When will our baby arrive? I was born three weeks early, David almost two weeks late. We each arrived when it was the right time for us and were perfectly healthy.
Please leave a comment and guess the baby’s birthday! My due date is February 3rd.
(We need to work out some prizes for the person who guesses the closest date!)
Window texture at sunset. We tacked up this beautiful paper on our front door.
Little decorating details like this are slowly making our rental feel like home…
We are slowly unpacking and turning this house into our home. The first thing we did when we moved in (after unpacking basic kitchen and bathroom supplies) was unpack our books. I feel like this somehow provides brilliant insight into who David and I are and what we value, but I am not quite sure what it is other than the fact that it shows how we love to read and missed our books at our last place (we only unpacked around 5 of the 20 boxes there).
The rest of the unpacking has been slow and steady. We’ve been here over a month and we still haven’t unpacked our clothes — we’ve been washing the same two weeks worth of shirts/pants, etc. over and over again since we moved in. That’s one of the projects I plan to tackle this week: sort, purge, wash, put away. (For example, I’ve decided that I really don’t need to still be wearing shirts from middle school. You think I am kidding?!) I also want to set aside my favorite pre-maternity clothes, so I have some cozy and loved things to wear after the baby comes.
Because my belly is so in the way now, I tend to drop food on it all the time. David says this is just a preview of our life to come with the kids: we will be wearing stained clothes for the next few years… unless a miracle occurs and we can suddenly afford to dress like those girls on Sex and the City and only wear our outfits once. Ha!
28 weeks pregnant — arms crossed, posing in front of our new bedroom curtains
and the only time you’ll catch me lying flat on my back…
Today I got up at 5am so I could spend some time with David before he headed off to Colorado (for a business trip), replied to some emails and tried to troubleshoot WordPress errors on my Audrey Hepburn Tribute website, headed out to yoga, ran into my friend Chelsea (and got to say bon voyage before she heads off to Mexico for a friends wedding), hung out with lots of pregnant women, checked out organic baby clothes at the local consignment store, picked up a treat at Whole Foods, and headed home, made lunch (and burned my finger for the third time this week on our new convection oven — bleh!), chatted with David, took some belly photos, and updated this blog. All before 2pm. It’s nice to have a busy day. Keeps me distracted and not thinking about how my honey is away for the week.
Good thing I have the baby to keep me company. ;)
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+ Updated: Baby has the hiccups! (We now know that our little one has already turned and is in position! All right, little Leyba!)
+ Had a great visit with my mom last week! The baby wishlist is now almost ready to go online.
+ So upset that I can’t go help with the San Francisco Bay cleanup efforts. One of the downsides of being pregnant.
+ On the upside, my skin is the clearest its been in over a decade. (I need to take comfort in the small things. Pregnancy, while rewarding and totally worth it, can be ass-kicking.)
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Recent flickr favorites:
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In our house David and I each have our own way of getting ready for the baby. While I’m reading The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
Before we hit month seven of the pregnancy, I thought it would be fun to post monthly polls about the baby. Take your best guess!
Opinion Polls & Market Research
Updated: the biggest problem with this poll thing is that we don’t know who’s voting! So, please leave us a quick comment if you do vote. And NEXT TIME we are totally going to do this poll in the comments section and skip this whole fancy voting application thing! No more of this voting anonymity crap. Consider yourself warned.