another weekend, another naptime

Behavior this morning and lunchtime was a real solid treat, BUT the kid is once again napping by himself rather than insisting that I stay with him the whole time. (He's sleeping in our bed, but hey, baby steps.) AND he changed his own pull-up all by himself before nap, which I pointed out to him was another step toward underpants. (I mean. Not having to change the damn thing because it's not wet would be a bigger step, but again, we take the victories as we get them.)

also, a knitting update

Well

All the instructions I could find about how to patch holes were about how to patch stockinette. I couldn't work out how to do garter, so what I ended up doing was more or less darning each spot; the mends are visible but garter stitch in wool is kind of a mess to look at anyway, so it's not perfect but I think all the loose loops are caught and nothing should unravel any further. (The fact that it's all sliiightly felted to itself is also helping there.) And the holes are patched. It's particularly BLEH in the biggest hole, which happened to be in a section knitted from the yarn that's two colors plied together, which were also always the most visually busy areas of the thing anyway, so.

It is no longer draped over my ironing board salvaged with waste yarn, is the important thing. I brought it back from Ohio in the first week of May and told my mom it would be quick to fix - and it has been, I mean, there were five or six places to fix and I did it while my kid napped this afternoon. It's just that it was nine weeks of rumination and avoidance before I finally did this.

Let's see how long before I can get to the post office to ship it. (Possibly as much as three more weeks, because that's the next time I have a Friday off. On the up side, it's the height of summer, so she won't have been wishing she had a heavy wool blanket to use.)