Big Brother

It's hard to read, but the shirt says 'Big Brother'

BIG NEWS!!!

For those who haven't heard - we're having another baby!!! Right now, I'm 9 weeks pregnant and VERY tired! My due date is June 28th, 2009. We found out about 4 weeks ago - the day after the Jack Daniels BBQ festival. October 26 at around 3pm. AJ was in denial about taking the test, but I just didn't feel right. So, I took the test and not believing that the faint little + sign meant YES. I came out of the bathroom and looked at AJ, the expression on my face must have been enough for him to go see for himself. We were so happy. Although, I will admit that I did have a brief freak-out. What am I going to do with 2 kids under 2 years old??? By that evening I had gotten all that out of my system and we are so excited to have a little brother or sister for William.

Overall, I've been feeling good, but did I mention I'm tired? This morning (and all day) I had a bit of nausea and felt like I had a hang-over, but without the crazy party the night before. That's probably the worst I've felt to date. We had the 8 wk ultrasound this past Monday and I've included the picture. I will say it's not the best view, but we did get a great shot of the baby's heartbeat and got to hear it. It was 141 bpm. And don't worry, that old wives tale of the heart rate determining gender won't work for us. William's was 167 bpm and clearly he's a boy. Well I hear a little one crying for his mama downstairs so I best be going. Love to all and Happy Thanksgiving this week!

More sewing...

I've decided that as part of my new soon-to-be role of stay at home mom, that I wanted to make some items to sell. I am still perfecting my skills, but I have made a few items that I've included pictures of. One set of burp clothes and a bib is a gift for our friends new baby Owen. The cloths are made of birdseye fabric along with cotton and some ribbon. The bib is made with a terrycloth backing. The others (monky pattern and stripes) are just other burp clothes I've made that are flannel with a soft quilting layer in the middle. With more washings the border will have a nice fringe to it. I plan to make more items soon, including baby girl dresses, baby overalls, and more bibs and burp cloths. To be honest though, this new baby is taking a lot out of me and I barely have enough energy to sleep. However, this shall pass and I'll be on a roll with my new sewing adventure.

Halloween Pictures, etc.

Well, I don't have too much else to say about Halloween since I covered it in the last post. Everything went pretty much as planned. I decided to dress William as a pumpkin this year since I tried it on him and he was way too cute. Besides, I call him my little 'punkin' anyway so it's only fitting. I'm only a couple weeks after the fact, but I've finally included some pictures from the big day. It was lots of fun and William just loved walking up to people's houses. He didn't get the whole candy idea - he just liked walking up to people!


Also, the poll I had is over now. Thanks for all that voted, it's fun. I'm stuck on a new idea so I'm up for suggestions. Well I do have one idea, but I can't say just yet ;-)You'll have to stay tuned...