Decorating the tree

Gabby says, "Ta-da!"














Colin kisses his Thomas ornament.

My Crafty Christmas

I took it easy on knitting or sewing gifts this year. I haven't had a whole lot of time to knit lately and the time I did have was mostly spent sleeping. Baby #3 made me very tired for the first trimester. Anyway, I finished all of my crafting for the season today. I made each of the kids a Christmas stocking. They are made from the same pattern that my great-aunt Shirley used to make stockings for my family, and I'm assuming many others. The only thing I have left to do is find someone to embroider the kids' names in the white cuff at the top. In case you can't figure it out on your own, Gabby's is the pink one and Colin's the green--they chose their own colors.



















The only gift that I knit this year is a felted purse for our daycare lady. I used an entrelac pattern that I already had and just altered the colors and number of rows along with need size and handle attachment. I think it turned out nice and I hope Ms. Gina likes it.













I've got a new scarf pattern that I'm going to start tomorrow and hopefully I'll have some time over the holidays to do some more knitting. I might try to get a start on a stocking for baby #3 and I think Matt needs one too. Gabby says his should be bwoo.

Gabby the Snooper

Matt and I have been hiding Christmas presents under our bed to keep the kids from playing with them and to keep their presents a surprise. This morning Gabby announces that she's found some toys under our bed and she wanted to know if she could play with them. Now I was a pretty good snooper in my day but I don't recall ever gloating about my victories. I had to lie to her and tell her the presents were for someone else and then she cried because she thought that meant she didn't have any presents at all. I assured her that her presents were hiding somewhere else and she immediately headed off to my room to look for them. I guess I'm going to have to wrap the presents before she finds them all and has no surprises left.