Izy is getting so big and is growing teeth!

Tyler has a birthday coming up and is ready to lose a tooth!

Friday was also the four week mark for Rex.  So when I got home, we snapped some quick four week pictures.

Rex was less than impressed with our photo shoot and protested rather loudly.

But some Mama snuggles made it all better.

Baby Rex arrived on June 1st at 8:55am weighing in at 7lbs 6oz and measuring 18 1/2″ long.

He was supposed to make his entry on June 11th, but decided that he’d like to choose his own birthdate.  We are all doing well and as of today he is two weeks old!  His current likes include milk, the swing, and sleeping on a parental chest.  His dislikes are poopy diapers (can you blame him?), sponge baths, and having to wait for his meals.

Things may be quiet here for a while. (Or they may not.  We’ll see how often I’m in the recliner under a sleeping baby.)  I do hope to post more pictures of him soon.  Perhaps once he grows into all the hats I made…

What We Do

Terrible photograph using my belly as a table.  Mods and notes are here on Ravelry.

I’ve been dying to knit the Puerperium Cardigan for a while.  (Look familiar?  This adorable little cardigan has been knit by such famous figures as the Yarn Harlot.)  It seemed like just the right thing for my little guy.

I knit mine out of RYC Cashsoft Baby DK in #800 Snowman, #804 Chicory, and #805 Cloud.  Sadly, all of these colors are soon to be defunct as Rowan is discontinuing the entire Baby Cashsoft DK line.  All three skeins came out of my stash and were purchased over several years out of the orphan bin at the Shoppe.  They just happened to coordinate perfectly.  I chose to do a striping pattern of 4 blue, 2 white, 2 green, 2 white, while keeping the border in blue.

The buttons were purchased from JoAnns as I didn’t have enough of any one complimentary button in my stash.  They’re sewed on with a bit of Perle Cotton #5 in a matching color.  (Pro-tip: Perle Cotton #5 makes for great button thread.  No need to double it and it is quite strong.  Comes in a huge variety of color to match just about anything.)

I have to admit that I’m totally smitten with this sweater and I kind of want to make another.

You can find my Ravelry notes here.

Thanks to Liisa, we have lots of cute Bum Genius All-In-Ones. This is the batch of newborn sized ones that will need to be ready sooner rather than later.  You have to admit they’re pretty darn cute.  Especially all hanging on the (temporary) clothes line.

The color is #602, but that’s about all I can tell you.  I picked this skein up from the orphan bin a couple years ago because it was too pretty to leave behind.

The hat features a simple mistake rib brim that is a little more interesting than your traditional 1×1 or 2×2 ribbing, but doesn’t have quite as much give.  Then it flows into normal stockinette hat construction.

I chose to alter the hat slightly and gave it a traditional swirled decrease top as opposed to the ties that are on the original pattern.  I also made the smallest size in this hat and it was too small for Izy, so it’s somewhere around the newborn head range.

All project details and notes can be found here.