ADA
Ada is 7 months old and continues to blossom into a pretty little girl. She can sit up on her own now and is very interested in playing with all of her toys. I know I've mentioned this before, but this is one happy little girl! Ada has also started to learn new consonants (like the 'd' sound) and babbles happily to herself while she plays.
But don't let her cuteness fool you; this girl likes to get her own way. She lets out a horrific scream any time Liam takes one of her toys away and if you set her down on the floor when she'd rather be carried, she lets you know!Ada is now onto fruits and vegetables. Her current favourites are pears and apples with peas finishing a dead last. We'll keep working at getting her to like those peas!
LIAM
Poor Liam is sick of been cooped up all day in the house. We've had some warm weather lately, so I let him out to ride his bike around on the sidewalk. I sit by the window with a tea and watch Liam play in the snow - doesn't he look like Elmer Fudd in that hat?
Last week, Liam spent a day at the farm and Grandpa and Grandma Farm took him skating for the first time. Way to go, Liam!
Liam is now fully potty trained. He even can pee standing up "just like daddy". He's pretty proud of himself.AROUND THE HOUSE
I have become a lean, mean bagel making machine. Unfortunately, none of my subsequent batches have ever turned out as good as the first! At any rate, we're really enjoying homemade bagels for breakfast these days.
My mom also passed on some sourdough starter to me and I have been experimenting with sourdough baking. I love it, love it, love it! Here is my starter that I feed 1 c of flour and 3/4 of water everyday.
There are many sourdough recipes out there to try and my mom has posted some of them on her new website. By far, sourdough waffles are the best waffles I have ever tried.I'm ready for spring and have put in my order for this year's seeds. I've been looking through my usual gardening books - here's my favourite.
It has great vintage photos, but even better, it's a really great resource for those who want to garden organically. This book taught me all about crop rotation in the garden.
And it inspired me to garden in my Sunday best...
...if only I looked that good in the garden...
Nialle's great aunt and uncle own an acreage near Devon and are planting potatoes, tomatoes, squash and carrots for me in exchange for my labour. I will go out and help them in their massive garden about once a week and get to take home extra veg that I can't grow in our yard. I'm pretty excited about this and am looking forward to learning new things from some gardening masters.I've been very unmotivated to knit these days. I think trying to do a handmade christmas this year really burnt me out. But I've tried to remain disciplined and have managed to knit the body and sleeve of a new sweater.
...here's the back of the sweater...lots of texture that feels great under your fingertips...
It's green. I'm really nervous about knitting with colour...I prefer more muted, natural tones, but this was the only colour I could really find locally that suited this pattern.
and some merino from a flock belonging to a couple that goes to our church...
I've also designed and knit a simple pair of leggings for Ada to wear. The free pattern is over here.
Liam doesn't like to wear sweaters of any kind, so I don't think I'll be doing much knitting for him this year. Thankfully, Ada's too young to complain about wool yet, so I'll be keep busy knitting for her (if I ever feel motivated to knit again).Yikes! Long post...and there's still more I could write about. But your cup of tea is probably done now, so I'll save other news for another day!
1 comment:
Ada Babes is too adorable. And Liam is growing up so fast! Skating? Playing outside alone? Peeing standing up?? *sigh* Well, since he can help grandma town bake a cake, I really shouldn't be surprised. Soon I'll have two helpers. I can't wait!
Oh, and BTW, I think Ada is trying to say "grandma". ;)
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