Wordless Wednesday - Summer is still here!

Embrace the Mistakes...

This past Saturday I started taking Knitting classes at a local yarn shop :) it's something I have wanted to do for a while now so I'm really excited!

The first class went really well I think, especially since I am the only one in class who has never knit before in her life. I have crocheted though (but never finished a project...I think I have started about 20 or so lol) so I apparently hold the yarn weird but it's working for me so I am going to go with it.

My first project is a simple garter stitch scarf and it's about a third of the way done right now and no where near perfect...I was doing pretty good with it in class, but decided to take it off, rip it out and start all over for practice, it did this again when I got home and it was coming out TERRIBLE! For a while I just kept casting on doing a few rows deciding it wasn't perfect, ripping out and starting again...after a while the yarn just got so icky I had to cut off and start anew. That's when I just decided that it's my first project, it's NOT going to be PERFECT so I decided to just embrace those imperfections so I can look back on this project later and see just how far I came...

My goal for now is to actually finish this project and any other ones that we decide to do in class (I think we are starting a ribbed scarf next week) and get doll blankets made for the bunk beds I am refinishing for the Little Miss for Christmas!

Friday Firsts

Thought we were done with Friday firsts huh? Not by a long shot :)

Friday First for the Littlest Miss...

First time having "food" now rice cereal barely constitutes as solids, *but* it is something more than just plain formula :) and she was eating it off a spoon so it was fun!

and the results? Well, she loved it! Very much unlike her sister who hated it with a passion :) can't wait to start moving on to some more interesting items :)

We have a friday first for the little miss, but no pics until I can get them off of my mom's camera (since that was the only one available to grab!) so I'll just wait till then to post it :)

Littlest Miss turns 4 Months!

The littlest miss has turned 4 months already! So hard to believe...

Here are the stats

Height - 26 inches ~ 95th Percentile

Weight 13 lbs 15 ounces ~ 50th Percentile

She is one tall skinny little girl :) I see lots of skirts in leggings in her future. She is doing perfect (though she is loosing her hair and becoming a little baldy like her sister was), she is our laid back sleepy little baby. She is reaching for things, following noises, rolling up onto her side (she made it all the way over once, but not again), and babbling in her own cute little language. She even gives us a giggle every once in a while. She is hitting all her milestones right on the mark.

At the Dr. Apt we got the go ahead to start with solid foods so I picked up some rice on the way home...let the fun begin!

Reader Mommy

1. Awakened (House of Night book 8) ~ PC and Kristen Cast

2. Storm Front (The Dresden Files Book 1) ~ Jim Butcher

3. My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover if Not Being a Dumb Ass is the New Black, or, a Culture-Up Manifesto ~ Jen Lancaster

4. Songs of Love and Death - Various Short Stories

5. A Game of Thrones (A song of Ice and Fire Book 1) ~ George R. R. Martin

6. Queen of Babble - Meg Cabbot

7. Bloodfever - Karen Marie Moning

8. Faefever - Karen Marie Moning

9. Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - Ree Drummund

10. The Twilight Saga (counting all 4 as 1 since I read them so many times :) and it was all considered one book borrowed...)

11. Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr

12. Dreamfeaver - Karen Marie Moning

13. The Host - Stephenie Myer

14. My Horizontal Life - Chelsea Handler

15. Shadowfever - Karen Marie Moning

16. I am America and So Can You - Stephen Colbert

17. 13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson

18. Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen

19. A Clash of Kings (Song of Ice and Fire book 2) ~ George R. R. Martin

20. The Peach Keeper ~ Sara Addison Allen

21. Dead Reconing ~ Charlaine Harris

22. An Echo in the Bone ~ Diana Gabaldon

Currently Reading

The First Lost Tale of Mercia - Jayden Woods...a nice quick short story to follow up Echo in the Bone, that one took FOREVER to finish, literally I have been reading that one since last year :)

Goals and accomplishments

Sooo many posts to get to, Vacation, Raspberry picking and Irene among the ones on my mental list, but I have other lists running through my head right now so I figured I would get those out first :)

between Vacation and Hurricane preparations, my to do list kinda over took me so I figured I would stop adding to it every two minutes and just take a minute to step back and breath for a bit, and came up with a list of goals for next month...these things have been on my todo list for forever without a date for completion so I figured if I put a date with them they *might* actually get done

Goals for September

Finish child proofing (door knobs, toilet, fridge, microwave and bathroom cabinets)

Get all bathroom *stuff* out of the tote its been in for a year, organize and put away

Finish chalk boards and hang on wall

hang Art hangers on wall

rug for living room

hang curtains in living room

paint littlest Misses room

purchase and hang curtains in littlest misses room

make and hang curtains in little misses room

paint bedroom

put down boards in attic and get special clothes up there

And it's working already :) so far Goals I have Accomplished...

Picture wall in living room

Finish Art hangers

Hang Art hangers on the wall

Hang Kitchen Witch up

Donate girls clothes...

Basement apartment update!

Even as I type this there is more finishing going on downstairs in Grandma's apartment :) but I thought I would share these with you anyway...

Crown molding is going up tonight in the bed room :)

The stove is out of the living room and a couch now sits down there in stead, but you get the picture.

Cassie just loves running around on the carpet since she doesn't have any up here and I don't think she really remembers the old house.

Oh yea and check out the awesome tiled entry way...

Counter still needs to be cut and installed as does the sink and upper cabinets, but you get the picture...

And the hardware Grandma picked out to add a little bling to the kitchen...they came from Target of all places, gotta love that place!