I'm in heaven!

A wool heaven to be precise!!! These arrived at my door yesterday and I was literally jumping off my feet (well not much as my huge belly weights me down). They are all knitted by the talented Katherine at Stitchy Mama Knits. All wools are dyed by Elissa from The Yarn Cafe , I love love love her yarn!

The longies are for the new baby and the rest, of course, are for Becky :) The dress and the beanie are so adorable on her, and the cardi is just so sweet. I will post action pics when the weather clears up, it has been raining non stop since Friday.

Long time no post

Yes, I've been slacked. Life has been a little too tedious for me to blog regularly... But apart from being *almost* over the pregnancy, everything has been pretty good :)

Bub is due in about 3 weeks!!! Sheesh, it has gone pretty quickly (sometimes hehe). Half of me wants to birth the baby badly as I'm soooo tired carrying this huge belly, but the other half wants him to stay put. I must admit I'm still scared of the birth...as much as I want it to be as natural as possible, I still fear things won't turn up the way I want them to be...and I'm scared to be disappointed yet again.

Anyway, bub is still growing wonderfully and I'm still managing this pregnancy just fine :)

Now onto my nappy stash (which seems to forever growing)...I just did a quick stocktake and here is the list:

Fitteds:

1 x small Dream-Eze organic
1 x nb Loveybum organic
3 x small itti bitti boos
2 x small Bubblebubs Bambam
4 x nb Cherub's Kiss Raphaels
3 x nb Swaddlebees organic velour
1 x nb Very Baby
2 x size 1 Kissaluvs
1 x Kissaluv contour
4 x size Tots Bots Bamboozles
3 x size 1 Tots Bots cotton
1 x size 1 Tots Bots fluffle
5 x nb Whizz Kidz
1 x nb sherpa by Fiona Jill
2 x nb Honeyboy fitteds made by Mandy
1 x small Peep-O
5 x small itti bitti
1 x nb The Cauldron
2 x small Kidz in Cloth
1 x Hillbilly organic
4 x small Bubblebubs Sherpies
1 x size 1 Bubba J bamboo
1 x size 1 Bits for Bots
1 x small Erica nappies
5 x nb homemade (made by Kristy, not me LOL)
1 x nb Bumgenius bamboo
2 x small Thristies
1 x nb Cuddlenbuns

AIOs:

6 x small Bubblebubs
2 x small itti bitti d'lish
2 x small Magic-all
1 x nb Magic-all
2 x small Moneky Doodlez
2 x nb Honeyboy made by Melinda & Kristy
2 x small Cherub's Kiss Honeyboy
1 x nb Muttaquin
2 x size 1 Auriel (another one is coming from a swap..oops)




OSFAs:

Technically thiese shouldn't count as most were Becky's but I sinfully bought some (ok a lot) specially for this baby too...

2 x Cute Tooshies bamboo delight
1 x Mandy Mac
5 x Greenkids pockets
3 x Blueberry pockets (Becky still uses them)
1 x Swaddlebees organic pocket
2 x Bumgenius pockets
4 x Babybeehinds bamboo
1 x Baby Green


Covers:

1 x small Parrot Pants shorties
1 x small Knits n Knot shorties
1 x nb Whizz Kidz fleece cover
1 x nb shorties
2 x Baby Beehinds wool covers
2 x nb soaker
3 x nb longies
1 x small Luxe Baby wool cover
3 x small fleece covers
5 x size 1 Tots Bots PUL covers
4 x nb Thirsties PUL covers
2 x small Motherease PUL covers
1 x nb Bummis PUL cover
1 x small Baby Beehinds PUL cover
1 x organic wool cover from the U.S. (can't remember what it is)




Prefolds/Flats:

10 x cotton prefolds
6 x bamboo prefolds
6 x bamboo flats
6 x terry flats

The flats are a bit too big for early newborn stage so I'm not sure I'll be using them (they will come in handy as spew rags though :)). I'm also considering getting 6 more prefolds...

Holy Moly!!!! 95 nappies & 28 covers for a tush!!!!!!! My mum was right, they are enough for triplets! LOL

And I still need to count those that Becky has outgrown (mostly medium size) and those she's still wearing when we go out (yes she's day trained now *grin*)....that should be interesting.

Personality

You Are An ISFJ

The Nurturer You have a strong need to belong, and you very loyal. A good listener, you excel at helping others in practical ways. In your spare time, you enjoy engaging your senses through art, cooking, and music. You find it easy to be devoted to one person, who you do special things for. In love, you express your emotions through actions. Taking care of someone is how you love them. And you do it well! At work, you do well in a structured environment. You complete tasks well and on time. You would make a good interior designer, chef, or child psychologist. How you see yourself: Competent, dependable, and detail oriented When other people don't get you, they see you as: Boring, dominant, and stuck in a rut

What's Your Personality Type?

Growing, growing & growing

It seems everything around me is growing fast right now. First is my tummy...I'm almost 17 weeks at the moment, yike! I can't believe I'm almost half way through my pregnancy. Bub is kicking now :) especially when I sit down and lie down at night. It feels funny and so lovely at the same time. I don't vividly remember if it felt like this with Becky, but I do remember she's a lot more of an aggressive kicker LOL

My newborn nappy stash is also growing...I think I'm having too much fun browsing, oohing and aahing over those gorgeous tiny nappies. I only bought a Tots Bots pack when I was pregnant with Becky and didn't use anything else until she's 4 months old, so life wasn't that exciting then LOL

Next is my growing little girl *sigh* Becky is growing a lot these days, funnily enough as she's such a lousy eater and she's managed to put on weight. I think she's about 10.3kg now and geez she's tall! She's way past 90cm, pretty impressive for a small frame 2.5 year old.

Not only that she's physically growing, her other developmental skills are rapidly moving ahead. Her speech is much better than a few months ago. She starts to speak in English more than Thai now even though she used to say those words in Thai. I guess she just experiments with different sounds & consonants, and I like that she has a privilege of learning different languages first hand.

Her social skill is also greatly improving. She doesn't cry when she has to be separated from me for a little while anymore (although she's still a mummy girl :)) and loves her daddy dearly. Well, she always loves her daddy but much much more so these days. She sometimes picks up a phone and starts having a conversation with her dad during the day when he's at work (of course she just pretends to talk to him LOL), and it goes like this:

"Hello Daddy, Becky with mummy yada yada thryowthhhhllywwll blahblah (I have no idea what she says here LOL), ok, ok, ok see you, bye".

Gotta love that!

She also adjusts really well at daycare now. The director even said she's doing so good for someone who goes there only once a week :) I'm so happy she has great fun there (and that I get to eat my lunch peacefully one day a week LOL).