The One About Inori

Sunshine will be turning one in about 3 weeks time. Time surely flies. One moment she is in my tummy doing acrobatic stunts and another moment she is out of my tummy, still doing acrobatic stunts. *Shrugs*.

She is teh kool!

The sunlight coming through my window can have such an angelic effect on her photos.

To date, Sunshine has:

- No teeth although I suspect she will cut 4 teeth at the same time. Because she has 4 white ‘squares’ visible under the gums. Not sprouted yet though. She is also starting to drool a little.

- Since 9 months old, when we ask her, “Where are your toes?”, she would point to her toes.

- Then she learned where her ears are.

- Around the same month, she learned to wave. But her waving looks more like a beckoning gesture. I.e, waving upside down.

- She’s recently learned the word ‘ball’ and would crawl off to find her ball, retrieve it and throw it to us when we ask her to. (We are very tempted to call this ‘fetch’ but we won’t.)

- “Clap” is one of her favourite actions now. She learned this just a week ago.

- She also shakes her head ‘no’ and nods her head ‘yes’. However, the head movements are usually quite violent so she sometimes loses her balance while doing either movement. This morning, she shook her head and fell off the bed. I caught her in mid air. She got a shock though so she cried for a little while.

- She can shuffle a couple of steps without support but prefers to crawl as it is faster. She will hold on to furniture to crab sideways.

- She loves food. We usually give her fruits such as apples, bananas, oranges, blueberries, avocados, kiwis etc… Dinner comprises of mostly fish, chicken, potato, veges such as broccoli, cauliflower and carrots. We also give her sweet potatoes. She occasionally takes wholemeal bread. Her main diet is still formula milk though. We should start giving her more food now.

She loves her showers and baths. As it’s still winter now, she bathes or showers only once in 2 or 3 days depending on how smelly she is. (Don’t worry, we still wash her buttocks at least 3 times a day!)

“Huh?”

She’s rather sticky to us but has improved quite a bit. She used to not want to play alone but now she compromises by playing with her toys for a a couple of hours before whining for cuddles. She waves at strangers and smiles at them but if we were to pass her to them, she would scream. :S

It really is very hard to imagine how tiny she used to be! Soon she will be walking and running around, babbling non stop.

Then she’ll soon be a teenager.

AaaaaaaaagggghhhhHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you like this little update about her. Especially for her Grannies and Grandpas and auntie lulu far away. And for Sash-quatch who is also very far away from us now. (And I blame her for the fall of the KFAGs.)

Nad wants socks for his birthday. Okay, I offered to knit socks for Nad’s birthday. (He’s hovering behind me and saying that “You don’t want your post to be lying, right?”)

And he initially wanted a stupid green, orange, red, purple, yellow vomit colour. I was rather disgusted. Then I asked him if the theme ‘SUNSET’ would be better and he agreed.

So off I went to dye some wool!!!

First I strung 2 skeins of Hot Socks (I bought this sock weight yarn when I was in Singapore last December and haven’t got any chance to use it yet) around two chairs about 6 to 7 meters apart. Then I soaked them overnight in vinegar.

This is my work space – out beside my carport because there isn’t any space in my teeny little house.

From left to right: 3 huge syringes I recycled from work, pot with 2 skeins of yarn soaking in vinegar, separated with a plastic cover, 3 glass bottles of acid dye and a roll of toilet paper to soak up any splatters. I was also wearing rubber gloves.

Both skeins laid out on the floor. (Bad move I tell you and I will tell you why later.)

Orange coloured in.

The red and a little bit of purple coloured in.

All coloured in!

I wrapped the yarn up in cling wrap to prevent the colours from running. Put them in a pot and popped it on the stove on low heat.

When I was sure that the colours were fast, I took the skeins out to wash in the sink. I added some wool wash to it. If you haven’t noticed by now, that is a tangled mess.

And this, is what I wish to tell you. To be careful not to tangle your yarn. Especially if you string it 6 or 7 meters apart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ARGHHH. It took me 4 days to untangle both skeins. I didn’t take any pictures of it because I was too devastated. 4 days.. I didn’t knit for 4 days. All because I was busy untangling yarn.

Anyway, here’s the yarn (finally) in a skein:

I’ve named the colourway “Hurry Sundown” after one of our favourite country songs by McBride and The Ride (and incidentally, the song I think of most whenever I’m at work…..). Yes I know, we are country bumpkins. (We hate the music that plays over the radio these days.)

Anyway, Nad says that socks that stripe horizontally (which is how most socks stripe anyway), are not ‘natural’ looking. He wants socks that stripe VERTICALLY. So I’ve started on the one and only vertical striped sock pattern available, Sidewinders, and am a few rows into it now.

And he is complaining that it’s not long enough and blah blah blah.

This is my first time knitting socks and since it’s a non-conformist pattern, I wouldn’t know how to make adjustments! So I said to him, “If you don’t like it, I WILL wear it for myself okay?”

Only then did he say, “Noooo! It’s mine!!! Okay okay I won’t complain!” Hehehehe.

Men… tsk.