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New Camera

Dec 11, 2009
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Works pretty well on the fly!

Also, I picked up some new yarn that is going to look AMAZING on Hazel! I'm going to make this into a snowflake fair isle sweater sometime in the upcoming year for next Christmas.

cream yarn

blue yarn

Silliest Girl.

Dec 9, 2009
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That's what I have - the Silliest Girl.

Today she took my sweatshirt and ran around and around the living room with it draped over her shoulders. She is so funny and amazing and cute and AWESOME.

Cutie pie

Caped Crusader

This is HER house.

The Pot & the Kettle

Nov 27, 2009
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Dorky Mama, Cute Baby

If you didn't already know we were related, this picture might convince you.

Hazel and I were trying to pose for a picture (meaning I was trying to get her to stand still and look at the camera simultaneously) and she bumped into me, causing me to accidentally fire the trigger. This is a pretty funny picture, though, and honestly my favorite kind of photo is this kind. That wide-eyed wondrous expression on her face and the dorky, bug-eyed one on mine are really how we look. And that's just fine by me.

This is how bedtime goes.

Nov 23, 2009
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As you may know, Amos and I have been pretty strict in a bedtime routine for Hazel. We started giving her a bath and reading The Goodnight Book when she was about 6 weeks old. Gradually she got to the point where she understands as soon as we take off her clothes for the tub that it's bedtime. Now she's so used to the routine that we can have a little fun without making her fight sleeping!

15 months - Bedtime

Knitting Adventures

Nov 20, 2009
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Murphy's Law states the following:

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Also, all the sweaters Laura knits for Hazel will be at least 2 sizes too big.

You may think that I added that last bit. Well, it's always been there, but no one cared because it didn't make sense until I started knitting sweaters for Hazel and they all turned out HUGELY HUGE.

Case in point:

Big big sweater

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Knitters, you might be able to tell that this yarn in super bulky weight. I know - not all that practical for a toddler sweater, but I had 2 skeins from the first year I started knitting, and what else could it make? I actually had to hunt down and purchase another skein for the sleeves, but that's another story. Anyway, it's huge. It's a parka. For a three-year-old. A big three-year-old. It's cute, and I do like the big buttons we picked out today (even if they aren't spaced evenly; that's something else I can't seem to do correctly), but I wish it fit her right now. Next year she is going to wear a hand-knit EVERY DAY OF THE WINTER.

Also, as a side note: when I was trying to get pictures of her in this, which is much harder than it used to be when she couldn't walk, I made her wear a plastic cup as a hat. She wore it, which is the funny part!

cup hat

yep, that is a cup.

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hazel <3

Also, she liked to bend her head waaaay down and lick the top button. I mean, it's her sweater, right? Mama's hand-knits are cool to wear in 7 years AND taste great!

Dear Hazel,

Nov 16, 2009
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Trust me when I say that you only slept for 15 minutes. It's not time to get out of the crib. You are supposed to sleep for 2 whole hours. I know how to read a clock; you don't, yet. I love you, but I am not going to consider your job as "baby" fulfilled until you nap the remaining hour and 45 minutes.

Love,

Mama, aka your boss lady

Quick like a bunny!

Nov 15, 2009
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I am sick. Hazel is sicker. Amos is not (lucky dude!). So this will be quick fast like lightening!

This week was productive in that I got new yarn and started knitting with it. Oh also the house was clean for one whole day. PRETTY COOL. Friday I got a crazy number of house-stuff done: groceries, dishes, sweeping, mopping, bathroom-sink-cleaning, plus I made a tofu/kale supper pie, which was phenomenal. But then I got sick yesterday, and all I did before Amos got home was feed Hazel and pick up a couple of promised books at the book sale. And today it's been mopey, snotty, headachey, orange-juicy shuffling from room to room.

Thus, the promised quick run-down:

I'm making the shawl on the left with the yarn on the right. This will be a kind of last-minute Christmas gift for my grandma. I'm making one that is a little bigger than the one here, since I want her to use it like a shawl.

my clapotis

Also, because Hazel was sick, Amos bought some Crayons for her. She's a little young, really, but he found these plastic-covered ones and she loved them! She didn't try to eat them once.

A Walk in the Park

Nov 8, 2009
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Here are two fun videos to start the week nicely. The first I took right around Halloween, on the 27th I believe. Hazel is so adorable.

14 months - around Halloween

This one is a little older, maybe mid-October. She's just happy when she wakes up from a good nap! Enjoy!

14 months - Crib Dancing

Happy Halloween!

Oct 31, 2009
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Trick or Treat from Liberace (and her parents)!!

Daddy & Liberace

Liberace & Mama, Halloween 2009!

The whole dorky family

Outside Today

Oct 26, 2009
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When I pick up Hazel on Mondays we always have about an hour to kill between then and when Amos is done at work. We usually spend that time pacing outside at SUNY while I hold Hazel's hand...today, she was running and walking all over without me!