Ape Arms

From all reports, The Bean is growing at an impressive rate and will be a big, bouncing baby when she is born. If you see The Bean's mother, please do not try to impress her with stories about the 16-pound baby you heard about. Or the 12-pound one. The Bean's mother does not like to dwell on that kind of stuff and yet, all sorts of people are dying to regale her with stories.

The Bean's sweater with the seed stitch bands is coming along nicely:

I had most of a sleeve but, since The Bean's mother is not anticipating that The Bean will have arms like an orangutan (we are expecting more humanoid proportions), I have decided to rip back the ape-armed sleeve and aim for something a little shorter, which means re-proportioning the increases. I also need some buttons. But that means (oh no!) a trip to the yarn store to look for buttons. The horror! The horror!