Baby

According to Babycenter.com, 
Baby weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches from head to heel.

According to the What to expect when you are expecting site
Baby weighs about 2 pounds and measures 9 plus inches.

One of the sites must be right... Right? So some where between 1-2 pounds and 9-14 inches.

Babies eyes also start to open this week.

All this happening inside this big basketball, pretty amazing.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:14

What's the deal with all the pregnancy comparisons?

 

Kate vs Kim vs Cassie

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What's the deal with all the pregnancy comparisons in magazines lately? 

I mean really
what pregnant lady wants to be compared to another.
I know magazines like US and People thrive off of "who wore it best" but comparing two pregnant
ladies that aren't even wearing the same thing and have completely different body types, why?

First of all, every women "shows" differently and even from pregnancy to pregnancy
women are different.

Are people really talking about Kim Kardashian's weight gain?

I admit I don't understand fully why she's famous and I've never been a fan of her
reality show but I would NEVER make fun of or comment on her pregnancy weight gain, I'd be
more worried if she was not eating and nutritiously feeding her baby and instead worrying about
keeping some figure status.

Then people are ragging on the type of clothes she is wearing while pregnant and how they might
not be flattering on her growing size. Really?

I've yet to find pregnancy clothes that are entirely flattering on me, or that I just feel wonderful in, it's a weird time with all the ways your body is changing.
I think having a beach ball
sticking out your front doesn't lead to the cutest fashion at all times.
I think when you are pregnant you just do the best you can to still feel good about how you look.

I guess it bothers me that these sort of magazines, (even though I admit I often read them, I'm guilty), try to pit women against each other comparing women only on their physical appearances.
Let's just let two pregnant
people be pregnant and not over analyze how they are showing or what they are wearing,

I'm just wishing them a happy healthy pregnancy
and am sure glad there are no magazines following me and questioning
or debating my pregnancy weight gain or style.  phew!

Mean People

Here's a random thought for ya...

Have you ever seen that bumper sticker

MEAN PEOPLE SUCK




something tells me that if you have that bumper sticker
you probably aren't a nice person because nice people would
say "oh I can't put that on my car it's too mean" and would
feel MEAN actually putting that message on their car...

so it's probably not a nice or maybe even a mean person that would take the time
to purchase and stick on a bumper sticker saying that anyone sucks...

so therefore is the person with the MEAN PEOPLE SUCK sticker
trying to give a public service announcement
and tell us...
 "watch out there's a mean person driving here and I might happen to suck."

just sayin'

I've Got Vegas on my Mind

Thinking back to the last week of March...
Not long ago we were enjoying 70's and 80's at the pool in Vegas.
Now we are enjoying?? inches of snow and high 30's, only in MN.
But there's a silver lining 50 degrees coming this weekend, cross your fingers.

With the spring we've had a "Spring Break" was needed and
after a slight panic yet excitement of "we might not go on a vacation ever again, we are really having a baby! Ah!"
a trip away was all well worth it.

Peter tried blackjack and won $50 bucks.
We weren't so lucky at the slots so that's really all the gambling we did.
We spent each day by the pool, walked all up and down the strip, ate great food, explored downtown Vegas and all the elaborate casinos, admired the Bellagio fountains and garden, and
saw Illusionist Kriss Angels show.  Good times.

IT's Official

Ok so we are now Facebook official so this must mean it's really happening :)
Because it doesn't happen or isn't real unless it's a status update on facebook. J/K

Here's the post, we wrote on my husbands Facebook...


Not sure if these are going to fit me
GOOD thing we are adding a little
Gopher fan to the family in August--
with Cassie Lindberg

Is it Spring Yet?

I'm ready to see these again...

do you remember these? flowers...magenta, blue, pink, yellow, peach, green...these are the colors I am ready to see, no more
gray, white and dirty.

There is a week in February every year ( a few weeks ago) that I tell Peter "I want to/have to move to California, maybe even by tomorrow."

After a few years of being married we realized it was about the same week in winter, in February that my winter blues were at an all time high, "didn't we have this conversation last year?"

Then by March it starts getting better, warmer, more spring like, by April my tulips are even starting to stick up a little, by May I've forgotten about our moving plans and Minnesota is a great place to live again and why would I ever want to move to California.

It's been warm the last few days, how many of these 36 degree days do you think it will take to melt
all this sloppy white stuff outside otherwise known as snow?

Will there be no snow on the ground by the end of March?

What do you think?

Please tell me it'll be gone or I might have to move to California...
or at least fuss about it again this year.

Sound Sleeper or Need Sound Machine?

I wish I wasn't addicted,
addicted to sound- that is, when I'm sleeping.
I wish I could be a "sound sleeper" but instead I need a sound or constant white noise to help me sleep.

For years I used a fan and the gentle buzzing of the fan would be just enough to lull me to sleep,
with out the fan I can hear every little sound around MAGNIFIED.

And say perhaps someone that might sleep in the same room, not naming any names or anything...
happens to snore-- to someone that needs white noise, well that snore sounds like a car alarm going off in my calmly sleeping brain with out the muffling buzz of white noise.

Well as you know fans are more for summer like temps and my poor better half was noticing how freezing cold our room was getting each night, especially with the cold winter we've been suffering through, so he took it upon himself to buy me a little present.

My very own alarm clock sound machine.  How romantic, seriously! That's love.
Sadly there was no white noise, black and white buzz on the TV, fan like sound.

Instead I can chose from chirping crickets and mosquitos on a summer night so I can wake up swatting myself,
or ocean waves so I can have surfing dreams or shark attacks,
thunder storm which sounds a little more like one of those heart beat monitoring machines,
a rain storm which normally I love to hear that in the summer but all night it just makes me have to pee, and last but not least waterfall.

Surprisingly, the waterfall sounds more like a white noise fan then a tropical vacation
so I found my match!
 and
 I can sleep soundly and
Peter is no longer freezing.