I'm in love

Hunter turned 4 weeks old yesterday and it has been an amazing ride. Exhausting but pretty darn awesome. He makes this amazing pirate face all of the time.



but most of the time he looks like this



4 weeks postpartum I get to start throwing again and since we just moved and I need to set up my studio I've decided to take a throwing class at Atlantic Pottery Supply. I hope I don't freak out leaving Hunter at home with his daddy. lol. 2hrs a week of being outside the house should be a good thing.. right?

28 weeks

It's been a few months since my last post. (16 weeks to be exact)

I haven't touched clay in 7 months and have been getting the itch, but now that the morning sickness is over, my belly gets in the way. Guess i'll have to wait a little longer.

but here are some 28 week pictures of what I have been making.

new sonogram. (turning into a baby blog?)

Had he first trimester check up. The fetus has all of its parts! Legs, arms, spine, beautiful beating heart, nasal bone, bladder, stomach, and so forth. Everything measured well too. What a relief. I've been having dreams that the baby has multiple legs/arms and is actually a squid. When the squid arrives it attacks Jake and kills him. Weird? So it was a relief to see a baby with all the correct parts.

I've still been sick and unable to keep any food/liquid down for long. That should change tomorrow since i'm giving in and getting anti nausea drugs. I'm looking forward to eating a meal and only tasting it once. The heat/humidity in northern florida has been killing me. Note to self: if i'm ever nuts enough to do this again, plan around the summer.

anyway here are some new pictures!

not yay

I'm supposed to be hanging out with other potters at penland, but instead on my my couch with a bowl of ice cream.

Packed my bags/cars up left the house at 7am... by 10:30 I had turned the car around and headed back home. Just couldn't do it. Vomiting and driving not so safe and then i started to feel guilty about dorm mates/workshop mates having to deal with my constant bathroom trips. Just bad timing i suppose and it as a reality check on baby first, everything else second.

new post

Almost time for penland!



I leave on Sunday for 2 weeks and thankfully I'm feeling much better. The fetus is 11 weeks and less susceptible to external toxins since all of it's organs are developed.

I haven't touched clay in 2 months, which feels extremely strange but I'm excited to get out of the humidity and make some work again.

:)

there's the fetus.

We misjudged the dates a little bit, so this is really early still. (7.5 weeks) and I know people don't start blabbing about the baby until 12 weeks, but what can I say we jumped the gun and thought the baby was almost 12 weeks 2 weeks ago. So crossing our fingers that all continues to go well. The doc said everything looked great with a strong heartbeat and all.

my absence

Sorry I haven't been communicating at all since coming home from NCECA. I had grand plans of living in the studio but I haven't been in the studio for more than 10 mins since coming home. Where have I been? I've been huddled over the toilet or sleeping. Swine flu? bird flu? nope, it's baby flu! Turns out that Jake and I are 8.5 weeks pregnant. We were pretty shocked, stoked, and nervous all wrapped into 1. I know I should have waited another 3-4 weeks before talking about it, but I've had a hard time not telling people or thinking about it. First time I have been thankful that I don't have a full time job, since I have been sleeping 15hrs a day. This pregnancy thing is no joke. So anyone reading this, need some good vibes and crossing our fingers that it is a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby by December 6th. Which means I will be in the middle of my 2nd semester at Penland... I'm not sure how that is going to work out :( I may have to miss the Ayumi Horie Workshop, but hopefully I'm more active by then. So that's the big news from north florida and i'll have ultra sound pictures by friday :) The bathroom is calling my name.
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