Kiddo:
My eldest became slightly ill on Sunday, and it has progressed quite rapidly to a double ear infection complete with cough, runny nose and fever. And it’s not your normal fever. It’s 103′F one night, and then a constant 101 for the rest of the day despite the amount of children’s tylenol I force him to take.
So, we went to the doctor today (that’s how I found out it was an ear infection causing all the trouble), and he’s now happily on antibiotics. Thank goodness for penicillin, huh? Yes.
What was really troubling is the fact that he hadn’t eaten hardly anything for two days. NOTHING. Just apple juice and water. He peed only twice today. However, he quickly got back up to speed once he started to feel better around 7:00pm tonight, and happily munched on everything I could find for about 2 hours. Needless to say, he’s full and quite asleep. Mommy is happy.
Knitting/Crocheting:
As you regular readers know, I have been working sporadically on the Cobblestone Pullover (CP), and I’m finally on the sleeve. I’m having to adjust the pattern to work accordingly with my 6′5″ guinea pig, and I’m praying that everything turns out okay.
The body is sized as a medium with a length of about 18″, and I’m adjusting the sleeves to increase at the “large” size, but am only going to increase until I reach the “medium” number of stitches. Make sense?? Doesn’t to me either, but that’s what I’m going with! The sleeves will be approx. 21″ long. I hope I have enough yarn!!!

I’m also working on the tunisian crochet scarf, and yes, I’m still in love with the stitch. But I’m extremely unhappy with my tension issue on the left side of this thing. It happens to be wavy at the moment, and luckily it will block out because of it’s woolly goodness.

Oh well, that’s why I’m practicing on a scarf; to find out these tricky little details.
I think on some rows I’m making the live stitches too loose, and then too tight on the next forward row. Ah well.
School:
Is almost over!! As of May 5th, my life will revolve mostly around kids, knitting, clarinet, and work. I like that combination okay… I could definitely live without the work aspect though. 
I’m all set besides a one page paper (should take me about a minute!), and an “Integrated Unit” in which I’m part of a group of 3 making up 15 lesson plans that correlate regular subjects with music components. Sounds easy, right? That’s a yes and no answer. I find it easy, but it’s the presentation that I dislike. I have to pick one of my favorite lessons and present it to the class, which isn’t a bad thing, but I’m just sooooo ready to be done with it already.
Last but not least:
I am on page 70 or so of Knitalong by Larissa Brown. I really don’t want to put it down, but sometimes I just don’t have a choice in the matter! lol. This book is a must for any knitter or crocheter… hey, crocheters have CAL’s too ya know. It has great patterns, references, ideas, and inspiration. I’m thoroughly impressed with it, and it really makes me want to be a member of a KAL.
So far the only KAL I’ve been a part of is the Malabrigo March Madness KAL, and it turned out okay, but I only made one scarf, with 4 skeins leftover because I just didn’t have time to make all the things I wanted to. And when I had the time, I decided to change my designated patterns! I’m a bit indecisive I guess.
Okay. That’s all folks. Good night, and by all means, good knitting!