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Wool

The answer to life, the universe, and everything is NOT 42!  It’s wool.
Yesterday, Ginny wore wool as a diaper cover for the first time.  The interweb, and my few cloth-diapering friends assured me that wool makes an effective diaper cover (in the form of soakers and longies).  I trusted enough to knit a pair of [...]

Baby Stuff I Was Gonna Show You Months Ago

Hey there!  A long, long, long time ago, I planned to how you a week’s worth of items I’d made for the baby.  I had things all ready and photographed, made it to Wednesday, and then I just forgot to finish.  We were busy, Toaster was sick, I was pregnant, yadda, yadda, yadda…
Here’s one thing:

Why [...]

It’s a girl!

About 12 days ago, I had me a baby:

Her name is Ginevra, but we’re calling her Ginny most of the time.  She was 7 lbs 6 oz at birth, and has wavy blonde hair.  That’s us at home, tired as I don’t know what, about seven hours after she was born.  That’s a glass of [...]

Baby Names

Here’s a little distraction from election day excitement. 
For a boy:

Hagrid Chewbacca (as a talisman against MPB)
Bran
Carl Agathon
Refrigerator
Dude
Booberry
George Foreman

Some names we’ve come up with for a girl:

Hermione Myfannwy
Starbuck
Athena
Blender
Leeloo Dallas Multipass
Booberry
George Foreman

As you might be able to tell, we’re fond of lite science fiction and fantasy, historical mythology, kitchen appliances, and the absurd.  What do you think?  Any [...]

37 Weeks, almost 38

So, here’s my belly at 37 weeks:

That was only five days ago, and things have already changed… Think lower and droopier.
The baby can come any time now, as baby’s considered full term and I can deliver at the birth center between 37 and 42 weeks. Outside of that, it’d definitely be the hospital for us. [...]