stuff that is soooooo cute

i stumbled on to this site called rarebirdfinds and they have a super-cool list of stuff under $10 and everything is adorable! i was going to buy some baby shoes from the list but unfortunately they're soooo cute they don't have them in stock anymore. but there's plenty of other stuff to buy! here's the link to their list.

An experiment and the Green Piece baby hat

thanks to amy of amysbabies for making the cell phone on the stomach suggestion! amy suggested that for maximum entertainment, i could play various ringtones from my cell phone on my stomach and lo and behold, the baby has a favorite ringtone :) ironically, it was the ringtone that sounded like a salsa song, so at least we know the baby has taste and has inherited her mother's rhythm ;) she wiggles every time she hears that particular ringtone which is an endless source of entertainment to me, really! thanks again amy :)

i also finished this hat this week along with a teeny tiny something for my partner at the one tiny thing swap over at craftster. i don't swap that much anymore because frankly, i have no time. but it's only one tiny thing i have to send out so i'm happy about that and am willing to participate gladly. anyhow, about the hat, it's again a made-up pattern based on some cabling on a sweater that i have. the design came out ok, but i don't like the yarn i used at all. i used crystal palace cotton flamme, which looked divine on my screen but ended up being kinda ugly in person. i thought it would be good for the baby since it was cotton, but the fact that little floofy things come off of it (off of cotton???) is kind of disheartening. it's not my best knit by far, but perhaps i can get her to wear it once or twice.

on pregnancy...

so i had a rather poo week last week where i felt like i was done (mentally) with the pregnancy. i am getting to a point where its getting uncomfortable to carry such a big baby (well, actually she's a normal-sized 4 1/2 pound baby, but i have a small torso and it's getting tight in there). i dunno, i was just thinking that i wanted to have this kid ASAP (granted, not at the risk of her health, but you know).

today i made a mental list of all the things that were good about being pregnant (besides the baby herself):

• i'm liberated from the idea that i'm overweight. i've started really looking a lot thinner (around the face) than i was at the beginning of pregnancy when i looked pretty chunky. this could be due to my diebetic diet, as i haven't gained any weight in the last 5 weeks (but the baby has.) also, my belly just sits out there for everyone to see and it's perfectly OK.
  
• my stomach has become a source of entertainment. i can seriously sit and watch it for a good half hour as some parts go up and others down and the baby moves across it. sometimes, i put the remote control on my stomach and it goes up and down. yes, i'm easily amused.
  
• i have someone for whom to knit tiny things. seriously, baby stuff is gratifying to knit. i can't finish an adult sweater, but a baby one is perfect and only a matter of a week.
  

so i guess it's not so bad being pregnant. and at the end of it all, i even get a baby out of it!

i made a happy poo! and a baby cable baby hat

i love saying i made a happy poo. it is for my friend beth who is having a really poo type of semester... and since we always use the term poo, well, then this seemed really appropriate :) i got the pattern at puchitomato. my poo-colored yarn is red heart soft yarn and the color is called "toast." (a friend said if she ever got toast that color she would immediately revolt in terror).

the second is yet another hat i made for the baby. truly very gratifying, making teeny tiny hats that are done in a flash! to make it cuter, i stuck a huge pink & toast (poo-brown) pom on the top. as you can see, i've been very apt to use the poo-brown toast colored yarn. i don't know, i think it's growing on me! (ew. ew. ew.) this hat is of my own design, using baby cables in a certain pattern which didn't exactly come out like i had thought (i was hoping it would look like some cables were higher than others, but the cables just look the same). while i was knitting it, someone commented: "babies and poo! what else could possibly go better?" nice.

the belly -- 31 weeks

here it is! the long anticipated belly shot. i'm not actually for belly shots, per se, but my mom convinced me. actually this first shot is a bit on the crappola side, so i will most likely have another soon. i haven't really done a belly shot since 18 weeks, so this is quite a difference. the second picture shows how big both marco and i are. i am carrying a four pound baby right now though... what's his excuse? as we like to say, i'm due in june and he's due in july :)

finally moved. and a mushroom jelly :)

sorry it's taken forever to post again, but we've been exhausted all week with moving. but now it's official, we're all moved in to our new apartment. it was kind of sad moving out of our old place, as it was the first real place we lived together on our own (once we were married). but all the extra room of the new place has definitely helped a ton with getting over it. i just didn't know we had so much STUFF (read: crap).

taking pictures of my huge mess in my new house would seem to be the way to go, but i'm too embarrassed of my mess to post it on the internet. so instead i found a random picture of jellyfish i took at the monterey bay aquarium. in the immortal words of dory from finding nemo, i shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine, and he shall be my Squishy.