May 2006 Archives

I just finished a big illustration project for the brand new savvymiss.com. It's a bit of a departure from my usual style, but it was a lot of fun working with the folks at Savvy Miss. Great, great clients.

On the baby front, MF and I took an infant CPR and safety class yesterday and practiced giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on plastic baby dolls. The dolls have an inflatable contraption that allows the chest to heave when you blow into the mouth -- we both failed miserably at the CPR training (not fast enough with the compression and breath-giving) and so we must diligently monitor our child so that we will never have to actually perform it. However, I excelled at thwacking the baby's back in case of choking, so I'm totally prepared for that.

We are slowly gathering the baby goods together. Three more months. Not feeling savvy at all.

This last month has whizzed by and I've been busy, busy, busy. On top of trying to wrap things up at work, we've been hauling stuff into storage (I'm banned from going there alone because apparently the homeless sleep there during operating hours -- and it's true! I saw a man sneak into one of the rooms and I got a glimpse of soda cans and what looked suspiciously like a sleeping bag) and signing up for prenatal classes and the like.

Last weekend I hopped on a plane and visited the Bay Area for a friend's bridal shower. The trip was to be my last hurrah as an untethered, mobile woman. I stayed with an old friend who has two little boys, and it was like an introductory course to motherhood. When I arrived, she gratefully tossed her baby into my arms and commanded me to undress him for his bath. I was terrified. I've been around little babies before but realized that I'd never actually had to do anything other than coo, "aren't you a cutie?" Within 24 hours, I was playing trash pick-up like a pro (her oldest has an obsession with waste management) and swaddling the infant as though I'd been doing it for years. I noticed how one of the boy's shoes matched his dad's and couldn't resist snapping a photo.

We had high tea at a darling little place called LoveJoy's in Noe Valley for the bridal shower and it was as girly as could be. It was a perfect weekend to get away as it was raining in Seattle but the weather was perfect in S.F.

Did I mention that I was worried that my little girl wasn't moving much? Well, she either loves or hates to travel because as soon as I boarded that plane, all sorts of kicking and wriggling began. I now feel her moving every day and I even watched in amazement as the magazine propped on my belly visibly bounced from one of her more energetic kicks.

My third trimester is beginning and the exhaustion of the first trimester is returning...hopefully I won't let another month pass. I am vaguely thinking of buying a sewing machine so that I can start the crafting career I envisioned for myself. Oh, but my bed looks so comfortable...