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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Art Festivals

I had such a great day with Courtney at the Micanopy Art Festival. It has grown so much since the last time I had been there.  It was almost 2 full streets, both sides.  We were originally just strolling our way through, looking at just about every booth.  When we realized how big it was we had to step it up, and move along.  We saw some goofy stuff, pretty stuff, unique stuff, and typical stuff.

Courtney got some fun stain glasses, a box office door bank, and some Cross Creek Honey.  I picked up 2 outfits for Lando. I love them.  And the lady had so much more I totally wanted to buy.
Check it out!


Saturday, October 29, 2011

First baby dream

I have had dreams about being pregnant.  Not many but some.  But last night I had a dream about giving birth and what the gender was. In the dream we gave birth at home because the baby came too fast for us to get to the hospital.  Not something I would want of course.  But everything turned out fine. And it was a ......GIRL!  So I wonder if this is premonition of sorts.  Until now I have had no "feeling" of the gender whatsoever.  But now I'm thinking it might be a girl.  Hmmmm....we find out next Tues (Nov 1) so stay tuned!!!

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Clarification

Why do they call it morning sickness?  It's really any time of the day sickness. Yuck!

Monday, October 24, 2011

Bad Flip Flop!

I'm sitting in the living room relaxing today, watching some tv.  I hear one of the cats (pretty sure it was this one:
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Meowing like crazy.  Going nuts.  I'm meowing at her and she's meowing back.  Or so I thought.  Later I get up and walk towards the bedroom and see this in the middle of the hallway:

Apparently, she drug it out of the bedroom, and then proceeded to attack it. And that was what all the racket was about. 

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Travel with baby

Oh my gosh, I just realized that our car may not be big enough to take on a trip with an infant.  They have so much stuff to take! Our first trip with Lando* will be for July 4th.  Lando will be about 3 months old. Therefore s/he will need the following: portable play yard with bassinet, stroller, bathtub (unless we opt for the sink), portable swing, and s/he's luggage including bottles, diapers, wipes, etc.

*Lando is just a nickname of the unborn child, until we find out the gender on Nov 1st. Just wanted to make that clear. :-)

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Lando has a bed!

On a whim one evening this past week Steve and I went to a local boutique baby store.  They had a beautiful crib.  And surprise, we BOTH agreed on it! The best part, it was on sale 50% off. So we bought the crib and a matching dresser.  The dresser is a little big, and may work better for Steve then for baby.  The crib is a lifetime one, so it will grow with the kid all the way to a full bed.


Thursday, October 13, 2011

Pregnancy Vocabulary

Some words dealing with pregnancy are just awkward to me.

Pregnant: the "ant" portion bothers me.  Saying I'm preggers is much more comfortable, yet so unsophisticated.

Quickening: this word sounds so icky.  It is the moment when the baby will start to move in the uterus for the first time.  They couldn't come up with a better word? Really?

The Ladendorf Baby Naming Method

So really only one of us is offering up names, and I have gotten a series of consistent answers from papa to be. So I started a spreadsheet with the standard answers as the rating system.  As I call out something he gives me the answer and I plug the name into it.

The standard answers are as follows:

Love it: Nothing yet
Like it: 1 name
Like it, but don't love it: 5
Meh: 2
No: 3

This is going to be a long process!

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Ambitions

I have a blog. So what does that mean? Well I guess it means I should come up with something witty to write at least 3 to 4 times a week.  Ambitions! But sometimes life is just boring.  I wish I could look at each day and find one thing of wonderment to write about like Randall.  I like Anna's new 365 project.  I might have to steal that. And Carmen's biking around Jacksonville project is pretty cool, but there is no way I will bike everywhere in Gainesville and write about it.  So not bike friendly.  Oh wait, I don't own a bike either.

I feel like I can't write about my animals everyday, although they do really silly stuff. And are pretty darn cute I might add.

Pregnancy is well...pregnancy.  I have good days and bad days.  Not much is going on right now.  Don't have another appointment until October 17th. So until then, Lando is just cooking in the oven.  At some point I'm sure I will have more to write about that as I can start to feel stuff, and start freaking out about giving birth, and making sure we have everything we need and and and... Mostly, I only have minor physical inconveniences to complain about, nothing blog worthy.

So that's what's going on in a nutshell.   If you have any clever ideas that I can write about let me know.  :-)