as promised the new floor

The new wooden floor, all stained and polished - looking pretty good huh?

And the new carpet, Sam and Charlie were trying it out, they were very excited. Sam told me

" wow, it doesnt hurt when I fall over now" lol! It is soo nice to walk on the carpet again, it has luxury underlay that is really thick and is quite a thick carpet. We have gone for a very good quality carpet for the living area since that is the place that gets all the hard wear. It is really lovely. Very pleased with it.

viewed from the kitchen

Daniel is all warm

Daniel has been asking for a while (since last winter actually) for me to knit him a scarf, he asked for flames. Well I picked up some wool a while ago for $2 a ball so we decided to use that. There was enough left to do a hat too. He is very pleased with it and it should be warm becuase it is 80% merino. One of the girls on TNN has just released this pattern for handwarmers (Embeca on Ravelry) she is having a competition for people to knit the handwarmers and embelish them. So some more $2 balls of wool from Spotlight and he has his flames :-) One happy, snuggly warm boy.

My gorgeous baby......

For the last couple of weeks Ben has been giving us random 'real' smiles, he is really funny becuase once he has done it he cant remember what to do and sticks his tongue out and contorts his face but cant figure out how to smile again.

Well today I was sitting at the table with him on my knee having a wee chat and he gave me the most gorgeous gummy smile, followed by another and another - lots of them. It was sooooo cute and adorable. So I went and got the camera - of course I couldnt get him to smile for the camera, but as soon as I put it away he gave me the biggest grin!

He is wearing his new cardy I knit for him too, fits perfectly and looks great, I am really pleased with it.