Week 30+

Ten weeks until delivery! Hoy vey!

The little guy spent the week bulking up on yummy Halloween candy (we almost didn't have enough for all the ghosts & goblins who rang the bell!). Baby Boris (I cant believe no one is interested in his REAL name!) is about 17 inches long & weighs about 3 pounds. My belly is really rounding out; just like my butt! However, I still don't have any stretch marks, which my doctor was amazed by!

At my 29 week appointment last week, my belly measured 29.5 cm, which is dead-on where it should be; or at least that is what the doctor said! I've gained a total of 19 pounds; and can expect to gain about 1 pound/week from here on out. I sure hope I can keep it to just 1 pound/week!

(Yes, I am barefoot & pregnant in the kitchen, BUT D was the one cooking!)

Although the nursery floor is installed, neither D or I could motivate to paint or install the quarter round this week; maybe tomorrow!

However, I have been quite motivated to start my baby sewing! And not only Baby Boris sewing, I made extras in hopes that all my girlfriends will get knocked up soon! (Jenny Brown, Emily!) Last weekend when Jenn & the kids were in town, Norah was tugging on a little Grandma-made ribbon blanket. Oh, what an idea! They cost $15-$25 at the store & I can make 10+ with just a half yard of $3/yard discount fleece and flannel! And after a few hours on crafster.com, I found a pattern for little ribbon balls too (And they sell for like $20)!

(Blanket & Ball Pattern: http://www.newconceptions.com/patpdf/TagToyspdf.pdf)

I've already made presents for Norah & the other new babies and I am now thinking of what I can do with all the additional blankets, balls & blocks that I plan to make. But don't worry, I have a few ideas... The church ladies have a committee to take dinners to all the new mothers after delivery, so maybe I could donate some to them; and there are a couple prego ladies that come thru the soup kitchen line; and maybe once they are baby tested, I could sell them to the hippie hemp lady at the farmers market in the spring, so she can turn around & sell them for a profit! That sure would beat working part-time at Kroger!

Although Jenn & Sveta handed down 300 pounds of clothes, bibs and shoes; I am sure I will need some more, so I started making bibs yesterday!

(Bib Pattern: http://nested.typepad.com/blog/2007/07/something-to-ma.html#more)

And I am so excited about my second attempt at a Boppy pillow cover for my $3 yard sale Boppy pillow!

(I Cut the pattern from Jenn's current Boppy cover; and then pinned it; and recut it; and never did come up with a final pattern...)

And today, while Daddy D is at Daddy Bootcamp, I plan to whip up a pair of adorable cloth booties for little Baby Boris!

(Bootie Pattern that I havent made yet: http://www.poopockets.com/free/footies/footies.htm)

Hoy vey, as you can tell, I am way excited about the sewing. It is so cold here, that sewing seems like a warm alternative to going outside!

Although I didn't go outside much this week, I did make the most of my afternoon out with D yesterday; we Early Voted! And as we drove home through the neighborhood after voting I commented on how great it is to live in a neighborhood where 85-90% of the yard signs support Obama. Then we pulled up to our stop sign, and I noticed that our Obama sign was missing! Someone stole our Obama sign, while we were out voting! Hoy vey!

(This picture was completely unscripted. Jenn, Mike, D & I were eating D's famous breakfast in the kitchen & we heard Ethan singing "Obama, Obama, Obama." After 5 minutes or so, Jenn snuck a peak into the living room & found Ethan rallying for Obama! How cute!)

28 Weeks

We have just 12 weeks to go until Baby Boris (did you guess his real name yet?) moves into his nursery... hint, hint, hint! (Maybe we should start working on that soon? Blake, maybe you could come visit this month?)

I've felt great this week, although a little lazy. D has been working extremely LONG hours this week; he leaves at 4:30am and isn't getting home until nearly 8pm. This has just added to my willingness to spend the afternoon cuddling with peanut on the couch... I haven't had to make dinner or clean all week! The first couple days Baby Boris & I woke up with Daddy D, but by Wednesday D told us to just stay in bed... what a good man!


This week Baby Boris has grown to about 16 inches and weighs almost 2.5 pounds! It must be getting tight in there, because the little guy is punching & kicking to get out! Boris is starting to bulk up, just like mama! D gave me a hug last night, and after a quick squeeze looked at me & asked if that was the baby... it was, but i should have told him it was gas... that would have freaked him out!

Although we've had a dreary, cloudy week, Baby Boris can see light, and he is blinking frequently. Don't worry though, i haven't shown the little guy any of his baby shower presents... i am sure he will like a good surprise!

To keep the little guy busy this week I took him to his first political rally (Biden spoke in Ohio) and we spent Wednesday morning volunteering with the church at the soup kitchen! He liked it so much, we'll probably go back next week... they gave us doughnuts!


After taking inventory of all our shower gifts and hand-me-downs, Boris & I also spent some time this week figuring out what else we will need and doing some online shopping...:) I never knew there were so many cloth diaper choices! Or that one cloth diaper would cost between $17 and $25 bucks! For one! Hoy vey!

Luckily, one of Jenn's friends is willing to sell us her old G-Diaper covers, which would have cost us more than $300 new! Yippee for good friends and recyclers!

Today is D's last long day this week... I hope... so if all goes well we will spend the weekend tearing up the carpet in the nursery. If all goes well (and we don't have to tear the hardwood out), we will have a finished nursery before Baby Boris is 29 weeks old!