My Halloween costume

I know, it's just a construction paper pumpkin that I made in like 5 minutes, but it's SOMETHING. lol

Wow... the camera on my phone sucks. lol

Here's a closer picture:

Happy Halloween! (and Fame's Halloween costume!)

I had every intention of carving a pumpkin this year, but never got around to it. I also planned on buying or making a witty Halloween-themed maternity shirt, but didn't get around to doing that, etither. lol

The picture is my pumpkin from 2006 (the last time I carved one. lol) I took a photograph of Malcolm X and turned it into a stencil. Why Malcolm X? I don't know. It's was the first good black & white photograph of a prominent, recognizable individual I could find. And it beats the hell out of all the George Bush pumpkins that were out at that time.

I found Fame's Halloween costume in the closet! He hates it. He gets so embarrassed when I put it on him, but damn! he's so cute!!!






Hope everyone has a safe, happy Halloween!

25 weeks

Today marks 25 weeks, which means I am 63% of the way there!

Well, there's not a whole lot to report around here. My last OB appointment was October 21. They just measured my belly (I was 23w5d then, and I was measuring 24 weeks. There's that consistent 3 days ahead thing again.) They gave me a Similac travel bag, which was awesome. I love free stuff, and the package it came in had it labeled as the "3rd Trimester Gift", which was awesome, and made me realize that, holy crap, I'm almost in the 3rd trimester! I have been pregnant since May 8, so November 8 will mark my 6th month of being pregnant! Whoa! Crazy how time flies.

They gave me a script for blood work, and I have to go for my glucose tolerance test between November 13 and November 21. They want me to go before my next appointment, which is scheduled for November 18. I met Dr. Clark for the first time, and he seems really cool. He even said "Let's do an ultrasound next time, just to check the growth." I'm pretty excited about that, since they said I wouldn't get another one til 34 weeks. I can't wait til my next appointment!

What else has been going on.... hmmm...

I've gotten some sewing done. I made... well, something, that I can't say yet, because it's a gift for a friend of mine and I'm not telling her what it is. I'll post pictures of it after I send it to her and I know she's received it. (Lexie has seen it, so she better not squeal!) My mom's best friend Susie let me use her serger, and I made some burp cloths out of some funky flannel prints. I'm keeping 2 for myself, and I'll probably sell the others on Etsy when I get around to taking pictures of them. My mom already bought 2 for two new grandmas that she works with, and they love them! Hopefully they'll spread the word, because I can definitely use a few extra bucks to put away!

I have some more sewing to do tomorrow morning and next week. I have something else to make for that same friend of mine, which I'll probably do tomorrow so I can send them out to her. I have to start on some rompers for Marius. And I have to make another one of the "mystery items" for myself.

Yesterday I went out to lunch with my friend Jackie from high school who I haven't seen in at least a year. She's going to college in Baltimore and came home for a visit. We went to Bombers and it was delicious. In fact, I'm heating my leftover cheese fries in the oven right now! (Bombers has like 8 different varieties of fries. One is the tofu fries, which is bbq tofu nuggets, rice and cheese over their delicious, crisp fries. I don't like the texture of tofu, so I just order the cheese fries with rice and bbq sauce on them and they're soooooooooooooooooo good!)

I haven't been sleeping well the last couple nights, even though I've been really tired. I toss and turn, and if I do manage to fall asleep, it's a really light sleep that I wake from very easily. *sigh* Hopefully tonight will be better. I keep getting tired headaches and I'm getting cranky from being so tired.

Off to eat my bbq cheese fries!

23 weeks, 6 days- belly shots!

I seriously wish I could clone myself so I can take artistic pictures of myself to document my pregnancy. That's what I hate about being the photographer- I have a certain eye for photography and I can envision what I want a photo to look like and make it happen. I want photos that are taken of me to be like the photos I take of others. Grrrr! And I am convinced that my mother is the worst photographer in the world. I asked her to take some pictures of me (I put the camera on rapid fire mode so it took 3 frames/second. I needed the best chance of getting SOMETHING I could use), and in like 10 of 'em she pulled a Grandma and chopped the very top of my head off. lol

Anyway- here are a couple pictures from today!





Apparently Fame didn't want his picture taken. lol

Some sewing projects lined up!

So lately, I've been in a mood to do some crafting, which is rare. Don't get me wrong- I love making things, but if I'm not in the mood to do it, it feels very tedious and I hate the way the project turns out. Last week, I made a greeting card for my cousin Matt and his wife Julie, who found out they're expecting their first child in May. I was definitely happy with the way the card turned out, and I sat there cutting out the paper and stuff while hubby and I were watching Ong Bak.

Anyway, I've had the urge to sew and make some baby stuff in the last week. Hubby took me to get some flannel to make burp cloths and receiving blankets, and we picked out these 2 cute prints to start out with:

I found some University of North Carolina fleece on sale on the Jo-Ann Fabrics website (they didn't have any in the store when we went there, but they had like 5 bolts of the same Brigham Young and University of Michigan fleece there. Go figure. I mean, I understand U of M is a pretty popular team even in Upstate NY, but I've NEVER met a BYU fan in my life). I was gonna make a baby blanket out of the UNC fleece, but for some stupid reason I only ordered a yard (36x60") and would prefer to have at least 1.75 yds to make a bigger blanket (I wanted something a little bigger than 3-feet-square. So I think I'll incorporate this into a travel changing pad instead.

And finally, I found some AWESOME cotton knits on eBay that I'm going to make into rompers, hats, and booties. I know, they aren't very babyish prints (especially the red one), but they're definitely our style. Luckily, I was smart enough to get 2 yds of each of these:

23 weeks (and 100th post!)

Tonight, hubby and I went to see Law Abiding Citizen with Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx, and it was pretty good. Then we headed to Wal-Mart (which is like 1000 feet away from the movie theater), almost got in an accident (the other driver was coming up the MIDDLE of the lane when we turned into it, and instead of moving over to the right, he sped up and swerved to the LEFT, right in front of our car. I don't know what the hell goes through these people's minds. I swear... luckily hubby braked fast, and the other guy realized how utterly retarded he was and turned his wheel to the right.) We went to Dunkin' Donuts so I could get a Dunkaccino (it was super cold out!), and then came home and sat next to each other on the bed, with our laptops, and played a game together. I know, cute, right?

Anyway, now that I've hit another week, I decided to do an update of my pregnancy thus far.

- Marius is always punching & kicking up a storm. I wonder what it's gonna feel like in another month or two...

- It's getting increasingly harder to bend over, and shaving my legs is becoming more and more difficult. I told DH that I'm gonna end up having to enlist his help in that department, and when he leaves in January I'll just let 'em grow wild (since I won't have anyone to impress), and then get 'em waxed before my due date. lol

- Heartburn is getting worse and worse. It feels like there's jet fuel expanding up into my esophagus.

- I'm between 1-2 lbs above my pre-pregnancy weight. Not too shabby.

- I notice my feet have been swelling a little if I'm standing or on the go for too long during the day.

And I still have 17 weeks to go! :-D

Marius' new friend

So since hubby is such a tough guy, he was always talking about how everyone better not be buying our son all kinds of stuffed animals. Remember Pillow People? The only stuffed anything Tucker had as a kid was the Pillow Fighter that he used to jump and land on and kick the crap out of on a daily basis.

Well, as you know, hubby is in the Air Force. When he was in basic training, his training sqadron were the Bulldogs, so a few weeks ago Lexie was talking about how she wanted to bring Anthony to Build-A-Bear so he could get his bear a new outfit (she had the damn thing crammed in a preemie sleeper and it looked like the little kid in A Christmas Story in the snowsuit). I looked on the Build-A-Bear website and saw that one of the carcasses you could stuff was a bulldog. I called my local store to make sure they had it in stock before we went there. Of course, they didn't carry it, so I had to order the carcass online to bring into the store and stuff. We finally got around to getting there today, and here's what I made:



I figured DH couldn't argue with a bulldog in dress blues. I even put one of the sound things in it's paw that plays one of the Air Force jodies.

He didn't argue. lol