9 weeks

Not too much has changed with the pregnancy, but that's a good thing right? I'm no where near as nauseous as I was a few weeks back, but its still a daily annoyance. I think my sleeping issue is more of an issue than my nausea. I am absolutely useless to anyone after 4 o'clock or so. If I take a nap, I generally wake up grumpy, and then I can't sleep well at night. If I don't take a nap, I can barely think because I'm so tired, but I sleep VERY well at night. The latter is the option I've been choosing.

It isn't all bad though. I've started having dreams about the baby. Not often, but two so far. Both of them involving a little boy, and always introducing him to my family as "Jackson." For those of you reading this hoping I'm going to have a little boy, don't take this as a sign. I had NUMEROUS dreams while I was pregnant with Ellie that I was having a little boy. I don't see much into now. I don't feel either way about what this baby is. Another girl? Awesome, I'm good with girls. A boy? Awesome, it'll be fun (and will shush Daddy up)! I'm not compelled to find out either. I feel so old-fashioned by waiting, but I'm more excited about this choice than about picking out paint colors or clothes. I'm not going to ask anyone to buy us clothes or other baby goodies, simply because we aren't finding out. I know its more fun to shop for a little girl or a little boy, but keeping the excitement in the pregnancy feels right to me. I don't need to plan. I'm a just-go-with it kinda gal anyway.

Ellie has had a couple predictions. The first (and more common) prediction is that its going to be a little boy with red hair and mommy's eyes (brown). The other, and more entertaining, prediction is that mommy is having a boy AND a girl. Yea, not gonna lie. That prediction scares the crap outta me! LOL If it is, then it is. I can't say it something I've ever hoped for though.

I had my first OB appointment, which was absolutely ridiculous. I didn't see a doctor at all. Didn't take my weight. Didn't take my blood pressure. No temp. Nothing. Just sat down and filled out a bunch of medical history information, gave some blood, and made my appointment to actually see a doctor. As of right now, I believe my appointment will be during my 11th week, and Tom and Ellie will be there to hear the heartbeat so I'm actually very excited about it. To know there is something in there, really in there, causing the nausea... causing the cramps... causing the incessant peeing... it'll be wonderful. Plus, the expression we'll get from Ellie is guaranteed to be priceless.

So yea, this pregnancy hasn't started off as smoothly as Ellie's, but this is a different baby. And with that, even the bad looks good.

Photography Class

Even though this is being posted on Thursday, I felt the desire to post some pictures that I've taken in my photography class. I by no means think I'm a great photographer. I've got a great friend who showed me some pretty awesome things a camera can do if you know what you're doing. I'm also not going to invest in a SLR camera until I know that its something I want to do more than just occasionally. The first three are pictures for an assignment that was based off of anything we wanted, we just had to really work on getting a good contrast.

The next three are pictures from my current assignment that has to deal with texture, line and pattern. Again, we were focusing a lot on contrast.

(if you're wondering, those are snake eggs)

This last picture is actually a picture I took with the intentions of using it for my tlp assignment, but upon some constructive criticism decided against it. But... I still really like it, and I did some creative editing. Can you see what's missing?

Yarn Along {four}

Please don't think I've been ignoring this. Things are pretty busy with Tom not here and my life has been taken over by the pregnancy, school, and home life. Every day seems pretty similar to the day before so I figured a good place to fill you in would be on the craft I've been knitting (off and on). This is also being linked to Yarn Along over at Ginny's Site.

It was coming along very quickly, and then my motivation dwindled as my nausea got worse. I haven't really done much to it since, but I do know its almost done. If you're interested in the pattern, I bought it off a raverly merchant. The pattern actually include 6 different cables, and since this is for a little one, I turned the cable into a single piece (an owl). I'm planning on putting two small brown buttons in for the eyes, but I may just use embroidery floss. I'm still pretty excited about the end product.

The other section of "yarn along" is actually what I'm reading. I can safely say the only thing I'm reading is what's being required of me by my professors, and honestly, its not worth talking about. :)