Attempting to knit

I attempted to knit a little bit this weekend. It didn't last long though....
It seems everytime I start something I am needed. *LOL* Infact, it's taken me all day to finish this post. :-) I'm forever making myself tea and not being able to drink it, everytime...without fail baby cries.
Awe, life with babies. You forget what it's like when you have a pretty self-sufficient 4 1/2 year old.
Ron was home this weekend, so on Friday we went out to Rhonda's for the afternoon for a visit and dinner then for the evening we planned to take Paisley to Niagara Falls for a fireworks display since Ron won't be home for Canada day. Rhonda watched Rowan for us and we had Paisley, Mommy & Daddy night. I think she had a really good time too! We bought her glow necklaces and bracelets at the dollar store and she was catching the attention of every kid there. It was a really nice time but fireworks are over way too quick. I was playing around with my camera settings on my point and shoot, so I have to post a few pictures of our evening. The falls are behind Paisley & Ron even though you can't actually see them. *LOL*I love the falls a night, they're always lit up and it's really pretty. I prefer to go in the evening when we do go. So that about summed up our weekend, we had a quite Sunday. We picked up a few groceries and did some laundry and then after supper we took Paisley to the park and her and Ron played with sparklers. It was nice having Daddy home, we sure do miss him a whole bunch when he's gone. :-)

20 Days

Rowan is 20 days old today! It hardly seems that long. We've been busy adjusting to life having a new baby. Paisley's been helping out as much as she can with baby but she's still getting used to having a sister as well but I do think it's getting better. My only real frusteration this time around is that Rowan is very clingy. Paisley was much more content after feedings and stuff, it makes it difficult to get anything done sometimes. She cries so much more then her big sister did but oh well I guess that's the life of having babies and I have to dig out my snuggly sling. I looked for it all last week but it was no where I could see so it's a good thing Ron's home for a few days because I'm going to get him to look for it. :-) He's sleeping right now because he did baby duty last night and I got to sleep, it was really nice and I feel so refreshed today.


We had our first girls road trip to Owen Sound to see my family this past weekend, it was nice to see everyone as I only saw them briefly when I was in the hospital. It was nice have extra hands too as Ron had been gone for about a week and a half. I only had to stop once on the way up for a feeding and washroom break. Paisley wanted some timbits and a juice too.

Well, we're off to a doctors appointment and it's also the last day of school today for Paisley, they're having a pizza party. How fun, I remember those days. :-) It should be an interesting summer! *LOL*, something's telling me that I will be looking forward to Septmember getting here.........

Introducing Rowan

Well, as some of you alreday know I finally had the baby. Rowan Gail Johnson was born Thursday June 5th, 2008 (right on my due date, talk about a punctual little one) weighing 5lbs 3oz. Yes...a tiny little thing! She's now a week old and doing great.

She was delivered via emergency c-section because apparently she did not like oxytocin, it was dropping her heartrate but in the end everything was perfect with her, we were able to go home on Sunday. :-)

We're just getting into the swing of things in our household with having a new baby. Paisley's adjusting...she's been a bit difiant as well though. As much as she loves her new little sister, I think she's feeling a little left out sometimes so we're trying to include her in everything. On Monday, she decided to call 911 10 time consecutively. I got a nice call back from the dispatcher. OMG, I was so mad and yesterday outside she threw a big fit and started hitting me. It's a slow go, but I'm sure everything will balance out eventually.

Ofcourse I have to put the going home outfit up on here too!

So all well and I'm on the road to recovery. I will post again really soon!

And hey...I have ankles again!!

Ewee, my narsty sandal tan. LOL

So, I'll leave you with some much cuter feet instead......

Still Waiting & Keeping Busy!

I'm still here all preggo. Just been knitting to pass the time. Besides, I've been told I have to relax because my blood pressure's been a bit higher then normal..so why not knit? I've been working on the Baby Yoda Sweater (a free Ravelry download) and another little cardi from a Sirdar book that Rhonda has, I'm just not quite sure what the pattern is called. On the Baby Yoda Sweater, I haven't woven in my ends yet, I'm undecided as to whether or not I'm going to rip out my sewing especially in the sleeves, I'm just not loving the sewing job I did. Other then that I thought it came out pretty cute. :-) I've also finished the back of the other little cardi. I love the argyle lacy pattern.


Earlier in the week when Ron was home, he and Paisley had "Daddy-Daughter Day" and built a fairy house together. I thought I would share because it is so cute and he's just too damn crafty for his own good, *LOL* He told Paisley that the fairies would come at night time and there is a possibility that they may leave her something from time to time. It hasn't happened yet though. They're also protecting the watermelon plants that they planted in the garden beside it.

That's about all that is new for now. We are ready for baby, I'm just hoping she holds off until Wednesday or Thursday when Ron is home. I really need him, eeak! I'm actually getting a little nervous. Hope everyone has a great weekend! It's not supposed to be overly nice here in Hamilton...but hopefully it won't rain the whole weekend. :-)

My Fat Feet!

Well, It's May 22nd. I'm 38 weeks today and still hanging in there. I'm ready...my feet are totally swollen and I'm just ready to get this baby out!! Any day now, please. :-) Ignore my narsty flip flop tan, LOL

The wedding came and went this past weekend and I made it through. Valerie got a picture of me all preggo and in action, it's too funny. It was a really nice wedding and my girls (my sister and Paisley) looked so beautiful. It was nice to see my family as well. My parents, brother and his girlfriend came back to my house to stay with me Sunday night, we took Paisley to the fireworks but it turned out they were cancelled due to high winds. It was nice to have the company anyway and we ended up having a movie night.

Last night I also finished the second heart blanket, which is going to be a shower gift for a friend. It turned out great, I just need to wash and block it a bit. I also finished the Jaywalker ankle socks a few weeks ago but have yet to post about them. I love them but they bother my feet right now with them being so puffy and all. :-)

Happy 25th Birthday to my sister as well, her wish was for me to have the baby today but it looks like it's not happening. Te he. :-)

Getting Ready!

As of today, there is officially only 5 more weeks until Rowan Gail Johnson is expected into the world. I've been eagerly waiting to reveal the name on my blog and couldn't wait any longer. We've had the name picked out for months but I never spilled the beans on my blog. We wanted something different and nice like our Paisley May Johnson and it just stuck, believe it or not it was actually the first name I picked out of a baby name book I purchased from work and Ron and I both immediately like it. Hopefully the ultrasound techs were right when they said it was a girl, *LOL*.
I had a visit on Friday with my family doctor (who if all goes well will be delivering the baby) and then a visit with my OB on Monday and baby is head down and engaged and man I've been feeling it, I've been so achy down there. I've been spending some time yesterday packing my hospital bag and tonight I've been packing the baby bag. I'm doing up some baby laundry right now and it's kind of exciting because it's all clothes that have been given to me so when I bring them up to fold it will be a surprise. I don't have a dresser quite yet, so I'll put everything into the crib that Ron set up 2 weeks ago for me. Paisley's officially switched rooms as well, I can't remember if I mention it in a previous post or anything but we gave her a princess pink room (colour is called Cherry Blossom) and baby will be getting her old room which is canary yellow with bugs painted on the wall. She needed a big girl room and something a little less babyish.
:-) She absolutely loves her new room as well and I found Disney Princess wall stickers at the dollar store, so we just need a few more sheets to finish the room off.


Onto knitting...


I'm nearly finished my Jaywalker ankle socks and I've started a baby sweater for a baby shower that I've been invited to in June. I'm doing the Raglan Baby Sweater again and unfortunately it's coming out alot bigger then I expected so I may not be finishing it. I'm using knit picks shine DK, and it's super soft so it's kind of a bummer but perhaps I need to find different yarn, I'm undecided as for what to do just yet. I still really love that pattern though. I also want to do another heart blanket. My friend is having a boy, so it'll be some shade of blue, I just haven't decided on the yarn that I want to use for it yet. Come to think of it, she is my sister's really good friend and the one that is getting married on the 17th of this month and I'm taking the wedding pictures for her. It should be interesting since I will be 37 weeks preggo at the wedding. Good thing my sister-in-law Valerie is helping me out of the kindness of her heart (and I mean really thank goodness!!!)


So as you can see I've been keeping quite busy these days. We also just came back from a weekend up in Owen Sound visiting my family. Ron finally got to come with us and he was glad too because he hasn't seen my family since boxing day. It was a nice weekend and Ron had his new laptop to play with and his world of warcraft so he wasn't entirely bored when my sister, mom and I were doing stuff. My brother and him did some things too, so I think over all it was a good weekend for everyone. He even enticed my brother to purchase the same laptop this week. Ron's back on the road until next Thursday, but I can't wait for him to come home. There's some comfort and knowing he's around when I'm so close to having a baby, kind of scary. I sure hope he's home though because babies come when babies come, eaaak!!

*edit* Here is one garbage full of clothes that I have went through, there's still one more to go! Wow!!

Finishing things up!

Last night I finished up the Heart Blanket. It looks great and the size is perfect for the stroller/car seat, I blocked it all out and it measures 24 1/2 " x 29 1/2". I absolutely love it! :-)

I also finished the Easy Baby Cardigan for my friend at work. We're meeting up sometime on Tuesday so that I can give it to her.

Now I've started a pair of Jaywalkers and I'm making ankle socks instead since the weathers been so wonderful. I was going to use the Lorna's Laces I got for my birthday but I think I'll save that for when I do a full size pair of socks. I'm using Opal Cotton that I had in my stash. I've never made ankle socks before, so I put the sock up to my ankle as I was knitting it and ended up doing a 2" leg before starting the heel. It seems like it's going to be okay, but we'll see.

I've been keeping busy! Paisley and I have been spending alot of time outside with it being so nice out lately. She just wants to be with her friends, digging in the dirt, riding her bike or jeep...anything outside, she's such an outdoors kid. I've noticed it makes her pooped out at night, so it's worth it letting her run a muck.

Well, that's about it for me for tonight, need sleep......

Sunny Days!

Since I've messed up my blanket and need to tink back a few rows, I thought that I would take a break from it for a night. I got into the "Itty-bitty Hats" book again last evening and knit up the Upside Down Daisy Hat. Man is it ever cute! I also got to try out a new technique...sewing on an applique and it didn't turn out too bad (for my first try). I used some Lily Sugar Babies cotton that I had sitting in my stash that Rhonda gave me a long time ago. I thought it may be too heavy but apparently I was wrong and it looks just fine. :-)


I Can't wait to try this on a baby!!!

This beautiful weather's been great, I hope everyone that's having it right now is enjoying. It's so nice to not have to wear layers out. Have a great weekend. :-)

Excited!

Yesterday I picked up my stroller and car set set. It's a Graco and literally in MINT condition. I bought it off our store manager for $100 and it's only been used for maybe a month. There was a little dust on it and tires a bit dirty but that's it, it's freaking perfect! What a sweet deal. It came complete with the base for the car and everything. I still have Paisley's "old" stroller and car seat but it's seen better days (got a lot of lovin') and car seat did not have a base and the sun visor also went missing somewhere.
I remember when I got my stroller for Paisley it was an exciting moment and ofcourse it is again. I'm getting stoked now! 55ish days left until the due date, wow!

I was knitting away on my blanket last night and realized that I made a mistake a few rows past, so I tore out 3 rows. I screwed up the seed stitch border and it was ribbed instead...fug!! Got it all fixed and then was looking at my
blanket again and several rows down I had done it again, but in the pattern rows. I can't bear to leave it either, it just bothers me so much. I guess I'll take it out to Rhonda's place on the weekend along with the Easy Baby Cardigan I need help fixing. For right now, all my knitting is on hold so I casted on for another pair of Ruth's Perfect Baby Booties to go with the Cardigan for a friend at work who just had her baby Feb. 29th. One bootee down and one to go, but I thinking I'm going through blanket withdrawl. *LOL*
For the Easy Baby Cardigan I'm using Wendy Peter Pan DK, it's such a nice yarn for the price, very enjoyable! I've used it before, but the more I knit with it the more I like it. 55% Nylon and 45% Acrylic blend! It has a nice feel to it and it's got alot of give, I'm not worried about the sweater not fitting her little guy, that's for sure!

Well, I guess it's back to my house cleaning. I only have 45 more minutes of quite time until I have to go get Paisley at school. Hope everyone has an awesome weekend, it's supposed to be very wet here in Southern Ontario but I'll try and make the best out of it. :-)

Knittin' Hearts!

I finally started the heart blanket that I've been wanting to knit for baby. There's only one problem now...I can't stop knitting it!! I guess that's a good thing though, it's going to be done nice and quick. The original pattern was six blocks wide, but I wanted a slightly smaller blanket for going over the car seat, so Rhonda cut the pattern down for me and it will be 4 blocks wide instead and I'll probably do 5 blocks up. I'm really happy with it so far and I'm loving the pattern. Rhonda was so kind as to chart it out for me and I've been using the chart exclusively and haven't even looked at the actual pattern.

Pattern: Heart Blanket by Carole Prior
Needles: 4.5mm (although I could have probably went up a size)
Yarn: Pingouin Pingostar (Rhonda had this in her stash and gave me this yarn for the blanket)

Paper Bag Fun

Today Paisley & I had some fun after school with some paper bags we bought at the dollar store. A great rainy day activity. :-)
Along with the owl and the sheep Paisley also wanted to make a Giraffe
but he didn't make the photo shoot because Paisley's 2 hands were occupied.

I finished the hat for baby as well, I didn't end up restarting it either. Valerie stopped by the other day and I got her opinion on it being too big and decided that it should be fine so I finished it up last night. Don't mind the ribbon, I left it a little longer because I'm not sure how big I actually want the bow to be. Water baby is so kindly modelling it for me. The pattern I used was out of the "Itty-bitty hats" book I got for my birthday. It's called "Ribbons", except the pattern had 4 or 5 eyelet rows with ribbon. I thought that was a bit much so I chose to do only one eyelet round.
Paisley sweater is pretty much done, I just want to take a picture of her wearing it so I'll probably post that next time.

Hope everyone has a good weekend! It's supposed to be nice here in Southern Ontario. Sunny and high of 13 degrees Celsius tomorrow. I'm looking forward to that! Paisley and I are going for dinner in Fonthill at our good friends The Carr's (I've mentioned my friend Becky a few times on my blog, her parents live in Fonthill). This is a rescheduled dinner from last month that got cancelled due a huge snowstorm here. It'll be nice to see them all!

I also springed up my blog a little bit by changing the colours around, I'm liking it so far, green's good!

Really...where does the time go? (Picture Heavy)

Wow, a whole month went by and not a single post from me. Rest assured, I've been keeping busy though. March Break was spent up in Owen Sound, I got to hang out with my sister and mom while Paisley got to play with her cousin Lucas and also got practise in for when she becomes a big sister, she was holding and feeding her little cousin Reece (who just turned 3 months) all week long.
My birthday came and went on the 17th of March. Spent a quite weekend with Ron at home, which was nice. The day before my birthday, we went out to Rhonda's place and Ron made everyone dinner, shish-kabobs and rice (one of my faves) man were they ever tasty. I was also given my birthday gifts too. I got some new yummy sock yarn (Lorna's Laces) and I absolutely love the colourway. I think I may have found a pattern too! I also received "Itty-bitty Hats" by Susan B. Anderson from Rhonda and Valerie gave me 6 balls of yarn to make a blanket for baby, she recommended the pinwheel blanket as she made it a few months ago for a friend who was expecting, so I think this yarn also has a pattern to go with it. :-) Thanks again Ladies for the wonderful gifts. Ron & Paisley bought me a compact digital camera as their present I have my Canon digital SLR, but I really wanted something I could just slide in my pocket for walks to the park in the summer and also especially for at the hospital when I have baby I just didn't want to lug in my huge-ass camera for the birth-day. Shoppers had a wicked special the week before Easter on Olympus FE-220's (in blue) for $88 and couldn't pass up on that deal.
Good Friday was spent with my parents and brother, they came up for a visit and brought me a birthday cake and money card since they missed my actual birthday. I'm putting the money away for a new stroller-car set combo. Easter weekend was a strange one. Ron was working and out west and Paisley spent Sat-Sun at Rhonda's because I was working the whole weekend. Late Saturday evening I got a call from my sister wondering what I was up to and she came from Owen Sound with her kids for an unexpected visit. It was nice to see her though because I was feeling kind of lonely with Ron & Paisley not being home. She ended up staying until Tuesday afternoon so we had a really nice visit. Then Ron came home that evening (a day early) and unexpectedly and that was a nice surprise too. I miss him oodles when he's gone, so a day early was okay with me.

I have been knitting! On the weekend before my birthday, I was going through some old patterns at Rhonda's and fell in love with an old Beehive for Barins pattern, it's just a simple Crossover sweater for baby. Rhonda happened to have some Lilac coloured baby yarn that she so kindly offered to me for the project and I got started right way. It's all finished now, I just want to give it a wash and possibly iron the decorative edging on it so it lies nice and flat (damn acrylic!!) I also knit up Sartjee's Bootees with left over yarn and I was working on a hat, but it has come out too big so I think I'm going to have to frog it and restart with less stitches arrgg, and for the second time. I'm taking a break from it right now and trying to finish up Paisley's Top Down sweater. I also have a few other things on the needles like the Easy Baby Cardigan for a friend at work, but I have put it down for the moment. I've been getting side tracked very easily these days and startitis is really bad!! Don't mind the pictures of my work as they are not great shots, I was in a hurry and just wanted to get a picture of them up here.

I'm now over 30 weeks pregnant so this past weekend was my last weekend at work, I'm down to less then 10 weeks (65 days) until my due date. It's crazy how fast time flies. Now that I'm going to be home every weekend and most importantly when Ron is home, we have some major spring cleaning to start doing. Paisley wants to switch rooms and go into the room that is currently our spare/toy/knitting room and give baby her old room. I'll be moving the knitting stuff over to baby's room I think, I'll need the closet space in Paisley room. I also have boxes and boxes of girls clothes to go through and will be deciding what to keep and what to give away. It's going to be busy and I loathe organizing, it's always been my weak thing. So wish me luck!!