Uh-Oh MOMMA- Toddler style

Holy Smoke! What a past couple of weeks-week and a half.  Happy belated Turkey Day to everyone in the US. We had a small gathering of just the 4 of us (DH, both Things, and me). As with every good holiday, there was way too much food for the people involved. DH did cook a turkey and then after Thanksgiving I had the BEST idea for using up a portion of the leftovers. We had Turkey Pot Pie! DH had kindly made a turkey stock for freezing and I made him use up a great bit of it for a homemade cream of turkey soup; delicious.

Source of problems for DS1. 

DH went back to work on black Friday while I stayed home with the boys. We continued our food coma while I did a little knitting. DS1’s socks were finished up. Silly boy, he is such a weirdo (Said with sincere affection). I finished the one sock on Friday while he was napping. By the time he awoke, the second sock was cast on and had roughly an inch of cuff. He came out to the couch were I had the needles sitting, picked it up and freaked out! “Momma Momma Uh-oh Uh-Oh MOMMA Loook Uh-Oh!” I had to dig the finished sock out of my bag and hand it over to him to reassure him Mommy had not screwed up. The rest of Friday I did not touch that sock unless I was after him (tickle wars and Nannabooboos). He wore the one sock, took the sock off, wore the sock, took the sock off, ect. I worked like a speed demon to finish the second sock by Saturday at the end of nap. With a finished pair, he had ZERO interest in the socks.  Toddlers, who can figure them out?

Both sleeves with an old college sweatshirt

The Dr. Watson sweater saw some love but not as much as it should have seen. As of late Sunday night (Dec. 8^th) the second sleeve is completed and the only thing left to do is the finishing work (like putting sleeves into the sweater body). I had a trip to Atlanta scheduled for ISO training so the first thing packed was knitting. I brought along the second sleeve, yarn for a pair of vanilla socks, lace yarn, and yarn for a hat to Halos of Hope. The only items to see any knitting was the sleeve and the vanilla socks.  More knitting would have been done but I was convinced to hang out in the bar with a few glasses of wine. Most of my knitting was done during the lectures/sessions on the sock. Someday I’ll be smart enough to take pictures of the sock in progress between each break. Someday but not yet.

I use Nike+ gear and that's my fastest mile in years.

By the way, when you wake up at 4 AM in a hotel room and are unable to go back to sleep, I recommend getting up after an hour of attempting to sleep going for a run. It’s fabulous! See?