Let this be a lesson to all – I just accidentally closed the window on this post. Well, the first time I wrote this post. Pregnancy brain blows. SAVE YOUR WORK!
You guys are CRAZY! Thank you all so much for your warm wishes and encouragement and support. I truly appreciate and am humbled by your responses. Although, I have to say, I do throw a good contest. Not that the prizes are so over the top or anything, but I get THE BEST RESPONSES! You all ROCK! THANK YOU!
The winners of the three skeins of January One STR are:
Congratulations! And thank you all again for coming out of the woodwork. I know what it takes to stop and think and comment and I truly appreciate your being here! Good luck to all of you on your own rededications!
So. I made some progress this weekend. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to knit yesterday (I took the knitting to bed and promptly feel asleep. Which I keep doing. Especially in the middle of tv shows I’m very much enjoying that I forget to record. BLAH!) but I did really well on Friday and Saturday. I’ve now completed the first chart and started on the second. Of course, the second will take me a million years to finish because it goes from rows 36 to 86 or something like that and you have to complete it twice and then start over and knit 36-71. I’m on like 46. Still – I’m making progress and that’s all that counts.
Here are some really boring progress pictures:
The color is totally off in these pictures – the yarn is much redder. A red purple. Plum, if you will. (The yarn is called smoky plum.) I’m LOVING the gray in the yarn. It adds such dimension to it. It’s all good – the yarn, the pattern. I’m enjoying myself and find that I can’t stop thinking about it. YAY! I love it so much I forgot I have Addi LACE Turbos in the right size – but so far these regular Addis are doing fine.
BABY NEWS. You’ve been warned. Move along if need be.
I swear, it’s not a baby. It’s Mitt Romney. You can’t imagine the flip flopping going on! Ann pointed out though, that even though it’s not the baby I want (you know, human and all) there are benefits to giving birth to a millionaire. Ba dum dum. Anyway – so flips and flops and bonafide kicks! I’m definitely not as freaked out as I thought I’d be – I rather like it actually. Even Georgie thinks he’s felt it a couple of times. HE’s freaked out!
On the puking front I managed not to puke for five days straight. Tuesday through Saturday. That’s not to say I couldn’t have puked those days – I most certainly could have and one or two days I probably SHOULD have. I did throw up yesterday and I felt much better afterward. On the days I don’t puke I think I wait for it and end up being nauseated much longer than I would if I just threw up. Oh and I’m 19 weeks. This should be OVER. No report yet on today but I think I’m NOT going to puke. I’m hungry all ready instead of nauseated. Things are definitely improving.
My baby is an heirloom tomato! I get these babycenter bulletins every week – your baby at 19 weeks kind of thing and they’re very entertaining and interesting but the thing I love the most is that each week they compare my baby’s size to that of some food. So far my baby has been a sesame seed, a small lentil bean, a blueberry, a kidney bean, a grape, a kumquat, a fig, a lime, a medium shrimp, a lemon, an avocado, a turnip, a bell pepper, and TA DA! a large heirloom tomato (which Ann says is about the size of a grapefruit.) I LOVE THIS! I will be so sorry when they run out of food. I can’t wait for the day when my baby is the size of a T-BONE! WHOO HOO! Every week I torture Georgie with this – hey babe! The baby’s the size of a kumquat! And he just looks at me like what does that MEAN?! They also give the inches and stuff and I can follow it up with hard data, but I just love the comparisons. They’re so ridiculous!
Okay. Now that I’ve filled you in on all the baby and knitting – I’m leaving you. HAHAHAHAHA! No really. Just when I rededicate myself to all of it, I’m off. To my sister’s for Halloween. It’s become tradition – I just love going out for Halloween with the kids and this year baby is coming along. And maybe even with a costume! I told the kids they could paint my belly. Hopefully I’ll have good pictures to show you when I get back. I’ll be home on Thursday, so don’t look for a post until Friday.
THANKS AGAIN FOR READING!
L, C
Have a great time, Cara. You and baby, both!
Wait until 40 weeks and the bulletin uses a watermelon for size comparison that you will be required to push it out! Have a Happy Halloween!
I actually really missed the movement after Sophia was born. It was like our own little private party…
xo
Have fun!
Happy Halloween! I am glad that you have found some knitting enthusiasm again. Have a great day and keep the posts coming. I like to hear about the ups and the downs of pregnancy, about the rows knit and the yarns purchased.
have fun, stay warm. i gave myself pneumonia the year i dressed up as Gabrielle.
happy halloween. enjoy the tomato.
(and 730 comments! holy moly.)
The food comparisons used to crack me up, too. For ages, I called Noah “rice grain” when he was in utero. At one point, his dad started telling people that he was the size of “a piece of Kix cereal.” I don’t know why I found that so funny, but is just seemed so utterly random. Kix? Honestly.
And you’re knitting! and not puking! Wonderful.
Mitt Romney?!? ROFLMAO!
Ha! You just think they’re going to run out of foods. Can you say “watermelon”? How about “prize pumpkin”? There’s a guess-the-pumpkin-weight contest at my local Trader Joe’s, and that sucker is bigger than any baby, except maybe a baby elephant.
Your shawl pix are beautiful, not boring.
I like your blog just the way it is, & I will be one of the ones sticking around. 🙂
The shawl is lovely.
Have a great Halloween with the kids! Just think, next year, that Mitt Romney of yours will be on the outside and ready for dressing up!
I’ll be here too. Love your BLOG. Glad you’re starting to enjoy your pregnancy. Fulfill all cravings is my advice.
Mitt Romney, hee hee! (And, 730 comments? Yikes! I feel especially lucky today. Hmm, where can I buy a lottery ticket??)
Baby movement is so wonderful 🙂 let’s see, I wonder what comes after heirloom tomato size… eggplant? heh heh… pretty soon it’ll be football sized. and then the party really starts rockin’.
the shawl is going to be so lovely.
delurking to say hi…i agree, it is hard to keep up with the blog reading and commenting and i always feel bad that i dont comment enough on blogs that i read regularly.
i’m loving the purple – its a color i dont often knit with but am rethinking that.
have fun on halloween – keep baby mitt safe 🙂
Being baby-less myself I totally understand the fun of being around kids on halloween. Have a great time! Oh, and speaking of sisters, any chance of a belly cast??
I missed the contest ’cause I didn’t read this weekend AND interesting enough it’s because some of the same stressful stuff that got me knitting is happenin’ again! SO I’m rededicating myself to my knitting AND my blog (don’t go there! – I’ve been a BAD blogger). I am childless but continue to love your blog – you have a wonderful “voice” and fabulous pictures to go along with the GREAT knitting. Hmm – I’m thinking just knitting might get kinda’ boring! Have fun on Halloween – I spent Saturday helping my husband’s niece finish ladybug and butterfly costumes for her 4 and 5 year olds!
I’m loving the shawl, such great construction!
I definitely want to see what the kids paint on your belly. I didn’t want to scare the neighborhood kids by painting my belly directly but I painted a big pumpkin on the belly of a craft store black T-shirt yesterday, It even glows in the dark.
It’s an odd sensation, isn’t it? Having a living creature in there? I used to say, “I’m either having a baby or there’s a ferret in there!”
My daughter spent the entire pregancy twirling. My son spent the entire time in one position, ready for entry into the world. Of course, he kicked me in the same spot EVERY DAY.
Glad you’re feeling better!
For some reason the image of your baby as a medium shrimp cracks me up. Maybe because shrimp (and babies) are always curled up in the fetal position. Yay for babies! and shrimp!
I’m sitting here with a 3yo on my lap, and it’s hard to believe that she was once the size of a tomato!! Your shawl is going to be GORGEOUS!
Cara, the shawl is beautiful. I’m doing one of Sivia’s designs right now (the Gothic Lace Stole) and I love it, such a simple and elegant design. Don’t know if you know about Sivia’s Yahoo Group, but I have found it helpful – Sivia herself moderates it and rings in with encouragement and great advice.
Have a happy Halloween!
Cara, dear, they are not going to run out of food. — not as long as there are cantaloupes, watermelons and pumpkins in this world. Let’s just hope you don’t get to ‘Blue Ribbon Pumpkin’ stage.
Your knitting looks lovely.
Hee, I got those babycenter updates too. My favorite was “your baby is now approximately the size of a squirrel”. Uhhhh, thanks!
(GORGEOUS shawl, by the way.)
Wow…5 days without hurling 🙂 I am so impressed and happy for you. Keep this up and you’ll enjoy your pregnancy so much more 🙂
I used to go to bed an hour early just to feel the kicks better and commune with my little one.
Speaking of shrimp, last night I sat down to have my shrimp dinner treat of the week while watching this special on t.v. about the deplorable conditions in the food industry in China (a lot of it was about how they process shrimp) and I thought of you, because I really started to feel unwell and sorta pukey arghhh So happy you’re not going through that anymore 🙂 Fingers crossed 🙂
Babycenter has the best newsletters! Actually, Babycenter was my gateway (drug) into the world of blogs so I guess I have a soft spot for it.
When it tells you the baby’s the size of a watermelon, it’s time to get nervous. 🙂
Also, your work-in-progress photos are never boring. It’s looking beautiful.
I’m so excited to hear the news about Mitt “The Tomato” Romney!!
A tomato. Cute! When he/she starts eating real food, you can tell her/him things like “you used to be as little as this grape.” 🙂
That’ll be a great lace wrap for your wintery pregnant self. Love the color in the pics from your last post – I guess that’s more of a true representation? Grey and plum are so gorgeous together.
I really loved all the kicking and flopping too… I was lonely once the baby was out!
I loved those emails too:) When I was pregnant with my son we called him lentil bean because of those emails.
Have fun at your sister’s! Yay for knitting AND baby update!
When my sister was having her first baby, I wasn’t really freaked out by the kicking. What got me was when she was just about ready to have the baby, and he’d be all… lumpy under her skin. Like, here would be an elbow, and there you could see the bulge of his butt. And she would move him around if he was laying on one side or the other, back to the middle. I guess that until then, I just thought that babies stayed encased in an egg shaped bubble.
As long as there are watermelons, they will not run out of food. BTW, I threw up for 20 weeks, and then it just STOPPED. So hang on. 🙂
Why is it that everything is compared to food? I work in the medical field and we hear ” a tumor the size of an orange” more than we should. Good luck on the not-puking.
Your voice is so happy in this post… that rededication thing must be working!
Yay! Have a great one!
Oooh, I’m glad you’re starting to feel better! You are bringing back all sorts of wonderful memories of my own pregnancies (which of course had their yucky moments as well). Your excitement is beautiful and contagious!
Although I swear my babies were just born yesterday, they are now 12 and 14 years old. My kids keep getting better and better, and yet I still miss those baby days. I always swore that someone was exchanging them for bigger models when I wasn’t looking.
Waiting for the photo collage of all the baby-compared-to-foods images 🙂
Enjoy your time with your sister and the kids! And here’s to more puke-free days (sadly, not for me).
Oh, and I tagged you for a meme if you’re in to it 🙂
I love the food images. I’m a nurse and my husband is a vet. We used to cuddle in bed with our comparative embryology texts and try to imagine how big our baby was.
Hi Cara! I just wanted to post again today because I felt like you shouldn’t go from sooo many posts to less than a hundred in a day. I hope some others have the same idea to help me out! Thanks for sharing all your thoughts, be it pregancy or knitting or whatever! My sister is due today and over the past few months she has enjoyed me telling her what you have to say about babies and the like. I hope you will continue once the little one is here!
Have a great day!
Birgit
Preggo brain does blow … but post-partum brain isn’t much better. I’m just saying.
Have fun tomorrow!
I didn’t read your blog on Friday but I wanted to tell you, it’s your blog so write about whatever you want. I personally can’t have children so it has been kind of fun (or interesting or whatever the word should) be to read about your pregnancy. It always amazes me that people have the nerve to tell someone what they should or shouldn’t write on their blog. Blog away sister!
When I was pg I used to get the little bulletins too, but they never related to food! So funny!! I love the idea of an heirloom tomato. Maybe your belly ought to be a tomato for Halloween? 😉
I love the baby wiggles, too. It’s so friendly, companionable. We had a little poke fest last night – he would poke my belly from the inside, I would poke my belly from the outside, then laugh. Then he pokes, I poke, I laugh. The husband kept telling me to leave him alone, but baby started it! I tell people he’s a disco dancer – “kicking” sounds so unfriendly.
Honey, let’s hope you never make it to the watermelon phase . . . because that is painful. Spaghetti squash is bad enough! The knitting looks spot on and the purple, even if it is darker, is divine!
Just a warning…Pregnancy brain turns into Mommy brain! I would love to be able to string two or three thoughts together all in a row without being interrupted by something.
So pretty! Once I finish Christmas knitting, oh the things I will knit! And the food comparisons! How random, but I guess they wanted it to be something that everyone would know, although honestly, I had no idea an heirloom tomato was so big (or maybe I’ve just always seen really big grapefruits).
Oh, the excitement is only just beginning! Wait some morning when the little wriggler is doing his/her morning tai chi and you see a little elbow or knee glide along your belly! I promise not to look you in the belly the entire time (just most of the time) if ever we get to meet before B-Day.
Knitting pics boring? Nah…Have a Happy Halloween, can’t wait to see what your belly “gets dressed up as”! Pretty soon, there will be a roast in your bely~snort~
When this baby is born, you will miss all of the flipping and kicking and fluttering and stretching and looking-like-an-alien-growing-inside-of-you!
so- were you a pumpkin belly;)
PS- I’ve actually been spinning BFL… its beautiful! Why didn’t someone tell me this????
Oh I guess they did- sorry internets- will listen better- maybe;)
I’m so excited! Thank you, Cara!