I’m thinking about making this Mom’s Bag for the Sew I Knit along. It’s from For Sweet Baby. This will be challenging for me seeing as I don’t read Japanese. But I hope I’ll be able to figure it out by looking at the pictures. It seems to be just rectangular shapes. Seems easy enough. I can do that. And I think I’ll add pockets inside.

Here are the other pictures of the bag from the book.

Isabelle has started screaming. I think it’s just for the fun of hearing her own voice. She just started doing it one day. So I did it back to her. Aaaah!! she goes. Then aaaaaahhh!! I go. Back and forth or both at the same time. And she smiles and screams and smiles. And Alan says I’m teaching her to scream. But I didn’t teach her to scream. She started it and I’m playing along. Ok scream sounds sort of extreme. More like a holler…

Tonight as I was laying in bed next to my little sleeping Isabelle, I thought I noticed something dark on the wall. I looked closely but nothing was there. Then I saw movement on the headboard, it had dropped lower. It wasn’t on the wall anymore! It was a spider and it was within a foot of us!! I am SCARED of spiders! I usually am too scared to even get close to killing them. I usually call Alan to kill them. But this spider was near Isabelle.

So me protecting my daughter, I quietly got out of bed and grabbed a tissue paper and smoooooshed the shit out of it! I was so freaked out! I could feel and hear it’s body crunch under my fingers. Now I’m all shaky from the adrenaline. And I keep feeling phantom tickles on me thinking about the creepy thing. But I did it. I killed it! I feel like a mother lion! And all over killing a tiny spider…ahem a big freaking gigantic monstrous spider that meant to harm my child. Rawr!!

This is Isabelle screaming. Watch video here. Oh and notice the unassisted sitting!

I finished the second big bad baby blanket! Yay! And now, believe it or not, I am finally getting around to trying to finish some of my unfinished projects. I was very disciplined. I did not start a new project even though it is oh so tempting to start that victorian lace shawl I mentioned months ago. I was very good. Instead I am knitting the earflaps for the Miss Dashwood hat that ummm has been waiting for them since October. OCTOBER!!