Self portrait

One word to sum it up...Laughable

I laughed so hard looking at these photos. I am not sure if it was the angle or how many tires it took me to get myself in the frame. I could try and blame this on the new lens but I doubt it was just the lens. Of course I am not brave enough to post any of the ones I trashed. Let's just say there were lots of boob shots, double chins, even I was missing entirely from some of the photos :) Or why I couldn't look at the same spot in the mirror as the camera, that way it looked like I was actually looking at the camera and not off in space somewhere.

Without further hesitation (can't believe I am putting these online) here I am with at 35 weeks and 4 days of pregoness

One Week

or 7 days left until my c-section. I am so happy that I have made it so much further in this pregnancy then I did with Colin but I will also admit that I am so ready for delivery. I have the up most respect for the women who go full term. These extra 3 weeks seem like months :) and I still have one more week to go. Last night I slept with 6 pillows trying to relieve my lower back pain and rib cage pain. I slept for 3 hour blocks of time which is an improvement from the up every hour the night before.

Maybe, just maybe I will go wash off Colin's finger prints on the mirror and take a much need prego photo of myself. I realized the other day I don't have any except with my jacket zipped up :)

Happy Friday :)

Practice Knit

While waiting for some yarn to arrive in the mail from KnitPicks.com I did a trial run on a newborn hat.
I ended up making it a preemie size so I could donate it to Caps for Good. There are some free hat patterns in their PDF, although I didn't use any of them. I used a pattern from a new book I got
Easy Baby Knits: Clothes & Accessories for 0-3 Year-olds.
The pattern was very easy to read/follow. I highly recommend this book. There are several cute items in book I would love to make for the boys. So far I made Owen a hat and I am working on Colin's right now. It is very surprising how much longer a toddler hat takes to work up then a 0-3 month size :) I am hoping to finish it before Colin comes home on Thursday that way he can wear it before next fall.

Napping

That's right little Owen wore himself out on the car ride to the doctors office on Friday. I even had to recline my seat (I was the passenger) because he was moving so much it hurt. By the time the ultrasound tech got to work he was napping. The tech had to harass him to get him to wake up which was not an easy task. He really didn't want to wake up. She finally pestered him enough that he took lots of breaths right before his test time was up. He passed with flying colors. The great part was we got to see lots of cool views of him some even in 3-D while waiting for him to cooperate. And he is adorable ;)
He looks great and as the doctor said "he has walnuts in his cheeks" and "a nice layer of fat starting on his legs" The weight estimate from the ultrasound was 4 lbs which is almost 2 lbs more from our last growth scan a few weeks ago.
We were all very happy and even my blood pressure has been normal for a week now, it is looking more possible every appointment that I might make it to 37 weeks.

Update

I miss sewing. I keep looking at all of these wonderful projects people are working on and I feel so inspired. Yet not inspired enough to work on a hand sewing project. Why that is I do not know. It's not like I have anything else to do. I have even thought about looking for some sort of kit online, that's right I am to blah feeling to gather supplies myself and find a project. Sad to actually admit that out loud.

Thank you for all your well wishes, I am at 31 weeks and am hoping for 37. The good news is the bed rest is paying off. My last set of labs were better then they have been and blood pressure was down a bit. Tomorrow we have another growth scan of Owen and they will check my bp again of course. I am hoping he had a huge growth spurt and isn't "to small" by their standards.

Happy sewing to everyone who has the motivation and means to do it, keep up the great work cause I am loving the projects I am seeing :)

p.s. If anyone has some fun but easy knitting projects they would like to share I would love to see those.