Look Mama,

 

I can feed my own self (and my shirt, and the table, and the floor). I can even put some in my ear to save for later. Handy.

little bird

 

first blood

 

Theo's first bloody nose, poor little guy. He was crawling around at my feet, and somehow bonked his nose on the chair. I'm still not sure how he managed it. Not the last time, I'm sure...

playdate

 

Gabi and Simona came over for a playdate, and for the first time, Theo was really interested in interacting with another baby. He thought it was fascinating that she was his size.

smooth...

 

Theo's style with the ladies needs a little work. Here he is poking Simona in the eye. Lucikly she's tough.

crawler

 

With a helmet, for safety. 8)

Thanksgiving

 

We were so busy eating that we forgot to take many pictures. We only got this one of me and my dad carving the roast duck. Luckily, the baked yams with (homemade) marshmallows are in the foreground!

basil harvest

 

I harvested the basil from one of my two gardens today, and I think I'll be spending the rest of the day ripping it up and turning it into pesto...!

rice crackers, hooray!

 

The wee Mr. T has two teeth now, and he's using them on some baby rice crackers, an amazing food that he can feed to himself!

lifting the boat's skirts in Ladysmith

 

We needed to re-stuff the stuffing box (it wraps around the prop shaft where it enters the boat hull, and the packing keeps the water out), so we put the boat on a tidal grid in Ladysmith. A tidal grid is basically a set of horizontal pilings near a dock. You sail on at high tide, tie the boat to the dock, and wait for the tide to go out. It's a bit trickier than that, but not much.

refinishing the wheel

 

biting the boat

 

piles of handknits

 

The top two sweaters are for Theo, knit by my mom in the wink of an eye. The brown sweater on the bottom is the first (wearable) sweater I have ever knit - 3 years in the making, including a previous incarnation as an unwearable cardigan that got frogged. Douglas wore it to work today. I can't believe it's done. I have no idea what to knit next. Well, that's not true...

buh-bye

 

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