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Yeah, I've been a pretty lax little blogger for a while. But I have an excuse! Really, I swear I do! Wolfie and I now have one of these:

Tilt your head to the right and you'll see a cute little profile above. That's our son (Wolfe cub?)! Due to hatch sometime in the last half of August. His official EDD is 9/2/09, but after his photo shoot they've decided he's actually a couple weeks ahead of that. It's been a wild few months since we found out we were going to have him at Xmas. My cousin and I are hyperemesis buddies now - lucky for her she's due in a month so she'll be ok again soon. I still have a ways to go. But our munchkin is healthy and the doctor says he's a really good swimmer, so as long as he's fine I'll take whatever pills the doc wants me to to keep him that way.

We've been crazy nesters since March. Tore out our bathroom and replaced the shower surround, plastered, painted (thanks Mom! I didn't have to sniff paint fumes)... now it looks like we'll need to take the tile floor out because it's cracking pretty badly. The girls I used to work with get a laugh out of all the remodeling going on. But hey, if you can't eat like a pregnant girl you gotta do something else to occupy yourself. Dan rearranged the basement and rewired some of the electrical, so the ubernesting rubbed off on him too. Poor guy.

Also making little boy hats, crib sheets and other baby accessories. I made myself wait until we knew what "flavor" we were having to get started making stuff. Glad , too. Otherwise I would have been making girly outfits and having to give them all away! Sadly most of my yarn/fiber/fabric stash is less than gender neutral. Oh well. I got a cloth diaper kit in the mail this morning, so that'll be this week's project. We figured we'd give cloth a shot because we'll be trying to have a budget baby. And it gives me something to entertain myself with during the day if I have stuff to work on. We haven't had to do a whole lot of decorating - didn't have to paint his room because it was already blue and we've just now started getting furniture and other larger necessities. Putting together the stroller from Dan's parents was a real eye opener though. It kind of freaked me out some because I started to realize the little guy's going to actually sit in there everytime we go someplace for the next 3-4 years. Eeek! I don't care what anybody says about how exciting pregnancy is. We're scared out of our minds.

Red Rum. I mean HAIR.

New hair. Well, new color anyhow. Dan snapped this while I was talking so it looks a little goofy.

Happy Halloween!

Olive the Halloween cat does her impression of the fridge gargoyle.

We carved the world's toughest pumpkins last night. No joke. There were a couple with skin that was more like a hard crust 1/4" thick. I couldn't even saw thru it with a knife... it just kept cracking! They're the first pumpkins we've done since we got our house. Last year we had just moved in 2 weeks before Halloween and didn't have any money left to buy stuff to carve ;)

Kiri the pumpkin slayer.


Dan totally cheated and used the drill on his two little pumpkins... bonus points for the use of pumpkin guts though.

Here are a couple of pictures from the cemetery tour last Saturday. It was freezing and rainy... but still fun. We were the youngest people there. Mostly seniors and then a couple folks that were probably our parents' ages. But it was nice to hear all of the historical info people knew about that the girl giving the tour had never heard of. One guy was related to one of the town's historical figures buried in the first cemetery we went to, which was neat. Since we're still technically new to the area we were happy just to hear what people had to say. Here's a dowsing rod shot:.

Happy Birthday!

Happy happy to Dan :) He is less than 30 today. Still. Ha.

And in yarn news... check out the Socktoberfest button to the right. It's that time again!

Warped.

Here's a picture of my fabulous new warping board that Dan made. 15+ yards of yarny goodness, baby. Oh yeah. 13 pound small Asian cat for scale:




So I hafta get going on the weaving. Here's what I did last week (no pix of the finished stuff yet, but the stuff exists):


And here's Olive curled up with Ben.

This is what happens...

When you go antiquing in Amish country with a few bucks in your pocket:
Your husband finds you a really oddball souvenir that fits your Halloween obsessed personality. I think we're going to make Tucker a little skull cushion so he can use it as a bed. He won't come out of the darn thing.

The one where we catch Kiri eating vegetables...

Okay, not really eating them. More like planning to grow them in our yard and THEN eat them. But I'd have to wash them first. (In homage to Lucy from Peanuts - UCK! Bug spit!) And drown them in 3 inches of Ranch dressing.

If you ever thought growing things in your yard was this benign, thoughtless process... well, let's just say you're wrong. There's all kinds of marketing ploys involved. Such as:
"Our seeds are better! You'll get more plants."
"Who cares about more plants? Ours don't taste like crap. Straight up, yo."
"Who cares what it tastes like? We can help you grow a carrot the size of a redwood tree... if you buy our really expensive organic seaweed fertilizer and this red plastic stuff to put around your plant after the seeds germinate in 14-26 days and the plant has been sown indoors for at least 60 days before setting outside after the frost-free date. Holidays not included."

Oh, and you haven't heard the worst of it. They all have fancy names. A radish can't just be a radish. It has to be something catchy, like a Fire and Ice Radish. Or the Thumbelina Carrot. ::sigh:: It was so much easier when I was planting stuff in plastic containers and drip watering them with Gatorade bottles.