A friend of my mother's (who I have never met), upon hearing my mother was going to become a grandmother, decided to make the baby a rather special spiderweb shawl.
Make no mistake, this is a massive undertaking - something between knitting and lacemaking, as far as I can tell. It certainly looks ornate.
Anyway, since we now have unpacked the camera and the photo printer, and got hold of more photo printer paper, we were waiting for a nice day to take a good picture to send to the maker of the shawl, showing it in action, as a thankyou. And today that weather came, so here's the picture:
Here's a close-up:
Just imagine how long it must have taken to carefully make that delicate thing. Yes, I know, Jean took 9 months - I was talking about the shawl 🙂
This morning I was awakened to little frustrated sqqeeks from Jean and an och! from Al, Jean had decided she was hungry and waas padding at his chest looking for a breast - then when all she found was his nipple she pulled on it much to his shock!
This is an improvement because she used to justhead butt anything warm:)
I've been quite intrigued by the idea of Babywearing, both for me (so I can carry Jean while I work) and for Sarah (so she can carry Jean further with her back problems).
So today I found a big enough sheet, and decided to give it a try:
It's working pretty well - I'm still a bit nervous about bashing her on things, but she seems to be quite happy when worn (either looking around with interest, or falling asleep), and I like looking after her while I'm working!
Whilst breast feeding Jean often pullsher self off the nipple and looks starled/horrified - when she did theis today Al intergected a personalo commentry for her. Quote:
Oh my God!!! I've just realised I'm sucking another girls tit, I'm drinking another human beans bodily fluid - Oh my God!!! Mmm but it tastes nice though (as she plunges back in for more)
Jean | alaric | 
Thu 27th Oct 2005 2:56 pm | 
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