Yesterday, Veronica turned 5.

We had a fun day. It started off at the doctor’s office, where both she and Clark got their shots. (Not so fun). Then we went to Sur La Table where we bought some mini bundt pans to bake Veronica’s cake. She loves to bake and decorate her own birthday cake, and when she found out later that you can’t frost and sprinkle a bundt, that was scrapped and we ended up making a 9×13 sheet cake so she could have her fun.

After Sur La Table, and before the cake baking, Veronica enjoyed her first “spa” experience with a pedicure and manicure.

It was cute, cute cute! I was originally just going to have her fingernails painted, but they up-sold me into doing both the manicure and pedicure for her, and a pedicure for me. They cut the price for Veronica because she’s so little and wouldn’t need exfoliating. (Or because they wanted more money out of me). I wasn’t planning on having a pedicure myself, and I hadn’t shaved in quite awhile. However, I decided that it would be a bit vain and silly of me to pass up a pedicure in a massage chair with a swirling foot bath, just because I was hairy.

Clark was a dear and slept in the sling the whole time.

Then we went to Claim Jumper (her choice) for lunch before heading home to bake the cake before family arrived to celebrate and sing.

I’ve been knitting on the socks a little bit. Both gussets are done, and I’ve started the trek down the foot towards the toes. I’m tired of being poked in the palm by the double points, and have thought about trying my hand at socks on circulars, either two circs or the one long circ which I think is the “magic loop” method, unless I’m mistaken. The problem is that I like to do both socks at the same time which is the only way I think I’ll ever finish a pair, as opposed to just the one, and the only way I’m at ease about them both ending up the same size when I’m done. To accommodate that, I’ve bought two sets of double points in the small sock sizes. If I move to two circulars, thats FOUR circular needles per size I’d need to buy. If I choose the magic loop (which is what I’m more interested in) I’d need to buy two circulars in each size.

I don’t want to.

Which is why, thus far, I continue to get poked in the palm when ever I knit socks. But it’s getting old.