LOL

Last night we put Andy's hamster, Teddy, in his hamster ball and Andy followed him around the house talking to him etc. Andy has a bit of a cold so when he coughed over Teddy this is how our conversation went...

Mommy: Please don't cough over Teddy.
Andy: Why?
Mommy: Because hamsters can get pneumonia from human colds and then die.
Andy: Huh? Do hamsters die in Ramonia and in South Africa!

Chores

Andy loves his daily responsibilities. His main chore for the day is loading and unloading the washing machine and the other day he had a wonderful brainwave. Instead of letting Mommy carry the heavy basket he put the washing into his cart and off we go...


Yesterday Andy washed all his sandpit toys so that we can put fresh sand in his sandpit. He loved working with water and afterward went to wash his dishes (his kitchen toys).

What we've been up to this week...

We've done other daily activities such as collages etc. but it's not always that the camera is handy and with our new baby it's not always that our hands are free :)

So here's just a few pics...

We have a fruit salad every day so on Tuesday I made it into a muffin tin meal...


One of our crafts... (will blog another time about our schooling system we're using if anyone's interested). Blow painting with bubbles and food colouring...


Dressing his 'baby' while I'm dressing mine :)


One of our daily Bible story times...


Keeping up with homeschooling and having a Baby has proved to be quite a challenge but that's what makes each day fun. We've settled in nicely and I'm even finding some time to blog again :)

Actually at this moment I'm typing with one hand, rocking Jane in my other arm and listening to Andy playing in the bath. :)

National Geographic Cards

Andy received his latest NG Kids magazine and as soon as he saw the valentines cards in it he asked if we could make it so we made it as normal cards not valentines and had lots of fun playing with them. They have holes for your fingers to go through as the animals legs.


The Croc is Andy's favourite...


He chose this lovable bear for his cousin Kezia's birthday card to give to her on Saturday, her 6th birthday. We wrote a little message in the green card and pegged it to the bears paw.


And our blue monkey...

Some sewing for Andy

Andy needed some shorts so I made him five pairs from this cute pattern. It's nice and comfy and has a pocket on each side panel. I made 2 green and 3 beige.



Trying to get a shot of a pocket with a active toddler...



I made this pair of pajamas for him as well but of course it's summer so I'm making a set of summer pj's soon and we'll save these for when the colder weather start. He absolutely loves these...



I did the button holes on the machine...


More projects coming from my needles soon! :)

Some recent knitting fun

Yesterday morning I set upon the task of taking photos of what I've been knitting in the last month or two. I still need to take photo's of my completed sewing projects but Andy's been wearing them so they're on the clothes line.

Jan./Feb. Finished Knitting Projects...

I knit these shorties for a friend in England who had a Baby Boy a few months ago. I knit a medium so hopefully it will reach him while it will still fit. I also knit a pair of Saartjie Bootees to match but still need to sew on the buttons.


One of my favourite family blogs is Back To Ancient Ways and she recently had her eighth child, and sixth son, Michael. She lives in the same area as us and they own a wonderful little health shop where we like to buy our health foods so I'll drop this pressie off at the health shop sometime this week.

Blue Saartjie Bootees and a garter stitch face cloth knit with 100% pure cotton yarn...


Another friend had a Baby girl about 2 months back so I knit her this butterfly face cloth from 100% pure cotton yarn. The butterfly design would be much more visiable with a plain color yarn but what-the-heck I just couldn't resist...

I just love the colours of this cotton - it's so girly and cute and I'm very tempted to go buy a few more skeins. I knit this face cloth for our Baby Girl (on the way) and am going to knit about two more so she'll always have beautifully soft pure cotton used on her delicate baby skin...


I intend on knitting and sewing all her bibs as well and what better to start with than this adorable 'bib o' love'. Knit with two different colourways of 100% cotton...




So after knitting face clothes for all the Babies I made one each for Andy and myself. Andy loves his face cloth and has already designated the spot where his sister's hook must be when her face cloth needs to be hung up.



My very first wool soaker knit with 100% pure wool. I got all my soaker patterns on ravelry.com and lots of advise from other moms on one of the ravelry forums. This is the Curly Purly Soaker and was really fun and easy to knit...

I finished up two more soakers from different patterns this morning and still need to take pics of it so I'll be putting those photo's up soon along with the sewing I've been doing.

Andy helps me with EVERYTHING I make cause he's just so excited about making things for his sister and asks tons of questions and makes little projects of his own as well which I'll have to pretend we're using when Baby comes cause he's so proud of them. He helps me knit a stitch now and then on whatever project I'm knitting on and when I sew he's always in charge of pressing the foot pedal which he does wonderfully because he understands when to stop or start on command. The other day he was sitting and twisting away at his yarn and clicking with his knitting needles declaring that he's "making a pair of mittens for the Baby so when she's born she can wear it and no ice will come on her hands." :)

It's a ...

So we went for our scan about 2 weeks ago and found out that we're having a GIRL!!!

It took a while to get used to the idea cause we're so used to be surrounded by blue things but it didn't take me long to take a trip to the wool and material shops to stock up on pink :)

We're so excited about this new adventure of raising a daughter. Andy is super excited as well and when I sit and do knitting or sewing he asks for material, thread, needles or yarn and makes his own little item for his sister. When he's done with his little creation he puts it in the baby's cupboard ready to be 'used' when she arrives. Often I have to sneak to the cupboard when he's not looking and remove his large sewing needle from his project :)

As soon as I found out we're having a girl, Andy and I sorted through all his baby things that I kept and divided all the boy items for his cousin and a friend of mine who recently had a boy and we took all the things that can pass for a girl (even some blue items that a girl can also wear) and packed it into the compactum drawers. My oldest sister is coming a month before due date to help me wash everything and re-pack it in the proper order.