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Drive by Fruitings

Jaspenelle
by Jaspenelle
Wed
15
Jul
2009
10:05pm
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grapes
It’s been a busy day and if you follow me on twitter you might have noticed a series of maddening clues (or at least they were maddening to some who follow me.) I had my ultrasound, Michael brought home grapes and Shannon cut my hair. So to satisfy the curious:

Those grapes… After my ultrasound, Michael brought home a case of organic red seedless ones, waaay more then we could ever eat. Well, I probably could have eaten them all, but that might not have been the healthiest choice. So we loaded some of them up and randomly dropped them off at our friends’ houses. Spreading the love via drive by fruitings. It is nice when you know how to get into your friends’ homes when they are not home, maybe a little creepy, but cool.

Shannon was home though and she attacked me with a pair of shears. It worked out delightfully well though, I love the haircut. Pardon the darkness of the photo, I have had to resort to my camera phone till the new one arrives. Cute though, no? I still have my 12-inch pony tail in my backpack though, in case I get hair withdrawal.

So that was pretty much my day.

Oh wait, the ultrasound? Were you curious about that? Well, apparently you can get pregnant before your period returns after giving birth (about a 2% possibility) and then have a 10 day heavy period when you are about 5 weeks into it (not sure the probability there but it is unusual.) The baby is fine, no worries. Yes, there is only one. I’m at about 20 weeks instead 15, which changes my due date to around December 2nd, maybe a Thanksgiving baby?

We are very excited and relieve it is not twins. I am reluctant to share the sex for fear of being inundated with piles of blindingly pink things but I suppose that kind of gives it away doesn’t it? It’s a girl, her name will be Ivy Eleanor Stewart.

Memorial Day Recap

Jaspenelle
by Jaspenelle
Tue
27
May
2008
4:27pm
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group shot
From left to right: Kim, Greg, Ariella, Lydia and Ginanne holding her daughter Emily. (Michael, Jordan and I are off frame.)

On Sunday and Monday, Michael and I were up at my in-laws home in Elk, WA. Ginanne, Jordan and their daughter Emily, also came up, though they camped out down in the apple orchard. After they had set up their camp, we all decided to go down to the orchard and have a campfire. We roasted weenies and made smores (mmm smores!)

pondI really love Greg and Kim’s property, which is in a pretty densely wooded area near Mount Spokane State Park. It use to mostly border the park but the state recently sold some land to some developers who are changing it into a rural housing development (grrr.) Greg and Kim have a natural pond right by their orchard in the Spring. It is more of a swampy wetland for the rest of the year, but even then, I love all the rushes and wildlife in it (except the gigantic bloodsucking insects.) The orchard is nice too, though it was pretty much abandoned to the forest a long time ago, the apples are of an heirloom variety I believe.

trailOn Monday morning, after gobs of pancakes and strawberries, Kim, Michael and I went for a hike around the property and out onto the land that is being developed. The people developing it have logged it pretty heavily. The lots are going to be quite large (6 or so acres) and the land is currently going for $6000 an acre. It is kind of sad to see the natural area destroyed, especially since it was state park land and I did not know the state could sell land they bought with my tax dollars.

It was really windy on our hike but also really refreshing.Michael in orchard I love getting out an walking in nature and walking is really good for me right now, though if I try to go to fast I get Braxton Hicks contractions! I especially love all the wildflowers around this time of year up around Greg and Kim’s property. I’ll be posting several photos of them in my photoblog over the next few days.

After we got back from our hike and swapped photos (some of the photos in my gallery were taken by Kim, they are the ones with date stamps) we had burgers and potato salad and watched Pirates 3 (I honestly don’t get what all the hype is regarding those movies, maybe they just aren’t my thing though.) We normally visit the grave of a soldier at the Elk cemetery on Memorial Day, but Michael and I were so tired by that point that we just came home. (I have a lot more photos from the weekend, especially our hike, here.)

I had my ultrasound today, the baby is head down now and all is well. I am also now at the point I can go into labor without him being considered premature. Only 20 days till my due date!

Ultrasound and Flooding

Jaspenelle
by Jaspenelle
Fri
23
May
2008
2:50pm
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Michael
(My super sexy husband! I took this photo of him yesterday when we went up to make sure the trail we are probably cleaning up next weekend wasn’t under water.)

I had an appointment with my midwife yesterday ans she asked me to get an ultrasound as soon as possible so that we can figure out the baby’s position. Normally Linda can tell how he is positioned by feeling around my belly but the baby is being very mobile and uncooperative lately (wow, didn’t expect him to manifest some of my more “endearing” personality traits so early… hehe!) She thinks he is breach again.

I’m a little concerned, I know Linda would not ask me to get an ultrasound unless she found it absolutely necessary. I am glad she is erring on the side of caution though. If he is breach there are still things we can do to get him back into the head down position, it will just get more difficult to do it as time passes (he is almost out of room in there!) She will deliver breach babies, but naturally there are more risks associated with that kind of delivery which we will have to be carefully considered. She has been very upfront about all that. So anyhow, I am shooting for being able to get an ultrasound early next week, before my next appointment.

I have the most horrendous heartburn today but otherwise I feel okay, still a little moody, but okay. I received a nursing bra via my Amazon Baby Registry today. It didn’t say from who but it is comfortable and really cute too, I love it. Thank you!

After my midwife appointment yesterday, Michael and I drove around to look at the local flooding, the Spokane River is above flood stage right now.

Spokane River
This is the Spokane River downtown near the falls. The river bed normally completely dries up in some places come summer time. No one has seen it this high since 1997 though (which is the last time we had widespread flooding.) The are saying the river will crest sometime this weekend.

I took some footage of the river yesterday as well since photos don’t even begin to capture how fast the river is moving (here are some of the still photos though.) Michael needs to teach me how to get the video from the video camera, to the computer, to the blog, so no video today, hopefully I have one up tomorrow.