

So Davey was in charge of wielding the cookie cutter.

Lately Davey loves to watch cooking shows.   And now he wants us to pretend that we are hosting a cooking show.  So the other day, he helped me mix up something for dinner.  It involved stirring, and so as we were stirring Davey was saying, “Now isn’t this looking just beautiful.”

When he has to leave for a second, he wants me to keep up the commentary.  “Next we will be putting icing on the cookies and then adding sprinkles.  We’ll be right back!”

I didn’t buy the best jar of sprinkles.  They came out too fast and were difficult to apply evenly.  Davey found this hilarious.

I love this next photo.  David told us to smile nice for the camera.  I guess Davey didn’t feel like it at the moment.  Or it was when David was saying he wanted a cookie, and Davey was informing him that he had to “WAIT FOR THE PARTY! “I find this picture hilarious because it shows Davey when he is being totally tootsville.

Ree Drummond from the Pioneer Woman is going to be here next weekend for a book signing. Davey loves watching her cooking show with me.  He likes to see her kids on there.  I’m hoping we can go.  I think he’d find that really cool.

And finally a cookie close-up shot.  These are just too fun.

 

Spring Soccer!

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Davey began his second season of soccer today.  It was beautiful outside.  Sunny, no wind and comfortable temps.

Davey had a great time.   He got right back into it.   They are the “Eagles”, so I think he was flying here.

He’s gotten much better at moving the ball.  Very focused:

They had to take turns playing since it is 3 on 3.  He didn’t mind taking time out though.  He looks to be having a very nice chat with his teammate here (I really want to get a better zoom!)

He’s still not all that interested yet in really getting after the ball, but it’s early in the season.  He still spends a lot of time hopping gleefully as he runs after the child who is actually kicking the ball.

He does look ready to go here though!

After the game, he was ready to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

Outside!

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We are back outside.  It’s supposed to be in the 70s all week and we are loving it.  I am watching Davey jump on the trampoline while I write this.

Davey is now serenading me on the harmonica.  It’s lovely.  Our neighbor, Bob, has a bunch of wind chimes.  I love listening to them as well.  Koko is wandering around.  She likes to be out here with us.

Davey just explained why he is serenading me.  It is part of the entertainment for the food drive he is hosting.  Apparently he learned about food drives watching Olivia.  Now he is having a circus.

So I told Davey that I needed to sit out here and read for my class tomorrow.  Instead, I am perusing baby patterns on Ravelry.  My brother and his wife are expecting their first baby.  yay.  My cousin and her husband are expecting their first baby.  yay.   I have a couple of friends having babies too so I am looking forward to some baby knitting!

I am also finishing up my last cowl in the Great Cowl KAL.  It’s been a lot of fun, but I will be happy to have it finished up.

And that’s about all.  We are all slowly getting healthy again.  Davey’s croup is about gone.  If David can get over his cough, we will hopefully begin to stay healthy around here!

In the meantime, we are enjoying a beautiful day!

Baby Vision

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It’s Sunday and we are having a definite “loki” day.  Davey is running a fever and is not feeling great.  I am still trying to get over a cold and David has a little bit of a cold himself.  So we are just hanging out.  I’m reading and actually knitting on something that is not a cowl for the first time in several weeks.

It is a fingerless glove – well it will actually have partial fingers and the flap thing that will come over the hand to make a mitten.  They’re convertible mittens and the pattern is called “Podster Glove”.  I am knitting with the prettiest Shibui sock yarn.  Here’s an ok iphone pic.

I love that blue!

I also wanted to blog about Davey’s “baby vision”.  Lately, whenever David and I talk about something that we did before he was born, Davey goes into baby vision mode.  He likes to think that he has always been with us and has participated throughout.  So he stops and he kinda tilts his head and says “baby vision”.  It is with this “baby vision” that he is able to experience these moments from before he was born.  I’m not sure how he came up with this, but it’s pretty cute.

After he goes into “baby vision”, he says things like “oh yeah” and “I remember that with my baby vision”.

This is not exactly the expression he makes, but it’s a unique one that I’ve not captured in a photograph before.  We were getting ready to head to Home Depot yesterday for the kid’s workshop.

I’d just finished working on his hair which had just previously looked like this (a kinda blurry picture but I like it):

Ok back to some more “loki” time!

Perpetually Persistent Cowl and my little photographer

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Cowl number 4 is done.  I started this on Thursday and finished it last night.  It went so fast and was a fun knit.  It went so fast because it was on size 17 needles and was knitted with this super chunky yarn (Malabrigo Rasta).  I am thinking it will be suitable for wear when it is below zero outside.  It’s very thick and warm – pretty soft too.

Davey was kind enough to model again for me this morning.

He got goofy and was being silly (the wee tot is also in need of a haircut.  His hair was kinda crazy this morning!).

I also got a close up of him that I really liked.

Then he wanted to take pictures of me.  He took one picture and he then instructed me to move to a better light.  “Mommy, let’s get somewhere where the light is not behind you.”  Then he wanted me to take off the cowl.  It was freaking him out a little.

So he took another picture of which he approved.

Then he wanted to arrange the cowl on the wig head and he knew just where he wanted to place it.

Love having my helpful photography assistant although actually I may have become the assistant at this point!

 

Weeble Wobble Thursday

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I’m at the Little Gym again.  It’s turning into a good place to do a little blogging.

I think we are about to maybe get some snow again.  A 30% chance today has turned into a 90% chance, and we may end up with a few inches.  We love the snow, but we are starting to look forward to some Spring!

On our way to the Little Gym this morning, we stopped by Fancy Tiger to get some new yarn.  (Fancy Tiger is my favorite yarn/craft store in the Denver area. It’s the coolest.) I’m getting ready to start the next cowl in the cowl KAL, and I did not have any superchunky in my stash.  So I just had to buy some.  I ended up buying what the pattern calls for (I rarely do this!)  – Malabrigo Rasta.  So nice.  So squishy.

Just did a little photography at the Little Gym.

I can’t wait to start knitting this.  It should be super fast (famous last words) – on size 17 needles!

I finished the 3rd cowl in the knit along yesterday.  I like it a lot.  It wraps around my neck three times and is so is nice and comfy and warm.

Davey again agreed to model for me.

It’s has curves on one side – hence the weeble wobble.  This was accomplished with short rows.  Really neat.

He was explaining something to David here.

And Davey took some pictures of me.  I always like this.

ok time to cast on this squishy new yarn!