16 weeks!

I get bigger by the day! Really, I swear! It's like my belly popped out from one day to the next and now it is a growing machine!!!! Especially after eating, it is like a double baby, a food baby on top of my baby baby!

Yesterday we hit the 16 week mark, for those of you who are terrible at math like I am, that means we are closing in on our 4th month.

While my tummy keeps extending itself, I have only gained 2 pounds, so far so good!

At 16 weeks, the baby is developing fine hair on it's head and is actively moving and making sucking motions with it's mouth. The bones are becoming harder each day and the muscles are now developing. Hence the reason for my newest addiction: Creamy.

Everything I eat needs to be creamy! I NEED cream cheese, sour cream, yogurt, milk, Alfredo sauce, Caesar salad dressing, mayo, which I classically hated, and an array of other things that seem to fall into the "creamy" category. This, I suppose, is because the baby's bones are calcifying. My body is asking me for an abundant supply of food products that contain calcium. Isn't the body amazing, if you just learn to listen to it???

With the coming of spring, and then summer, and the synchronized growing of my belly, I have dedicated many of the past few days to sewing dresses for myself.

This one is probably my favorite!
At least until I make the next one.

This is another one I made, but when Andi dropped by the other day and tried it on, it looked so darn cute on her,
we just had to make it hers!
Hope you love it Andi!

Now I am working on my biggest challenge yet, I can hardly wait to post photos. I have never made a fancy dress, you know one out of taffeta or silk...and because I have a wedding to attend in October, I thought I would try to make my own dress so as not to have to buy a prego formal dress that I will wear once. And to tell you the truth, so far so good...

So good, in fact, that Valeria, another friend of mine who will also be attending the wedding in October, has commissioned me to make her dress as well!!! So maybe this means I have more of my Great Grandma Underwood in me than I thought! (she was a seamstress and an artist that read tarot cards and fell asleep while sitting in her lazy boy recliner almost nightly, vodka tonic in hand, cheese whiz at her side, a true inspiration!)