Ta Da!
Look what I can do!
You know I had been starting to worry about Simon a little. I mean he has been achieving all his baby milestones, is nice and healthy and for the most part a perfect little baby, but he seems to have neglected learning to sit up. I was starting to get a bit concerned since all the other little babies in Sunday School were sitting up nicely, but not Simon, no sir, although he does crawl like a champion and has been doing so since 6 months.
I don't know why he neglected to learn to sit. Finally, a friend came over whose baby is the same age as Simon and again her baby could sit so pretty, and did so many times during the visit.
So after they left I grabbed Simon and tried to teach him to sit. Can't have all the other babies showing him up. I set him down on his fat little bottom and he immediately reached forward and started crawling away! I grabbed him, brought him back and tried again, with the same result. We tried this a few times with him giggling like mad, he thought it was a game! Here I am trying to teach him a basic skill of life and he's just goofing off! Sheesh! Anyways, he did pause once to catch his breath and I think I caught him sitting, I'm not sure it was really quick.
Finally I discovered, by accident, that he can sit quite nicely if there's food involved. His high chair was disgusting because I ummmmm....neglected cleaning it in favor of more fun things to do, so I set him on a chair to eat his lunch. (Don't worry it only looks like I'm neglecting my baby in this picture, both his sister and I were on hand to make sure he never landed on his head during picture taking time). And he sat nice and sturdy for all of his lunch, well, at least until he was full and tried to climb onto the table.
In other news, I had a most excellent finishing day, yesterday. I finished two sweaters! Do you know what an amazing feeling of accomplishment it is to finish two sweaters on one day. I mean all I had to do was sew up about 6 inches on my Snap Cardi and sew 5 buttons onto Simon's BSJ, but still, the finishing happened and I felt so good. Pictures will be coming soon. (First I have to pin Simon down and get pictures of him, then I have to pin Peter down so he will take pictures of me!)
The yarn above is for Fiona's BSJ. The pattern is too fun not to knit again, and it's great for using up random skeins of yarn in my stash. The purple is a really ugly shade of Cascade 220 that I bought online, one of the few times online buying has bit me on the butt. I took the ugly yarn with me when I had the opportunity to hit a yarn store and searched for yarn that made it look better. The Noro brings out the good in the Cascade and masks some of the bad. I think it will make a cute enough BSJ.
And whee! I have found a use for some of the random leftovers I have. It's nothing terribly unique but I am going to make you wait until I'm finished before I show you, just to leave you all hanging in suspense!!
I think your post is somewhat funny, until you started talking about yarn. Not that I dislike yarn (half my paycheck goes towards it) but some of your language is 'yarn snobish'. Like, what's a bsj? Cascade 220? Norso? I just got all confused. I like the rest though.
Posted by: Peteeey | November 22, 2007 at 07:47 AM
Cashew doesn't sit either! I think she can, I just don't push it because I'm going for that whole "she can get there herself" thing. She's officially crawling as of 3 days ago, but is still only half sitting. I put her in a high chair the other day and lo and behold, she sat just fine and thought it was fun. But she won't push herself up, she too, would rather crawl...usually chasing after the cats. :-)
Posted by: Annie | November 22, 2007 at 08:11 AM
yaaay!
Will be waiting in suspense for what you're doing with your yarn leftovers--especially since they look mostly to be blue (my favorite color!)
Posted by: Fiber Chic | November 22, 2007 at 10:54 AM
:) love the fact that he can sit if there is food involved....I laughed out loud when I read that! two sweaters! wow!
Posted by: stacey | November 23, 2007 at 05:55 AM
It looks like Simon's too busy to sit still. There will be lots of sitting later in his life! ;o)
You are so lucky to have kids you can knit the BSJ for! And now I'm wondering what you'll come up with with your left over yarns. Hm.
Posted by: Monika | November 23, 2007 at 11:55 AM
Food is the ultimate motivation for little ones :) Well, that and new toys.
Glad you found a use for your leftovers and can't wait to see what you came up with :)
I may be one of the few people who haven't knitted the Baby Surprise Jacket, though I want to some time.
Posted by: Heather | November 23, 2007 at 12:55 PM
Elise is 8 mos and sitting fine, but still not crawling... and showing no signs of doing so soon. I left the computer for a minute and my husband read your post. "Her baby has been crawling since 6 mos?! I am going to teach Elise to crawl today." I looked up exercises to encourage her, but she will have nothing to do with it. Oh well.
I have been wanting to make the BSJ for a while. I think that will be my next project.
Posted by: Deborah | November 24, 2007 at 07:48 AM
Yarn... and sitting up without help! Yaaaay!
Posted by: Batty | November 25, 2007 at 06:27 AM
Glad Simon is sitting up! Congrats on getting 2 FOs done - very awesome :)
Posted by: amanda | November 26, 2007 at 10:05 AM
I love that he sits for food. That's hilarious... and adorable!
Posted by: Sourire11 | November 28, 2007 at 06:48 AM
What a great story! Lilah didn't bother crawling until she *really* wanted to go after one of the cats. As with adults, it's all about motivation :)
I love the blues. What are you up to?
Posted by: Allison | November 28, 2007 at 07:35 AM
Hope all is well.
Still in suspense about your random leftovers project...
Happy knitting-
ali
Posted by: ali | December 12, 2007 at 09:59 AM