can't knit due to pregnancy related carpel tunnel...in the meantime, i love this song!

Student: " Ah oh, you're gonna get pregnant!" (I said, oh, honey it's a little late for that!)

I can not stop watching this....and laughing:



I forgot to post this when I finished it! My beach bag was ready for our trip to Cannon Beach:



I also took great satisfaction in seriously organizing our new junk (or drunk) drawer:

I have been meaning to write a blog for some time now. Last week we started work, training and I had to move my classroom. I have been working on it for 6 days in a row, with much help from Topher, thank goodness. Our school year starts early and with the SIG grant there are a lot of changes and much planning to do. I am really excited to use the new program and to work with our new teachers and principal. It is going to be a good year! Also, I can't complain about being out for a few months with the baby! I am now 3o weeks along, and despite being tired of being pregnant, I feel great! Tonight we are going to see the Sounders play. (Never mind, we are staying home, I am overexerted and the baby is not moving...that always makes me really nervous.)

Finished projects:

We got a new cookbook, it is amazing! It even has dairy free Flan in it!!! I made pickled onions one day. It was easy and they are really good!


Night number 2 of Ecuadorian potato pancakes with peanut sauce and pickled onions on top (from Viva Vegan, so dairy free and gluten free, we subbed Tapioca flour)...sooooooooo good!


Our garden is awesome! I think next year we need more planter boxes!

One of the baby's sweaters I made. This one is for when they are 3-6 months, or earlier.

this morning KEXP is playing music from my youth

Tomorrow morning we head off for our Babymoon (a vacation you take before the baby comes). Our Babymoon coincides with our Anniversary, sort of. Though I am hoping that we take off for at least a night for our Anniversary, say maybe to the Westin in Bellevue? Anyway, we are headed to Cannon Beach in Oregon. I have never been to the Oregon coast before and am excited to see where The Goonies was filmed! It looks beautiful and relaxing. Since moving to Seattle, I seem to be finding myself mostly traveling to cities, it's time for some quiet relaxing time with my hubby.

Meanwhile...today I have errands to run and plan on packing up as much as I can, so that I can make it to work for a few hours to get a handle on what I have to do to get ready for the school year. My classroom moved and so it is sort of a mess, but I am looking forward to a fresh, organized start. Then Topher and I are meeting in Lower Queen Anne to go see Please Give (finally)! We recently found the time to see 2 movies in the theatre! Predators and Inception, both were enjoyable! Predators brought back long lost memories of watching movies that we probably should not have been watching on HBO at my cousins house. And Inception did not have a dull moment and we left having questions that we tried to answer, I hope Nolan keeps making movies like this!

Speaking of the past...

I realized today that our postings have not been very personal lately. We have both been pretty busy with life, I know I am on vacation, but blogging has lost some of it's fun and excitement. Topher had Friday and Saturday off and we had fun. On Friday, we went to Xanadu, the comic book store, together for once! We also looked at furniture on Cap Hill, we still need a small couch, a desk and some rugs.

On Saturday I made breakfast, including gluten free biscuits! We had our pregnant lady and partner yoga class (which will help us with the labor) and then went to the Annual Can't Stop the Serenity shindig. Then, Topher took me out to Teapot (vegan Chinese restaurant on Cap hill) for dinner.

I finally made the Mason-Dixon Baby Kimono, tried to make it as unisex as possible. Skipped the ribbons and put buttons on it instead.

Right now I am trying to decide on either trying to kick into a higher gear to finish up my bag:


or knitting a swatch for a super cute, Debbie Bliss baby sweater....I'll probably end up doing both.

I tried really hard to go to a movie today, Please Give, but my pregnant body could not get it together so I went in search for cheap picture frames. We have 3 pictures we want to put up soon, without breaking the bank. I went to Annie's, Joann, Bartell and Fred Meyer and found 1 frame (for the baby's room) and 2 plate/tray hangers (for the kitchen). So, we'll have 3 more things on our wall and I wish artists would produce art that is a standard size! Oh well, the search continues. (or maybe we'll get mats cut and get inexpensive frames still.) We are pretty proud of the Spock plate that is now hanging in the kitchen, that we got for $5.00 at a garage sale!

what to do with all these onesies?

We have a ton of them and they all looked the same! I think we may even need more! We finally explored the new Elliot Bay Books when my mom was here and I stumbled upon this:


These iron-ons are super adorable and it was a fun little project to individualize all the plain white onesies that we have been given so far.