Ridiculous Vegetable Analogies

Here's the most recent sample of the updates I get each week from Baby Center:

Week 26:
The network of nerves in your baby's ears is better developed and more sensitive than before. She may now be able to hear both your voice and your partner's as you chat with each other. She's inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development of her lungs. These so-called breathing movements are also good practice for when she's born and takes that first gulp of air. And she's continuing to put on baby fat. She now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches (an English hothouse cucumber) from head to heel.

Isn't she cute?
I hope she doesn't look like a 1.6 pound cucumber....

100 days to go!

Whoa! I have a lot of things to get done yet!

Babymoon

Apparently, when you take a "big trip" while you're pregnant it's considered a Babymoon (like honeymoon). We wanted one last getaway with just the two of us and wanted to travel before it would be uncomfortable for me. Las Vegas seemed like a fun destination and it was sunny and warm too! We searched all over for a shirt that would fit me and said "Vegas baby". Success at Fremont Street, yay!

Lake Mead: so strange to see such a big lake in the middle of a desert.

Of course we did the engineer's tour of Hoover Dam! Hoover Dam has this monstrosity of a bridge being built over the Colorado River too. It was amazing to see!
Can you believe it was so warm and sunny? I had to dip in the pool to cool off once or twice. We were really spoiled to get such good weather, considering we rarely saw the sun all of January and February in Michigan. We were just glad we didn't have to scrape snow off the car when we returned to Michigan!

More Diapers

We worked on getting a few more diapers sewn last week. Now I have 7 cute little diapers for her tush... that will last me like half a day, right?

Over Halfway

I'm not supposed to be surfing the internet this week (or next week) so I was going to email some belly shots to my sister-in-law, but I decided I might at well just put them on the 'ole blog just as quickly since there are more of you that don't see me everyday. I've grown out of some of my clothes and moved into some maternity pieces. I'm still in that awkward middle stage where I'm not quite fitting either style yet, but people are noticing and I think I look a little less "fat" and more pregnant so that's good. :) I'm over halfway there so that's fun. (21 weeks or 4.5 months).

Here I am with my friend Rachel at her baby shower. She's due March 1. It's so fun to have friends expecting around the same time! (Well, at least in the same year... ya know what I mean.)

Here's a picture from today. In the bathroom. At school. I'm not even looking in the correct place. Oh my. Mirrors are wired.

Here's a book I picked up a while ago from Family Christian Book Stores. It's short and sweet and lets me journal once a week. That doesn't seem like a lot but AT LEAST I remember to do it once a week then!

Cute note: the girls in my class (and boys too, just not to the extreme) are super excited about the baby and when they saw the book sitting on my desk one day they were all oohing and ahhing over the cover. I had to remind them today that if we keep talking about her everyday I'll go crazy having to wait. They understood when I likened it to a birthday surprise... the more we talk about it and think about it the harder it is to wait. They're so cute.

Starting our assembly line

My mom and I started our big project of making the pocket cloth diapers. We got all the cutting done and decided to complete one diaper so that she could see how it went. First we traced and cut out a lot of fabric with my hand drawn cardboard pattern (yes, I'm very official).

We set them out in my living room so we could match the different PUL (waterproof fabric) colors with the microfleece patterns. That was fun!

Then we started the one by first sewing on loop velcro to the outer PUL layer. Isn't that pink cute? :)

Next we sewed on hook and loop tabs onto the inner microfleece layer. It's hard to see the tabs but they're on the right side of the photo, which is the back of the diaper, just like a disposable. Cute duckies for the inside too. :)

Next we made a casing in the back of both layers, pulled the elastic through, and sewed them in.

The elastic was sized about 50% of the cloth so it gathered nicely. This is where you insert the soakers BTW.

Next stitch around the entire thing, with the good sides facing into each other.

Now attach the side elastic (50% again). Then turn it inside out and top stitch the whole thing. We had to make sure to pull that side elastic and top stitch next to it too.

The pink one we made today and the blue one I made last summer. We only have about 22 or so to go! At least they are all cut!

Crinkly Taggie Squares

I finally did some crafting today from my long wish list that I made earlier. First I needed some scraps and old clothes I could cut up:

and lots of ribbon to choose from:

and an empty Cheerios bag:

I had to cut it all the same size (square-ish). Then layer it crinkly plastic, fabric good side up, ribbons with loops in, fabric good side down. Sew all around it, leaving one gap. Turn it right side out and top stitch the whole thing, closing the gap.

The finished squares: