Pirate Baby Earflap Hats: His and Hers by Erssie Major

There's really no rhyme or reason to the order in which I post the knits I've made for the kid. Some are recent. Some not so much. This is one of the more recent knits baby nom has worn.

This was made using Erssie Major's Pirate Baby Earflap Hat pattern. The details page for this project on Ravelry say that it is meant to fit a 6 month old child. In this photo baby nom is a nine-and-a-half months old and as you can see it's still pretty big on her - and she's pretty big for a child of her age (90th percentile for height).

It was a very quick and enjoyable knit and the hat is totally adorbs!

The Walkable Solar System

I have long since owed you a blog but with The Dalek Project, a teething baby nom, and the usual every day stresses it can seem nearly impossible to regularly blog, tweet, Tumbl(r), Facebook, and keep things up to date on Etsy. And my recently joining Pintrest isn't helping anything.

My Ohioan husband is a huge Buckeyes fanatic and has regularly read Buckeye Planet for years and it was there that he got a great idea for an activity to do with our child. Mind you we did this a few months ago and yes, she's too young to really know what was going on but this is an activity you can do over and over again with your family.

A father created a walkable scale model of the solar system to illustrate how far the planets were from each other and approximately how large each planet would be.

By using the calculator you find here you can figure out how many paces you will need to walk to create your scale model.

For those of you who don't click my hypertext links (shame on you) I will once again link to the original post on Buckeye planet http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/open-discussion-work-safe/625845-solar-system.html. There, now you have three hypertext links.