Excitement

It has been an exciting week at our house.  Classes for this session have ended, Thaya's room is coming together, we've made big strides to "go green", but best of all...

I got yarn for Mother's Day.

I won't bore you with the individual pictures of the yarn, though I have to say that I love it so much that I did make each skein a ball by hand (yes, all 250 yds), and then proceed to take a gazillion pictures before starting the sweaters.  More than one?! Well, I would hope so for eight balls at 250 yds.  What sweater?!

Why, Tulips, a Colorful Cardigan for Baby of course!

With the eight balls I purchased thanks to a joint gift from my DH and Mommy (xoxox), I will be able to make a 6-9 month sweater for Aubree, a 24 month sweater for Thaya, and hopefully matching hats. 

I decided to go with the 24 months size for Thaya because the smallest size is 6-9 months, and when Aubree is that age, Thaya will be about 2.  It wasn't that much bigger than the 18 month size, so I went for it.

I love this sweater.  I love this yarn.  I think about it while I'm driving the car, taking a shower, unloading the dishwasher, and eating dinner.  I peek in at it every time I pass my room.  I peek in at it whenever I can steal a moment away from my crazed toddler.  It is amazing.  Thank goodness Thaya likes to cuddle because she is going to be getting a lot of hugs when she is wearing Tulips.

Two more things before I leave you.  First, I just want to say how big Thaya is getting.  Sure, she may look petite (because she is) but this child has big plans.  She is stringing words together (from her vocabulary of about 26 words), showing interest in the potty (bye-bye poops! Hahahaha - she actually waves!), and is completely off her bottle. 

Don't get me wrong, if offered, I'm sure she would take it in a second.  Fortunately, we started her on cups (actual adult cups, not sippy or those crappy plastic toddler cups with the stupid lips that make liquid spill everywhere.  I mean, do the people who design those actually have kids?!) very early - around 7 months we started offering them to her, and she was very efficient by 9.  She can now drink out of water bottles (the open mouthed and "sport"), from straws, and from mugs with thick lips.  She won't hold them of course, but I could care less.

Back to her being a big girl.  She has also learned to pull a pillow off of the couch and use it as a step to climb up on the couch.  She has learned to slide off to get down facing both forwards and back.  This technique apparently works on the wing-backed chairs and the rocker as well, which she found out today in a fit of giggles.

This leads me to the second thing - Thaya's new room.

It is really coming along great.  This is another teaser photo of her with her new book shelf.  She loves to pull the books down, flip through the pages, and babble as if she is reading them.  When she doesn't feel like doing this, she'll carry the book to you, climb in your lap and say "more", her universal word for "do my bidding or face my wrath".  Very cute, if you actually do her bidding.

We ordered a toddler bed for her because her crib is soon going to be Aubree's crib.  We were thinking about getting another crib for Thaya - one that turns into a youth bed and then a full sized bed.  We ended up going the toddler bed route due to timing and cost.  It would be less expensive for us to get the toddler bed and then transition Thaya into an adult bed we already have.  We also decided by the time Aubree is actually in the crib, Thaya will be 20 months and be able to handle the toddler bed.  Well, her climbing in and out of the couch has changed my mind on timing.  I think she is ready to be introduced to it now.  Looks like we need to go buy another gate for her room!

So, anyway.  Time to run.  I've got hummingbirds that keep flying by the window peering in at me.  I know what they are thinking, "get off that flippin' computer and fill up our feeder!"

Comments

[Jenn]

I love the room! Gorgeous color choice, and the tree is amazing! She really is getting big! I can' believe that when I first started reading your blog you were pregnant with Thaya...time has really flown!

[Tamar]

So big!! Thaya, that is - I simply cannot believe all the things she is doing ALREADY. Does it all really happen so fast?!

Now I am off to look at your "boring" yarn photos on Ravelry because that yarn? OMG.

[Wendy]

I loved the "do my bidding or fear my wrath" line--that's sooooo true.

Knitting a Tulip sweater was my favorite all-time knitting project. I'm jealous you are knitting one. And with such beautiful yarn!

[megan]

I am so jealous! 26 words! that's amazing. munch is so close to two now and only says about ten. shes so smart in other sreas but she just doesn't have any desire to really talk!