Shalom, she is done. I need to reinforce the button holes that's all. The buttonholes on the last cardi have stretched a bit. I couldn't get the other two buttons I liked so I had to go with these ones, orange. They're okay I suppose. I like the others better though.

In the weekend I knitted up a pair of booties for Callum and then I was going to start something new, but I decided to give Teal Cardigan #19 another visit and have started that again. I am sticking with the pattern but I am not going to go against my instincts if they don't match up. Last time I did that and the sleeve turned out weird and I have to unpick and reknit it. That's the reason it got dumped in the first place.

I have been feeling the urge to study again. I don't know what. Just something. I am thinking of enrolling at the community college to learn how to upload and make home movies on the computer.

The top picture is me. If you are wondering what the circles are next to my head they are my earrings. You thought they were my ears didn't you? Uh uh, you were wrong!

The bottom picture is my sons. The cot in the background hasn't been slept in by Callum for months, I can't even remember the last time, but last night it did get used, by Baden. He decided he wanted to sleep in there. At least it gets some use, other than having washing dumped in it.

I finished my Shalom cardigan, just cast off about half an hour ago. I have two buttons, I need four, but I was at Livo Spotlight (possibly the worst Spotlight in Australia) the other day and I saw the perfect buttons, so I grabbed the two they had and I am hoping my local has two more. I will post a pic shortly. I am very very happy with it and think I will wear it alot. I have been wearing my 'Favourite Cardigan' regularly as well.


Next on the needles will be another little jumper for Callum I think, out of some Bendigo Woollen Mills Luxury 10ply that I have here. Baden has a million jumpers now, I don't think he needs another for a while. I noticed the other day that he is filling out his jumpers more now. When did that happen? I have been so busy noticing Callum growing at the speed of light that I didn't realise that Baden has been too. Callum is six months old now and I weighed him the other day and he is 10kg. I didn't think he would make it because he was sick the other week, but nothing is stopping this little tonka truck! I haven't started him on solids yet, its on my list of things to do, probably this week (did someone say 'second baby'? lol). I am doing Baby Led Solids this time and I think we will start off with a bit of pear. If he can pick it up he can have it.

Knitting group is on a break now, for the school holidays. :(

I have a dentist appointment next week. I is scared. I know I need at least one filling. I had to make an appointment before 30 June because we are over the medicare threshhold this year because of the midwife fees, so I thought I might as well jump in and get some more back since I have to go anyway. eek.

And in other news, Australia has a new Prime Minister. A woman. They are finally catching up to New Zealand which has been there and done that. Twice in fact.

I decided to skip knitting group and had another day in bed with Callum. He was running hot and was generally just a misery-guts, he rallied and then seemed to relapse a bit. I didn't take him to the doctor, I could see it was viral and there was no secondary bacterial infection in his throat or ears so no antibiotics would be any use, just lots of rest and mummy's milk and let the fever and the antibodies in my milk do their thing.

So normal transmission has resumed, he has made a full recovery and everything is hunky dory once again and I am able to continue my knitting of the Shalom Cardigan. So far I am really pleased with it, every time I try it on it feels warm and soft. Its knit from the top down so you try it as you go.

After spending most of the week stuck at home I am busting to get the hell out of this house so I have organised a few of my laydees who lunch meetings, the first is tomorrow, then knitting group is on Tuesday, another lunch meet on Wednesday, we are visiting a friend at her new house on Thursday and then it will be Friday all over again. Time flies when you are having fun!!

Steve made a weird comment to me during the week. He said he thinks I will never go back to work I will just stay home and have babies. wtf? where did that come from? I don't know why he thinks that, but its not true! Getting a bit old for that anyway!! geez.

Oh, and it was our wedding anniversary the other day, two years already. Time really does fly.

I have been in bed all day with my littlest bloke who has a bit of a cold. He's not too bad, just a bit hot and a bit miserable, so I decided to snuggle up with him and let him feed and sleep all day. I only got one row of knitting done, he wouldn't sleep unless he was laying on me or had a nipple in his gob, so I was kind of stuck there. I hope he feels better tomorrow. He's so cute, poor little thing, he looks miserable but still really cute. I just love his baldie little head, it just cracks me up. He had a confused look on his face, like he couldn't figure out why he felt so awful. My poor baby.

I am currently knitting a short sleeve jumper called Shalom. Its going well. I really like the colour, its a teal sort of thing that I got from Spotlight. We have knitting group tomorrow so I hope Callum is feeling better. He looked like he was feeling a bit better this evening. He had perked up a bit and started babbling a bit, which is a good sign. He wasn't off his milk, which is a good sign as well, he's such a guts, I think it would take more than the sniffles for him to be off his milk!

Baden has a bit of a cold at the moment as well. He will shake it off in a few days, and in the meantime I will probably catch it and be knocked on my backside with it, that's usually how things go around here.

After knitting group last week Baden said "Mum, I like ginger beer, do you like ginger beer?" when we hopped in the car. I absentmindedly said "hmm, yep I do". Then he mentioned ginger beer in the conversation a few more times and I wondered when he had last tried it. I remember buying it when I was pregnant to help with the nausea but I didn't remember him having any but he seemed to be pretty convinced that he liked it a lot.

A few night's later we were having a bath and he was looking at my wedding ring and he goes "Ginger Beer has lots of rings" and I said "what?...like the ring pull on the bottle you mean?" and he goes "no, on her fingers" and I said "Ginger Bear? Who is Ginger Bear, is that a cartoon on the TV?" and he goes "no Mum, you know Ginger Beer, at knitting group!".

Penny drops. "Virginia" is the new creche lady at knitting group!!

Okay, I finished Favourite Cardigan (shown in the plum colour on the left), and also finished the purple tunic thing that I have put down and picked up a few times. It has taken a whole year from when I first cast on. I think that's the longest project ever for me.

I have also been working on the teal cardigan. I have been working on the front today. I was going to start something else and then I picked up the teal thing and it felt so warm and soft. The weather here is frozen at the moment so it inspired me to get this thing finished.

Nice warm feet in this miserable weather. He has a red and grey pair as well. Its my favourite bootie pattern, knitted with larger needles and thicker wool than usual, for unusually large feet.

I have nearly finished a jumper for Callum, called Five Fruits. I only have one sleeve to go. Its knitted top down in the round, sleeves are magic looped last.

If you understood all that you are obviously a knitter, LOL, it must sound like a foreign language to anyone else. I will have a pic soon, I am just a bit lazy at the moment, besides which, I have one child in the bath a few feet away and one on my knee.

I have also nearly finished Favourite Cardigan, just got the button band to go and then I need to find some nice buttons. I just cast off the second sleeve this morning. I really really hate knitting sleeves in the round. I have only recently learned how to do it, but I don't enjoy it at all. I magic looped the first one and then found a really short circular needle for the second one, which was slightly less un-enjoyable but still not my favourite part.

Then I want to finish my teal blue cable cardigan #19 (that's the name of it) which has been on the needles for absolutely absolutely ages. I really want to finish it. It looks at me all the time, from across the room, with sad eyes. Every time I start something new I hear a sob from that corner of the room. Poor little thing. I will finish you I promise. I have to re-knit the sleeves from scratch and finish the fronts and button bands.

I tried Callum on the bottle again. No joy again. What is wrong with this kid? Surely he can figure it out by now!! I have some things coming up that I want to go to. The main one is the Bledisloe Cup game, its not till September so he will be able to have some solids by then so he won't starve. Because I AM going Callum, whether you think I am or not, you little control freak! I missed last year because I had the flu (whilst pregnant, oh what fun). I sat and watched it at home, tucked up in bed. This year I will be there!!

Next week is Worldwide Knit in Public Day, WWKIPD. I want to go to that. I think we are all going to go into town and Steve will take Baden off to do something and I will see where Callum is at, he might come with me, he might go with Steve for a while.