Evil Eye

We’re back from a wonderful weekend spent in the woods with our dear friends.  It was much easier to camp with an infant than I had expected, but I am sure that is in part because I had so much support from Scott and any number of people who couldn’t wait to hold Victor.  We were very cozy in our new tent, which felt huge to me, but gave us plenty of room for sleeping and changing the baby.

Victor, freshly changed, rocking his Ramones onsie.

As usual, the time went far too quickly, and I am already thinking about going back in the Spring, and how different Victor will be by then.

We’ll we’re off for our semi-annual camping trip, this time it’s 3 of us.  Victor and I have been getting out more, and now we’re going on a road trip, amazing.  We went with Sara to stop by Pulaski Park Fieldhouse and visit the new Loopy Yarns this week, and it is fabulous.  The yarn is arranged by weight, there is a room just for sock yarn!

In more knitting related news, I finished Victor’s hat.

He looks thrilled, eh?  We hope you have a lovely weekend, and we’ll be back with tales of our grand adventure.

Victor took a long enough nap yesterday for me to start knitting a hat for him.  I got a couple of inches done, yeay!

His feeding frenzy seems to be slowing down a bit, maybe we are almost through this growth spurt.

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A belated happy 80th birthday to Maurice Sendak.  I just heard some old interviews with him on Fresh Air.  He is one of my favorite illustrators and children’s book authors, and it was a pleasure to hear him interviewed.

So, it’s been almost 6 weeks since Victor came into our lives.  We’re adjusting to life with an infant.  Just when I think I detect a pattern in when he eats and sleeps, he changes it up.  Turns out infants do not grow gradually, but in spurts.  During a growth spurt they eat almost non-stop.  Wow!  Right now I am typing with one hand, while I hold him with the other.

Last night went out for our first social visit to Lane and Sara’s.  It was so nice to get out of the house for something other than errands or doctors appointments.

Although I have not knit much at all recently, I have been working with Sara on preparations for YarnCon!  It is shaping up to be a great show, we’re both very excited.  You can see the current list of vendors here.

Well, Victor seems to have fallen asleep, time for me to try to get a few things done.