Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for my sweet Sam.

It's Squishy!

On a drive across the city the other day, Sam requested the chapstick I keep in the car. This is not an uncommon occurrence, though I usually just give him the chapstick and keep the lid for a quick return. Sam wanted the top this time and claimed he would return the chapstick with the lid already on for me. Some time later, here is what we heard:

Sam: Daddy!

Ari: What, Sam?

...

Sam: It's too squishy!

And then, this is what we saw:

Football Season

We had took advantage of some nice weather on Saturday to play in our local park. Volunteer Park is a beautiful park several blocks from our house, with lots of ginormous, old trees... ...perfect for climbing monkeys.And the park is 48 acres which include a lot of open space for football tag... ...and a nice playground for happy swinging and such.

Happy Birthday to Me

Sunday was my birthday and we had a relaxing, but fun day just hanging around Ballard, visiting the farmer's market, the library, the park, and a yummy pub for lunch.

Here are a couple of shots of Sam at the park...

...and with the cake we had for dinner.

Some Shots of Sam

I'm sorry I haven't been blogging lately. We've had some things going on that have taken my attention away, but I thought I'd give you all a little dose of Sam to tide you over until I get back on track.

Here are some pictures of a recent trip to the Pacific Science Center. We went to see the Lucy exhibit, but played around in the kids' area too.

That day we also spent some time down on the waterfront and Sam got to visit one of his favorite sculptures.

Well there's some sweet Sam...until next time.

Scarfalicious

Since this blog purports to be somewhat knitting related, I thought I'd post a bit of knitting. How innovative, I know. I've been going scarf crazy pretty much since I learned to knit just over a year ago now, but particularly so since the end of summer, when I could see the cooler weather approaching. I love colorful accessories (to go with my drab clothes) and so far I have shied away from knitting garments, so scarves suit me just fine. Here is the latest one I finished.

You can see it works well with my beloved Seattle rain jacket.

The pattern I used was the Noro Scarf by brooklyntweed. I knit it in Noro Silk Garden yarn, colorway 226. I probably used about 3 skeins, though I can't be sure because I frogged a round poncho that I was unhappy with to get the yarn. It ended up a bit longer than 5 feet and is nice and squishy warm.
Good-bye, ugly round poncho.

Happy Halloween

Here's a behind the scenes look at Halloween decorating by Sam. He didn't want to get his hands dirty with the "gross stuff" in the pumpkin, so he taught me all about the different parts of a pumpkin (learned at school), designed the jack-o-lantern and then supervised the execution. He was a bit of a micro-manager, but overall his Project Management skills were superb. Besides the jack-o-lantern request for decorating the house, Sam also suggested we hang his pirate flag up on the house since, "it will be spooky for people if they think that pirates really live here."
Superman Sam really lucked out. He apparently lives in the Halloween Capitol of Seattle. Just a couple of blocks from our house are the streets that literally hundreds, if not thousands flock to for Halloween treats and tricks. It was something to behold.
Superman also ran into his friend, Obi-wan and they spent about 2 hours collecting quite a bounty. Sam is really lucky that his Dad took him out and not his lame-o mom who probably would have taken him to about 5 houses. Oh well, they had a lot of fun.
And Sam is the sweetest, most generous boy ever. For every piece of candy he eats, he lets Ari and I choose one too. Anything that there is 2 or more of, gets offered up to share. Even the favorite chocolates. Now that is really something to behold!Mmmm, chocolate and caramel!