A Mommy Story

Lately, Cordy has been making leaps in language acquisition. Lots of new words, but more importantly, the beginnings of sentence structure.

Right now, most sentences have the same beginning: It’s a… However, where she should drop the “a”, she doesn’t.

Here’s some of Cordy’s recent thoughts, with translation.

Itza cuuu! – It’s a clue (Blue’s Clues)

Itza beaaa! – Look, mommy, it’s my bear.

Itza wain! – Hey, it’s raining.

Itza keee! – Here kitty, kitty, kitty.

Itza booo pooo! – Yay, Blue’s Clues is on! (yes, it’s becoming a favorite here)

Itza guuud! – Yum, this tastes great!

Itza muck! – Can I have some more milk, please?

Itza shooshoo! – There are my shoes.

Itza ma! – Hey daddy, look, it’s mommy. But don’t tell her I called her mommy, OK?

Now if I could just get her to say “Itza spic-y meat-a-ball!” in her best Italian accent. That would be cool.

In other news, I finally got around to doing something with my evenings, and took up knitting. Why? Well, because cross-stitch isn’t popular yet, that’s why. Thanks to a lot of help from one of my best friends, who I refer to as the Knitting Goddess, and some help from KnittingHelp.com, I’ve started some basic knitting projects.

So far, I’ve completed two felted bags, and just last week I finished a halter top for Cordy. I used the Katja pattern from Knitty.com. It was surprisingly easy to do, and that’s coming from a real knitting novice.

I generally knit “tight”, so things turn out smaller than they should. However, this project went the other way. I know I did the pattern right, but, well, the halter top will now fit Cordy well through kindergarten, and possibly past that. Yeah, it’s that big. A little bigger and it might even fit me.

To make this work, because darn it, I wanted to make this top wearable, I folded part of the back over on itself and made a seam. So it now fits her, and she also has a back cushion in case she’s ever stuck in an uncomfortable hard backed chair.

Picture proof: