Due in March...

Still, but just barely.

UPDATE: Since the ultrasound our scheduled due date has been moved back twice. Originally it was March 15th 2009, then it was changed to March 24th and now it is March 27th. She's just a little younger then we previously thought. But don't you think it's kind of cool that all those dates are divisible by 3??? March is the 3rd month of the year, '09 is the triple of three, and 15, 24, and 27 are all multiples of 3!!! I will be seriously disappointed if she is born on the 16th or the 25th. Ok, enough of that...

Why is this photo on it's side? I don't know why and I can't figure out how to flip it, so we'll just have to tilt our heads to read it.

Most improved...

I wish I had a "before" picture so you could really tell how much better our new closet system is. I am so happy with our latest Container Store purchase!

So now that this closet exists we can start the really fun work: decorating the nursery! I'm so excited! In other baby news, I have an appointment with my midwife today (I work with two midwives actually, Jennifer and Amy, at A Woman's Place in Lincoln Square) and I am anxious to hear her little heart beat again. It's something I always look forward to, but it'll be especially reassuring this time, as I have been feeling paranoid lately that I might have squished her or something...Oh dear, I hope not! I don't know what I'm doing really with this big belly. It's weird. Anyway...Hopefully/most likely all is well. My mom is going with me today, to meet my midwife- I'm not sure who will see us today- and check out their office. I'm looking forward to having her with me today!

Tiny Sweater

My mom is a very talented knitter!

Accent Wall!!

I'm not sure if you can tell in these pics how freakishly awesome this asphalt gray is on our accent wall, but I'm standing here looking at it and I think it looks dope. Mark heartily agrees, and praise generally means more coming from him because I'm fairly easy to please. ;-) It even makes me feel okay with our super white cabinets!

Flint from Benjamin Moore, satin finish

Pig Face

Oops, we got stuck chatting in an unflattering light!

I realize that "pig face" is a really mean thing to say! I didn't mean to refer to her as pig face, but I just thought it was funny that she got stuck on the internet making a porcine expression! It also reminds me of this scary movie I watched when I was a child. In the movie two mean girls were making faces at another girl. They were aiming to taunt her but meanwhile they looked pretty ugly making those faces. Anyway someone walked up from behind them and smacked them on the back and lo and behold the ugly faces got stuck and they looked like little monsters for the rest of the movie and, I would assume, for the rest of their lives. Let that be a lesson to you! The old pat-on-the-back theory might scare some children out of making faces momentarily, that is until they realize it's ludicrous, but the possibility of an ill-timed computer freeze up is all too real.

My sister is gorgeous. She can really pull of this look!

Mom Cooking

Can you believe she actually makes dog food?

Shopping With Mom

We've been all over the city today looking at baby furniture and we even bought some really cute clothes!!!  Here's mom at DWR where we came to see my rocking chair (which I found to be very comfortable).

Bedding: Which is Cuter??

I just can't decide! I think our nursery is going to be lavender after all, if that influences things, and also I forgot to mention there is a big chocolate brown leather couch that is going to stay in the nursery. That needs to be factored in! That is the reason I decided we should go with lavender. It's a nice girly shade that hopefully will neutralize the masculinity of the couch. I will also have to get some throw pillows or something! It'll be fine.... Oh dear, I'm obsessing now. Help!

Coco Snoozes

click on coco to see more pics of coco!

Baby's First Pics!!!

I know you all have been excited to see the results of little Wilhelmina/Sloane/Abernathy's first photo shoot, but I haven't had a chance to scan them. Finally I just gave in today and took pictures of the pictures. They didn't turn out that great, but you can definitely tell it's a baby, which is about what the original photos convey. Without further ado here she is:


I have no idea how but from the picture above our doctor was able to almost positively ascertain (he said he was 95% sure) that our baby-to-be is a girl. I don't see it myself, but I have a soft spot in my heart for this picture because he wrote BABY GIRL on it and made my day!

Isn't she adorable????? swoon.