MM's 2nd Party!

Me and MM were given our second baby shower yesterday -

what an AMAZING day!

Any day when 25+ people you love and have known all your life want to shower you with love, encouragement, and gifts is easily the best day of that week, but what made it extra special were the little things:

1. my sister hand-making a gorgeous baby quilt from all my favourite fabrics
2. the sun hats that were provided for EVERYONE in the back-yard tea party shower
3. the 8 different kinds of tea offered
4. Alysha spraying everyone's hot legs and ankles with iced-water from a spray bottle
5. celebrating with some friends who I've known since I was born, in grade two, or elementary and high school
6. the favours: a bag of blend 103 tea from the Tea Emporium with a tea leaf catcher and a small satchel of lavender (my favourite scent) for under your pillow :)
   

a sick little prego and a silver lining

uhhhh I'm sick.

Not the prego sick I have been (i.e. barfing random mornings, feeling sleepy, etc).

Full-blown, can't-hold-anything-down-or-in, can't-taste-food, tummy-ache-city. It started last night around 1am. That was my first clue this wasn't prego sickness. I have only been sick once at a time other than around 7-9am during this pregnancy, and it was about 5am, simply because I was REALLY hungry and my body thought it was morning, hence morning sickness.

We went out to dinner with Daymond and Alysha, my cousins visiting this weekend. Eating rich and great foods all weekend made me think it could have been food poisoning (I'm not fantastic with dairy, though usually ok, but I had super rich pasta and whipped cream all in the same day). So a few hours after returning home and thus digesting, it happened.

You know the ultimate shame when you're sitting on the toilet because you can't get off, whilst puking into a garbage can that you forgot to line with a plastic bag? Yeah. With company over. Beauty. Now they're family so it's not the end of the world, but the sounds and smells were probably hard to ignore :(

I finished in the bathroom around 2am, drank piles of Gatorade and ate Life cereal (with NO milk) before waking up every hour afterward, since I maybe did drink a gallon (hey, I thought I was dehydrated). So it was hard to have a good night's sleep but this morning, though tired, I thought it was over. Fell back asleep until around 2pm, waking to a raging tummy ache, no taste for any food whatsoever, and that general kill-me-now-i'm-so-sick feeling.

On the plus side, last night before the world's worst hostess, hour long, visit to the bathroom, I felt MM kicking away and this time from the outside of my belly! I had felt the fluttery movements for the last week but this was clear as day. My hand was just below my belly button and I felt him/her squirming and moving around. I wonder if his/her tummy was upset too? Or if MM even noticed the mass exodus of all solid materials form my body? How much of our own sicknesses and pains does the baby participate in?

Going back to sleep :)

boys and girls

Most of you know that I'm a girl's girl. My hobbies include shopping and baking and I have never even thought about the reality that I could be the mom of boys, or even all boys.

I think it all began when my parents didn't have sons. And then my aunts and uncles closest to us didn't either. It was a girl's party. My cousins Maggie, Sarah, and Alysha were the extended family we spent the most time with, leaving zero room for boys to enter the brain. Then there were my dolls/barbies/imaginary friends: ALL GIRLS. Noticing a trend here? Not to mention I've never been the girl who's best buddies with guys... All my closest friends throughout the years have been Caily's, Tess's, Missy's, Catherine's, and Jamie's... GIRLS.

Naturally this is could all change in 6 weeks and I think it's just hitting me recently. Of course Brad is probably the most comfortable with boys since he has only brothers and I'll be thrilled no matter what the sex is, but part of me is a bit nervous of the potential of having a boy, or down the road, all boys. Can I swing it? I'm no hockey mom and I don't really "get" boys. But who knows?

At church I taught Sunday school today and there are two boys (brothers) who I adore. Miguel and Manuel. I thought to myself today: if my kids are like these, I could do boys! Often I get epiphanies like this, you know seeing the great things that boys bring to the table that girls can't, or thinking about how great it would be to "gain a daughter instead of lose a son" as they say in marriage, or the possibility for my future daughters having an older brother always looking out for them. I never had that and always was slightly jealous of those who did.

So we'll see. My 20 week ultra sound where I get to know the sex is in 6 weeks. I'll keep you all posted, and in the meantime, any advice on boys is welcome!

Alysha 1, Etsy 0

Alysha, my cousin, is kind of amazing.

She and her husband Daymond visited this weekend and we all had a marvelous time. The farewell tour continued, including eating great food and drinking great wines and coffees all weekend long. I think when I do get pregnant I'll look back on binge weekends like this of eating and drinking pregnancy-no-no's and long for them.

Not only did Alysha provide the much needed and missed family connection, but she also brought along delicious wine and steaks for us to all enjoy on the Friday night, her much anticipated plans for a future high-tea themed baby shower, and the no-need-for-expensive-Etsy-baby-stuff good news. Many good things happened in the last 48 hours :)

Turns out, everything I'd wanted from Etsy was "simple sewing, Emmy, common!".

I myself am not a sewer (read: I'll sew my own fingers before sewing a straight line) so I couldn't recognize the simplicity of the over-prized things I'd wanted in the previous post. Alysha went on to explain excitedly how she could and would make me everything on the Etsy pictures I'd posted and more! She loves creativity, decorating, details, and all things pretty, PLUS she's enormously generous and loving and doesn't want kids of her own, so she pretty much adds up to be a pregnant or dreaming-to-become-pregnant woman's best friend.

So whenever I can post confidently the news of a pregnancy, the next step will be fabric shopping, since Etsy has nothing on my wonder-woman cousin. That combined with the potential of this being my last period for a while is more happiness and excitement than one girl can take! What a weekend of Goods :)