Cute as a button

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Cute as a button – understatement.  This kid is perfect – and yes, I know every grandparent says that about their new grandbaby.  Here are two pictures of him in an outfit made by his mommy, Danielle, and myself.  We got an iron-on that said “cute as a button”.  Somehow, even with following directions, it melted to the iron so Danielle traced what did appear on the onesie with a sharpie and sewed the buttons on, with Great Grandma Carol teaching her how to sew on the buttons.

The hoodie and the hat were knit by me.  All yarn was I Love This Yarn worsted.  The hat pattern is basically the Rainbow Marley pattern in Itty-Bitty Hats by Susan B. Anderson, with a few changes.

Corey is a sweetheart

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Here is a rose Corey picked for me from their back yard.  He wrapped it in wet paper towel and foil and gave it to me to take home – this was on Danielle’s first day back to work and I watched Zach while she was at work……….very special when my son gives me flowers.

That was nine days ago – it’s still beautiful today – I just took this pic…………..

A beautiful morning walk

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It’s hotter than heck and I like to take a walk 5-6 days per week.  Keith suggested the obvious when I was complaining about how hot it was when I take my walks………….walk earlier in the morning.  I used to do that but now I enjoy laying in bed longer.  Today may have reverted me back to my old ways.  I LOVED my early morning walk.  The weather was still hot and humid but much cooler than walking at 9 a.m. or noon or whenever the mood would strike me.  I had shade from the big arborvitaes on one side of my track (our walking track is .19 miles per lap).  The big payoff was the beautiful dew hanging off the fence wires, arborvitaes, grass, spider webs – just a beautiful morning.

Here’s our a pic of our house and shed from the back of the track………

…………here’s the beauty looking back toward the woods………….

…………and a gorgeous spiderweb (why do spiders freak me out but the webs are gorgeous???)………..

Uncle Keith on diaper duty :-)

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I’m not sure if Keith has ever changed a diaper, but 4th of July weekend was as good a time as any to give it a shot.  We set him up though……..we didn’t tell him it was a #2 diaper……….here he is innocently changing a diaper…….

………here he is starting to figure it out………

……………and here’s the money shot…………….he figured it out and Corey and Danielle were hiding and watching too – Keith grabbed me and threw me into Zach so he wouldn’t have to change him……….Keith………..you crack me up…………

Sleepsack

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Before Zach was born, I heard about sleepsacks.  They have lots of different names but that’s the name I use.  I started one with sock yarn but that was too much work so I made my own pattern and changed to worsted.  This is the result……..

It was so cool that I made him another one, a bit longer to make room for those long legs as he grows………

How precious is that child????????  Yep, very precious.  Danielle used my I-cord maker to make the I-cord for both of them.  I’ll post my pattern another day.  It’s simple and fun and very functional.

McAmish

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There are no pictures in this post.  That’s out of the norm for me.  However, Mark and I decided this weekend that we are McAmish (McDermott and Amish).  We helped Don and Amy work on their new house on Saturday (so did Corey, Danielle and Zach).  We think that’s how life should be – just like the Amish – people helping people with no thought of getting anything in return.  Sure, the Amish get paid for whatever they do by way of jobs – some work in factories, or handcraft furniture, or sell their produce……….but…………..as a community, they help each other.

Why can’t everybody just help everybody and not expect something in return, like when the Amish help each other with a barn raising, for instance.  Wouldn’t this world rock more than it already does?

Just thinking…………

Hungry???

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I’m not into gardening.  I did it for fifteen or twenty years when the kids were growing up and I’m over it.  However, fresh produce is always nice and even though I can walk next door and Dad will let me have whatever, I still have a few things here.  This is my plum tree – there are a lot on the ground because of the wicked storms we’ve had but still many left on the tree…………

………….and here’s a sweet sweet plum starting to ripen…………..

Here are some bucket tomatoes………….

…………………these are cherry tomatoes…………

I also have three pepper plants and two more tomatoes.  Dad snuck over one day and planted the other two tomato plants under my trellis.  Pictures of those another day – they didn’t turn out good on my iPhone camera.

Thanks Joanie!

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Thanks Joanie!  My friend, Joanie, parted with this yarn.  It was in two huge hanks and Mark, Danielle and myself wound it into these balls.  The container of little bits will be crocheted into ties for baby booties and made into poms for hats – Danielle will be doing that.  On the left is a sweater started for Zach.  This yarn is Jamie and it has a satin thread running through it (it looks like satin to me) so I’m taking that out as I go for Zach’s sweater – don’t want it to look too girly.

Zach helped………………how cute is he?????????????????

Carrie and Chloe tried to help too, bless their hearts.

Trivial fact…………….how many of these do you think that pile of Jamie made????????

This skein is 1.5 oz.  The “pile” of Jamie is 5.5 lbs.  That translates to the fact that the pile would have made eight-eight ounces, which would be 58 2/3 skeins of Jamie (if I did my math right).  WOW!