little bitty girl

It's been awhile since I've done a belly update and I have grown considerably since the last time. Unfortunately, I also cannot seem to find my camera... Add it to my list of things to do before the baby comes.

Whether I want to admit it or not, this child will be here soon enough. Stefan and I went to an all day prenatal class today and luckily enough it was a nice small class with only 6 couples. I am not sure yet whether the class was particularly helpful or not; as a lot of the information is available in the baby books one feels compelled to read, and you can always watch other people's births via YouTube.

One thing that I had never seen before however was the birthing of the placenta and all I can say is that it ranks pretty high up there in the ick factor. I think for most of the dads, they were even more appalled by that than by the actual birth.

The good thing is that we got to tour the facilities and everyone at the hospital seemed very nice and friendly. The best thing that came out from that class was that the instructor said that the husbands had to give the wives 15 minute back rubs starting this week for 4 days and then increase it by 5 minutes per week. Since I have about 6 weeks to go, I have some very long rubs coming my way. It's all to help the dads practise pain relieving techniques. Now to try to figure out how to prolong this treat long after the baby comes!

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The Toronto International Design Festival (TIDF) is winding down and I was lucky enough to be asked by one of my favourite design blogs, Moco Loco to give them my take on Toronto.

Oh, and if you haven't been on my updated "About Me", I have also started a little side project called Le Petit Poulet.

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Posted in Delectable Design

Could you just DIE over the scrumptious-ness that is my nephew? Work is busy so I won’t be seeing him for a couple weeks so I SIMPLY had to go visit him last week. He’s such a sweet baby. Every time I see him, he falls asleep on my shoulder. He fidgets and fusses for half a second and then simply falls over… His little snores just slay me…

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Mama Kang has this theory about pregnancy…How the mother feels will also affect the child. So if the mother is morose, you’ll have a weepy child etc.

I usually do not abide by her “crazy” theories but Stefan’s pretty convinced that our child will come out laughing (well after the original crying, that is). He’s always saying how my mother and I are such giggle monsters.

In fact, half the time my mother and I are bent over, practically crying with laughter while Stefan usually looks patiently bemused and Papa Kang is resigned (he’s had to deal with a lot of laughing episodes over the years). Needless to say, I’ve spent the majority of my pregnancy laughing…

This is a picture of Mama Kang and the original Mama-nator during her 90th birthday this past December. I think you will find that laughter is hereditary in our family…

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Dearest Stefan,

What a bad wife I was last year! I just realized that I did not do a posting for our 3rd year wedding anniversary. As you like to remind me, supposedly I have also been neglectful about giving you your 3rd year anniversary present. I don't remember this at all, but somehow you, Mr. Holey Brain, seems to. According to you, I was supposed to give you a child in our 3rd year. So, I am a year late...plus, have you seen me lately? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!!!

I was remembering the early days of our courtship the other day. You were so cautious about being in a relationship. It wasn't really about me, it was the fact that you had ended a long term relationship and you weren't really sure about whether or not you could commit to anyone. You weren't even sure about the idea of love...

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Posted in Lurves, Stefan