Happy St. P's

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, we spent time playing in our clover-infested backyard. While they may be considered lucky in some parts, around here clover, or oxalis stricta, is seen as a pesky weed that is impossible to get rid of by any means less than serious chemical warfare. Since we're not yet willing to wear gas-masks everytime we want to go outside, we've settled on just mowing the stuff. Anyway, we made a makeshift water play table out of various bowls and kitchen implements and tyson seemed to enjoy it.








Yesterday (Friday) we spent the morning at the Berkeley Marina with Adrian and his mom, Mag. It was a beautiful day and we saw lots of dogs and had fun throwing rocks into the Bay. Tyson and Adrian also spent some time cracking each other up by the car!



Yesterday we also went to a St. Paddy's Day party at our friends Anna, Rod, Tahryn, and Brody's house. There was lots of yummy food and fun! You may notice that tyson's hand is stained green - that's from painting some lovely clover-inspired pictures at the party.

(tyson took a nap for the 1st hour we were at the party so this picture above is how he looked for a little while after he decided to get up and see what was going on.)





In addition to all things tyson, I've also been enjoying participating in a sock-knitting class being taught by a lovely woman named Rachael. These classes meet on Monday nights at Knit-one-one in Emeryville - so don't expect to find me at home on Monday nights because I've got some exciting socks with a lace inset in the works! Below are a couple pics of the beginnings of one of the socks. I'm expecting the pair will be finished by the end of the class in a couple weeks. This is my first pair of socks and they feel soft and comfy already - I'm sure they'll be even better once I get the knitting needles out of them.



And, a few more random pics for your viewing pleasure...