Friday, March 27, 2009

Sweet Maternity Swag

If you aren't pregnant, you'll probably want to skip this one.

Life Starring Ellie and Eve is giving away a ton of maternity necessities. That is if you consider designer jeans (in this case Citizens of Humanity) a necessity. I'm betting that if you've ever shopped for maternity jeans, you do.

Also up for grabs: belly bands, nursing tanks, and more more more.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The week 24 belly

This is the week 24 shot.  Even though this is week 25.  I'll get the next one up soon.  I promise.

This weeks photo features some gratuitous crib action!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Cribbed!

The kid's room is coming together. Ma and Pa Young generously came through with a crib, so our plans to have the kid sleep on one of Maggie's beds have been put aside.

For now.



As you can see, we have no mattress. If D can't make the herculean effort it apparently takes to meet me at IKEA after work* one day (or get over his phobia of weekend trips to the same), we might revisit Maggie's beds and just toss one in there. Don't worry, we'll wash it first.

*IKEA is about 5 minutes from Argonne. It's on his way home.

You can also finally see a good representation of the wall color in there. This is pretty close to the actual color (your monitor settings my vary).

In other kid news, cat has decided that we don't need one. We can just push him around in the stroller.




1) that is some reflective piping!
2) why do I always have the urge to call strollers like this "prams"?

Chirish!!

Damian, Jason, and I decided to embrace our Chirish heritage and head downtown to see the dyeing of the river. We'd never been and, well, it has to be done.

My only regret is that I didn't dress warmly enough (and am in no state to be smuggling a flask of Irish whisky).





Waiting ...





Don't be fooled. Their faces are frozen that way.






Finally, oh holy hell.





Who knew St. Patrick's Day spirit came in such a violent green?






Finished product.


Despite the totally seasonable temperatures, my compressed bladder, and aching back, we had a great time.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Week 23!

Ok, here is the week 23 picture of the weekly belly updates.  Well, we haven't been very punctual with these so I guess it's more of a "weakly" attempt than "weekly".  Either way, here it is!



OK. The idea was to showcase the kid's room-in-progress with these pictures, but I think this will be the last in front of the green wall. You get the idea, right? The kid's room is bright green.

I, on the other hand, AM NOT.