I’m not very good with kids. I think they’re cute and stuff they just make me very self-conscious. Especially babies. I am totally not one of those women who wants to pick up babies and hold them and fawn all over them. I’m afraid I’ll drop them or make them cry, which they usually do because I’m holding them so tight out of fear of dropping them. Most people in my extended family have accepted this about me and have stopped trying to put babies in my arms to try to kick start my biological clock. I think this all probably comes from being the baby in the family. I never had to deal with a younger sibling and my older sibling is several years older than me so she was well out her diapers by the time I was around, or so I hear

I do have that crazy “oh my god isn’t she CUUUTE” kind of behavior with animals. Cats, kittens, dogs, puppies, little pocket pets, even a reptile or two. I don’t feel the urge to reproduce humans, instead I get the urge to adopt another animal.

It seems like I have been doing a lot of baby knitting lately because I swear one in every fourth or fifth woman I know is pregnant. And what kind of knitter would I be to not knit baby stuff for them? So here’s my latest baby knitting. From Ann Budd’s Better Than Booties Pattern from Interweave Summer 2005 This one is for a co-worker of Cody’s who just had a baby girl. I also wanted to get extra practice in with the reverse yarn over short rows on the heels and toes, which I’m STILL having to be careful with for some very frustrating reason. And I wanted some playtime with braided cables. Which are totally fun to do.

They’re cute. And easy to do These are in some kind of Bernat pink acrylic I had lying around. Yeah I know. Gasp! Acrylic! But this stuff is pretty soft and I really think it’s just mean to knit baby stuff as a gift with yarn that isn’t washable, at least for non-knitter parents.

So that’s the second pattern I’ve knit from that baby gift article from Interweave Summer 2005 and they’ve both worked out really well. I plan to do the koigu sachet sometime. Now onto the other baby knitting. I finally have the yarn to finish the old baby hunter’s cap to go with the ugg baby booties, some pieces to knit for a group blanket, and just started a pinwheel blanket, both of those blankets will be in unbelievably soft cotton. Babies babies everywhere.

As for my baby, I finally uploaded pics from Winter eating her birthday cake. The cake is from three dog bakery which I’d never been to. I’d tried to go once before but they were closed. The cakes are frozen so we don’t have to order in advance, we chose the cake, they put the decoration on top for us and we waited for it to thaw.

We cut a piece for her and she waited patiently for me to get a photo and tell her it was ok to eat it.

Isn’t our retro carpet great? Ok not so much but we certainly don’t get upset when she gets crumbs on it! I got that collar for her in San Francisco isn’t it cute?

I’m still working on the yarn sets! That’s taking a lot more time than I thought it would!