08/08/2008
Thankful Friday
It has been another long week. Just leave it at that. I hate feeling like I am being negative all the time. So thankful Friday.
1. Little One now weights 7lbs 14oz and is actually on the very bottom of the curve on the weight chart.
2. A university with libraries that don't thin out old book because they don't get checked out often.
3. External hard drives and flash drives.
4. The nice ladies at the pharmacy.
5. Snood
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08/04/2008
2 months old
or, in other words, more pictures for your distraction as I am in temporary seclusion. The paper is still being worked on. But I am making progress.
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07/23/2008
For your distraction....
Things are, shall we say, a bit stressful right now. I am trying to work on my thesis. It is the last thing I have to finish for my degree. There has been a strong shift by little one from breastfeeding to formula (though she is now 6lbs 15oz as of today). She still has at least one doctor appointment a week right now. And there is a thing going on with my family. Oh, and I still haven't bothered to get the cord for my computer so I can use it. There is knitting going on and I have pictures on my camera. But I must get the cord for my computer so I can get the pictures onto my computer; blah, blah, blah-one big cycle. Until then, here are some pictures of little one for you to enjoy. And she is smiling and making little noises now.
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06/26/2008
Things I have learned
That I would love a person as much as I love my daughter. 
That breastfeeding would be so unnatural, frustrating, and difficult for me.
That it is possible to function on three hours of sleep a night.
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06/19/2008
June 2, 2008
at 2:20pm, weighing a grand total of 6lbs. 3oz. my little girl made her grand entrance finally. She was 3 weeks early, but the doctor felt that everything was ok for delivery. I had a c-section and that wasn't any where near as bad as I thought it would be.
Little one spent her first two days in the Neo-natal ICU before being transfered to the cardiac ward. There she did quite well for a baby with cardiac problems. She did not need oxygen or any other daily support. Last Thursday, when she was 9 days old, she had her aortic valve ballooned. She did very well with that and it made a world of difference with her. Then yesterday she had her big heart surgery to fix her aorta. The surgeon said it went very well and she is recovering in the cardiac ICU right now. There is a good chance she will be moved back to the cardiac ward today because she is doing so well.
It has taken a while for me to regain any strength after having a c-section. But I am hoping that I will be able get out more and getting to a computer more. My Dad and my sister Joanna have been wonderful in helping out.
(I don't have pictures available to post just yet. The last 17 days have been a roller coaster for me and I am living at the hospital as long as my little girl is there. But picutres will be posted one of these days.)
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05/16/2008
The Pink Set
I am back at the library and this time I remembered the picture of the pink set that Sandie knit for little one. I just couldn't stand the fact that I forgot it.
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05/15/2008
More for the Little One
I am the slowest blogger ever. I know it as well. But I think I have a good excuse really, at least for now. To let the gifts that Little One has recieved go one more day without posting would just be bad form on my part. So I have dragged my pregnant self to the library (since moving, I do not have internet at home) with my pictures saved on a flash disk. I also need to catch up on emails, like always. The lack of internet at home also means that I am without my cool spell check thing as well. Just ignore the spelling errors.
First of all, from Sandie, there are three lovely bibs and two knit sweater sets. The pink set is very girly and my little girl needs some girliness in her wardrobe. The white set is ssoo soft and shiny, I get it out just to pet it sometimes. (There are pictures of the pink set, they just didn't make it on to the disk last night. I'm pregnant??? That is my excuse for my complete stupidity right now. One of these years I will get a few brain cells back, hopefully.)
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04/17/2008
All for one little girl.......
With less than 10 weeks to go, I figured it was time to start getting ready for the arrival of a little one. The doctors figure she will be here in June, with an estimated due date of June 20th. I have a stubborn daughter and she will show up when she is ready regardless of what anyone else says.
She has does have hand knit socks. One pair finished and one pair in the works with some left over Socks that Rocks medium weight. The watermelon socks are just for my sister Elizabeth. She will find it amusing.
Little one also has a purple blanket based on the Tender Blankie pattern. I have four balls of Knit Picks CotLin yarn and wanted to use them all up. So I knit six squares instead of four. The monkey thinks it is a good blanket as well.
And little one also needs a bed to sleep in for when ever she will finally be able to come home from the hospital. I am not talking about THAT right now. But she has what is called a Moses Basket here and there is a stand for it as well. I am hoping to move soon, so everything that I can possibly pack stuff into, is being packed.
She does have another blanket in the making. I am crocheting it and want to get a solid color yarn as the border. But that will probably need to wait a while longer until I feel like I have made enough progress on my paper writing for school to justify the time I will spend finishing it.
In March I went to a Velvet Revolver concert. Yes, I was 6 1/2 months pregnant when I went. I stood all the way in the back with the people who weren't there for the concert. I felt like a complete loser. But had to get a suvinor for the little girl, her first concert T-shirt. I mean, she was there and all.
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04/02/2008
28 weeks 5 days....
which means there is approximately 11 weeks 2 days to go. Not that I am counting down or anything.
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02/09/2008
Beginning, Middle, End
They are finished, completed, turned in for grading. And I am loving the freedom of not having to worry about them. The papers for school I had to write. I will have more, but for the time being not every free moment is taken up by writing. 
I have also finished up this little hat for a special little girl.
Because I have finished my school writing, for the next few weeks at least, then I actually have time to knit. I have started the Tender BlankieBlankie pattern with KnitCotLin CotLin yarn in purple.
I started on a Calorimetry in Rowen Tapestry yarn. Not sure how I feel about it and may rip it out. The stitches are quite loose and not every elastic for a head band. 
I am still in the middle of knitting what I now call the forever scarf. I am about 2/3 of the way finished. If I am lucky, I will get it finished before winter is over and might have a chance to wear it once.
I am still working, very slowly, on the center out blanket. Starting to warm up to it and hope that the baby who gets it will like it.
The biggest thing I have been working on is now 21 weeks and 1 day in the making, a little girl, my little one. She was quite a surprised when I finally realized I was pregnant. But her estimated due date is June 20th and I can't wait to meet her. 
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12/26/2007
Total Insanity.............
I hope everyone has had a Merry Christmas. I received a fabulous gift this year, the first pair of socks my best friend ever knitted. They are really comfy, she made them extra long for me :-), and I am just excited about having them. 
She also sent me some yarn that I am knitting into a blanket. I am not sure how I feel about it just yet though. So it is going to sit in the knitting bag while I have a think about it.
I am knitting it from the center out.
I finished knitting Quant from the latest edition of Knitty.com. I am not very happy with the way the one end turned out. I like symmetry in my headbands.
I also bought myself some yarn to make myself some more headbands. I don't like wearing hats, but need to keep my ears warm. So I have found that nice, wide headbands work for me.
The red yarn is for another panta and the purple yarn is for a calorimetry.
(Don't ask me to put links in today) I have some more yarn that I am saving for someone special.
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