Jen's Blog

our week in review

On Sunday we went to visit our friends Scott and Rose and their new baby, Gemma. She's very cute and so tiny! And she has a lot of hair, too. Even though Lexi is only a few months older, I had already forgotten just how small she was as a newborn.

I went to a local knitting group Monday evening called the Funky Fiber Fellowship. I heard about it from one of the women in my new moms' club. I brought Lexi with me; she slept for part of the evening while I knit. After she woke up and nursed she got fussy, so we left early. I was really jazzed about the group! There were only 3 other women there, which they said was typical. But they were all very friendly and welcoming, and I definitely plan to make this a regular activity.

Tuesday was Lexi's 4 month well baby check. She weighs 15 pounds (75th percentile) and is 24.5" long (50th percentile). By contrast, Elliot was 13lbs 13oz and 24" long at his 4 month check! She can't roll over yet, or sit up on her own, but I expect she'll start trying to do both in the next month.

I'm still on a no-dairy diet (it's been about 2 months now!), but Lexi still has occasional bouts of excessive spitting up and discomfort. I think she may also be sensitive to soy and possibly sesame, but I haven't cut either from my diet completely. I do avoid a lot of soy (e.g. I put rice milk on my cereal instead of soy milk), and I may start avoiding sesame (especially sesame bagels and hummus).

I had lunch with my friend Lisa after Lexi's appointment. She is lactose intolerant, which I didn't realize before (or if I did I had forgotten), so she was very sympathetic to my diet. Lisa is also a fellow knitter, but as it was a warm day neither Lexi nor I were wearing anything we could show off.

I did lots of knitting this week! I am finished knitting Lexi's Viking hat; now I only need to sew the wings on. I finally felted a bear I knit over 10 years ago! I finished a pair of socks for myself, and I started a hat for Elliot.

(This is the bear before I felted it.)

I've also been working on my C# class. I turned in my first homework assignment last weekend. We had to write a program to calculate how much change to return, in coins (i.e. quarters, dimes, etc). Here's a screenshot:

The professor said he couldn't find any major errors, so I'm expecting to get full marks for the assignment. I am almost finished with the second assignment, but I need to review it before sending it in. Even though we are only supposed to send in the executable (the .exe file), I think the professor has the ability to open it to see how we wrote the code. This means that even if the final product looks correct, I shouldn't be sloppy in how I code it.

Eva and I went yarn shopping today. I bought a few magazines at the first shop we went to, and some green yarn for a sweater for Elliot. Like I needed more yarn!

(eta: link to page on felting)

Posted by Jen at September 28, 2007 03:53 PM