51 Weeks

********* Warning, Spoiler for the last 2007 Rockin' Sock Club package in this post - view at your own risk!! If you don't want it ruined, don't view last picture in this post! *********

Sean is 51 weeks old today. One more week until his first birthday. I'm still very excited, yet very sad at the same time. My baby isn't going to be a baby anymore.

Today I had a lunch date with my friend Elana. We went out for Greek food. It was really nice. She treated me to lunch since I gave her all of my scrapbooking stuff (since I'm not really into it anymore). So as a thank you, she treated me to lunch. Elana is 31 weeks pregnant, and I can't wait to meet her baby girl. Elana is actually due on her sister's birthday. What's this with all the "on birthday" due dates! I know Elana from elementary school & high school as well, and we started talking again when I was working at a video store in the city and she started coming in to rent videos. And then she started taking the pre-natal aqua class while I was doing the post-natal part of it! But now we're taking pre-natal aqua together! It'll be nice that our babies will be about 4 months apart.

After lunch I ran a few errands on my way home, one them being a pick-up at the post office. I'd missed a package yesterday, so I went to pick it up. It was my last shipment of the year, for the 2007 Rockin' Sock Club:

And I'm in love! It's gorgeous. It's my colors! I love it. So impressed. So happy. So excited for next year's club - which is actually starting in January this time - instead of February. So I'll be getting another kit next month!

I want to make the Chicabean Scarf and the Chicabean Hat By the Kelly Green Rogue. Just gorgeous. I need to finish a lot of projects first, before getting into new ones, but these two are definitely on my list of things to make!

This evening I made my homemade meat sauce (my mother-in-law's recipe), two full pots. Some of it will be frozen for later, some of it will be going into a lasagna, and some of it will get eaten shortly. I also had defrosted too much meat tonight, and if I didn't use it - it would be garbage by tomorrow morning, so I made a double batch of meatballs, which made me 96 meat balls. (There's 94 left because I tasted one, and Jamie tasted one too). I can't wait for dinner tomorrow night, it'll be so delicious. I love cooking in my new kitchen.

Last night Sean woke up just as I went to bed. Or shortly after, I think. I can't recall if I actually got to sleep for a bit, or if I had just crawled into bed. I was too zonked to remember. Anyhow, he fell back asleep in my arms, and I put him to bed in his crib again. Within a few minutes, he woke up and started crying. I wasn't going back in. He has to learn. He cried for about 20 minutes, and then fell back asleep. At least it wasn't 40 minutes like the last time. I cannot let him sleep in my bed. There just isn't room for him anymore. The bed is too small for him to sleep a full night with both of his parents in there too. So tonight, I tried something new (after having a phone conversation with a friend of mine this morning who has a son a month younger than Sean). She was telling me about how she puts her son to bed, she reads him Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown every night. I own that book, so I pulled it out, and I will keep it on my night stand, and I shall read it to him every night before he goes to bed. It'll part of the new routine we're starting. We'll see what else we shall add - but this is one start. I hope it works!