Update

I have been chastised for not updating my blog, but let me say in my defense that I have been exhausted and soooo busy these days. Still in grad school, but this semester I'm taking two classes. My schedule has left no time for pursuing my hobbies. I haven't knitted in a hundred years and it was eons before that when I last wove something. I miss them both so much. I even wrote a paper on Native American textiles and just writing it made me yearn for yarn. I do have a pretty good excuse, though, since

I'm pregnant!

Woo-hoo!

DH and I are over the moon and so are our families. I have a feeling this blog will be less and less about textiles and more and more about the baby and parenthood. Good news for my fam, bad news for everyone else. I'm toying with the idea of starting a new blog just for the baby but since I don't even keep this one up...who knows. So here's the 411:

I am four months (18 wks.) along, due August 19th.

We found out at about 3 or 4 weeks, since we meant to do this.

We started telling folks at about 8 weeks.

This is our first child.

We haven't picked out a name yet.

I haven't gained a single pound. In fact, I weigh less than last month.

We found out yesterday that we are having a healthy GIRL!

She weighs half a pound and is about 5 inches long. About the size of a bellpepper!

We had the ultrasound yesterday morning. It's so amazing to DH and me. The ultrasound lady said everything looked perfect and that she was certainly very active! The hyperactivity she gets from her daddy, and the nose (so far) and the short, fat feet she gets from her mommy. Now I can't tell about the feet, but that's what the lady said. It's weird that you can see the bones, and at times she looks alot like an alien. I tried to post the video of the ultrasound, but it was a no-go. I will tinker with it some more and see if I can't post at least some of it. In the mean time, here are a few photos from the video:

The first one is so cute, because you can see her profile. The second one is hard to make out, but it's the tell-tale shot of a little girl's bottom. Her feet are in the air to the left and her bottom is pointed right at you! The third one is kinda spooky since you can see her skull and her spine and she's looking right at you- that's the alien shot. DH and I think they're priceless, beautiful images, naturally, and we're sure she's going to be an Olympic athlete/Nobel Prize winner/supermodel.

I think I felt her move the other day, it was kindof a vibrating sensation, very quick. I'm surprised I didn't feel her doing acrobatics yesterday, but I was distracted, of course. I just keep playing this video over and over! Have I mentioned how surreal it all is, but soooo exciting at the same time? :)

As it turns out, I wore a pink shirt and pink underwear to the doctor today - the ultrasound lady said I must have been trying to influence the outcome! It really wasn't intentional, I just had one of those bad mornings when I couldn't find anything to wear. Besides, we would have been ecstatic no matter what. Unless they said there were three in there, then it would have taken some time for us to get ecstatic about that. She's healthy and I think she's the most beautiful hyperactive alien I've ever seen.

Here's what I've chosen for the nursery

I like it because it isn't too "baby pastel" or too cutsie. And I love the ocean. I'm going to put a wave machine in there and play some ocean sounds that will soother her (hopefully). It will soothe me, and that goes a long way towards making everyone else happy!

Oh, and here's a shot of my belly.

Let me point out that I do not aspire to look like Elton John, I just wore the green glasses because it was St. Patrick's Day. I should have had pictures taken from the start to document the growth but I just didn't do it. I started wearing maternity clothes at 3 months, partly because I outgrew my regular clothes and partly because I just couldn't wait to wear them! I know many mothers will have a difficult time understanding that, but I really looked forward to ti and I love wearing them every day. They are so comfortable, never mind how unstylish they are. Even the styles that are in fashion don't really flatter pregnant women, unless you look like Angelina Jolie, which I do not.

Here's about what she looks like at 18 weeks. Thank you, Pregnancy.com!