a hidden treasure

I came across this cute little store, Lovejoy's Attic, on my way home from an afternoon at Dolores park and fell inlove with this antique framed chalkboard.  Without hesitation I purchased it and skipped my way home feeling like I had just won the lottery. 

Brad and I decided we will take turns and write a message a week.  It can be anything...something encouraging, something naughty, something funny, whatever!  This was my first.

Fam in SF

My entire family was out in San Francisco the last week, even Ryan made it for a few days which was an unexpected surprise.  It was awesome!  We had some great fellowship time, drama time (a must with the Chaos) and Sonoma wine time.  My aunt Suzi (mom's youngest sister) was out here as well so we were able to hang with her and now fiance.  Congrats again Suzi-Q!

Sunday of course came way too quick.  Goodbyes are always hard especially when you know you're not going to be seeing your family until September. Grrr.  Thank goodness for skype, twitter, facebook and email!

Lucca Bun Turns One!

My little precious niece hit one years old this week!  It feels like yesterday when we were all at the hospital waiting on her arrival.  Her rents threw her a grand little party on Saturday and I was glad to be apart of it all.  Happy birthday turd!

 

How 'bout them Hogs

If the Razorbacks are near, we're there. Last weekend we went to see the Hogs baseball team beat up on the Cal Berkeley Bear tree huggers. It was a beautiful day on the other side of the Bay Bridge. We weren't expecting a good turn out for our Hogs, but suprisingly there were a lot of Razorback fans.

Baby blogging

So I've decided to start a blog dedicated to anything and everything related to this little thang growing in my belly.  I will still try to update this blog, but for all baby updates, please follow A TASTE OF FINE WINE...AND YOU!

Knead vs. Need

Instructing Brad on how to give me a back rub...

me: move your hands like you're kneading bread.

brad: (in a scary serious voice) uh, what do you mean? I don't need bread unless I'm making a sandwich.

HELP.

First Purchase

I know, I know...how cliché to buy a piece of clothing with the name of the city/district you live in, but I just had to. It was far to cute to pass up! First purchase for my babe and I can just tell I'm going to have way too much fun doing this. I just hope the father of my child is ready for the damage that's about to be done! I think he has a good idea...

2 Steps Forward, 2 Steps Back

This week has proved to be especially challenging. Just when I thought I had crushed this morning sickness, runny nose/cold, back aching, constantly tired phase of my pregnancy, something else has reared its ugly head. It's called TOO MUCH ENERGY. And no it's not because of caffeine. My energy during the day is like drinking 10 Red Bulls, but without the crash! It's like my heart is going to beat out of my chest 24/7. I'm not sure if it's anxiety or what but it sure is disturbing. To make matters even worse, when I do finally fall asleep I almost always have to get up to weewee and then I'm up for the rest of the night. What is up with that?!!! I'm not sure I have ever experienced something like this in a natural state.

Another thing I'm noticing is my dream cycle. It's not very normal whatsoever (well neither am I), but to have rapid dreams where you partially wake up after each dream is not cool. Each dream makes complete sense. They are not dreams that I've heard about of leaving my child unsupervised, but a series of dreams that replay my real life incidents, they just have a different twist to them. I wonder what the heck that means.

And this metallic taste in my mouth has got to go away. I feel like I've been gnawing on aluminum foil for several hours. Not very pleasant. I've learned that sour and citrus foods help with this so I'm downing OJ like it's no one's biz.

I can't whine too much as I have the honor of carrying one of God's beautiful miracles and to be honest with you it hasn't been bad at all. If this is all He's got for me then I'll be genuinely disappointed. Bring it.

So what's our little one up to these next two weeks? Goob is about 3.2 to 4.5 inches from crown to rump and weighs approximately 1 ounce now and is about the size of my fist. The face is becoming more and more developed; eyes moving closer together, ears moving up into position away from the neck, the cheeks and bridge of nose appear, if it's a baby boy, the prostate will appear and the ovaries descend from the abdomen into the pelvis in baby girls.



We sometimes get so caught up in the little things like baby names or the cutest clothes and decorations to buy or who it will look like that we don't appreciate the many blessings that are happening each passing hour. It's just amazing.