My first pair of (successful) mittens!!

This is Kate Gilbert's Gifted pattern, super duper easy and QUICK!! Love it. And best of all, Nico loves them too! I used chunky alpaca and some black Galway to get gauge. Mitts are a tad big, but warm and fuzzy. I think I'll make myself a pair next. Yum.

Here are a few more pictures of miss coconut:

Standing 

Falling

And for fun...

Après les problèmes avec notre téléphone/boîte vocale qui ne fonctionne pas, maintenant j'ai des problèmes avec l'internet. Je devrais retourner avec un vieux téléphone avec un cadran et une connection internet téléphonique! On se rappelle du bon vieux temps quand on ne pouvait pas recevoir des appels pendant qu'on était sur le web, et la belle musqique que notre ordi faisait en se connectant! Ahhh les beaux souvenirs :o)

Mon projet d'hiver (Seaweed) se continue lentement... C'est comme un peu plate comme project, ribbing, ribbing, ribbing. Beurk. Mais une fois complété, Nico va être capable d'utiliser le porte-bébé sans mettre le manteau sur miss coconut. 

Dadou

Was Liam's favorite word when he was a baby (he even named his fave toy elephant mr. dadou) and now it's Romi's!!
After much prompting, here she is, saying it for the camera :o)

les shakes

Je vais tenter de mon mieux de réduire ma consommation de café au minimum. Est-que mes 3 cafés par jour sont la cause du sommeil fragile de Romi? On va s'mettre le coeur net!

Jour 1: Incapable d'arrêter ma consommation de caféine à 100%. 1 café le matin. Cause perdue? Ben non, on fait donc un premier tests de quelques jours avec seulement un café par jour. 

crack baby

I drank 3 coffees in a few hours. This is Romi.

Sad

You know it's a sad day when you have to sell 2 of your beloved diapers. A gnome Muttaqin and a Goodmama. Why? Cause I went overboard with purchases. And these were the least painful of the lot that I could part with. The Mutt isn't a knit print, so didn't stretch as well as my others and the Goodmama faded after the first wash so I was scared to use it in case it faded anymore. 

Oh how I loved the Gnome print. I stalked for it, felt the thrill of the hunt, hands shaking, blood pressure going sky high while I refreshed my computer screen at 7:59:59pm. I got it. But I never realized it was a woven print. Until it came to live with me :(

Those of you who share my love of diapers can surely empathise. Lets all take a moment to wish these 2 diapers farewell, and hope they will land in a loving new home. 

OMG!!!

He peed!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Liam the boy-who-will-not-potty-train peed 3 times in his potty today!!! Could it be the beginning of the end? We went diaperless today and while I had to prompt him to use the potty and bribe him with raisins so he'd stay on it, it worked! Not one accident and 3 sweet victories. I know it won't mean much to most of you and you might be snickering that the boy should've been potty-trained a long time ago, but he would just refuse to use the potty. Ok, potties.  But he did today. And I am the happiest mama in the world!!!

Bonne Année Grand Nez!

Une nouvelle année qui débute... Je peux pas croire, déjà 2008? 

Lazy. That's what I am. Lazy. Lazy. Or is it tired?
I haven't written anything in ages and I'm kinda feeling bad about that. Kinda. 

But Liam has been home for the holidays, which means, no computer time unless it's during naps... Speaking of which:

Isn't eat the yummiest when he's sleeping? *sigh*

Let's see. I am presently bouncing Romi on the exercise ball in my Kozy MeiTai trying to get her to fall asleep so I can type this. She is pulling my hair in protest. Why won't she go to sleep?? Doesn't she realise that if she won't sleep now, then the whole day is going to be a mess? I'm about to give up but I have to go to the market but if she hasn't slept she will be so cranky that I'm fearing a total meltdown. Not a fun prospect in below zero weather with a baby stuck to my chest in a baby carrier. Where's summer? Oh how I miss thee.

Wait a minute! Her eyes just closed for a millisecond longer than before... Could she be on her way to sleeping? Nope, false alarm. 

I'm a bit late with this, but we had a great christmas. Decided to forgo the conventional christmas supper and replaced it with a  christmas brunch. It was soooo much more enjoyable than last year! Lets face it, kids past 5pm are no fun. So why torture myself? 

Morning is where it's at. 

Here's a picture of the 4 siblings together. A rare occurrence.... I think it's been years since I've been photographed with my brothers and sister, and yep, you guessed it, every picture is blurry. I need to give Nico a crash course on how to use the manual settings on my camera... 

And the rest of the gang (minus my 2 kiddos since they were, by that time, finally napping.)

La neige!!

I'm scared the snow will end up covering our windows!! Darnit, the stuff did not melt. I guess I can deal with it. Until January. Then that stuff needs to GO!!

beets -yum!

tricot...

Bon, je suis rendu la pro des tuques, ok, juste certaines tuques, mais quand même. Et là je tente ma chance avec des bas... Mais c'est l'enfer. Car je les recommences toujours. Je les fais trop grands, trop petits, trop bizarre... Bref, à date, pas génial mon affaire. 

Je suis dans la réorganisation de  mes photos de projets... Alors en voici quelques-un...

C'est l'hiver...

Ben oui. On savait bien que l'hiver allait s'installer ici, mais j'étais sous l'impression que ce serait plus tard qu'au mois de novembre... Bon, on a pas le choix, on va vivre avec... Mais bout de viarge que j'm'ennuie de l'été et de ma cours plein de soleil... 

Romi is now EVERYWHERE she shouldn't be. It's getting to be exhausting now. The girl crawls, stands, pulls stuff off the shelves. Finds dust bunnies, ok eats the dust bunnies (and everything liam leaves in his path). She makes a beehive for the table, crawls underneath and eats whatever crumbs she finds there. Gross, I know. I'm gonna need to do some serious reorganisation to contend with her. Liam never crawled, so I wasn't expecting this. yep, I'm an idiot.

Oh and I've done the one thing I had promised I'd never do : I put a bow in my sweet daughter's hair... Just to see. You know. Shhhh, don't tell Nico ;o) 

Un p'tit vidéo?? Ou même deux?

November blah

Where did summer go? It's freezing out, and I have clothes on the line supposedly drying, and little snowflakes falling. WTF??? It wasn't supposed to come that fast, but hey, I say that every year.

Romi's been sick the past few day... Ok, make that weeks. Sleeping has turned into nursing marathons and I.am.so.tired.already.
And she's crawling.
And she gets annoyed when she gets stuck somewhere. So she's not as happy as she once was. But she is growing up to be as charming as ever. Weird how she can be cranky and yummy at the same time...

New start

Well, here we are. Halloween's in a few hours... Liam is now 3 yrs old. Sniff. Where has the time gone? Nico made the most scrumptious ladybug costume for him last night while I knitted a headband to hold his antennas. Of course last night he explained to us he wanted to be a butterfly and no longer a ladybug. To which I replied that butterflies eat broccoli. And ladybugs eat candy. So he decided to stay with the plan. Good choice.