All Things Supercinski

I just ran across this, apparently it is from some TV show I have never seen. This one is for DO and Adam.

Via BeAwesomeInstead.com

This boy is hilarious. He says and does some of the funniest things, and I must write them down before I forget!

• He named this conglomeration of things from my closet, “Shepherd Boy.”
• No matter how many times he is corrected, he calls blueberries, “green-berries.” He has no interest in learning colors!
• When someone starts to leave the room without announcing where they are headed, Josiah declares, “(So-and-so) go poo-poo potty” to everyone.
• He really loves to help me cook. He was helping me make bran muffins recently, and as he was stirring, I asked him what was in there. He said, “Eggs, applesauce…. (pauses to look intently in the bowl), DIRT!”
• We have been reading, “The Napping House” by Audrey Wood, and he loves to pretend to be “snoring Granny”. He walks around with his eyes tightly closed and his mouth open, all around the house. It’s amazing that he doesn’t bump into many things.
• While playing at the park the other day, he picked up the handle to his bucket, and said, “He-yo? (pause) Play rocks and sand tools. (pause) Okay. Uh huh. Bye.”
• He loves to make “funny faces”. Here is one of them for the mirror:
  
• He loves to “do J-J’s.” J.J. is the preteen/teenage boy that lives across the street and skateboards in the street if the weather is nice. Josiah interprets J.J.’s to be a wide range of things: stepping one foot on a ball, jumping off of a pillow onto the ground, trying to slide on the tile floor, and so forth.

That’s enough for now! I need to get a very belated 23 month update and video done soon, and then I’m done with monthly updates for a while.

I am officially 20 weeks this week, so that means I am about halfway through this pregnancy. I have been experiencing a lot of hip and back pain this pregnancy, but between the chiropractor and my heat bag, I’m making it! I am still throwing up most mornings, but went two days in a row earlier this week without it. I stopped getting sick with Josiah at 23 weeks. I can see a light at the end of the tunnel, and it really isn’t a big deal anymore, the sickness doesn’t last long in the mornings and I am well the rest of the day.

Most days, I think that New Baby is really easy-going compared to Josiah. However, I am not still nearly as much as I was with him. If I sit still for a long time, like on a recent car trip, I see that this isn’t the case. New Baby favors kicking and punching down low, just like his/her brother, I just don’t notice it in all the hub-bub of our day-to-day.

And I am gigantic. Seriously, can someone please console me with a picture of them this big at 20 weeks? And not if you are having/had twins… I can’t stop thinking that there could possibly be two babies in there, but I know that many women worry about this and twins aren’t *that* common. I think I need to break down and get an ultrasound though just so I stop thinking about it.

Enough rambling! Here are some self-portrait belly shots. I’ve officially outgrown two maternity shirts already and I (sadly) think this one is on it’s way out too!

A comparative photo of Josiah at 25+ weeks is available here.

Some people have “pregnancy brain” or “pregnancy clumsiness”. I can’t tell if I these things are exacerbated by pregnancy, but I am generally accident-prone and forgetful. Just ask Thomas. Anyway, I’ve had my share of accidents the past few days, and I write this post as a “note to self” to help me remember…

Note to Self #1: Your sewing machine contains moving parts, one of which is very sharp and powered by electricity. Keep your hands away from it, no matter how hard you are concentrating at guiding fabric along a curve. It hurts if you get hit, and it bleeds a lot.

Note to Self #2: If you set the microwave for a longer time than you should have, with the intention of stopping it before said time, you should actually pay attention to the fact that the microwave is on. It will burn things to smithereens. This was my poor, almost new, Scotch Brite sponge I was disinfecting in the microwave, but forgot that the time had been set for much longer than necessary. Yes, I did smell it, but I couldn’t figure out what it was until it was too late. I don’t even want to think about what those things are made of… I aired out the house for a while afterward, but you can still smell it in the microwave.

Note to Self #3: You live in a town with a huge population of college students, many of whom go grocery shopping at night. Going to the store at night to avoid lugging your toddler with you is not a good idea. Where you normally park in the first or second parking space, you will have to park at the very back of the lot. The shelves will be empty and you will have to steer around packs of students shopping together, in tiny shorts, talking on their cell phones while pushing carts. Taking a toddler who begs for “meat” (Josiah’s name for yogurt-covered pretzels) is much more fun.

These are some links for January 13th through January 22nd. Enjoy!

• A legless artist documents the world in 32,000 stares -
• Forget oil, the new global crisis is food - What do you think?
• Earth 911 - Go Green, Recycling, Reuse & Renewal, Eco News - Find where and how to recycle anything.
• Glassbooth - Quiz to help you choose best 2008 presidential candidate - Yet another candidate quiz, but with an excellent and easy to understand interface.

I must confess, I have been a bit of a diaper snob the past several months. I would hear of some of my real life and online friends sewing their own cloth diapers and I would think they were crazy. Why sew your own when you can buy really excellent ones? What is funniest about my line of thought is that I rarely ever have those thoughts about anything!

I was on a message board a couple weeks ago and someone linked to a diaper pattern she was using. Out of curiosity, and to prove to myself how hard it was, I looked at it, and was amazed at how easy it was! Then, I couldn’t stop thinking about how I would sew a diaper, and I realized that I had tons of material sitting around the house that would be perfect for diapers!

A friend had some ladies over for a cloth diaper sewing party/tutorial and I made my first, and now I can’t stop. I have made two more since then, and I’m almost out of my “free” (scrap) waterproof outer material. They are so awesome and insanely cheap–I can’t believe I waited so long to try this.

The diaper I made is a one-size (meaning adjustable from newborn to toddler) pocket (stuff it with an absorbent layer) and I added a few bells and whistles (elastic on the back, velcro tabs, etc). The pattern is available online for free. I made the first one with flannel on the inside and anti-pill fleece on the outside. Josiah wore it all morning and it didn’t leak a bit. He loved his “new, soft” diaper and even showed his Pa and Gigi. Here it is on the biggest (Josiah-sized) setting:

Here it is on the smallest setting, though the leg openings would be much smaller without the big insert I had in there:

Now I’m looking for a good newborn diaper cover pattern and I’ll get busy sewing some for New Baby. If New Baby happens to be a girl, she’ll have some really cute baby blue diapers. Sadly, the suedecloth I found yesterday (for the inner part) and the fleece I have are all baby blue!

My unwilling model:

These are some links for January 9th through January 12th. Enjoy!

• Parable of the broken window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The Broken Window Fallacy has many applications. This is an interesting read.
• The Simple Dollar: Ten Financial Reasons To Turn Off Your Television - And Ten Things To Replace It With - There are many reasons why you might consider turning off the television. Here are 10 financial reasons you might consider.
• FT.com / Europe - Europe set for debate rerun on “Frankenfoods” - The EU is feeling pressure from the WTO to allow GMO foods in. The acceptance by American consumers mentioned is undoubtedly because American consumers weren’t told that GMO foods were on their table.
• The Twilight of the Books? - A reader learns about the world and imagines it differently from the way a viewer does; according to some experimental psychologists, a reader and a viewer even think differently.