{hands full of happiness}: Birthday Stripes

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.

01 August 2012

Birthday Stripes

Remember when I said I was knitting Eli a sweater for his birthday in June? Well, I had so much fun knitting that that as soon as I finished I started knitting Silas one for his birthday in September. And then I just couldn't wait for September to put it on him, so now both my boys have stripes for their birthdays!

I haven't been able to do a real photo shoot yet, but today I took a few shots in the house. I figured I had better get them photographed before they get too loved.

Here's Eli's sweater. He picked the yarn, and requested five stripes for five years. It's my own design, which I will have tested once my holidays are over, and release the pattern. Anyone interested in testing???

And Silas's sweater: the 8 stripes have no significance. There are three stars though, so let's say they are for his three years of life. This pattern is called Gathering Stripes and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. I am going to have to make one for me one day. It's been so hot, I've barely been able to get Silas in it, but he didn't seem too miserable today, so I snuck it on and took a few shots. What a cutie!

7 comments:

MindyAugust 1, 2012 at 9:31 PM
Oh I love you and your boys! Now please teach me to knit, so I can make beautiful sweaters, etc for Samuel!
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MeganAugust 2, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Those sweaters are just so adorable! Love it!
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CherylAugust 2, 2012 at 10:26 AM
ME! I want to test it! I have my mom- she can help me if I get stuck- I seriously love eli's sweater. LOVE IT!
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Meredith LettichAugust 3, 2012 at 5:31 PM
I'd love to test it to Jenn. I'm obsessed lately. I brought two huge bags of yarn to Waterton this week. Mike asked if I really needed the giant winners bag full of yarn....well yeah!!!

That would be 'too' not 'to' but it won't let me fix it :)
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UnknownAugust 31, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh! I am in love with the cardi, just found your blog and I'm addicted! If you need a tester please let me know
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UnknownAugust 31, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh! I am in love with the cardi, just found your blog and I'm addicted! If you need a tester please let me know
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JennySeptember 1, 2012 at 11:50 PM
Mere and Jamie, I'd love to have you test knit the pattern! Mere, I sent you an email, but Jamie, I don't have a way of contacting you. I'm running the test over on Ravelry, so check out the thread there: http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/jenny-wiebe-designs/2273755/1-25#1
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