we got a teether

judah's two bottom teeth are about to break through any minute now. i imagine this event will be heralded by the kind of wriggle...pop! noise that accompanies a cartoon carrot being pulled from the earth. he has been a champ for the last 2 months since they started forming/coming in/terrorizing him. this last week has been extra rough.

telltale signs of teething: mom has in earplugs to guard against the wailing going on 3 inches from her cochlea, baby is drooling and gnawing on his fist while rubbing is head back and forth against mom's shoulder, mom has a furrowed brow and frazzled locks.

we are sad and frazzled. we are sadzzled.

ahhhh baby motrin


when i was pregnant we would try to imagine our baby's face and what he would look like. i didn't have a beautiful enough imagination to even be able to picture a face that i could love this much. my cardiac grinchometer just 'sploded. now there's unconditional love all over my keyboard.

she bangs?

i have a hair cut and highlights scheduled on saturday. the last time i had either i was not even out of my first trimester yet. thats right, its been almost exactly one entire year. i can't wait. my hair is so long and my roots so out of control that i dont even wear my hair down any more at all. like an unathletic tall girl, having long hair and wearing it in a messy bun all the time is such a waste.

.

i have always watched the makeover shows where they put the chick 100% in the hands of the sylist, not even letting her request what she wants. obviously if you get on a show like this you have forfeited the right to request your own style and control must be given over to a professional who can tell you what would look best on you from a detached perspective. while i dont think i am that far gone, the style i ask for is always just a 6 months ago version of what i have now. long, with layers. but this time i might just ask the chick what she would do to me if she was tasked with making me look my best.

.

my normal haircut...but my hair is about 8 inches longer now

.

now i am definitely not saying that i am going to LET her do whatever it is, but i am more open this time that i ever have been. i mean, if worse comes to worst i can just shove it all up in a tangled messy bun...just like i do every day now.

.

one thing i am considering is bangs. i did sidesy bangs right after getting married and i really liked them when i wore my hair down. but because i have oily-tending skin and hair they tended to congeal into four or five spider -fingery clumps over time rather than the light airy bangs that i start out the day with. if i sweat at all (and i DO) they get kind of plastered to my forehead. lena (who is in this blog WAY too much) taught me a good fluffing method for keeping them separated. plus i can always twist them back into a taco...which i do anyway now with my long front pieces.

.

bangs. and ignore the fact that i am super skinny here. i doubt the stylist can transform me that much

.

so the questions is, should i get bangs? i am putting a poll over on the sidebar for you to judge me anonymously. since yall betrayed me in the last poll and said judah looks like jesse, i might not trust you now though. (j/k, i am GLAD judah looks more like jesse). feel free to write-in votes in the comments section if you have a totally new hairstyle option to offer.

ta-da!

sorry to make you wait so long. i hope the anticipation isn't going to dull the reaction to the actual costume. here's one more clue...it should be pretty obvious by this pic. this is the entire costume assembled and waiting for the bug to don it. (although no shame if you dont get it still, LOTS of people didn't get it in person, even when we were all in our ensembles, which is crushing when you go all out like we did.)

got it yet???

5

.
4

.

3

.

2

.

1

.

.

he was SUSHI! salmon nigiri to be exact. judah is our favorite, so of course we had to make him a costume accordingly and sushi is definitely our favorite meal

judah is the rice nugget under the fish, which is held on by seaweed (which isnt always used, but we needed a belt and extra accoutrement).

.

we have known judah was going to be sushi for a long time now. we were thinking we would do the parental thing and let ourselves off the hook for costumes since our kid is way cuter anyway. however, i realized we could make jesse and me full complimentary costumes for $0. so naturally, what goes along with sushi?

.

a sushi chef and a bottle of soy sauce! (i am 50% mortified 50% delighted with myself)

jesse's costume: my bathrobe, flip flops, white pants, 2 old t-shirts for his headgear and to make the cleaver our knife sharpener rod thing and duct tape and cardboard

my costume: a red throw pillow, washrag and place mat for the cap and then every piece of brown clothing i own plus some masking tape and safety pins. the only reason i used danielle's wonderful bridesmaid's dress was to capture the outward flare of the bottle...although my birthing hips and ass would have been sufficient i think. i am pretty much naturally shaped like a soy sauce bottle--thick, stocky and bottom heavy.

before you starting thinking this was kind of morbid, us chopping up our child, the knife is only used on the fish, not the rice. the rice is lovingly hand-shaped.


of course we had to go eat sushi afterwards! here's judah looking smoochable with daddy at mr. fuji. plus a 1/16th model of me in my costume on the table.
.

HAHAHAHAHA! i told you mommy was hungry! this picture frightens even me; the crazed glint in my eye, the terror on the bug's face. but i am 95% sure i would not eat judah if he was made of real sushi. (should have been more meticulous with the tape on the back side of the sushi...oops)

.

total cost of all of our outfits: 60 cents for judahs green fabric. total amount of candy eaten by me and jesse: one fun size bag of swedish fish (1/2 a WW point). plus afterwards we went to the dukes' house and watched tech stomp vandy (eventually) in front of a lovely fire. halloween was a rousing success. and congratulations to mr. nathan phillips for correctly guessing the costume based only the raw materials. he was the only person that got it! 10 points to you!