I was right.
No sweat.
They survived.
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We had such a lovely Easter weekend! Fred was off on Friday and it was sunshine-y and not too cold so we had three whole days to frolic about and enjoy family adventures! We went to Lake Superior (just like last year's Easter), and hiked down into the Swedetown gorge where 5 got to throw the biggest rocks he could lift into the water, and Hungarian Falls where these shots were taken. It's a bit of a scramble down to the falls, but if I could do it 8 months pregnant, I figured I could do it with a monkey on my back. I was right. No sweat. The boys took off their shoes and socks and bravely (foolishly?) plunged their feet into the super frigid water. They survived. 5 found that he (big surprise) preferred playing with mud and throwing rocks to the hypothermia-inducing water. They did manage to pull themselves away from rock throwing long enough to climb up as close as they could get to the falls (and it was pretty close- they got rather wet) for a little photo op. Those sweet boys of mine. How did you celebrate the Easter/Passover/beautiful weekend?
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I'm going to start with post by saying that 5 does not get a lot of sugar- he doesn't eat candy, dessert is not a regular thing, he doesn't even drink any juice. Really, the only treats he gets are bites home made ones that Mom and Dad are eating, but he does get those, because my parenting mantra is "it's not a big deal". I'm much less worried about him developing diabetes than I am about him having an unhealthy relationship with food/love/sugar/etc. Okay, serious heavy stuff aside, the last few days, 5 and I have been learning please and thank you with help from pudding and bananas. It was a whim, but it's worked surprisingly well. He gets pretty excited about having little bites of Mom's treats, so he'll happily copy anything I say and then, it's just practice. I ask if he wants another bite (as he's grunting and pointing at my bowl) and wait for him to say "yes" (I've been modeling yes please, but that seems a little difficult still), so then he gets a little bite and I say "what do you say?""Thank you!". By the end of yesterday, I didn't have to model "thank you" anymore and today I didn't even have to ask him "what do you say?" It was pretty exciting for me, especially because his thank yous sound like "whhaank kyeeee". Adorable. He even showed off for his Dad today after work, sans pudding. A success I declare! How did you approach manners with your kids?
I am still a complete dooze from now 2(!) nights of no sleep, so today, we are going to enjoy my son's fabulous and whimsical sense of style... "What? Oh, yeah, of course I'm wearing a sports bra as a necklace, I need the support." "Yeah I only have one sock on, my right foot isn't cold, yo." "OK Mom, no more sitting, no more cameras, I got to RUN!"
Oh, it started out as one of those days. Actually, I guess it started out as one of those nights- last night, just as I was getting ready to turn out the light and fall asleep at a reasonable hour...
The dreaded sign of true Spring in Hancock appeared- one of our supposedly harmless but absolutely terrifying huge spiders started attempting to haul its massive self up the wall in front of my face. Early bedtime, restful night of sleep- gone, all gone! After reading myself to the point of utter exhaustion, I lapsed into a restless sleep punctuated by startled bouts of vigilance, only to be awoken by my darling husband's alarm that had been set to snooze after he got up. Oh, the feeling of being trapped underneath a light-sleeping baby, trying to decide which is more likely to awaken the sleeping babe- moving him and finding the offending alarm or waiting the half hour for Fred to notice it's still going off? In the end, 5 and I were both begrudgingly awake for the day- not our best start... We were both kind of grumbly and crabby and whiny all morning until we collapsed into a very early nap. And then, something kind of magical happened. The sun came out. There was no crying for a little while. I ate a good lunch. And then, it wasn't so bad. 5 woke up and instead of grumpy we were just kind of silly and dopey. Not such a bad afternoon. And as day turned into night, 5 decided to turn in early (like before it got dark early) and I'm thinking I should do my best to follow suit. If the spiders will let me.... It's possible that I'm a little bit obsessed, but I took my new patterns for KCWC for a test drive this weekend. Since I'm feeling rather ambitious about what I want to accomplish in that week I figured I ought to get it out of the way. Especially because when I'm trying something new, I like to have as much time as possible to make mistakes, throw things around, hurl curses at fabric, thread and bobbins, dance it out, and get back down to business, you know? Not the most efficient use of a dedicated week. A Tank for my Little Tank I'm so glad I tried this one out ahead of time. I used the pattern pieces, but chucked the directions in favor of something faster and easier. There was added trickiness though, as this pattern has European sizing. I am now aware that 5 is rather wider than European children of his height, in other words, this shirt is skin tight. It's awfully cute though. I'm definitely looking forward to making several roomier versions. Shorts? These were supposed to be shorts, but I vastly underestimated the shortness of the Stinko's legs. These barely clear his ankles! Otherwise they fit great though, so we'll just be bringing back the knickerbockers for dudes this Summer... Love this fabric? Yeah you do! I got it at the FiberSwap at our local art center last Fall. It clearly used to be curtains, and then someone cut it into pieces to make a shirt out of it, but didn't. And now it's mine! I just adore it- 100% cotton, excellent pants weight, wish I had tons more of it! Any other test drivers out there?
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My name is Ansley Knoch. I am the creator of Rispok, a line of accessories for big and little people made from repurposed materials. I live in Madison, Wisconsin with my husband, Fred, and our son, also Fred, better known as 5. Archives
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