Today was an unexpectedly great day. It started out crappy, rainy and cold, with the little man waking up repeatedly around 5am and us dragging him to bed with us so we could get a few more hours of sleep. After that, though, things slowly improved. We had no plans for the day, so we had a nice relaxed morning. After lunch, we drove out and got me a flu shot (whee), stopped by Joann Fabrics to get some crafting supplies, and then headed to Barnes & Noble to spend a long-unused gift card on some board books for Griffin and a magazine for me. After we got home, Jag watched Griff so I could get some spinning done (more on this later). After that, we bundled Griff up into his stroller and went for a nice walk, and then came home and had a lazy dinner of things that are outrageously bad for us (ie, potato skins with cheese and bacon, and jalapeno poppers).

After dinner, we tried out a new straw-based Nuby sippy cup with Griff, since he’s still not taking a bottle from anyone but Jag, and he was less than enthusiastic about other sippy cup designs in the past. It was a smashing success! He drank almost 3 ounces out of it in total, which is far more than we expected.

We gave him the bottle to play with on the floor, and after rolling it around and chewing on it for a while, he managed to get it turned the right way and suck on the straw part without any help. This is a really really good sign for the future. I had sort of resigned myself to the idea that I wouldn’t be able to leave Griff with anyone for more than 2-3 hours until he was weaned (and who knows what would happen in some kind of emergency). If he’ll start taking a straw sippy, that’s a whole lot of pressure off me.

Now, back to the spinning. You may recall that I was working on this lovely Grafton batt:

Well, it’s done! Here are the fresh-off-the-bobbin singles:

And here it is after a soak in Eucalan:

(I’ll spare you a photo of it hanging up to dry in the laundry room.) I’m very pleased with how it turned out. Once it’s dry, I’ll do a yardage count, and then try and find a pattern that will show off the color gradations from bright orange to black. Could be anything from a cowl to a scarf to mittens, depending on how much I got.