It's a...

Girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It took 40 minutes to get her to uncross her legs and show us 'the money shot' (as the tech called it) and I really thought we were going to be on the "green team" until delivery, but she was finally able to get her to cooperate. I am THRILLED to be having a little girl and can't wait to see her when she makes her debut (due date is still October 11th as she was measuring right on for 18 weeks 2 days). Dh is a little bummed that he's not going to get a boy (we only want one at this point), but I know he will change his thinking and be excited in no time. I have lots of pics, but I need to get to work and then hope that the internet at home cooperates later so I can upload them to attach. I just didn't want to keep everyone hanging, so I thought I'd post this quick to share the good news.

For now I will leave you with a pic of bedding we bought yesterday for the nursery. It's by Kidsline called "Birdsong" and I'm so in love with it :)

Hotdog or Cheeseburger?

This is just a quick post (since the viruses on my pc are FINALLY letting me get online for the first time in weeks) to say that I am so so so so soooooooo excited because tomorrow we are having an ultrasound and will hopefully find out if this bebe is a boy or a girl! Can't wait and really hope the lil pumpkin cooperates and shows off the goods because we are dying to know! Our families and friends are all on pins and needles, so hopefully tomorrow afternoon we will have some definitive news to share. Neither one of us really cares what the sex is (obviously the first thing we care about is a healthy baby), but as far as gut-feelings go, I think it's a boy and Jason thinks it's a girl. Not sure why, exactly, but we both think we are right and I can't wait to see who is. The pregnancy ticker I have on my myspace a couple of weeks ago said that an ultrasound would soon tell whether the baby has a hotdog or a cheeseburger...we thought that was hilarious as did my fam, hence the subject of the post. Hopefully I'll be able to get online soon to share the news, but I'd love to hear some predictions while you wait :)

7 deadly sins--I mean 7 Random Things

Knitterista tagged me, so here goes...

1 - I hate feet, but love love love baby feet. I mean, I wear sandals all summer and love to be barefoot, but I can't really stand to look at adult feet for long...they always just seem yucky to me and I don't really get people who have foot fetishes. However, show me a newborn or any lil one, really, and I can't help but unwrap the swaddle, remove the socks and look at those cute lil toes.

2 - I'm trying to become a self-proclaimed queen of the crock pot. Thinking now that I'm having a baby, I should probably try to become a little more domesticated (just w/ the cooking, not so much the cleaning so far...one step at a time, right?) and cook more meals at home as opposed to eating out most nights. But by the time I get home from work, the last thing I want to do is prepare a big meal from start to finish. Well...I found that it takes very little effort to toss some meat and whatever else into the slow cooker either in the morning or at lunchtime (I live around the corner from my office, so I walk home to visit the puggers on most days). Then, when I get home, not only does the house smell like food (a welcome change), but it takes no time to throw together a side dish and a veggie (I cheat and use alot of prepared or semi-prepared stuff...like I said...one step at a time) and call it a meal. Plus, then hubby is grateful and usually cleans up, which I really don't like doing either.

3 - I have a hard time typing short, to the point emails and posts. I mean, my friends can all send me quick little emails here and there telling me what needs to be said, but for some reason, I tend to be quite long-winded when it comes to my correspondence. Not really sure why, but I've tried to be more to the point, and it just doesn't seem to work.

4 - I can't stand eating at a tv tray (sometimes we eat at the dining room table, and other times we eat in the living room in front of the tube) if the hubby is watching something that I don't care for. I feel like it ruins my meal if I'm not engaged in something on the screen when I'm in front of it. This drives DH crazy cuz that basically means I have control of the tv whenever we are eating in front of it, but I feel like I'm wasting my good meal or something if there's something boring on, like sports that I'm not into, or something on the History Channel (I rarely find something on that channel that engages me, not sure why).

5 - I usually avoid people I know when I'm out shopping. It's not that I don't like talking to acquaintances, but for some reason, just not really while I'm shopping. If I see someone I know (close family and friends excluded), I will generally dodge them at most costs. Sometimes I think it's rude, but I have talked to other friends who do the same thing, so I guess it's just who I am.

6 - I am a girl of MANY collections. I've always been that way...when I was younger, it was seals (like the cute figurines and stuffed animals...I think it's cuz I did an independent study on them in like 4th grade or something, so people just started buying them for me), then it switched to frogs (I still display this collection in my home, although I haven't really added to it in years), then there's the knitting, knitting books, cookbooks (which reminds me - I need to look for the slow cooker one I know I bought years ago and never really used...), socks (I love any kind of cutesy cool socks and wear mostly maryjane shoes so I can show them off)...the list goes on and on.

7 - I have some kind of weird cleaning A.D.D. Like anytime I'm cleaning my house, I get VERY easily distracted. I'll be cleaning away in the kitchen and see something that belongs upstairs, so I'll grab it to take up, abandoning the kitchen, then grab a few more things to take up along the way, and before I know it, I'm upstairs cleaning the bathroom with a pile of stuff in the hallway that belongs in the office, bedroom, etc. Sometimes it takes me awhile to make it back down to the kitchen, so the rooms in the house very often get only halfway done.

Ok, there's my randomness. I won't tag anyone specifically, but would love it if you feel like playing along. Leave me a comment so I know to check yours out. Thanks for tuning in (hope you all don't think I'm a total weirdo now, or any more of one than you already did lol)! :)

Friday Smiles

What is it about these cuties that makes everyone have to smile??

freebies - true lemon, plus an update on the pumpkin

just signed up to get some freebies and found out that if i blog about the deal, i'll get even more. so here goes...




Get your free samples of True Lemon here.

Plus, if you are a blogger, you'll want to take note of this note from Tammy:

I read about this deal in the True Lemon e-newAnyone who blogs about True Lemon free samples and links to their free sample page can get 15 free packets of True Lemon/Lime/Orange for doing so! Just email them with the link to your blog post and give them your name and address. Oh, and you get to choose which flavors you want, too! :)

The free sample page to link to is: http://truelemon.com/gratitude-sample.html

And the email address to contact them is: customercare AT truelemon DOT com.

i got this link from this site and might be posting more of these things in the future. hope they aren't too annoying, but i love me some freebies and am gonna be looking to save money wherever i can (definitely on my mind these days, especially when i stop in the baby sections when i'm shopping and see how much diapers cost - YIKES! ;))

ps - speaking of baby, here's an update: went to the doctor after a spotting/cramping scare at about 10 weeks and had an u/s...all is well and had my next appointment this past wednesday. we got to hear the heartbeat and it was the most amazing thing ever! baby is doing great, i'm at 13 weeks today, and the morning sickness is so far not letting up, but actually getting worse. hopefully it won't be much longer, but i'm hanging in there. like all of my mom friends keep telling me, it'll all be worth it in the end! here's some pics of our lil pumpkin from the 10wk-ish appt...

so done with winter

anyone else sick to death of the snow? it just keeps interrupting my plans and i'm beyond ready for spring. we got another 6" easy last nite...bah!!! anyway, i saw this on someone else's blog and hopefully i'm not offending anyone, but i gotta post it...









on a happier note, i'm knitting again - yay! was on a major hiatus when i wasn't feeling well, but now the morning sickness only strikes in some parts of the day, so i'm squeezing in some knitting here and there. working on a hat for the baby and hoping to finish it this weekend, along w/ a couple more to save for other bebes (found a super easy and sweet pattern for a newborn hat and some pretty soft baby yarn, so i might as well stockpile them, right?). feels so good to be at it again...didn't realize how much i missed it! hopefully i can post a pic next time. i'm also working on a baby blanket for the baby aka Lil Pumpkin, but my husband said it's the ugliest thing i've ever knit, so i'm reluctant to show anyone lol i figure that i'll get plenty of handknit blankets in baby/pastel colors, so i thought i would make one in the school colors for town we live in. thought it would be cute to use when we go for walks around town or to sporting events...why not let my baby show it's support, right? problem is, the school colors are purple and gold :) the yarn i bought was more like purple and yellow and it really is an ugly combination, but i still think i'll get compliments on it once it's in use. either that or i'll lie and say someone made it for me HA j/k...i would never. so maybe i'll post pics of that when i'm farther along.

here's a question...does it bother anyone that i refuse to use caps these days on my rambly posts? i realized that on the more thought out ones, i type correctly, but on the ones where i'm just rambling away with my thoughts, i can't be bothered. hope it's not too annoying. my other excuse is that i seem to have some arthritis in my right hand ring finger that has flared up again (dr thought maybe it was tendinitis, but i don't know) and it kinda hurts to type, so i'm lazy at the keyboard after typing all day at work.

ok, enough rambling. hey, at least it's some actual knitting content, right? hopefully pics next time, k? stay warm if you're in the snowy parts!

A Special Announcement!

So I wanted to explain why I've been missing in action for almost two months...lots of things have been taking place and keeping me from blogging. Well, just one big thing, really, but that big thing has lots of things that go along with it.

Ok, enough beating around the bush, right? ;)

My big news is that my hubby and I decided that we wanted to have a baby, started trying at Christmastime and got pregnant the next month!! I'm two months along and due on October 11th with our lil pumpkin! We couldn't be happier and I had my first ultrasound today, so we finally felt like it was time share our big news!

The doctor said the baby looks great and we even got to see the heartbeat (boy, does that make everything seem soooo real!)!

Here's the first picture of our child...




















Isn't that just the cutest lil bean ya ever seen? ;) The head is on the right marked by a "+1" and the doctor did confirm that there is only one lil bebe swimmin' around in there, so I guess the fact that my mom is a twin and it is said to skip generations will have to happen for one of my sisters :)

Anyway, I can't guarantee that the blogging will pick up from me just yet, but as I start to feel better (hopefully the all-day morning sickness I've been having for weeks will go away in the next month as I enter the second trimester), I hope to at least use this blog as a way to document/journal my pregnancy.

As for knitting, I haven't been doing any...hard to knit when you are dizzy and nauseous all the time lol However, I told myself that after my u/s, I would start a baby blanket, so I might get started on that soon, and then I'll have some knitting content to share.

Until then, hope all is well in your world!
xo,
Mamabear (as my dear friend Jill is calling me :) )