Charlotte Lucia

Born February 10th at 10:35 PM.
Weight: 8 lbs 4 oz
Length: 21 inches
Status: Absolutely perfect.

More details coming soon.

a few remarks on pregnancy and what not

38 Weeks

I know that I haven't done a very good job of documenting this pregnancy. At all. I think there are about...four photos of my tummy. And that's allowing that someone somewhere may have taken a picture that I'm not aware of. So, here is a quick sum up of the last 38 weeks.


38 weeks with Baby Girl


38 weeks with the twins (this is right before we got into the car to go and be induced because they were late (37 weeks is full for twins). Just a little perspective for you). I was about 10 centimeters bigger. I was extremely uncomfortable.

First trimester: I was extremely food and smell sensitive, which is something I didn't experience with the boys. I couldn't even think of breaded chicken, something I love, without getting queasy. The smell of garlic, something else I love, almost made me sick all over our stove (luckily not, because I wouldn't have been able to cook on there again). For several weeks I carried a large hunk of ginger around in my pocket to smell, for when I got queasy. But I only got "sick" a few times. One of which being a memorable trip to Costco. And I was tired. Tired in a way that I could feel in my bones. I slept for very long periods on the couch and the boys watched way too much TV. I guessed, correctly, that it she is a girl and there is only one.

Second trimester: Awesome. Besides some general tiredness, I was almost a normal person. Zach makes pasta for practically every dinner because I'm too tired by that time and he is too busy for anything more elaborate. He is awesome.

Third Trimester: Bleh. I've gotten big enough and swollen enough and awkward enough that I feel generally miserable. All this is accompanied by fits of energy that make me scrub our cupboards and vacuum all the baseboards and sew ruffles on onsies. And then collapse in a heap afterwards. Everyone keeps telling me how cute I look, but I don't feel cute at all. And my back hurts a lot. And everything else, too. I am both super excited to meet her and feel extremely unprepared to go back to the baby days, which are all a bit of a blur with the boys. I'm glad we took pictures.


A picture Sam drew for me of our family

You may be wondering how the boys are handling all this impending change. Well, they could not possibly be happier. They kiss my belly and say hello and ask her what she is doing. They talk about what she will do and what they will help her to learn (laughing is a big one). I don't know how their expectations will match up with reality, but to be fair, I don't know that about my own expectations, so that's pretty standard.


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Project Girlification - Part 1

We have a lot of baby clothes. I would even say that we have a plethora of baby clothes. After the boys were born I was convinced that we were going to have another set of twins and would rue the day we got rid of any of our doubles of baby things. The number of onsies is pretty ridiculous.


But as you can see from this lovely picture of our little one, my preparations were for naught.

So, we haven't bought too many clothes for this baby girl, because we do have so, so many. I separated out the gender neutral things and now I'm trying to girly up some of the other things. We started by dyeing a batch of blue clothes purple.


Before: Blue Clothes


After: Very purple clothes

I wish I hadn't left them in for so long, but my experience with dyeing in the past has always been to leave them in longer for better color. But, sadly, not this time. I still like the deep purple, it's just a little intense.

I did a second batch, and these spent much less time in the dye. I prefer these. Especially the striped purple onsie on the right. It's awesome.



Below is one of the boy's little jumper. The color is neutral enough, but the blue airplane seemed pretty boyish.



So, I covered it up with a red felt heart. I really, really like it, despite my less than stellar ability to sew straight lines.



The boys have requested that we do a pink batch next. I'm also going to make some little skirts to go over onsies. Dressing girls is a lot of fun, by the way.