Once there was this Funny Boy and this Artsy Girl

How to make a bow tie

I really like bow ties. I made one for Christmas for a boy who I am fairly positive does not read this blog so I am posting a picture of it, assuming he won't see it. This boy is in high school and I don't think high school boys read blogs like mine.

Tutorial here.

I pulled out Baby Girl's clothes and started assembling potential outfits for her, just like what you do before the first day of school. This waiting for Ella to come thing is getting ridiculous.

I found this list that Adam had written. Do you see that first one? It made me so happy! And he did it too! They are bright yellow right now. I am incapable of reaching them on my own.

This is a picture of my make-up drawer. I love things like make-up drawers, all the little containers and pretty things.

And the Baby of Cuteness had a growth spurt, I'm fairly positive. At least that's what the growing pile of clothes that don't fit me are saying. This makes me worried since all of Adam's younger siblings were over ten pounds, one of his siblings was 10 pounds, 9 ounces. As much as I love chubby-cheeked babies, let's just aim for under ten pounds, please, Miss Ella!

Another craft and some ducks

Expectant Mother Parking Only-- awesome!

Another baby craft: this is a changing pad for Baby Girl. Tutorial here.

We had a picnic at the park.

Pastrami, pepperjack cheese, and tomatoes fresh from the garden on wheat bread= incredible yumminess!

Adam feeds the ducks Ghardettos. Look at how hypnotized they are by the food.

Perhaps the ultrasound lady should not have told us that the Baby of Cuteness could come any day now. Wherever I am, I keep having thoughts like, "What if my water broke right now?" and "Maybe this is the last full night of sleep I will have for a long time." It's excruciating having to wait! So much worse than waiting for Christmas when you're little because at least you know the exact number of days until Christmas will come.

She has chubby cheeks!

So much for her measuring four weeks behind schedule-- she's already eight pounds and has a big head (which she had little chance of avoiding with her genetics). If she waits to come until her due date she could be ten pounds by then! The ultrasound lady said to be ready for her to come any day now. However, that does not mean she won't decide to come late. Knowing how big she is, I'm starting to think that October 27th would be a perfect birthday!

Her hands were playing with her toes and she was making funny faces at us throughout the whole ultrasound! Usually at this point the baby is so tightly packed in that it's hard to see the face but she not only let us see her cute face but she put on quite a show. And the ultrasound lady said that she has chubby cheeks!

Ready to see some ultrasound pictures?

Here is a picture of her little chubby-cheeked face straight-on:

This next picture is tricky to see but it's one of my favorites once you can figure out what everything is. So take the picture above and imagine that she tilted back her head a little bit so that her eyes are hiding and you can only see her nose and mouth, that's what you can see here:

She's making a face, scrunching up her little mouth. Maybe she is trying to look like Nigel, or blowing a kiss. (If you are still having trouble seeing it: the light-colored round umbrella shape near the middle is her nose and beneath it is a downward-curved little scrunched-up mouth).

Yet another picture of her making faces, this time a profile. She is scrunching her mouth all the way up to her nose and puckering our her lips. It looks like she might be one of those kids who has to be making a crazy face in every single picture ever taken of her, just like her dad (see picture of Adam immediately below and to the right of the blog title):

And a 3/4 view of her face. That thing that looks like an octopus swallowing her is the umbilical chord:

I guess she was just tucked far enough back in my torso and low enough down in my pelvis that she couldn't be fully measured by the doctor because she definitely is not lacking in size!

A dress for the Baby of Cuteness

The dress is done! Tutorial here.

And I made some pacifier clips. I like the chicken one. Tutorial here.

I find it pretty awesome that my sewing machine came in this zebra pattern. It's too bad that crafts always leave behind a big mess.

He even buckles my shoes for me

You know you are one lucky girl when your cute-faced husband buckles your shoes for you every single day because you can no longer reach them. And he doesn't even complain about it.

Baby Girl has been measuring a little bit big for her age for most of this pregnancy, but she's been slowing down in her growth these past few weeks. At todays doctor's appointment she was measuring four weeks behind schedule and I haven't been gaining much weight (despite the amount of food I've been positively inhaling recently) so tomorrow we are going in for an ultrasound to make sure she's okay. I feel like she's probably fine since she's been just as active as ever and her heart rate is good, so I'm more excited than nervous for this ultrasound. This will be the second time that we get to see her-- I hope she has chubby cheeks!

Free sewing patterns

Dicky's was celebrating 70 years of business and selling their pulled pork sandwiches that are usually $5 for only $1, so of course we had to go for lunch today! They were also giving away slices of cake, balloons and they had their usual free frozen yogurt-- yum!