Knitting & Sewing

So, this is a post I almost posted right before the baby came.  Now everyone wants to see pictures of the baby, but I'm going to post this anyway, so I can feel like I accomplished something.  On this blog, that is.  I'm accomplishing lots of diaper changes and things like that.

I finished my first knitting project:

...in the nick of time, of course.  It took me a long time, mostly because I didn't work on it very regularly.  All the times I thought I could work on it, like when Tim was reading to me in bed, I was so hungry that I had to eat instead.  (I finished this about two days before Gabey came.)

I think I will make some little booties next - that should go faster.  If I finish them before baby comes, of course.  (Hah!)

I also bought a sewing machine!!  It was a great deal on Amazon, including free shipping.  It's computerized and has lots of cool stitches and easy-to-use features.

I'm making baby wipes out of flannel and the machine is much-needed for hemming them.  (Yep, didn't finish those.)

Here's Tim doing one.  For his first ever time using a sewing machine, he made very straight stitches, I must say!

It's been nice to have some projects to enjoy while I'm sick (bad cold, ugh) and waiting for baby.  Here's a 40-weeks pregnant photo of me, trying not to look cold.  40 weeks is 9 months/full-term, for those who don't know.  (Baby came 6 days later.)

Downtown Minneapolis is in the background.

Here's some Minnesota ice formations in late February.  And houses have some serious icicles around here.

Here's how different everything looks now.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.

Picture taken April 20th.  We're getting six more inches of snow tonight.  That should really be the last snow.  Really.  For real this time.  It's supposed to be in the 60s on Friday.

Okay.  A few recent pictures of Gabriel.

He loves to look out the windows in the sun room.

And sometimes he likes to sleep.

Sometimes he gets excited.

And sometimes he wears his Star Trek engineer shirt that Uncle Joseph gave him.

He's 7 & 1/2 weeks now, and growing fast.  Ta ta for now.