Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Do Not Touch

I can not stand strangers touching my belly. I don't care how sweet and kind they seem... its creepy. I can probably count on 1 hand the number of people that I'm semi-comfortable around. Even then it seems a little awkward to me. Chase however... he has free range lol.

I'm also tired of people looking at my belly and saying "OH! I bet your having a boy aren't you!?!" My favorite was when a lady wanted to argue with me. She asked if I knew what I was having. I responded that it was a girl. She then proceeds to tell me that she disagrees. I took no hesitation in pulling out the ultrasound images to show her that I am in fact having a girl as there is no Mr Winkie anywhere to be found.

Last but not least... I realize that I have a big belly. Yes, I'm sure of my due date and that there is only one child in there. No, I have not gained excess wait, in fact I have gained less than 5 pounds. I simply make big babies (they run in my family!) I'm pretty sure there hasn't been a baby born under 8 pounds for at least 2 generations haha.

Why do people insist on arguing with you. Unless you had 8+ kids, I really don't want to hear it. I do not believe that you carry high/low depending on the sex of the child. Everyone carries children differently. I carried Morghan incredibly low. So low that I was in a lot of pain the last 8 weeks.

I need a shirt that reads..

I'm due Jan 24th. Its a girl. No, you may not touch my belly. Have a great day!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

This thing called a "baby"

She is doing great. Still measuring about a week ahead, my guess is Jan 19th though. She is also still breech which the doctor is more concerned about than I am. Morghan was breech until 36 weeks when she turned on her own miraculously. My blood sugar was on the low side which mostly just warrants observing and making sure I'm not going too long without eating. Doc is still not satisfied that I've only gained 4 pounds (I'm ok with that though!)

3D ultrasound is scheduled for November 5th I believe, so that's exciting. Can't wait to compare with Morghan's 3D pictures since both will be from 30 weeks.

This is Grace at 20 weeks.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Graphically Challenged?

So I got a request about a week ago to make t-shirt designs. The shirts were to be worn by children who were participating in an awareness walk for Mitochondrial Disease. Each shirt needed to be different and somehow themed along with super heroes. I agreed, because she is a friend of one of my best customers. I didn't know at that moment what I had got myself in to! It was truly a challenge as I didn't have much to go on. I spent several days dwelling over these shirts and 2 days working on them. Usually, one design takes up a couple hours at most... so 48 hours later I was surprised to still be struggling.
I finally wrapped things up today (a week later!) and emailed the samples to her... I waited nervously not knowing if this is what she had expected or not. I could not have been more relieved when her response finally arrived in my inbox with only one small, simple change in the design. I had been right to assume that it was not as she had pictured in her head, but thrilled that she was overjoyed with how they turned out. An e-mail filled with praise. It's not that the shirts are complex in design or anything, because as you can see below they are rather simple. My challenge was needing to incorporate things I found on UMDF.org's website into the shirts along with names and slogans. It seems silly looking back that I struggled for so long with these shirts. Either way, I'm glad its done!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Sure... Why not?

Because the Marine Corps is so incredibly awesome they have decided to remove my husband from home once again. Surprise? No, not really.

Clearly he hasn't been gone enough this year, they needed to add in a couple more weeks. Now, its only 11 days which is nothing compared to others AND he will be only an hour away... but give me a break. He wasn't supposed to leave again until he deployed! I know, how naive can I be to honestly think they would hold up to that statement. It was mostly pure hope I was running on. I'm telling you, he leaves more than anyone else in his shop (and surrounding shops). Mostly I think I am just irritated because he will miss Morghan's field trip. The one she is counting down the days to, thinking both Mommy and Daddy or going on. Make no mistake, when she learns he won't be there she will be ridiculously upset and likely pout for hours on end if not days. She enjoys sending people on guilt trips!

Hopefully, nothing will go wrong on the mini-trip. The last 2 times he was gone required 3 trips to the hospital with this kid. (Bladder infection, severe dehydration, and amniotic leak) I can only pray as much as I can that I can maintain the baby for those two weeks! HA! Never mind the impending steroid injections that should be occuring tomorrow.

At least he is taking leave the week before so we can spend time together.
...and who knows, perhaps that Saturday Morghan and I can make a trip to go visit!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Naming A Baby

So our original plans were to not name the baby until she had arrived. Unfortunately, being in the military there is a GREAT possibility that Chase will not be here and I don't feel right to be picking the name alone! lol So are you ready?

Grace Marie

Love it, Hate it. It's our choice! Originally it was going to be Elizabeth, but we decided on Grace. Ever since we found out we were expecting that name has stuck in my head and I figured it was stuck for a reason.

We had been working on our baby registry and let me tell you about what an adventure thats been. First you are probably wondering... dont you already have stuff from when Morghan was born? Well, not really. Being military a lot of stuff we had was borrowed so that kind of sucks. We also had loaned a few things out only to have people move and take things with them. Completely agrivating now that we need things! Luckily I do still have ALL Morghan's clothes and a few other items. Anywhoo..I started it one day when I was off and the weather was bad with all neutral stuff. Chase wanted to join in now that we know its a girl. He wanted the girliest of things put on here. Ruffles, lace, flowers... etc. That was too much for me! I had to bargain with him to take things down a notch. He wanted a frilly, flowery pattern for the car seat... I got him to polka dots! It was a struggle. Then when all was said and done I was unhappy with Target because 90% of the stuff was "online only" or "varies by location". So I spent all afternoon transferring registries to Babies R Us, since they have a better selection.

The theme for her nursery is vintage birds, bird houses. I completely stole the idea for Pottery Barn Kids. I can't wait to get started on the wall and shelf decor. We already have her crib so now I'm in a neverending search for an armoire that I like. We can't use the closet in her room, which doesn't bother me too much. However, I still need a place to hang and store things. I decided against a changing table this time as we never used it when Morghan was born for anything other than storage.

Anyways, that's enough for now. See ya!