the keeper of the key to the locks

Normally every year on the first Saturday of December, Husband and I have our Annual Holiday Throwdown party where we get all dressed up, have lots of friends over, and eat and drink too much. Well this year we're having a baby instead so, you know.

BUT I can still long for the dresses, right?

Topshop.com has a bunch of limited edition dresses that are to die for. Here are some:

Coral flapper gown

Bronze flapper gown

White, long flapper gown

I love too, how they stuck to the truer flapper gown length (knee length or beyond) rather than cheapening it up for "modern" women. Not everything has to be short, even on skinny girls.

I did it my way

Well, actually, Su-Lauren, you were different. 

You didn't want a perfect life, a typical life, or even a normal life.

You wanted a one-of-a-kind.

How we doing?
    The Universe

have you ever met a girl...

Getchoo...Ah ha!

So wonderfully creepy...

From Jordan to Chicago

I know it's a day late but all the same. Thanks.

Vaseline over the Lenses

Just as the acorn existed within the oak, even when the oak was a seedling; and as the oak existed within the earth, even before there were trees; and as the earth existed within the galaxy, even before there were planets... there has never been a time, dear sweet Su-Lauren, when you did not exist within me... during which we dreamed all else into being. Far out. Love you. Well done. Happy everything,     The Universe ---------------------- These last few weeks before the baby's here (3!!!) are getting to me. All the gross, unlady-like physical symptoms are really getting to me. I'm having Braxton Hicks contractions out the wazoo which makes Felix get all crazy jumpy, and that's wonderful. But then the horrid acid indigestion (to put it so politely) that comes with that- Vom. Literally! So I'm ready to have this baby. Pregnancy stage, been there done that. I am really trying to listen to everyone who says Oh I just savored those last weeks. It'll be the last time with that baby that you can just be the one body and two of you together. But really. I'm over it. And the whole, Once they're out they can't go back in, scare tactic, over that too. I'm ready to have this baby (I think). Husband is ready to have this baby (I think). It's time to get this story started. (burp) Of Montreal makes me very happy!

If it isn't penetration, then it isn't worth the kiss

Thanks Pedro the Lion for always providing such a cheery title line.



Sucker Punch: Ladies, even you can be a badass in 5 easy pieces.

So I'm all for a bunch of ladies kicking ass, not taking names. But I mean really, do we need another film positioning it's strong women into the center of a circle jerk? I'll probably at least rent it, but don't get me started on why films feel the need to put their female action heroines in Sailor Moon short skirts and thigh highs, bukkake centralism at it's best.  For those of you who haven't, your homework is reading John Berger's Ways of Seeing. 

You breathe 1s and 0s

I think this mom is awesome and I hope everyone starts subscribing to her blog. I especially love how she doesn't seem to care if you do consider her cool or not. Because she's right. It's truly none of your business.

Nerdy Apply Bottom.

I know people look at me and say, "Is he a Washington insider?"

Eggzactly.

sing a simple song

Oh my. I need. These may have to be my pre-baby body present to myself. Wow. I love. I want. They're beautiful.

We are down to the 5 week countdown. Good grief. And my joints are tired. I know it's a good thing. My doc says it's good. My mom too. It'll make it easier to labor being so loosey goosey. But gawd it's so painful sometimes even turning over in bed, getting out of bed, walking around. So I'm tired. But we're ready. I think. I hope. My little dude.

Follow me into the desert

I really dig this starfish.  Thanks Jake.

I'm only human on the inside

My first cloth wipe! The rediculously cute flannel fabric was 75% off at Hancock's Fabric making these wipes cost about 25 cents each. Double sided and stitched to not fray. Each one takes about 2 minutes to make (seriously). I am loving it!

He came a long way just to explain.

So things have been busy. Babymoon in Mexico was wonderful except that I was really too preggo to ever be that comfortable but having our friends Brandon and Jennifer join us was a wonderful treat. And Husband got to scuba duba his heart out and I got tons of reading done (most of the True Blood books , I confess) in the sun. A tan is a nice thing to have when you feel house sized.

We snorkled and saw a 5 foot long barracuda that almost sent me into labor. We snorkled and saw sharks. We snorkled to a starfish breeding ground and saw all the beautiful starfish. Soft and pliable on the sea floor, rock hard when you pick them up. It was pretty neat. We snorkled and did not see an octopus (pulpo) but that's okay because the first time I see my totem animal, I really want it to be as a diver, up close and personal, not from the surface.

So that was good. And we've unpacked even more. Got more things done on the house (fence, deck) and are trying to settle in. Now it's mostly all about baby. And naps. And eating snacks. You know, the good things.

So I'd like to use some of this space to talk a little about ideas Husband and I are committing to and throwing around for the bebe. You may have noticed new link button things on the side for Kelly's Closet (and I would love a button for Cotton Babies). We have committed to making our house a cloth diaper one. Not 100% in the beginning (meconium, yuck) but working towards that ASAP. Through wonderful sales that Kelly's Closet is always having, we've been able to create our original stock pile consisting of several different brands of CD's that I am extremely happy with pre-baby.

So much so that I even started sewing my own cloth wipes thanks to the youngest at heart and I am so happy with them! I will post a pic later. It may seem I am suddenly off the deep end but trust me, it's a habit I've been nursing since the day after I found out I was expecting.

Husband and I are blessed to be fairly economically stable, although I can already see the money savings by using cloth. We are very environmentally conscious, recycling everything humanly possible, composting, buying local, etc. In brushing up on my sewing skills I am even slowly convincing myself that I could probably sew baby clothes too. My mom sewed most of my clothes herself up to my entering the 7th grade. And I had some COOL clothes.

Here's another DIY wipe "recipe" if you're interested.  (Thanks Angela and Serena!)

So it's more about choice. I love that in this day and age being a crunchy mom is a choice, not something necessarily forced upon you. I would love it if all this long hair I'm growing will stay put after Felix is born and I can wear it long and beaded with my jeans and silky tunics. It's good to mix up the system's expectations every now and then, right?

Party over here

So we finally did it and that's why I've been so absent.

We finished the renovations (top to bottom) on a house that's almost 100 years old. We started about this time (early October) LAST YEAR.

We moved.

I'm so pregnant that I'm in my third trimester soon!

We are unpacked almost entirely.

We are going on vacation to Mexico THANK GOD.

My latest belly joke is that I can no longer sneak around corners. I still love being pregnant and Husband and I are in trouble because if it's always this relatively easy, I see 3 coming, bing, bang, boom.

My son already has so much personality. He LOVES him some Pastoral Symphony but has no reaction to Tony Allen's Black Voices (which is the best). He kicks me non-stop making me know he's going to be a go-getter. He loves to camp out right under/in my ribs because he's going to be snuggler. So, you know, I don't need to be able to move so much. Not for that.

And it's truly brought me and Husband closer than I could have ever imagined, in both the earthly spiritual way as there's nothing we wouldn't ever do for each other at this point, and the worldly realistic as hey! I can't see to shave everywhere anymore, my bad, but it still needs to be done, trust me.

You just do it for each other. And it's nice.

Felix likes:



Dislikes:

I was educated from good stock // When I start lovin', I can't stop

See their good, Su-Lauren.

See nothing else.

Do it for you.

Tallyho,
    The Universe

you don't know me at all

Tim and Eric Ben Fold's video!

Using text from this here blog:

I write like
Kurt Vonnegut

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

I love this

Long live Paul!

And again

Snakes and snails and puppy dogs tails // Yes throw the reins over // You're made with sugar and spice

Well it's official. The little baby hiding out under my rib cage is a boy. Felix Calvin Wilson's due date is December 1, 2010. I love him so much. I love him so much.