19 Weeks Beer Belly Pic & more

Here's the 19 weeks picture.  Don't mind the big red bump on my belly.  That's just where a mosquito had a nice snack.  Why it got my belly and not my exposed arms I don't know.  Looking at the picture from 17 weeks and this week, they pretty much look the same, but I can definitely tell the difference.  Anyway, all is well with me.  I can brush my teeth again for a decent amount of time and after eating, too!  I *think* I might have felt the baby move last night while I was trying to go to sleep.  I'm sure in the next week or two I'll feel him/her more and know that that is indeed what I'm feeling.

Last week we bought the Baby/Whippet-Mobile.  I already have two crate mats in the back for the dogs.  I've ordered custom made harnesses for them that will attach to rings on the side of the car.  The lady making them should be giving them to me when we are in Atlanta for the Whippet National.  All we need now is the partition to keep Tacy from jumping into the backseat.  Or at least attempting to once she has the harness holding her back.  Hazel doesn't seem to mind it back there, but she just lays down and goes to sleep in the car.  Hopefully Tacy will adjust quickly.

  

Here is the bookcase/bed combo Tim is making.  He has half of the shelves in now and just needs to finish the remaining shelves and attach the side and bottom pieces.  Then he can stain it and he'll be finished.  He'll need to disassemble it a little to get it into the computer room, but that shouldn't be too much trouble.  Once we have the spare bed and futon shuffled around then we can start putting together the nursery furniture.  The crib mattress is next on the list of nursery items to buy.

After doing a little more research and finding a really good website about cloth diapering I have decided to go the cloth diaper route rather than the flushable/biodegradeable disposables.  Unless we were to flush them, which we aren't due to last year's sewer line mess (and I do mean MESS), I'm not convinced they are all that much better for the environment than the regular disposables.  Once you put them in a plastic trash bag and throw them in the landfill, they really aren't going to biodegrade in the advertised 50-150 days.  I'm going to start with pre-folds and a diaper cover and then we'll go from there.  There are so many different types of cloth diapers to choose from these days, it can get a bit overwhelming trying to decide which ones are the way to go.