and it's a...

baby!

haha, we new that.

so as i mentioned, at my 21 week ultrasound, the baby was curled up and so i had another ultrasound at 23 weeks to get another look.

we were looking to get one of those iconic profile shots of the face, you know, the nose and lips and such.

well for the first half an hour the baby had both of its hands on its face.

then it switched to sucking a thumb.

so no profile shot was had.

instead we have this face front image, which i know, is kind of haunting, bordering on scary...

but i think it's cute.

i have to.

:)

see the chin, mouth, nose, and eye socket?

apparently they're all where they're supposed to be.

thank goodness!  everything is looking good and as of last friday the baby was 1 pound 4 ounces.

i won't share how much i was;)

big sighs of relief.

so as for the "what is it" question...

girl.

it's a girl!

poor m is terribly outnumbered, but i think he likes it that way.

so i went directly from my appointment to joann fabrics to start the nursery crafting.

i'm not much of a girly girl.  i'm frankly a bit freaked at the potential amount of pink that may soon surround me and might rebel by dressing my baby in blue:)  i'm going to do my darndest to make this little one more interested in dirt and toads than princesses and barbies.

but... i did want to give some subtle feminine touches to her room.

i kind of thought she may not love the nautical theme i would have gone with had she been male.

and i also want the room to flow with the rest of our house, not be too cutesy or themey, because really?  i think i'll care more about the appearance of her room than she will, for the first bit anyway.

here are the fabrics i bought and the room color choices i'm thinking.

picking a page out of my handy martha stewart sewing encyclopedia, i've started on the nursery's drapes.

basically the embroidered off-white pattern on one side and the robin's egg floral on the other.

i'm going to sew on buttons and ribbon hoops so that the panel can be pulled up, to reveal the opposite side's fabric... and the sun:)

i have a small swatch of coral (not pink!) fabric that i'm going to sew an accent pillow out of.

other plans for the room?

- we already have m's favorite van gogh print framed, a painting of vincent's bedroom.

- i'm converting an old desk to the changing table and am sewing a skirt to hide the drawers.

- i'll have a painted rocking chair in the room (haha maybe not painted since i can't do it right now and can't imagine m doing it either!), that will have an accent pillow on it.

- i have a gilded frame that i'll hang with a ribbon and embroider the little one's first initial in.

- hopefully chair railing and shelving!

- more things, probably:)

so there you have it.

it's a baby. girl.

:)

watchu got cooking?

{23 weeks}

watermelon aka the fruit of summer

i've always loved watermelon, but my love for the wonderful fruit has hit record levels.

i'm not alone in these feelings.

pretty sure teddy would give up chicken indefinitely for a lifetime supply of watermelon!

seedless, of course.



she eats it like it's corn on the cob:)

notes on pregnancy {22 weeks}

hello!

so i'm 22 weeks now and pretty much showing every one of those weeks.

(and my wardrobe of 99% horizontal stripes isn't helping!)

i never thought i'd be into the belly shot pictures, i mean, if there happened to be like three or four pictures of me pregnant, i thought that was sufficient.  but it's such a crazy thing to go through that curiousity gets you and you just have to document it.  obviously it's very cool and special, but so bizarre!

i'm feeling really good and think i'm in the honeymoon phase... after you feel sick and "off" for 3 months, but before you feel as big as a house for the last 3.  i do wonder how a woman's back literally doesn't break in two with the added cargo... i have a long way to go and it already aches!  but besides that (and the heat!), it's been fun so far, can't complain.

i was really naive going into this.  i kind of thought you could somewhat control the way your body changes, i.e. how much you gain, but i really don't think you can.  pretty much kind of a science experiment that you just go along with.  very neat in that way, but incredibly weird too!

and it also becomes all you think about.  i'm trying to be a normal human being and think about other topics, mainly tom & katie's divorce (haha), but it's difficult.  and nine months is a really long time to be thinking about a single thing.  i'm keeping busy with planning many craft projects and finishing our basement (it's happening!  for real!  this week the work commences!), so those distractions are helping... somewhat;)

oh!  and i feel the baby moving all the time, kind of a new normal.  neat-o.

an announcement

i'm pretty sure that all who read this blog know "the announcement," but i thought it best to write it here before it gets weird not to.

see lately, i've been eating a lot of the following:

*chipotle

*chocolate milk

*apples

*subway subs

*enchilladas

*cottage cheese

*smoothies

for a good while i have not been eating the following:

*anything with tomatos

*anything italian, including pizza, bruschetta, spaghetti

*red meat (ok, this has been like forever)

*poultry i've seen raw

*soft cheeses

*things with raw egg

*most teas ;(

*tuna ;(

yes, so maybe i should get to the point.  i've had the most intense food cravings and aversions for the last 6 months.

because i'm having a baby.

we're having a baby!

on thanksgiving.

cool, eh?  yeah, it continues to be a miracle to us too.

so if you stumble upon me looking like i doubled, i have.

(don't judge me eating a footlong sub and not being at all full, it's you know, the baby's fault.)

{20 weeks bump}

i'm 21 weeks and had my ultrasound yesterday.  the baby was all curled up and while the tech guessed the gender, i need to have another ultrasound in two weeks to confirm for sure and get better images.  we'll see!

so you can count on baby related posts from here on out, but don't fret, they won't alllll be baby related!

(just most of them?)

dog days of summer

now these are what teddy refers to as the dog days of summer

doggonit, where's the relief?