New things

So, Jeff and I finally found out that we are having a baby girl come May 2007. We couldn't be happier. Of course, another boy would have been awesome, but who doesn't want a sweet little girl? Plus, girls clothes are much more stylish than boys. It has been a struggle to keep Israel looking cool. We've decided to name her Tallulah June Boll Irwin. June is Jeff's Maw-maw and Boll is my maiden name.
She's already big for her age...double the average size in fact, and I think she's laying sideways in my uterus...feels like it anyway. I get jabbed on both sides all day long.

On another note, I have begun to venture into my own business. I am hoping that this takes off and I can do it from home and stay with the kiddos. I have 1 interested retailer in East Nashville and hopefully lots of buyers. I bind books and make funky light plate switch covers. I've been selling them for a little while now, but just to friends and co-workers. They have all urged me into marketing them and making a bigger deal out of it. So, here I go. I've taken the plunge. I really enjoy hunting and buying cool, funky paper and hopefully someday I can extend this hunt to other countries (hey, any excuse to travel is all the excuse I need.)

So, if any of you are interested in a date book, journal, photo album, or some cool light plate switch covers for your house, just let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Peace out!
Amy

A jumping bean

I've decided that I have a mexican jumping bean in my uterus. Either that, or I have some sort of athelete baby.

Jeff and I saw a dead cat in the road today...it had no head. We both looked at each other with out bottom lips out. I love cats....except my mom's cats, they are wild and scary. Scary cats are scary, but still not as scary as dogs. Even the sweetest dog is capable of biting your face off. My Aunt has a best friend who had a family dog for 13 years and one day the dog (a Collie) just turned and bit her in the face. It wasn't pretty.

I went Christmas shopping today. My boss gave me money to get some gifts for an Angel tree child...so I did. It was fun. Shopping for kids is fun. I am both excited about, and dread the day that I have older kids to shop for. Toy stores are crazy and over priced.

I went into Bath and Body works today just to browse and I picked up a lotion to smell it and got lotion in my nose. Now, for the past 4 hours I have been able to smell that awful aroma. I should have gone with smelling and old standard...but Noooo, I had to smell something new and now I'm paying for it.

The button in the middle of my belly

I have a button and its not from my shirt. I have a button and its not from my skirt. I have a button that's a part of me, its the button in the middle of my belly. Its my belly button, and its right underneath my sweater, its my belly button, and its holding me together.

My belly button never "popped out" while I was pregnant with Israel. It was damn near close though. Had he been bigger than 4.5 pounds, then it probably would have. My belly this time has already popped out though and I'm only 4 months along. My belly button on the other hand is about to pop out. I can see the inside of it. While a few months my belly button hole was the length of a third of my pinky (yes, I sometimes stick my finger in my belly button and I like to put my nose in Jeff's belly button...but only because he can't stand it) Now, the end of my belly button is near and I can see it, I don't even have to stick my finger in it. Its crazy.
I bet if I did a study, I would find that black women's belly buttons pop out more than white women's do. Ever time I see a pregnant black woman, I can see the little bump that it the inside of her belly button. I want to push it and see if it comprably to pulling someones finger. If you poked me in my belly button, I bet I'd fart. I get awfully gassy while pregnant. Jeff does too...he has all the pregnancy symptoms and then some. I think I'll let him carry the next child...maybe science will have caught up by then.

This new Irwin has been kicking me all day. Probably because it hears all the gas moving around inside. Poor p-nut.