{hands full of happiness}: If you want to destroy my sweater, Pull this thread as I walk away.

The Darndest Things

C (Explaining to Eli and Si school fire drills): You have to go outside, and you can't talk, because, if you open your mouth, you will get fire in it.

Silas (at the Costco fountain pop machines): I want BEER!!!

Me (while dousing the hot dogs in ketchup): What? Did you say you wanted beer?

Silas: Yes.

Me: It's called ROOT beer, Silas. We don't drink beer. (Loud enough for all to be assured that my 4 year old doesn't drink beer.)

Silas: I call it BEER!

Silas: Mum, you got borned some really awesome kids!

Jared: Silas, come here.
Silas: Me no Silas, me Si-la-guy!

Silas (pointing to bone on the side of his ankle): Mommy, rock. in. my. foot.
Me: It's not a rock, it's a bone.
Silas (incredible distressed): Oh no! Mommy, BONE in my foot!

Silas (when the sun went behind a cloud and the room got darker): Mommy, dark?
Me: Ya, the sun just went behind a cloud.
Silas, very sad: Mommy, me miss da sun.

Silas (At 1:30 in the morning after he has been sleeping terrible due to a stuffed nose): Uh oh
Me: What, is your nose broken?
Silas: Yup, two them broken.

Me (at dinner time): Eli, have you been wearing your t-shirt on backwards all day.
Eli (without skipping a beat): No, but I've been wearing my underpants on backwards all day.

Eli (the first time he sat in his brand new, ridiculously expensive but totally safe car seat): It's like way comfortabler. It's like a pile of clouds I'm sitting on.

Eli: I know why the world turns. It's because the sun is so hot, and the world is a guy, and it doesn't like being so hot, so it turns around all the time to cool off.

Eli: You know that stuff in your eye? It's Jell-o, and it can see stuff. I know, because I touched it.

Eli: There's a skeleton inside my body that talks to me and tells me all the things that are good.

Me: Eli, pull up your underpants, it's not polite to walk around with a bare bum.
Eli: I don't have a bare bum, mum.
Me: What exactly would you call it?
Eli: A person bum.

Eli: Mum, will you button my pants and pull up my...um... bug?

Eli: Silas is such a little "Duke-ter." Me: What's a Duke-ter, Eli. Eli: Someone who eats all the 'Mo' so I can't have any.

Eli: Why is there toilet paper all over the yard. Me: 'Cause dumb teenagers didn't bother to find out if Auntie Phoebe was home or not, and now we have to clean it up. Eli: Grandma's going to be really mad. Let's eat them alive: crush their bones and drink their blood. (I promise, I don't know where he got that one.)

Eli (when I was wearing a dress that kind of makes me look preggers): Mommy, your 'mo' looks ugly when you have sisters in your tummy.

21 September 2010

If you want to destroy my sweater, Pull this thread as I walk away.

I started this sweater when Eli was a baby three and a half years ago, and finished it this morning. And, luck would have it, it fits Silas perfectly. Since Silas's birthday went by basically uncelebrated, the sweater has become his present. Isn't the leaf pattern just perfect for fall?

This is the first clothing piece I have ever made, with seaming and everything. I was a little scared of the seaming processes, but it wasn't bad at all. Actually, I have to admit, it was even enjoyable. I love the act of creating something, and making a sweater definitely was fulfilling. Watching it come together at my fingertips was wonderful. Is it silly that I feel that way?

I actually made two hats, because the first one was a little small. Maybe a future giveaway!

Eli didn't like NOT being the centre of attention, so he got in a shot.

9 comments:

CherylSeptember 21, 2010 at 10:06 PM
Hey! You promised that hat to Myers... How dare you.
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AnonymousSeptember 21, 2010 at 10:18 PM
I want to cry that sweater and hat are so adorable. But like a happy cry because its the most fantastic outfit I have ever seen! It kind of makes me want to have a baby boy next time around. I know I have said this many a time but your knitting talents never cease to amaze me! So cute! :)
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shannonSeptember 21, 2010 at 10:39 PM
i am officially the worst aunt.
HAPPY LATE B-DAY SI.
that sweater is soo cute, and i just love the matching hat. you are amazing!
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Cassie GaddSeptember 21, 2010 at 10:42 PM
That sweater is beautiful! My medium is felt and glue sticks most often. :)
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LauraSeptember 22, 2010 at 12:25 AM
I love how it buttons up the side, super cute!
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jennSeptember 22, 2010 at 7:09 AM
Happy Birthday Silas!

That sweater is beyond gorgeous!
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MindySeptember 22, 2010 at 4:49 PM
LOVE LOVE LOVE, LOVE LOVE LOVE, LOVE!!!!!!! So after you are the Douala of my future children, will you please make them clothes as well? You will be there favourite "aunt" I promise!!!!
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child of the universeSeptember 23, 2010 at 7:22 PM
tyler says "that looks like a lot of work. it is beautiful." i say, "holy cow. that sweater's incredible. and i love weezer."
love you! love silas!
holly
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JennySeptember 23, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Tell Tyler that it was a lot of work, and that I will teach him how one day.
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