February Already

Can it really be February already? Guess that means this year is going to fly by just like last year did. But it must be February, the sickening hearts and pink and red everything are starting to pop up. Even my nephew's school project, which he brought to work on last night, because really, the craft room at Grandma's has got better stuff than most craft stores.
Even Mason got in on the action. He's a big fan of hole punches, FYI. Aubrey watched in fascination, and attempted to eat the leftover cardstock, but she's learned a few new tricks in the last week. Like this:

Crazy. Last week when I saw her, she couldn't do that. And though I didn't get any pictures of it, she now loves to play peek-a-boo. While sitting on the floor, she bends in half to put her face to the floor to "hide" and then pops up when you say "Peek-a-boo!" Too funny.
She's also a big fan of the "wind machine" (aka the ball popper toy). She's preparing for her runway career.
Just as Mason is preparing for his tour with Cirque du Soleil. What can I say, I have very talented kiddos in my life.

Alright, that's it for the fun from yesterday's visit. Onto the knitting. Which isn't much it seems. Maybe it's just me and my unrealistic standards for myself. Here's what been accomplished in the last week:
I'm halfway through the last repeat on the Citron. Just that half a repeat and the ruffle to go and it's done. Never mind that the rows are crazy long at this point and double in number of stitches for the ruffle.
Half of a sleeve done on the sweater, might have been more if Maddie hadn't perched on top of the bag it was in last night when I went to start knitting (that's right, I'm blaming the cat, all her fault, and had nothing to do with the fact that I didn't want to work out how to make it a long non-belled sleeve instead of the 3/4 belled sleeve the pattern has written).
Barely anything on the new socks, Twisted Tweed pattern. I love the finished projects I've seen of these, but just haven't fallen in love with them. I think it might be because I'm doing them at the same time and therefore they seem to go slower, even though they're not.
The pattern is really pretty easy, and looks amazing when it's all done, I'll get there eventually.

And since the Olympics are fast approaching and I decided to join in the fun with the Ravelympics, I started spinning that lovely "Mostly Red, white and blue" Romney roving on Friday night. You know, support the home country and what not.
For sure, I'm on the Spinning Knitters team, which means that I have to spin at least 4 oz, and knit at least 4 oz of handspun before the torch is extinguished. I'm also planning on participating in the event that requires you to frog a project, but I'll talk about that later.
I'm thinking that I'll try to knit this up as my 4 oz of handspun, maybe a pair of fingerless mittens, or maybe something else. We'll see.

And lest you think I've completely forgotten my Pampas, I haven't, I just didn't want to lead with it.
That's through 9 repeats (see, I managed to put it down for most of the week and work on other stuff). So that's nearly halfway, yippee!

In other news, it's a hockey filled week at work. We're hosting a week long tournament, so I've got games Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday morning. I only have Friday off from hockey because we've got home boys basketball that night. I have decided to go the way of the Curly Girl as well. I'm getting a fancy Curly Girl haircut on Thursday, and have gone sulphate and silicone free in my hair care regimen (no easy task if you've ever read ingredient lists on hair care products). We'll see how it goes.