Nesting

This is my new project...not this exact sweater as the one I am making for Jackson is a brown/green/blue yarn. But how cute is this?? A friend at work was making it in a pale yellow for her sister and I fell in love with it. And, what better time to start a nesting project than in my 3rd trimester!! I may have bitten off more than I can chew as I have not knitted anything but scarves and this is requiring me to actually watch knitting videos to learn how to cast on extra, bind off in the middle of a row, the yarn over method, and other new stitches! I will take a photo once it starts to resemble a sweater!

Jackson has sure been making his presence known in the past 4 weeks. Today's kicks and movements were felt on both sides of my belly, like he was sideways in there! Totally weird sensation!! And sometimes it takes my breath away or even tickles my sides. At my doctor visit yesterday I learned I have a very long torso with a low pelvis which means I will just carry my babies low. I also lost 1 pound!! So I have a total weight gain of only 7 pounds in nearly 7 months which thrills me!! All the easier to come off in the end and has made this pregnancy pretty easy to manage as far as aches, pains, heart burn, and so forth. Although if you were to ask me to guess how much weight I have gained it feels like 40!! The entire 7 lbs. are just so not evenly distributed...all in front which has thrown off my balance more than once. It is also harder and harder to sit up or use my stomach muscles to do much of anything. I gave up on the 'abs of steel' a long time ago!! My core exercise consists of the numerous trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night! I have a new appreciation for those childhood toys The Rollie Pollies.

~crystal

3 years and counting!!!

Anthony and I celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary yesterday! We decided to splurge and go into Manhattan for dinner...we always worry about doing this as we have such great restaurants right here in Brooklyn, but figured it will be a while before we get to go to the city for a nice dinner sans kids. We went to Bar Americain, www.baramericain.com, a Bobby Flay establishment and it was fantastic!! It was a recommendation of one of my co-workers and worth the trip to midtown. Such delicious food...I can't wait to eat my leftovers today!!

I am off to the doctor again today...I have started going every 2 weeks now for my routine measuring as I am now well into the 3rd trimester. Yikes!!

~crystal

Our last Yankees game of 2008

We went to the Yankees vs. Chicago White Sox game last night and it was bitter sweet as it was the last game we would attend at the old Yankee Stadium. It was weird walking through the corridors of the stadium knowing it would be demolished...there is so much history! But I must say, the new stadium will be so nice! Better food, better bathrooms, better corridors...I know that the Kingdome is not even in the same category as Yankee Stadium, but let me tell you how nice Safeco is in comparison!! The fans will love going to a new ballpark and new history will be made!
The evening started off in disappointment. Anthony really wanted to get to monument park and we arrived early so we could see it...well, I guess getting there at 5:30 wasn't early enough as the line was so long they had to close monument park. Then we had a nasty fan sitting right behind me and after about 45 minutes of me biting my tongue I had enough, turned around, and started arguing with this guy! Me! Yelling at a Yankee fan! I am pretty sure it was the pregnancy hormones, but I just couldn't let him get away with talking like he was about other people sitting around us, including Anthony and the others in our group of 4. This guy was so rude...My heart was beating out of my chest with anger so I switched seats with our friend Yocari to get me as far away from this guy as possible. I was really afraid of what I was going to do! Luckily I was with 3 other good sized men who had my back, but I really wanted to fight this battle myself for as long as I could. I soon let it go and asked him to do the same, which he didn't, and soon left his seats never to return!! I felt a slight sense of victory, I must say. Maybe it was also the fact that there was a young girl, probably 11 or 12, sitting right next to me listening to this guy. I just kept thinking, what if this was my child listening to this obnoxious guy?? I have always been protective of young children, but my maternal instinct has kicked into overdrive!! Welcome to the 3rd trimester I guess!!

~crystal

Birthday Wishes

We had a fabulous weekend with my Aunt PJ and Uncle Lyle. We went to dinner and a show (Mama Mia!) on Saturday night, we gave them the local tour of Brooklyn on Sunday, and on Monday (Anthony's birthday) we were able to watch Frontier Bank ring the opening bell for the NASDAQ! It was really, really cool and a chance of a life time. We ended the evening with a great dinner at the infamous Peter Leuger's Steakhouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was a dining experience! Thanks PJ and Lyle for an amazing weekend!! Love you!!

~crystal

Surprise!!!

We celebrated our friend Lara's birthday last night. It was a great party with lots of wine, cheese, snacks, and Cakeman Raven red velvet cake!!! YUMMMMMMM!!! She thought we were going to Quality Meats for dinner, but we all had other plans for her!! But as Steve knows his wife so well, the will be going to Quality Meats tonight as she had already selected her meal via the menu on their website!!

We are bracing here in the city for Hanna to make her way north...should bring some heavy rain and winds for the weekend. Bad timing as my Aunt PJ and Uncle Lyle are in town for the weekend as well. I am afraid we are going to get a bit wet on our way to dinner and Mama Mia! tonight.

Last weekend we had Jilly and Kyle up from DC, which was such a nice visit! They had tickets to the US Open on Sunday so they came up on Saturday and went home on Monday. Short visit, but we will see them soon for their upcoming nuptials!! Kyle is a blogger too!! Way better than me...check out his blog at http://www.informationleafblower.com/blog/

~crystal