Random Prego Stuff

Today is 35 weeks, and as of today- I'm in my ninth month! Hooray!! And as always, there are some interesting things going on around here.

I included the picture up top to show you, loyal reader, just how much room a baby at this stage takes up in your uterus. Far out, huh? It's mind blowing to know that Margot is about 20" long and weighs 5.5 pounds. She's getting pretty big.

And I didn't know how I felt about the whole Belly Casting thing. My friends here have done it, but it's super hippy-dippy here. I wondered what I would do with a mold of my pregnant self. Hang it on the wall? Is that weird? Well, I do plan to trim it, sand it, and paint it... so it should be tres artistique when I'm finished.

Anyone remember Basic Art with Ms. Booth? It's just like that. (Only then I made a lion mask using my brother's face).

But right now, here's the weird part: when I walk into that bathroom where the cast is drying, it's like walking in on myself. I can't really describe the feeling. I am used to carrying that belly around and seeing it in the mirror and looking down at it when I'm trying to put on my shoes. But it's really strange to see MY BELLY disconnected from my body. It's like there my body double is hanging out in our upstairs bathroom. It's trippy, I'll tell you that.

I don't know when the mold will be finished. I'm busy crocheting a blanket for Margot to come home in (almost done with that), a Halloween cross stitch sampler (I should be able to get that done by October), a quilt wall hanging (I'm taking a class on Thursdays to do that one), and building a padded headboard for the guest room bed. So it's a little busy around here.

I'm confident most of these projects can be finished before Margot makes her debut.

I hear babies have a way of sucking up excess time.

-Understatement, anyone?