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Knitting!

I have finally found a hobby I think I can really get into. Quilting is fun but you really do need space for it. I do enjoy to cross stitch, but you need to have the pattern in front of you and you constantly have to refer to it so you can just pick it up and go. But knitting, you need the needles and a ball of yarn. I haven’t moved up to the more difficult knitting projects, sweaters, socks, etc, for now I’m just working on scarves. Scarves are about as easy as you can get. I finished my first project, a red scarf for Colin!

Here are pictures of Colin in his new scarf and he’s VERY cool new hat. Grandma Reed knitted the hat for him. He definitely has the cutest hat in all of Hoboken.

Sadly though, Colin’s face got all red and scratchy from wearing his wool scarf today. I did, in the back of my mind, worry that his sensitive skin might not get along with the wool. Oh well, I guess that just means I will have to get some cotton yarn and do another one. I made the scarf pretty long, I could probably get away with wearing it until my pink scarf is done.

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Eeyore Redux

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Eo-eo-eo OD

That’s how Colin says Eeyore: “Eo-eo-eo”… And, well, since he now has two full-size Eeyores, one car-size (mini) Eeyore, one pair of Eeyore Robeez shoes, another (larger) pair on the way, an Eeyore Halloween costume and a severe need to have one or more of the above in his crib to go to sleep. Given all that, I am going to say it is entirely possible this final addition to the Eo-eo-eo collection amounts to an “OD”…

But he sure is cute!!!

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Catch!

Does it look like he’s stretching to try to catch a pass thrown to him while he is running to the end zone? No? Well, yeah, I guess not. But Colin did get a cool football jersey from him Aunt Suzy & Uncle Mark for Christmas. Thanks guys!

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Cousins

John, Amy, Matt and I are very proud of our beautiful boys. What better what to show them off then in pictures of the two of them!

Enjoy!

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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, etc.

Merry Christmas! Colin, Deb and I had a great trip back to Michigan, despite my playing the role of Patient Zero in a bad Dustin Hoffman movie and spreading the Norovirus to no fewer than 5 people on the trip.

In any event, Christmas morning was a dream. Colin was as wide awake as the rest of us when we got up extra early and—after he really woke up—enjoyed the electric guitar from his grandparents. He had been making a habit of strumming the heat registers in the apartment, so we thought he might like the guitar. I think he digs it even if he doesn’t quite “get” it…

We had another Christmas with David and his family at mom and dad’s house. That’s Colin making friends with Samantha who was really good with him and David with his son Andrew. Though you can’t see it, Andrew got a remote control snake to scare his new sisters with, but when I overheard them asking to play with it, I gathered it wasn’t going to have the intended effect.

I imagine the last pictures are “obvious”… Deb and I were pretty happy about John’s t-shirt, though because I was engaging in my own little epidemiology experiment and getting people sick we had to wait longer than we wanted to give it to him. Our last Christmas was with Uncle John, Aunt Amy and Cousin Jake. We’ve always known Colin to be a bit of ham for the camera, but I think Christmas #3 turned him into a monster…

In any case, we really did have a wonderful time visiting family in Michigan. We will probably be quarantined for the first 48 hours the next time we visit, but hopefully it will be soon!

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30-for-30; Some Consolation

So Debra’s consolation for hitting the little 3-0 was to receive a very cool and creative 30-for-30 parcel from her mom and sister. They spent quite a bit of time amassing a collection of 30 goodies to celebrate Deb’s 30th birthday. They went so far as to even put 30 candies in several of the breast-related (ask Deb) objects. And, no, neither Deb nor I were observant enough to notice that (I’ll say it is because it was breast-related, not sure what Deb’s excuse is)… they had to point it out for us.

In any event, I’m sure the pictures make it clear she got some cool stuff and she was very excited about it!

Thanks Mary Ann & Suzanne!

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