blackmoondog

I confirmed yesterday that my sausage fingers incident at the aquarium wasn't really a big deal. It was most likely an artifact of travelling and overdoing it while on the road. Blood pressure looked good and baby's heart rate sounded good.

She is likely sitting head up currently which would explain why it felt like she was sitting on my bladder a couple of times while in the car over the weekend. I asked her to stop sitting there and oddly enough it appeared that she complied. It was pretty funny. Hopefully she will turn head down in the next 3-5 weeks or so in preparation for joining us on the outside.

I'm a little unnerved by how fast I've started putting on weight in the past month. As of this morning it was up to 12lbs, with the total for the entire pregnancy being something like 23lbs. I need to be a bit more sparing with the cheese & such and more liberal with the fruits and veggies at this point since I'm only a few pounds from where I wanted to be at the end of the pregnancy and I still have 10 weeks to go. I kinda think she might be a week early though, as January 3rd is a full moon. :)

I've been working on my socks again. Actually, I've become rather obsessed with knitting socks. To the extent that I was actually considering registering for sock classes at the Stitches 2007 conference in February roughly 6 weeks after I'm supposed to give birth. Just a little obsessed...

One of the toe up socks that I've knit on my own from a free pattern for use with the particular sock yarn I have is complete and I'm about half way through the second sock. Making ankle length socks is a great way to thwart Second Sock Syndrome. Here is what the pair currently looks like:

Thankfully, I found a much simpler solution to my desire to take classes at Stitches. On Saturday there was a sock knitting class being given at a local yarn shop (that I hadn't even heard of! How is that possible?!?) and despite other plans in the late afternoon that would have to be pushed back a bit, I managed to make it to the class despite leaving the house 10 minutes before the start time. The class was 4 hours long with an hour break for lunch. My right shoulder blade was burning by the end of it from knitting so fast and for so long without a break. Here is what I came home with:

The instructor taught us her basic sock pattern from the top down. I had been wanting to try top down socks just to figure out which I liked better. Next I want to try knitting socks on 2 circular needles, rather than the usual double points. I'll probably start on a full pair of top down socks before committing to that though. Socks on circulars requires me to go out and buy more needles first. Though now I know where I can get them... >:)