Balls from scraps

I've had this pattern from Knits for Baby for some time to knit felted wool balls flat with two needles and I've wanted to do it but I've been immersed in other projects.  I'm still immersed in other projects but for some reason this one was shouting my name, "DOREEN, COME AND KNIT US, THE BOY'S NEED US!!!!!" So I got out my bag of wool scraps and started these.  I didn't have an uninterrupted time, for crying out loud, I'm a mother of 2 little boys, ages one and two!  But I'd estimate that these took maybe an hour to an hour and a half and an equally suprisingly small amount of yarn.  Now I just need to felt them and stuff and close them.  I have a blocks pattern that is also screaming at me.  I'm trying to decide if I ignore it or knit it.  Too many choices. . .

I'm starting to think that if I delve into the blocks that I'll open up a door to making knitted toys and where will it end.  Last night as we took our family walk around the neighborhood I knitted the first ball as we walked.  I threatened to knit a steering wheel cover for Charmie's Power Wheel's jeep!  Rocky and my neighbors quickly reminded me that that would not be a macho addition to his pimped out ride but it seemed perfectly acceptable to me!  Mind you this was after he had done something very unusual and driven it into a curb without his seatbelt and his face hit the wheel.  My motherly instinct was kicking in. . . how can I protect my baby.  Of course after their admonision I didn't have the courage to admit that I was planning in my mind a matching cover for the roll cage.