Birthdays!

April birthdays come and gone.  When you have three family birthdays within three weeks of each other, it makes for a really busy month.  We had a big celebration this past weekend which was a lot of fun.  The highlight of the evening for me was definitely watching Rosie enjoy a smash cake for her first birthday.  That girl was not only thrilled about the cake but about the attention she was getting from everyone; she has become quite a little clown!  Today was her actual birthday, so now my darling baby is officially one.  My next baby is officially three.  Where is the time going?

I have made a little more time to knit again; I am still working on Rosie's In Threes cardigan and planning what to do next.  I am reading a few books, having finished several the last few weeks.  I just started Agatha Christie's The Mystery of the Blue Train and am reading A Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis as well.  I finished Laura Ingalls Wilder's On the Banks of Plum Creek as well as The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall.  The latter I had returned to the library unfinished a few months ago and grabbed it off the shelf again recently.  I devoured the second half in spare moments here and there;  it is so reminiscent of old-fashioned children's literature - you know the kind, where kids have all kinds of adventures with minimal adult involvement- but set in modern time, and therefore, easy to relate to in a different way than say, some of E. Nesbit's books.  I will definitely enjoy reading about the Penderwick sisters to my gaggle of little girls one day. 

Joining up with Ginny for Yarn Along again today!