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December 19, 2005

The only thing missing is me and my exposed breasts

I know my drawing was phootorealistic and all, but here's a picture anyway:

and what I see:

Posted by kate at 01:19 PM | Comments (27)

December 16, 2005

knitting and nursing spot

This morning, I was supposed to have some friends and their little ones over so last night I went on a cleaning frenzy. Unfortunately, there's a huge snow storm and no sidewalks so nobody really felt like trekking over here with a baby strapped to her chest. The good thing is, my knitting spot is finally clean enough to show as Scout had asked. Alas, Frog was so amazed by the white stuff (he thought it was beautiful until he had to go to work in it) that he took our camera with him to document his first snowstorm in Canada. That means I can't show you my knitting spot after all. But have no fear, I have done the next best thing. I drew it for you.

So it ain't fine art. I drew it using my trackpad while balancing my computer on one knee and had Tadpole sleeping in my other arm. Try doing better in the same situation... I'll put up a photo later.

Posted by kate at 12:45 PM | Comments (18)

December 07, 2005

Answers

Thank you so much for all of your kind wishes and your compliments on our daughter. We also think she is stunningly beautiful as well as smart and strong, but of course, we're probably not very objective. If you all don't mind, I'm not going to write back everyone individually in favor of doing other stuff (like sleeping) but we really appreciate all the sweet things you all said. And here are answers to your questions:

We're not sharing the name. Sorry. Frog had originally not even wanted to share a photo! He got over that (thank goodness) but "Tadpole" it will be for the time being. She was 3.12 kg/6lbs 14oz for 50 cm/19.7in.

She liked the clean floors enough to pee all over in the kitchen.

The hat in the last post is my shining star hat that I made back in March. Yes, it is kind of blue, which made several people in the hospital say, "Ooooh. He's so cute." but I don't care. It's not even blue. It's kind of periwinkle. The sweater was made by Alison.

The gory details? Uh... here's the short story: I did it natural. I had back labor because she was posterior. It was hard, but not as hard as I had feared and it was the most amazing experience of my life. I must say, I'm really proud of myself and feel super lucky that everything went so well and that I had such a fantastic husband, doula (get a doula) and doctor. Tadpole is healthy and I feel great, though a bit tired, but we've already gone out to the yarn store, which as you can see, was so exciting to my little one that she fell asleep dreaming of sheep and wool and snuggly handknits.

Posted by kate at 10:58 AM | Comments (37)

December 04, 2005

FOs

I decided that the baby was never going to come if I didn't knit her something so last Saturday night I finished these:

I would have liked to make up a pattern especially for her, but I figured at the speed I was moving, that would mean she wouldn't come out before spring. Instead, I used the better than booties pattern from the Summer 2005 IK. Saturday night, I also washed all the floors in the house in case she was waiting for clean floors.

And early in the morning on Monday the 28th, my favorite FO ever made her appearance.

PS I have three different posts started about all of the great stuff I have received for the cyber shower. I was just too restless to finish any of them. I promise I'll do it soon.

Posted by kate at 06:04 PM | Comments (137)