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this morning i woke up to the little dude trying to feed me cheerios.

there was one stuck on my lip and one on it’s way there.
how he got his cup of cheerios, i will never know.

it might be better than how i usually wake up – with either his feet in my face or propped up on my body, and him taking up all the space as he lies perpendicular to me.

or sometimes with his cute little chubby face in my face.

or him clawing at my shirt.

or him picking at one of my moles – which is not pain-free.

i never know how he will wake up, but he always falls asleep like this.

as soon as he puts his hand over his eyes, i know he means business.

and then throughout the night he’s a clingly little leech.

even at a few days old, he would open one eye just to make sure someone was there.

now he doesn’t care during naps, he just wants someone there at night.

if he has to be in bed, someone else has to go to bed!  rebellious already.

i’m going to miss this when i have to kick him out of the bed.

someday.

’til then.

Foto friday.

Grumpa trying to coach rudder in crawling a few weeks ago.
He has since gotten his butt in the air and gotten it down.
Time to get outlet covers!

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’til then.

oh yeah.

oh yeah.

that hat i made rudder.

it’s kind of annoying because he is becoming so much more aware of his environment. he now knows how to take off hats – especially if they are not lashed to his head with velcro or a shock cord.

i checked out a few knitting books at the library weeks ago.

one being “beanie babies” by amanda keeys.

the other “special knits” by debbie bliss.

they are both awesome and have the cutest patterns.

they have both been renewed once (4 weeks total).

and they are both currently overdue.

the hat design is out of “beanie babies”.

i was going to do the ‘pompom bear’ pattern, but i don’t have my pom pom makers here and i was feeling lazy.

so i did the base of the ‘pompom bear’ hat, but made ‘ears’ like the ‘flour sack’ beanie in the book. they aren’t supposed to be ears, but they look like ears.

and they are super cute.

and that’s why he looks like a girl in it. non-girly colors, but still sorta looks like a girl.

disclaimer: the following pictures were taken by his nana while he was in the care of his nana. i would never let Otso get away with making my little baby cry like this. :)

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oh yeah, check out the 1980s/90s stroller. nice, eh? i’m borrowing it from a guy whose grandkids are almost grown.

oh yeah, i’m not a huge fan of knitting books – i hate buying a book for 20 bucks (or more) with only one good pattern in it, but if you are looking for awesome and mostly easy, baby/toddler/kid gifts to knit up, i highly recommend either of these books.

i really need to just buy them so i can finally return them to the library.

if you go to the debbie bliss link above, you will see that it is temporarily out of stock on amazon.

it’s that good.

oh yeah, and how awesome are libraries?

’til then.

foto friday.

the fourth of july.

wet. cold.

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ethan on the forest service float.

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rudder got second place at the toddler races. his category was “not yet walking”. all he had to do was touch the box of animal crackers.

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he lost to a two year old.

he was so close to winning, but got distracted by the other kid on the blanket.

and i literally took him out of the ergo carrier while still asleep and plopped him down.

he was so proud of his box of crackers and carried it and shook it by it’s string for quite awhile.

he got his name in the newspaper.

his other winnings (a quarter for participating, and two dollars for getting second!):

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’til then.

foto friday.

way back – xmas break ’04/’05.

’til then.

crash jr.

my uncle roy is a super athlete (and fisherman).

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i can’t remember the exact number of marathons he has run, but i think it’s in the double digits.

the weekend before last he participated in his first triathlon.

he completed the swim, made it through most of the bike and was about to transition to the run, when CRASH….

so he’s been nicknamed crash.

and here is crash jr.:

please click here because i’m not really sure how to post a video on here yet – i’m sure it’s really easy, but i’m really tired and just want to go to bed.

’til then.

i <3 marcus.

i LOVE my cousin marcus.

i meant to post this two weeks ago, but i hadn’t downloaded all of the pictures that i wanted to include.

i’m glad i waited, as it’s pride sunday!

everytime (which isn’t often enough) we see eachother, we have a great time.

drunk or not drunk.

and this time, he came to alaska to celebrate ashley’s wedding.

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and he fell in love with rudder:261693_724766856102_185102633_37589280_1903812_n.jpg

and rudder fell in love with him:257965_721875764872_185102633_37538290_5830656_o.jpg

so today (and most days) i’m thinking of my cousin marcus.

we love you “just the way you are.”

sorry, couldn’t resist the bridget quote.

’til then.

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