Elijah getting a handful of snappers

Geez, it seems like we’ve been going to a million parties. We had 2 for Christmas and 2 for New Years! New Year’s Eve, we went to my cousin Sheryl’s house in Mililani. We weren’t planning to stay too late, but you know how it is. The boys were really good and they even stayed up until 12:30 with not too much fuss. They loved going up and down the stairs and playing with all of Kalen’s toys. I thought they would be too scared for the fireworks, but once they got used to it, there was no stopping them. They really enjoyed those noisemaker things where you throw it on the ground. I had to show Elijah how to do it and he didn’t want to at first, but a few minutes later he started throwing them by the handfuls. He didn’t throw them hard enough that all of them popped, but enough to keep him entertained. Then Rowan got into it so they were littering the driveway really fast. Since there was a lot of unpopped “kernels”, I made them stomp on it and they liked that too. They weren’t too thrilled with the sparklers, old school or new school (morning glories). But by the end of the night, they would get close enough to hold it.

I can’t believe it’s January and it’s so dang hot!!!

Simple Stripes completed!

I finally finished my Simple Stripes socks. I didn’t weave in the ends because I don’t have a crochet hook, so I’m saving that for later. The 2nd sock came out better than the 1st sock, I guess because of experience. Overall, I really enjoyed the fair isle part of it, but I didn’t like the heel turn part of the pattern. I think I like the gusset way better. Tonight I think I am going to do Pomatomus in Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock Jeans colorway. It looks like a really challenging and interesting pattern. I am really excited!

Since I’m getting so carried away with my stash and have-the-yarn-but-haven’t-started-knitting-projects, Michael bought me a knitting journal. I am really excited to use it - the first project was the Simple Stripes socks. I like it because it has a place to store notes as well as the knitting labels and a picture. I know I will enjoy looking through it years from now. I think it is also motivating to me so that I start and finish projects and not just think about them. I also ordered a bunch of Knit Picks circulars and dpns so that I have a complete set. Can’t wait to get them!

Today we went to Costco to buy another suitcase bag, sonicare heads, and some other things. It was fun strolling through Costco, I really know how Marco (our exchange student) feels. So much stuff to look at! Oooohhh, aaaaahhh. We also went to Best Buy to get my iPod serviced, but I ended up not leaving it. When we bought the thing, the guy said “if there’s anything wrong, we’re just going to switch it out with a new one”. Of course they’re not, they have to service it first and even then if they can’t repro the problem, they’ll charge you $25! Since my problem cannot be reproduced on command (it goes days in between), I would probably get charged! Ugh, I hate those things. I also bought a wireless router for my dad so that I can have the computer in the living room. I went to go set it up and what do you know, he already had one! He didn’t even know he had wireless! I was in total shock! All this time! So I had to set it up for him and show him how to add people to the network and all that beeswax.

Now that all the parties are over, we are just relaxing and hopefully I can meet up with some of my old friends.