Sunday, September 25, 2005

Pants, or trousers, depending on where you live.

I have been wearing the same pants every day for the past two months (see why it's important to acknowledge our worldly terminology?). I have been trying not to spend much dosh on maternity clothes because it just seems so pointless. On top of the fact that most of the clothes are hideous, I just can't imagine wanting a wardrobe full of preggie clothing...at least I felt that way until I discovered a store called Motherhood Maternity.

Yesterday Lisa and I were on a mission. See, Lisa and Perry are engaged now (congratulations!), so we wanted to go on a bit of a shop for wedding dresses. After quite a successful trip to the sea of crinoline, we headed off to look at baby stuff and maternity clothes.

Thyme was the first stop for large pants with short legs. See, I'm 5'7" but I seem to be all torso. I actually have to wear pants made for petite women. For those of you who don't know what constitutes a petite cut, it's someone who is 5'4" and under! I felt pretty sad that the only person I would ever leg-double for would be a chubby 12-year old, but life goes on. I was trying on 'regular' leg length pants and it didn't even look like I had feet; the pants covered my entire foot! I snapped up Thyme's only pair on petite length pants and was thrilled to bits.

Motherhood Maternity (in Coquitlam Centre) hit me like a tonne of bricks. There were clothes galore that didn't look like maternity outfits. I went crazy trying on half the store and ended up leaving with an armload of skirts, a dress, a top and maternity nylons. I was surprised to find that maternity nylons exist, but I guess it makes sense. I fear taking them out of the package as they may attack me...I'm assuming they are huge!

The good news is, after a difficult week of a sore back and feeling dumpy and ugly, I am feeling good again. I know some of you don't care about shopping and clothes and I respect that, but for me, I love it all!

I even got some comfortable shoes for future shopping excursions :)

- Allison, future Mum

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Heeeeere's baby!


BABY PICS SEPT 05_19
Originally uploaded by honig.
This is an image looking down on baby. The stripe is down the middle of the top of his head (he's got a mohawk already!). Following down, you can see his face and then arms.

Cool guy.


BABY PICS SEPT 05_44
Originally uploaded by honig.
Ayyyhh! Fonzie all the way. He seems pretty stoked about something. Future movie critic?

I'm bored.


BABY PICS SEPT 05_46
Originally uploaded by honig.
He's now bored of his movie critic idea and is having a yawn.

Let me out!


BABY PICS SEPT 05_47
Originally uploaded by honig.
Please! I've changed my mind, let me out! His face is at the left side and his arms and hands are facing upwards like he's trying to get out.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

XY

It's a boy! I had my ultrasound done the other day and as it turns out, we are having a boy! Graham of course was beaming from ear to ear with the idea that he is having...a son.

As with most women I was secretly hoping it was a girl, but I am very happy anyway. It's funny though, I was positive that I was having a girl. Something inside of me made me feel 100% positive that little Kenzie (fav. girl name) was growing away. I had the embarrassing, but funny task of returning these sweet little girl suits to the Bay last night - ha ha!

Our thoughts have turned to what to name 'him'. There are several names that are holding on strong, such as; Aedan, Calum, Keane and many more. We're so unsure how to decide what his name will be. We've thought of having all of our favourite names on the dart board, then each throwing one dart, thus leaving us with the name list down to two. A video game competition also came up in conversation, of course this was Graham's evil way of trying to ensure he gets to pick our wee boy's name - I am terrible at video games! I'm sure we'll figure it out sooner rather than later.

We've finally made the first steps to having the yucky carpet replaced. See, the people that lived here before were messy, to say the least and their pets didn't seem to care where they went to the toilet. When we moved in we got the carpets professionally steam cleaned and sanitized, but there are stubborn stains that just wouldn't come out. We had the Sears guy here today taking measurements and showing us samples of carpets and laminate flooring. I will soon get his estimate by e-mail...fingers crossed that it's not too out to lunch!

Thanks to our fantastic friend Perry, we now have a functioning bathroom light and light switches that don't require two switches to be in the on position before the light will work. Thank you Perry! Now Graham won't have random patches of beard hair that he has missed because it was so dark - ha ha! At one point the light bulb burned out in the shower room that adjoines to the part of the bathroom with the sink. It was at that point that we enlisted the help of our Coleman camping lantern! Again, thanks Perry.

I received a package in the mail the other week, which was very exciting! My sister-in-law Jennifer, who lives in Ontario, sent me a wicked little care/congratulations package that included a really nice maternity outfit (always grateful), a handy baby wipes container, a nice note and the dreaded video games! Jennifer, what are you doing to me?! Graham is obsessed with the games and has barely left the warm side of his Game Cube! Of course I'm just being melodramatic. I really appreciate the thought you put into the package and really appreciate it, thank you :)

Suppose that's all for now.

Ciao!