Taxes are fun?

I've been waiting "patiently" for my W-2 to arrive in the mail, and it finally came today! I never thought I'd be happy to file my taxes! For the past 4 years I've filed online through Tax Slayer. It's very quick to do, it takes me about 20 minutes to file. Of course, since we're living in an immediate gratification type of world, I set my refund up for direct deposit, which makes it even quicker.

Now the wait begins... Is it bad I already have plans for the money? First thing is buying K a new car seat. "Little" guy is getting too big, he barely fits in his Graco Sungride anymore. We'll be buying a Britax Boulevard. Some of the features include true side impact protection, ability to stay rear-facing until 33lbs, and forward-facing until 65lbs. Truly a wonderful seat! I just hope I can find it on sale somewhere, it retails for approx. $300 otherwise!

Just testing...

Just checking out how to add photos through Blogger... Here's Kaiden having fun "reading" a magazine the other day. Think he had fun?

Sick babies and babyshowers

Yesterday was my cousin's babyshower. She had a great turnout, and it was really nice. Gram got her a gift certificate in honor of our late grandfather, which was really sweet. You could see it meant a lot. I finished the second hat in the car on the way there, good thing I wasn't driving! She liked them, so that was good! All in all, it went really well, we had a lot of fun.

Kaiden has started teething, and is always drooling lately. He was really fussy last night, and I think he might be getting sick. He doesn't have a fever, but he puked twice early this morning, and has been acting "off" today. No more puking though, which is a good thing. I'm just glad I have a protective pad on the bed, otherwise we'd have been sleeping in soaked sheets! Here's hoping it was just a bug, and he's feeling better tonight, poor guy.

Bunch of FO's

Finally have a bunch of finished objects for you. Yay!

First up is one of two sets I made for my cousin's babyshower this weekend. Hope she likes them! The hat is from the Umbilical Cord Hat pattern in the SnB (Stitch N Bitch) book I received for Christmas - Thanks Em! The slippers are from the LTK Stripey Slippers pattern. Both are knit in Bernat Softee Chunky in the Nature's Way colorway.

Next is another pair of slippers for the babyshower. Same pattern and yarn as above, the colorway is Denim Ombre. A matching hat is on the needles, should be finished tomorrow.

This is one I finished at least a week ago, but, I'm loving it. My Gram bought a bunch of flat diapers when I was pg, which haven't gotten much use. This was my "experiment" dipe, and it worked amazingly well! All I did was back the flat with a piece of flannel. It isn't much thicker, and works so much better than it did before. These are my new love! Trim, very absorbent, breathable, soft, and of course cute! Here it is in action...

Last but not least is my very first Mei Tei! I need to shorten the waist straps, and add shoulder padding, but otherwise it's done. I made it using the Mae Mei Tei pattern, and I'm loving the idea of interchangeable panels. This was a relatively easy pattern to use, and I really like the results. I made mine with padded waist straps, and will be adding padding to the shoulders as well. The angle on the shoulder straps seem just right, and the straps themselves are neither thin nor too wide for me. I do plan on making the body a little taller, but that's really the only thing I'd change!

It is made of a nice, soft corduroy, and has interchangeable panels. I only have one made right now (shown), but have a stack of fabric waiting to be made into more. Even better than interchangeable panels, it's something DF will wear! YAY! I may turn him crunchy yet! ;)

Why not to knit in the middle of the night...

Here is your public service announcement for the day. Don't knit when you're overtired!

I had a pair of Stripey Slippers I was making my brother Brandon, and really wanted to get them finished the other night. After all, they were supposed to be a gift for Christmas, but I just couldn't get into knitting the second slipper for some reason.

The first slipper went great, but the second is, well... Here's the picture...


For those that don't know, that is *not* what it should look like! lol That's the sole of the slipper, and should be stripes the whole length, what you see on the left end of the slipper. Not only did I somehow mess up the striping, I also manged to somehow add stitches at some point, and made it wider.

At least in the end, it still fits him, and nobody sees the underside! Besides, now I've learned a very valuable lesson. Don't try knitting at 4am!

Could it be...

I think Kaiden must be a long lost relative to Gene Simmons! (For those that don't know, he's the guy from KISS who does the weird tongue thing...) He has a new favorite "game" he LOVES doing, and always at the funniest times.

He's sticking his tongue out at everything now! For a while now, he'd stick his tongue out to mimick someone, but now he's doing it at the most random times. Very amusing!



So, should we dig out some facepaint and buy some instruments? lol

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