We are heading out on a little trip to Oklahoma today.    It will be a busy time with lots of visiting.

So  I was contemplating starting my next project in the Joy of Sox on the drive home.  I haven’t gotten #2 done yet, so I was trying to decide if I was breaking my rules.  Then I thought – well they are my rules.  I am going in order and this is a special circumstance as I would like to put the driving time to good use, but I am limited as to what I can knit because I get carsick.    These socks are called Takeout for Two.  I have never knitted anything like these before, and I probably wouldn’t have if  I wasn’t knitting this book.  Which is why I like this project so much.  I probably wouldn’t have tried out the little fishies pattern either.

I am decreasing my heel now on my fishies sock and am getting ready to settle in to the foot.  I am hopeful that at least the first sock will be done by the time we get back home.

Davey is running around the house lamenting the fact that the little sticker he got from the nice lady at Walmart is torn.  “Mommy, my sticker is torn!”  So dramatic!  He is already very expressive.  He gets that from his Daddy. (no drama from his mama.)

Davey created a Playdoh Baby yesterday.  He carried him around and told us how much he loved him.  At some point, he divided the playdoh baby into twins.  Then they magically came back together.  Here is a photo of Playdoh Baby:  (David and I quietly said out of Davey’s hearing that Playdoh Baby kind of resembles an internal organ of some type.) You can see how much he is enjoying little “PB”:

I started the heel of my sock last night. I did the heel flap and finished turning the heel. Now it is time to pick up the stitches around the sides.

I love the two-color heel!  I don’t know why there is that wrinkle in the middle.  These photos make me nuts.

Two more things about the sock.  I described the cuff as having kind of ruffles.  Well my knitting friends at my knitting group last night helped poor rather blockheaded me.   My friend Karen said, “oh those are waves at the top”.    Hadn’t occurred to me despite the fact that I am knitting fishies in water.  Then I wondered, “Why is it called Two to Tango”?  My friend Lori suggested it is because I am using 2 colors.  Sounds reasonable and had also not occurred to me.

Davey and I went walking again this morning and ended at the thrift store.  Today we found some great German puzzles!   On one of them, you connect the mommy animal with her babies:

I love this little puzzle!

And finally – Poor Koko.  She has a wound on her elbow that is not healing well.  So, Elizabethan Collar.  Poor girl, I just hate to put it on her.  She doesn’t like it either.  She’s 14 and has enough challenges as it is being arthritic and almost deaf.  Now we had to put that collar on her.  Here’s hoping her elbow will heel (I have typed in heel like that 10 times.  I have heel flap on the brain.)

Ok I really can’t tango much today with my sock – I need to get over the alliteration too. (that probably won’t happen though.  I enjoy it too much!)  I have got to finish my other projects.  I can’t wait to share them next week.  Well, if they don’t turn out to be hang off the body or floppy armed short waisted disasters.

I began the heel flap last night.  Cuff is done!  All I can see when I look at this picture is that vertical line running down the middle of the sock.  Small problem when going from needle to needle.  Oh well, it’ll block out.  (At least I will comfort myself with that for now.)

I think one reason that I love this sock so much is that those colors are just very soothing to me.  The blues remind me of the ocean.  It’s so darn hot here.   I have to stop talking about the heat though.  It is ONLY June 22.  We’ve got July, August, and part of September.   Oh but I just mentioned it today to explain one reason why this sock appeals to me so much.  (and the fishies are just too fun!)

Davey and I walked around town this morning.  We ended our walk at the thrift store.  We like to check there periodically for toys for him.  Last week we found a Wiggles Guitar.  Today we found a mega blocks Fire Truck.  1/2 price sale so it was $2.00!  He loves it.  He’s been pulling it around the house and filling it up since we got home.  Here you can see that playing can be serious business.

Here I got him to say “cheeeeeese”:

Finally, I wanted to share this blog – the Frugal Life Project .  I just discovered it a week or so.  She usually posts at least 2 times a day.   Things like sales at Old Navy, or a great sale on a park bench at Amazon the other day (with free shipping!).  Yesterday she put up a link to a Disney website.  You can set up a phone message for free where a Mickey Mouse character will call and leave a personalized message for your child.  I set it up to call this morning  for Davey.  At 9:00. Great planning on my part – we were out walking.  So we missed it – the answering machine didn’t get it. I will try again.  Anyway, she puts up coupons, recipes, all kinds of stuff.  I love it! (You can follow it on facebook and twitter as well.)

Happy Father’s Day in particular to my father and to David!

I still have a tendency to forget about Father’s Day applying to David.  I’m so dumb.  He loves being a daddy to Davey, but my brain knew him for so long before he was a father, I guess it just  forgets to make the connection sometimes.

Davey and I are going to get him a cake.  “Cupcakes Mommy, and a Cake – a Race car cake Mommy!” says Davey.

Have a great day!

It’s naptime.  Not looking good.  Do we want to battle the heat at the waterpark?  Not sure I have it in me.  Think I’d rather stay where it is cool and try to finish this sock!  I had to order some yarn for my Two to Tango socks that I am starting next.  It arrived today.   I can’t wait to get started.

Also, I really like this artist and his blog.  I wanted to share his latest entry: http://woowork.blogspot.com/2010/06/business-by-book.html

Happy Friday afternoon!

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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!