Happy Halloween!

Painting on sugar pumpkins is fun!

Halloween Droids

For the Google Halloween costume contest, two of my coworkers and I decided to be Androids -- but not just any Droids, Halloween-themed Droids.  It fell to me to design and build our Droid heads -- a witch (Melody), a skeleton (me), and a vampire (Freeman).  

Here's the process in photos, from the beginning -- using Rigid Wrap (plaster wrap) around a beach ball to create each head-- to the finished product.

Supplies stand at the ready: beach ball, plaster wrap, water, scissors.

Working with the plaster is extremely pleasing and fun.

All three heads are formed and drying.

An eye slit has been cut in my Droid head.  Cole (who helped me quite a bit on the project) and I went back and forth about how best to cut eye holes, and this seemed like the best option.

Here's the witch Droid looking more like a nonplussed frog.

Vampire Droid gets its fangs (dripping blood, of course).

Freeman cut dowls to size so that I could screw them into the plaster wrap.  It was a fantastic way to attach the antennas.

The finished product!

I'll be back with photos of our entire costumes following the contest (which we'll win, of course) today.

30 Weeks

Hitting 30 weeks seems like a big milestone...not only to be in the thirties, but to realize that the baby's arrival is only 10 weeks or so away.  It makes me very happy that the room is basically done, because we have a lot of other stuff to take care of.

I'm starting to feel tired again a lot of the time, but I'm hanging in there.  I'm hoping that Roo is already in birth position (head down, spine along the front of my belly) because I'm feeling a lot more shifting body movements than individuals kicks now.  We've completed 3/4 parts of our Hypnobirthing class now and couldn't be happier with it.  The final class is on Sunday and a full day.

Owl-dorable

Eileen brought these back from Napa for me the baby.  I was pleased as punch when I opened the box!  I can just see these soft little moccasins paired with a white onesie and leg warmers.  

Roo is going to be quite the fashion statement.

Truth

28 Weeks

I'm officially in the third trimester now!  The most exciting news is that we started our childbirth prep class last night and I couldn't be happier with it (we're doing HypnoBirthing).  Roo is weighing in at about 2.5 pounds and could be as long as 17 inches.  This baby is active!  Constantly kicking, punching, and rolling around...

Whoa.  I already feel pretty big...so the next 3 months should be interesting :)

And one more photo, just for laughs:

I'm not exactly sure how far along my mom was with me here, but I know that she found this photo really comical.  This is what happens when you try to make a non-maternity dress work over a big belly. {I have tried this as well with similar results -- but I made sure pics would not be snapped -- ha.}

Family Rocking Chair

I mentioned in an earlier post how excited I was to be able to use in our baby's room the rocking chair that my mom rocked me in.  

Here's my mom in said rocker:

And here's a peek at the rocker in the soon-to-be-finished nursery:

We went back and forth about painting it white, but I think I prefer it the original dark walnut color.

Best of all, this chair is COMFORTABLE.  I had forgotten just how cozy it is.  Lucky for us since I'm sure both Cole and I will be spending a lot of time in it.

Embellished Onesie

I picked up this brand new onesie at the Goodwill on Van Ness a few months ago, knowing it had the potential to be awesome.  A girl would just have to cover up the mysterious "Fisher Investments" logo (what tool found it necessary to embroider onesies with a corporate name, anyway?  Never mind the fact that I plan to outfit our kid in at least one piece of Google clothing...).  

So here's the before:

And the after:

A bit of fabric, some embroidery, and fusible hem tape is all this took.  Now our baby will never be able to forget what its nickname in utero was.