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I may not be Mr. Perfect
but I'll F&#* you
until he shows up

Nice.

I just got back from a long weekend with the family in Georgia, where I met my new nephew, the Mooselet, celebrated my Mom's birthday, had a baby shower, and celebrated Father's Day. Whew! It was a great time, but not so much relaxing. I tried out my sister's ring sling with the Mooselet, and it was pretty durn cool. Also, he peed on me. I look at it as a test run. Pictures to be posted soon!

As it turns out, BOTH of my current/recent TV boyfriends have been in DC within the past week. First, John Krasinski (Jim on The Office) was here for a Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) show at the 9:30 club on Thursday - he even jumped up on the stage and strummed a few lines of a song. But today, the WaPo tells me that Bradley Whitford (West Wing, Studio 60) was here, too! What's a girl got to do to meet her TV boyfriends?!?! Oh yeah, this (scroll down). Heh.

Also, I've updated the Growing a Critter blog with a photo-heavy post. Comments are off for all Wordherders blogs right now - possible shift to come.

Madison decided to get in on the action in this picture - good thing no one in Alia's household is allergic to cats!

Once I finish the blocks, I'll still have the border to do. But it's coming along! And once I'm finished with this one, then I'll get to start on a blankie for our critter. I've got some ideas, but haven't made any sort of final decision.

We're taking weekly belly pictures to document the critter's growth, and we're about two weeks away from the 20-week ultrasound. If the critter wants to let us know whether it's got girl parts or boy parts, then we'll find out. If s/he is being shy, then it'll be a surprise on his/her birthday!

You Are Bert

Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable - even if you don't love them! You are usually feeling: Logical - you rarely let your emotions rule you You are famous for: Being smart, a total neat freak, and maybe just a little evil How you life your life: With passion, even if your odd passions (like bottle caps and pigeons) are baffling to others

Also, new entry over at GrowingaCritter!

Today is officially 12 weeks, and yesterday we got to hear the heartbeat. The sound is somewhere between swish-swish-swish-swish and wcheeo-wcheeoo-wcheoo-wcheoo. Maybe closer to the latter. It really was amazing.

Of course I'm all biology-geek about the whole thing, and I'm fascinated to follow the progress on www.babycenter.com and other sites. As of today, the critter is the size of a lime, about two inches long. Earlier weekly sizes included the following fruits and vegetables: sesame seed, lima bean, peanut, kumquat, fig and strawberry, among others. My uterus is about the size of a grapefruit these days, and I'm just starting to be able to see a wee difference in how my pants fit.

I started a new blog to yap about the critter: Growing a Critter. I'll be sharing that blog with family and friends that aren't so much aware of this one, so please help me keep them separate.

We've told family, of course (we found out 10 days before Christmas, so it was the BEST present we could have gotten), and we're now telling friends. I haven't yet told everyone that I work for (my boss and co-workers know), so if you know any of them (or if you ARE any of them), please keep it on the down-low for another little while.

Yay!

I made ONE New Year's Resolution this year, and it was to take a sewing class. I've got a quilter in me, I just know it. Of course I'll be busy with baby blankets for a while, but still...

Speaking of baby blankets, here's a week-old photo of the blanket I'm making for youngest sister Alia (due May 13th - Mother's Day, actually, if I'm not mistaken).

There will be 27 balls of Knit Picks Shine in the blankie when it's all done! Colors are Grass, Bachelor Button and Sea Spray. I finished the first multicolored block, and am almost done with the first solid green block.

I'm home sick from work today, so in between bouts of reading and checking work email, I may get a little bit of knitting done. We'll see. Really, I want to go back to sleep.

Last night's DC-area knit bloggers meet up and yarn swap was fantastic! I met tons of new people and have gotten much encouragement to actually update every now and then. Thanks so much to Sarah Snargle for hosting and to Vibegrrl Lara for co-hosting!

I came home with MUCH more than I should have - my haul was in no way equivalent to what I contributed. I hope the knitting gods won't frown on me too much, but everyone kept telling me to take it! The BIG SCORE was a large bag of mercerized cotton in all kinds of beautiful shades that I want to use to make a Mason-Dixon Log Cabin blankie.

(yeah, lame that I didn't take everything out of the bags again, but I've got the colors in the order that I want to use them!)

Three balls of Arucana Nature Cotton, and one of Arucana Nature Wool...

...and four balls of beautiful light green Rowan Cotton Rope!

There were lots of lovely yarns there and lots of hilarious and talented knitters. Thanks for including me!

Posts yet to come: my current baby blankie for living-in-Alaska sister Alia AND the major repair that I had to do to Dave's sweater after we discovered MOTH HOLES!!! (don't worry - everything I brought to the yarn swap last night has always been kept in plastic bags and was moth-free.)

Orphans Yule Want to Pet