Just a quick update...
In preparation for Baby Z, I've already made a winter sweater. I'm also half way done with a drawstring bunting. Andrew is complaining because I have yet to finish his stick shift cozy....Here's Rupert trying the sweater on for size.
I'm rounding up on week 18 and have the miraculous fortune of gaining and then losing 5-6 lbs within a day. My appetite has most definitely kicked in but I'm not sure where it's all going once I've eaten! Some days I have a little bump, others it just looks like nothing's changed. As eating has gotten easier, exercise has gotten harder (though when is it really easy?) Running my usual 3.5 miles used to feel great but now I can hardly keep up with the dogs and baby strollers and everyone else. I feel miserable going out and wasted by the end, which makes it very hard to motivate to keep running. Even yoga had me whipped this week!
Supposedly I should start feeling the baby move at this point or soon anyways, but all I seem to feel is my pulse beating extremely strong throughout me. I thought I might've felt something but I don't really have a definitive sense of what I should even be feeling and where. It still remains an obtuse idea with only slight physical presence in the form of my unending appetite and tiredness. Even the ultrasound pictures on the fridge seem odd. By the end of the month we should find out whether its a boy or girl. I go back and forth on what I feel it is...most times a girl, sometimes a boy. I've had two dreams where it was a boy-huge and with a full head of dark hair. Sometimes I think it's just Andrew's influence.
I've had these ideas running around in my head of writing/illustrating a book. Over the last week I've had a little mantra running in my head, "Almost there, mama bear..." and it seems to have caught on a bit to the imagination. I'll post some sketches once things fill out a bit more.
In other news, fall has arrived to the Hudson Valley. You can tell not only by the colors of the leaves but the miserable traffic filling up New Paltz on the weekend. One has to plan a full 20 mins ahead of schedule to account for waiting to turn on the Main St as traffic is backed all the way to the cliffs!
We've been eating apples like crazy. I get them every Sunday at the farmer's market and this coming weekend family is coming from upstate and the city to partake in "real" apple picking. In a couple of weeks it will be the NY Sheep and Wool festival in Rhinebeck which my knitting club makes a pilgrimage to seek out the best yarn. Already the month seems to be zipping by....
We've been eating apples like crazy. I get them every Sunday at the farmer's market and this coming weekend family is coming from upstate and the city to partake in "real" apple picking. In a couple of weeks it will be the NY Sheep and Wool festival in Rhinebeck which my knitting club makes a pilgrimage to seek out the best yarn. Already the month seems to be zipping by....
