Here we have Jasper watching Chris mow the lawn. When we got back from our holiday some parts of our lawn were nearly taller than us.  Chris had to tackle it in parts over a number of days.

Jasper is pulling himself up onto furniture now, though he still doesn't know about stepping.  He loves playing with doors, opening and closing, opening and closing.  Watching the top of the door as he moves it at the bottom.  Like some amazing puppet master.

I'm worried he'll get his fingers jammed.  Today he got his foot awkwardly and firmly stuck under his bedroom door, I tried to gently pry it out but eventually had to use brute force...  I thought surely I must have broken it.  But it was just mildly grazed and he cried for about 30 seconds before moving onto more interesting things.

Tonight I'm thinking about coloured pencils... I've had a set of Derwents since I was 15 and I'm thinking that it's time to USE them.  But first.  Sleep.

This project seemed to go on for-ever.  My technique for hemming is too slow... hand basting the fold line, finger pressing the hems and basting them by hand, then mitring the corners and stitching THEN finally sewing the actual hem on my machine.  I've tried to 'wing' it before, but the hems become uneven.  If anyone has a quicker method please put my out of my misery and let me know!  This is the pile of basting threads that I plucked out tonight.

Though maybe it wasn't actually my method that was the problem.  Maybe it was that we have been going through the trauma of controlled crying (which has worked, OMG it has bloody well worked and I'm soooo, sooooo, sooooo happy about it, but oh how I wish it could have happened without the crying bit... including MY crying)

AND last Tuesday night the power went off and the food in our big freezer defrosted. So last week I had to cook. A lot.

Just in case you were wondering.  My 'intensive' project has been put off for a week.