Knitty

Oh my, the girl can knit! 

Layette

...of sorts.

A snuggly Cocoon 

Before this wee one arrived, before we knew whether she was a she or a he, in those moments of quiet and hoping and looking forward to what was to come, I knitted a few little things. (Wow! That's a long sentence...and probably not grammatically correct....hmmm. Meh!) 
Not really a traditional layette set but a small collection none-the-less. 

A Baby Bear Hat

A nappy cover

Baby Socks

A hammock

And the blanket

With knowing that all too quickly little ones become bigger ones, I knitted a few things that I thought would help capture these early few weeks.

Quiet

I find myself seeking quiet whenever I can at the moment.
Time to just be with my littlest of babes.

I am missing bouncy and busy times with the bigger babes but know that that will return soon enough. Right now I need quiet and gentle. 
I am taking healthy doses of this time here and there.

I sit and cuddle. I feed. I change. I cuddle. I knit. I cuddle and knit. 

Life Spring

The birth of a child presents many feelings. It is something you may want to shout out to the world. A joy that wants to be shared; that others may feel the moment of life. A new life is an amazing moment; everybody embrace it.

Åt the same time the I feel a desire to lock out the world around, to still all the motion, all the hurry. The desire to pause everything, to live in the moment for ever. It presents an acute awareness that each moment passes and does so much more quickly that you could ever want. That each moment really does count. Never so much as when life has just been born, that a first breath existed in that moment. The experience of air and skin and touch and love. Firsts.

We have been gifted a healthy baby girl. She is, in every sense of the dreamings of a prospective parent, perfect. Our little gumnut baby.

Another gift of life. 

Happy Anniversary

Another year...

That makes seven...

Or seventeen, depends how you count.

Either way, more love than before.