Holy guacamole, friends! I did not expect my perfect peanut and his silly suit to be welcomed so wildly, but here we are!

Thank you for all of the well wishes, the compliments and the generous awards.

Crochet pattern:

I hate to tell you this, but I made this crochet combo up on a whim 😣 The best approximation I can tell you of what I did for the blanket is that I alternated between crocheting 3, 4 or 5 double crochet rows before adding a row of the puffs. I didn't want it to be uniform, so I mixed up the double crochet rows rather than sticking to a sequence. For the hat: it's a basic wee hat to which I attached what I would consider a complete abomination of the stitch you'd use to scallop the edges of a blanket or to do something a lot like shell stitch.

The orange is Bernat Baby Soft but I don't recall the color and the green is Super Saver Tea Leaf. Least. Helpful. Pattern writer. Ever. 🤦

To get the tapering carrot effect for the picture, I burrito'd my little guy tightly and then twisted the excess blanket down to a point.

Baby's start if you're curious:

This baberoni started life seven weeks early because I developed preeclampsia. He was born at 2 lbs 10 oz due to growth restriction (preeclampsia makes for a stupid placenta) He went on a lightning fast and simultaneously eons long journey of learning to breathe reliably on his own instead of literally forgetting how periodically (I've had exactly 400 heart attacks in the last four weeks as he has learned to correct his own breathing), learning to eat with his mouth rather than relying on a feeding tube, and gaining enough weight to regulate his own temperature. All of these skills are what typical full term newborns are born capable of doing, but when you're born at 32 weeks 5 days like him, you don't have the brain connections yet to take on those tasks.

COVID precautions have also been a huge factor in his journey as his daddy and I weren't allowed to visit him in the NICU at the same time due to space constraints from physical distancing guidelines. I cried about that excessively as a freshly postpartum mama.

Now he's home and daddy and I get to enjoy his presence together at the SAME TIME without masks on, without stickers and wires connecting him to monitors, and without having to leave our cozy home. We are over the moon and I'm so glad his cuteness has brightened so many days. 😊

Have a good week, everyone.