I haven’t blogged for a bit, so here’s a brief update.

First, Griff is making great progress at this walking thing. He can make it about halfway across the living room before he falls down, and he’ll often choose to walk over to a toy rather than crawl once he’s already pulled up on something. It’s really hard to capture this on video since he’s so random about when he decides to walk vs crawl, but here are a few choice clips.

Here he’s walking to mommy…

…and here, he’s walking to daddy, but weaves around and ends up somewhere else instead…

…and here, he’s just being ridiculously cute.

I’m still knitting away on Mom’s Christmas gift (she got to unwrap 1⅓ socks for Christmas because I just couldn’t finish the pair in time). I hope to get the second one completed over the weekend.

After months of disuse, my spinning wheel finally saw some action last weekend. I’m spinning some of the FatCatKnits Polworth Jag got me as an anniversary gift. I’m thinking of Navajo plying this to keep the color changes and get some cool stripes.

Which brings us to my new spinning corner! My wheel wasn’t seeing any use because it was being stored in the dining room to keep it safe from Griff’s curious little hands (and mouth, and teeth). Once we took down the tree, Jag suggested using that space as my little spinning corner so I could leave the wheel set up and spend a few minutes spinning when I found the time during the day. I’m very happy about this and hope to be doing much more spinning now.

On a cooking note, I’ll be adding this cheddar beer bread to the regular rotation when we’re eating a meal that needs something bready to go with. Jag and I ate half the loaf with dinner tonight. *Urp.* My only change was to add basil and oregano, since we were eating it with pasta.

And last but not least, Griff has yet another pair of Big Butt Baby Pants. More jeans again, made of my old maternity jeans (capris, this time) sacrificed for the cause. I’m considering a trip to Goodwill to buy a pile of old jeans in huge sizes so I have more material to work with. I can just barely eke a pair of size 12-18 month Griff pants out of size 12 womens’ jeans (and I have to make the butt panel from a piece of another pair of jeans, as you can see here), and I’ll be needing to make bigger sizes for him in the coming months.