How are you already 2 year's old Ry-Ry? I thank you for being the sweet little man you are: silly, careful, noisy, giggly, focused and more. I still don't know where you get that blonde hair from, but I love it and if I could I would never cut that little curl behind you right ear.
Happy birthday to my current baby, you are my peanut butter. Here is your sky today:
This is my four year-old’s favorite thing to say, whether he’s looked out the window or not, or whether its blue sky or (usually) not.
But its a wonderful way to greet the day and it reminds often to embrace the morning like a four year-old.
So as I sit here at the end of a blue-sky morning that began with pancakes and my mother-in-law taking the kids for the weekend, I’m delighted to have embraced this day.
I’ve spent a greater portion of the day knitting in the sun on the deck. I brought the pea shoots that my son planted in preschool out to enjoy the weather with me. As the sun gets low behind the new clouds I can smell the evergreen clematis on the occasional breath of breeze and the woodpeckers have emerged from the winter to remind me that Spring is here.
Thanks to Bobbi (Ravelry: grammybee) for a super generous swap package in the latest edition of My Other Hobby Swap.
As if one giant box (read: large flat rate that was super heavy) wasn’t enough, it was followed up by a nice and squishy package too. Refer to photo 1 above for large child with large box and smaller squishy child with squishy package.
Here’s the yarnage: a wonderful skein of superwash malabrigo sock in Caribeno (take me to ocean, STAT), a shawl pattern, and Classics Knits (a real book of patterns, holy jackpot!)
And then a bunch of major extras…
Some great handmades: crocheted kitchen scrubbies (small squishy child thought they were cookies), knit washcloths, embroidered microfiber towels, and a flannel giraffe blankie (now dubbed “giraffe fuffy”) for our new baby that will be appearing in May.
Kitchen and treat bonanza: sandwich cutters, spoon rest, prickly pear and cactus treats, batteries, hollyhock and morning glory seeds, sticky notes, chip clips, mac’n’cheese recipe, and a pot scraper. And that’s just what made it into the staged photo…
Here is what is in the process of being played with: spatula, mini-prep bowls, and a nice stash of yarn balls to “fish” with. They are apparently being washed at the moment.
And now that its bedtime, I can sneak into the boys’ room and find the goodie bags that Bobbi put together for each of the boys…yep, one per boy, in true grammy nature! Their own “project” bag each filled with: Nemo, a book, a flashlight (how did you know “shy-shys” are a favorite around here?), magnet clips with their initial, Reese’s pieces, necco wafers, an Arizona sucker, matchbox cars, a growing towel…did I get it all?
All topped off with a very sweet note. I think Bobbi’s other hobby is shopping! You made our day and we’ll be enjoying this package for a while. Here are some more shots from the opening ceremony. Enjoy!
