According to her Daddy!
Isabella Marie Tarver is here FINALLY. At 3:18 pm on 4-15-2007, after 30 hours of labor and two hours of pushing (mom say it was a TOTAL of 28 including pushing) she is finally here! 8 pounds 10.6 ounces, 20 1/4 inches long and the CUTEST BABY IN THE WORLD
From Chris
“Joseph Nicholas Phillips was born on Tuesday morning (April 10) at 5:18am, after a heroic effort by mommy. The gorgeous new member to the Phillips family weighed in at 8 pounds, 12 ounces, and is 21 1/4 inches long; he and mom are both doing well”
We are so excited that he is finally here (he was 12 days late!)
This is how we have decided to “grow” our small group! 😉
We have decided that our next project on the townhouse will be to fix up the kitchen. After some experimentation, we think the cabinents are saveble and just need a good DEEP clean, plus some new hardware. So that is what we did this weekend. All the top cabinents now have new hinges and pulls (which they didn’t have before)
I think they look great (thanks Scott).
Next up is cleaning the bottom cabinents (yucky!) and deciding on who is going to install the new counter top/sink etc. I have already decided what tile I want to use on the counter and backsplash, now I just have to find someone who has it and will install it. I also need to figure out if I want to raise the counter surface between the kitchen and the dinning room to make it more like a breakfast bar area. Mostly it is a matter of cost and difficulty. I hope it isn’t too expensive.
My sister-in-law is pregnant. It took them over a year, but now she is more than half way through her pregnancy. I am so excited for them and that Chanler is going to have a cousin. And today then found out they are having a …
My sister-in-law is pregnant. It took them over a year, but now she is more than half way through her pregnancy. I am so excited for them and that Chanler […]
So I have finished both mittens (ok one needs eyes and details, but the mitten part if finished). Now I just need to figure out how to connect them. I am thinking I-cord, but am not really sure how to make it. Guess some googling is in order.
Well I have finished one of two mittens! Yes they are froggie mittens – I am going to knit a complete froggie winter set. Chanler is in love with the first mitten! I mistakenly told him to “quack” with his hand – like we do in some of our songs, and now he calls it a “quack froggie” pretty funny.
Unfortunately I can’t seem to get a good picture of the mitten – Chanler will not cooperate and it just looks funny without a hand in it.
This is the second froggie hat I finished. I was waiting to post about it until I had a picture with the adorable model (Ainsley Hanes)
I made this hat for Anders’ 3rd birthday.
It looked (and fit) better on Anders than it did on Scott, but I needed a model and Chanler wasn’t cooperating
Well I tackled my first big project – the Froggie Hat – a.k.a. knitting something other than a scarf! Well ok once I finished the hat I made a matching scarf, but you have to knit what you know too.
I have been knitting since I was a young girl – Mostly Scarfs! They don’t really require any thought about what you are doing and the are low commitment items! So since I am all grown up etc I decided it was time to try something different (it also had to do with the fact that we have tons of scarfs running round our house) So on to hats!
I main impetus for this hat was that Chanler’s “girl” friend Sadie has a froggie hat and Chanler spent all of one play date trying to steal it. So I decided that I just HAD to make him one.
Here is the pattern for this hat. I added the embellishment myself.
http://www.needlebeetle.com/free/rollbrim.htm
I found that the 96 stich size will fit on my adult head just fine. I made one with 72 stiches which is a bit small for Chanler at 22 months, but I think it would fit a one year old. I also used size 8 needles (because that is all I had in DPN) so that may have been part of the problem.
I am begining to think I planted a jungle! The tomatoes are over 8 feet tall, I have cut back the basil more times than I can count, plus the zucchini could literally eat san jose!
BUT I love it and wish I had more time for it.
My Morning glories finally started blooming. They are so lovely!