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So far we have more than 30 people participating in the Lace Ribbon Scarf Knitalong!  Most of you are using Ravelry as well for this KAL.  If you want to be a part of the Ravelry group and are a Ravelry member, just go here:

http://www.ravelry.com/groups/lace-ribbon-scarf-kal

Otherwise, I'll post progress of the group here on the blog on Fridays starting May 19.  If you want your blog linked or pictures of your progress posted here, you have to send me the info by Wednesday to have info posted on this blog on Friday.  Want more info on the KAL?  Go here.

James has taken to pulling himself up on couches, window ledges and cabinet drawers- anything that will help him hoist his wobbly baby bottom off the floor.  He has yet to figure out how to gracefully lower himself back on that cushy bottom.  Sometimes he's able to grab progressively lower ledges and slowly make his way to a kneeling position, but most of the time he simply lets go of what he's holding and drops like a rock to the floor.  The most interesting moments involve him unexpectedly loosing his balance and face-planting onto the carpet.  I then try a well-timed cheer to preempt the wailing.... "Safe!" "Yea!" "Who's SO BIG?!" have all become the phrases of choice when I'm trying to keep James from realizing that he's majorly bashed his face into the floor.

This morning was a change of pace as he completely lost his balance while dancing to one of my made-up songs, Ebineezer Baby Sneezer.  (Oh, stop laughing- you know you've made up weird songs for your kids before!)  And though I was sure that he was going to wail and hold his hands to Mama for "up-up-up", he did not.  After falling on his face, he turned around and gave me this look that said "I'm-going-to-pretend-you-didn't-see-my-embarrassing-dancing-skilz-let's-not-speak-of-this-again."  It was purely ego-driven and super cute.  He then went about his business as if nothing happened.

Of course, I go and blog about it.  I guess when he's older I won't be able to blog about his embarrassing moments.

Comments

[Cybèle]

And all of a sudden you have yourself a little toddler there, no longer a baby!

[Liz in IN]

Oh, James is getting...well...SO BIG! And already such a guy, too. ;)

Major props to you for not *encouraging* wailing by leaping to his (unneeded) aid with "OH! Did you HURT yourself? Are you ALL RIGHT?" I'm definitely with you in the "Safe! Yeah! Who's SO BIG!" camp.

Okay, let me go check out this Ravelry KAL. :)

[Donna]

Ebineezer Baby Sneezer - love it. Before you know it, everything you do (in fact, your mere existence) will embarrass him. But, eventually, you'll have all those embarrassing stories to tell his children. There is nothing that delights my grands than hearing stories about mommy as a little girl - & of course they especially love the somewhat embarrassing ones (like how she loved the neighbor's long haired chihuahua even tho she was terrified of doges & it wasn't until she was 12 that we found out she thought it was a cat).James is really getting big!

[Emily]

So how does Ebineezer Baby Sneezer go?

[B. Rickman]

Sing it for us Allison...pleeeeeeeeeeeze!

bjr