Baby love
Sock love
I’m sad Knitpicks discontinued this yarn. It was the Felici self striping stuff. I’m interested to see how it holds up. They have a new color, Pirate King,
that looks like it’d make a great pair of socks for a little boy. Maybe striped with a coordinating solid? Maybe not. This is the yarn I was excited about buying for Clark that when I showed the girls, I got several glares for even thinking about knitting him another pair of socks before making pairs for them.
But hey! He has smaller feet and, um, doesn’t LOSE socks!
Hamster love
So, I’m really enjoying Papu, Liv’s new hamster. We’ve had some biting incidents, but I still think he’s a sweet little thing that needs to be tamed and whose handlers need to learn how to handle him. Never having had a hamster myself, I’ve only seen them asleep in a lump, covered with bedding from the cage.
Because I’d only ever seen them in a pet store during the day, I had no idea how much they EAT! (We feed this guy twice a day). How much they drink. How much they run on that ridiculous wheel (like, 7 hours a night). He’s hilarious. He’s funny when he stretches, he’s funny when he eats… he reaches up with his CUTE little paws, with CUTE little fingers, (that’s my favorite thing about pet rats), and takes food right out of our hands.
Liv is mad at him right now, because he bit her pretty bad while we were trying to wake him up yesterday. We’re learning. After he woke up on his own later in the evening, I took him out and they all were able to pet him without incident.
So far, we’ve discovered he likes carrots. LOVES dry oatmeal. Devours those silly hamster pellets. And won’t give a second glance to cucumbers.
April 15th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Rodents are noctural so the best bet is get them up right before the kids go to bed.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
So stinkin’ cute – the baby love, Clark in his new socks, and the hamster. We had two hamsters when growing up – my favorite was when they’d wash their little faces by licking their little hands and wiping up over their ears down their cute little noses.
April 16th, 2010 at 4:27 am
We have a wash your hands before you hold the hamster policy due to biting. He was smelling the food on their hands and didn’t realize their food smelling fingers weren’t food. And really who can blame him… if it smells like food it must be food….right? Since we have started doing this we have had no biting incidents.
April 16th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Try lettuce!