a teensy scarf for a dear friend's daughter. tonight i'm going to venture into the world of embroidery for the first time. productivity!

andy and his friend andrew, with whom he’s in a band, recently decided to participate in “february album writing month.” and by that i mean that they wrote and recorded it all in one day, in our bedroom. (mind you, our bedroom is not a closed off area, it’s open to the living room.)

i guess it's meant to be a sort of return to their roots- and their roots are weird.



pictured: andrew, hand drum, cymbal, ukulele, musical saw, bongos, large drum, mic & stand
not pictured: andy, pan flute, xylophone, tambourine, what i believe is a toy accordion, kazoo, bewildered cats, and various other bizarre instruments that i can’t identify.

needless to say, it was a noisy day.

all of my knitting needles/looms/yarn/etc have been stuffed up on a closet shelf since we moved. i think it's time to drag all of it out and attempt to be productive.

wordless wednesday.

andy's brother and sister-in-law gave us a babies r us gift card a while back and we've held off on using it, unsure whether we should use it for fun things or save it for post baby shower necessities. we probably would have held out until after the shower, but on a whim i went to babiesrus.com today and found that they were having a huge one day sale with free shipping over $75. who could pass that up?

it took hours to decide what to buy, but we finally settled on:



this diaper bag, which matches the graco "little hoot" travel system and pack-n-play we're planning to get, and...


our first baby wraps! i was planning on ordering just the chocolate moby, but andy said "what if one is dirty? how will we carry him? we need two!" i could have pointed out that we could use our arms or perhaps a stroller, but i'm just glad that he's excited about babywearing, too.

the gift card is nearly used up, but we saved $30+ on the items and $18 on shipping. totally worth it. i'm so excited for everything to arrive!

some babywearing inspiration:

so fawned
babywearing dads on tumblr
adventures in babywearing
ethnic babywearing flickr pool

i've been feeling pretty lonely lately and it was starting to weigh on me. last night, however, brought a pleasant surprise- two of our closest friends from new port richey visited orlando. seeing them was such a comfort.

they and a few other friends met us for pizza, ice cream, a long conversation about dragon ball z, and a heated debate about whether or not monkeys can juggle. (the jury is still out on that.)

oh, and the vortex amazing.



what's the vortex amazing? yeah, i didn't know either.



frankly, i still can't explain it.

after the vortex we all came back to the apartment to play things (the game) and a telephone/pictionary hybrid game.

the basics:

we had seven people, each with seven index cards. everyone writes a phrase on their top card (some of ours were: the four horsemen of the apocalypse, jumping the shark, like taking candy from a baby, and so on) and passes the whole stack to the right. you then read the phrase you've just been passed, put that card on the bottom, and draw the phrase. the stacks get passed again, but this time everyone looks at the drawing they've been handed and writes what they think the picture represents. this goes on, alternating between drawing and interpreting, until each person has their original stack back, at which point you can see what your phrase has devolved into and how it got there. highly entertaining, to say the least.

this has run a bit long so i will wrap up today in photos.

orange blossom honey from the farmer's market.

goodwill love.