Catch Up

An apology to begin with (sorry), but this is going to be a long catch up post. I’ve just been doing so much the last couple of days and I feel like sharing.
I’ve been knitting away like a crazy women the last week or so. While it is nice and peaceful down here at the shack, it can also get quite boring (especially when Charlie is having his nap during the day). I actually can’t believe how much I have missed doing crafty things; now that I have started again I just can’t seem to stop! I found this beautiful baby wool at spotlight which I made Charlie a scarf with. It was so good to knit with, nice and thick, thick enough to use size 10 needles and I just love knitting with bigger needles!

(Notice the texta all over his leg?? hehe he is a real terror for drawing all over himself lately... and the sock on his hand?? He came up to me with it for 30 mins wanting it back on his hand every time it fell off...haha)

I loved the wool so much that I made some funky baby pants with them, which I must say that I was quite pleased with; I just wish I had someone to try them on! I went to spotlight and got some different colours in the same wool, don’t know what I want to do with it yet though, I just love the feel of it.

Speaking of boredom, Charlie must have been a bit bored the other day to... He came running out of his room and all I got was the big whiff of baby powder. I didn’t think much of it as I (I don’t know why), but anyway he went running back in his room and I could hear him making car noises. I went in the investigate about 10 minutes later and he had baby powder all over the floor and was driving his cars and trucks through it to make tracks! Hehe, The funny thing was though he had put the powder back and done up the lid as if to say ‘I didn’t touch it though mum’, after I finished laughing I got down and we drove the cars through it for about half an hour before I vacuumed it up. Don’t you just love having kids so you can have excuses for doing fun silly stuff like that!!

We have been having a dinosaur week this week in preparation for Charlie’s up and coming second birthday on the 29th June. We are having a small gathering for it this year instead of the massive party that we had for his first birthday. This year it is just a few close friends and relatives. But I am still going to go all out with the baking part. A - Because I enjoy it B – Because I think other people enjoy it C – I want Charlie to LOVE his birthday. It the case, Charlie is dinosaur MAD at the moment, so I found some dinosaur cookie cutters and have been experimenting with all the different things that we could make:

Dinosaur cookies, which we made the other day and decorated as a fun art project before we ate them... Actually I ate mine but Charlie just played with his hehe.

Dinosaur cheese and vegemite pastries... these were yummy, Charlie just loved them and instead of playing with them he actually ate them.

I also thought that I could cut out some dinosaur sandwiches as well as the letters in Charlie’s name. Have lots more ideas but will post about them when I have experimented and have got pictures of them.
Speaking of baking, I felt like mini egg and bacon pies for tea last night as I had some bacon that needed to be used. But I had no patty pans to cook them with so I experimented with shaping them with a glass and then putting them in muffin paper... I think it worked out very well; they didn’t even look that bad! They were also bigger than normal which was a bonus as well. I love making little savouries like this which I can pop in the freezer and eat for lunch for the rest of the week!
Anyway, I THINK that that is all, for the moment anyway. Oh, I forgot to mention, Charlie came and jumped into bed with me this morning at around 6 o’clock and when we both woke up again it was 9:15!!! Sleep in, YAY!! hehe