Baby Wearing is always in style

I think this little guy is going to be not so little. He is working on his routine for Cirque du Soliel every night. Ba-dump, flip, bump, roll, kick, push, ba-dump. My parents are bringing out the basinet I slept in when I was little and I will put that in my studio for him to sleep in, but I plan on wearing him until he is too ungodly large for my body to take it anymore. I really like the whole philosophy behind baby wearing. I just got my first 2 dozen organic cotton start diapers in the mail yesterday.

Prego Painting Picasso

My studio is finally painted the coolest green - pale avocado - it took  5 hours to finish it yesterday and boy, was I ever exhausted last night. I reached this point where a little voice inside my head said '...you're getting so fatigued that you are going to do something stupid and hurt yourself...' and about a minute later, the entire paint tray came crashing down on my head - still have no idea how it happened - I was pretty goofy by then. Esmé and I slept in this morning - Joe is in Oregon, so she got to sleep on the bed with me. She loves that.

130.5 Pounds and Still Kickin'

Well, the baby is huge, I am huge. A heffalump. I weighed 130.5 on the scale this morning. Sometimes when he kicks, my entire torso moves. Not joking. Am starting to be terrified that he is going to be a BIG baby. I have been having fantasies/delusions of delivering a 5+ pounder, but he doesn't feel like a little baby.

It has finally stopped pissing rain and is now sunny and just blowing like crazy. Joe is getting ready to mow this jungle we call our backyard. I am working on the garage - ugh.

Kitchen Details

Finalized the cabinets on Friday - man was that a headache! Would help if I wasn't so picky about symmetry, balance, details, but they are too expensive not to obsess over plans. Signing contract and ordering cabinets and windows tomorrow morning. They are handling the framing, installation of windows, doors, cabs, floors, and finish, and overall hand-holding, but I get to man the clipboard, phone, and calendar. So much for my relaxed 3rd trimester...Think we are shying away from stainless counters for ease of installation in a kitchen with no right angles (making it flush with the wall - stainless doesn't exactly bend) and fabricators in Spokane, Portland, and Seattle, and timing. Looking at a counter product called Richlite that is recycled paper pulp and resin. Our dear friend Hal Schafer has been installing it for a few years and loves it - functions and mills like a hardwood - occasional oiling and light sanding if you do something really egregious to it. A-1 loves it. From a tactile standpoint, it feels very nice. Is close to bulletproof. 

Bought some fun stuff for the Little Man. Found this sweet shop (Bootyland) on Capitol Hill in Seattle and the owner gave me Diaper 101 and the lowdown on baby slings (I am going to continue to wear this kid - don't see myself plunking him down in a bed and wandering off too much - he'll pretty much be an extension of me). Diapers are pretty revolutionary now. I'll have to show you. The 'plastic pants' are polar fleece, the actual diapers are organic cotton and hemp, and no pins - just velcro! Jess, they had all sorts of infant monkey wear at Old Navy that I think would have walked out the door with Aunt Jess had you been there - got him a great hat to keep the sun out of his eyes and a very soft chocolate brown hooded sweatshirt - I think I am starting to get into this...

Baby Shower Booty

Here is a shot of our temporary kitchen while ours is under construction. Joe's office hosted a baby shower lunch for us was really nice. We received 3 receiving blankets, a burping cloth, 2 pr overalls (short and long), 1 pr socks, 2 t-shirts, diapers, 3 short-sleeved onesies, 3 long-sleeved w/ footsie onesies, a t-shirt/shorts outfit, Curious George 'Opposites' hardboard book (don't know what the term for this is - I call them teething books), gift certificate to go toward purchase of baby jogger, and a non-mechanical food mill. It was SUPER nice and sunny today. Painted some more window trim in the office and hauled more kitchen to the storage unit. Talked to my dad this morning - they sold the sailboat and bought an airplane. I think my dad wants to own one of every guy toy before he dies.

Operation Mason Street Baby Boom begins

So, a few months ago I was wishing that Carter and Rebecca would decide to have a child so I would have a fun mom to hang with. Guess who is 3-months pregnant?? Crazy, huh. We'll have 3 kidlets all born within half a year within half a block.

They are giving us a shower at Joe's office tomorrow at lunch. I am going to wear my stylin' tights and lacy shirt I bought in Italy and the brown COOL-ottes my friend Jessica bought me.

Have been painting my studio the last 2 days (wearing the uber-respirator, don't worry) and am getting really excited about finishing it. Boy did my lower back hurt like hell this afternoon. Good thing I have to get decked out tomorrow and can't be the pregnant laborer.

Rollin' down the undies

Sitting in the back yard in the sun with my big belly this weekend felt SOOOO good it certainly made me wish I was in Hawaii swimming around all bulbous with the sea turtles. You know, I am so big now that my undies roll down into a little belt around my waistline under the little man. Is that funny or what???!!!