Two Owls Design

Rowan

Rowan made his appearance in the world early last Friday morning. I can't believe he's almost a week old already but we spent most of that time in hospital and so we're only just starting to settle in properly at home now. Aidan is fitting into his role as big brother really well and only tentatively suggested that we should 'put him back with the other babies [in hospital]' once.
My boys.

Due dates, cardigans and protective head gear

I have now gone past my due date, well the first one anyhow as I have two - why two, ah it's a minor conflict between healthcare professionals, but either way I have never been pregnant for this long before. The second one is the 15th of February.

 
Being this shape is no fun as it has begun to hurt.

The bags are packed ready, the baby one contains two hand-knitted items. The first being this Debbie Bliss cardigan which is a little on the baby-boy side colour-wise but could perhaps be girl-ified with a flower if 'it' is a 'she'. 
As someone that sews, for some reason the worst part of knitting something like this for me, is sewing it all together at the end. It was half sewn together in my knitting bag for ages and even longer complete but for the buttons. It's a bit button-heavy in such a small size but a larger size with the six may look a little more balanced. I do really love the spotty buttons though.

The other item is another Debbie Bliss one, this hat.
A friend came round and saw it on the table and said that she'd made the same one for her little girl when she was a baby. Only every time her daughter wore it people commented on the fact that it looked more like... well, er, something designed to prevent babies. So of course now it's difficult not to view it as a large, woollen condom...oh well, the baby will still be wearing it!

Prep

I am still here but a self-imposed rule that I coudn't post until my tax return was completed put a halt on the blog, no distractions allowed. Filling it out I have to say was every bit as uninteresting as I'd anticipated, in fact at times I contemplated ditching my tiddly business as it could never be worth the hassle of having to do self assessment returns...urgh, moan over. It was done a couple of weeks back now but everything else mounted up in the meantime, it's not easy to make headway with a to-do list whilst also having to fit 2 naps per day in. Anyway the blog is one of my main priorities now as the house is almost ready for the imminent arrival (due in a week).

One of our pre-baby jobs was to get the spare room cleared out and decorated ready for it to become Aidan's new bedroom. Aidan chose the colour, yellow (of course to anyone who knows him) or rather Lemon Tropics and helped out painting the walls - I use the term help incredibly loosely. It was good to involve him and he really enjoyed doing it but I doubt I'll be in a hurry to involve a small child with decorating again.
The plastic sheeting that covered the entire carpet was invaluble.