today's the day. the day baby #2 stops being "the baby" and becomes "he" or "she." the ultrasound technician will know around 11 am today. if we stick to our game plan, WE will know a few hours later. followed swiftly by you (on monday probably).
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maybe it's just because i have a child already, but i am being so 100% honest right now when i say i don't care either way what the gender is. this time, i am just focusing on all the anatomy and measurements and health stuff looking good. i took that so for granted with judah while i was busy rooting for a boy, and so my gratitude for his lifelong health has really mellowed me out about the sex of the baby and made me see what's important. *end inspirational public service announcement.*
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continuing on my merry making trend, i wanted to make something for judah. see, if he is having a sister i probably won't be making anything for him for awhile since there is SO much more cute girl stuff out there that is easy to make. i decided that i would try my hand at something super challenging.
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during my interwebial travels the other day when crafty inspiration struck, i found the making blog, MADE. holy cow, this chick is a baddie bad bad. she can sew like none other. i saw an awesome tutorial on her blog that shows how to take a ratty old men's t-shirt and turn it into a super adorable vintage-looking ringer shirt for baby. i can't get enough of colorful ringers on little boys and i loved the onesie-style detailing on the shoulders, so even though i was a bit out of my depth and way nervous, i went for it.
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here's what i started with:
an old t-shirt of jesse's that i had worn to bed a few times and therefore had gotten discolored a little bit from my medicated face lotion (problem skin at age 30, here i come!). for some reason this stuff only bleaches the GBIV portion of the color spectrum. even though it looked rough on jesse, there was still enough good fabric to make a judah sized shirt and i loved the bold color
an old t-shirt of jesse's that i had worn to bed a few times and therefore had gotten discolored a little bit from my medicated face lotion (problem skin at age 30, here i come!). for some reason this stuff only bleaches the GBIV portion of the color spectrum. even though it looked rough on jesse, there was still enough good fabric to make a judah sized shirt and i loved the bold colorthe tutorial is called "the 90 minute shirt" but it took me 2 hours because i was watching the NBA finals (snooze) and i had to make my pattern from scratch (yeah, no pattern included, people! tres DIY). i am so so so shocked and proud of how it came out:
to make my pattern i deconstructed an old 9 month onesie and then measured up by guesswork using a 18-24 month shirt that we have for judah, so the dimensions are a little funny. but seriously, i MADE that!
when we woke up this morning we had to have the little guy model it:
the fit isn't too bad, though it was intended to be big enough for the fall/winter and it fits him pretty snug right now.
stone faced strutting the catwalk. he's an ambi-turner.
so this little project was time consuming, but had just the right mix of mindless cutting/pinning paired with challenging problem solving, sewing and measuring. just my kind of task. enough to keep me on my toes and fulfilled, but not enough to overwhelm me. i can say that if i saw this style of shirt at old navy i would probably expect it to cost (and i might consider paying) $12.50. mine was free thanks to having a ton of the ribbed yellow knit already (but that would have cost about 80 cents if i had to go buy it). i will be making more of these. count on it. they maybe purple and pink, but they will BE.
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and here's the final weekly belly picture before the fruits and veggies get a gender! 18 weeks (last saturday) and a nice bell pepper is what we're working with. (week 17 got skipped because the turnip at publix that i found was the size of a kiwi and made no sense.)
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and here's the final weekly belly picture before the fruits and veggies get a gender! 18 weeks (last saturday) and a nice bell pepper is what we're working with. (week 17 got skipped because the turnip at publix that i found was the size of a kiwi and made no sense.)
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those are maternity jeans. i test drove them a few days ago because i finally found them and determined i am not pregnant enough for them yet. not that they are too big (oh no), but my stomach is still too soft to overpower the elastic and not just look like a floppy gut busting biscuit over the waistbandi can really feel this baby all of a sudden. with judah, i had a few weeks of little bubble-type flutters and, "was that him?" moments. but this one really just started with the swoops and squiggles that are undeniably baby. it awesome. i forgot how fun and freaking weird it is to feel a bell pepper sized human gamboling around my uterus.
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i feel awesome. no more malaise or nausea of extreme fatigue. i do have some weird second trimester symptoms going on, the most annoying of which is violently itchy legs. like, "jesse, go get me the belt-sander" itchy. also the bladder capacity is on the way out. 5 out of 7 nights a week i have to get up once or twice in the night to pee. by the time i deliver i won't be able to go longer than 3 hours with out squeaking out a thimbleful.
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see y'all on the other side of some tiny little sex organs.