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…ant Mike’s Hard Lemonade flip flop!

What it is doing in my neighbor’s front yard, I have no idea.  It’s still there, by the way.  It’s been there for 2 weeks now.  1 person guessed “hard lemonade flip flop” and two people guessed “Mike’s hard lemonade flip flop” and since I’m feeling generous I’ll be sending something to all 3 people.

Oh, the baby?  You have to wait until Saturday to find out.  We’re having my family over for a little BBQ tonight and some of them are sneaky and read this blog.  No one finds out until the BBQ!  Here’s a picture of a hooked wool rug from the fair.  This is a craft I’d love to learn, along with loom weaving and basket weaving.  Oh, if only there were more hours in the day!

My ultrasound is this Friday!  Mr. Yarn Pirate and I are very excited.  I thought it would be fun to have a “guess the sex” contest.  First I want to reassure everyone that what is most important to us is that our baby is healthy.  We don’t have a preference- we just want to be parents.  We waited a long time to start a family.  By the time the baby is here we will have been together for 9 years.  Being parents is something we take very seriously. 

I’m going to share various facts about this pregnancy to help you guess.  I have no idea if these will be of any use to you, but here goes.

We didn’t try to increase the odds of having a boy or girl.  Like I mentioned earlier, we just wanted a baby.  There’s only one thing you need to do to get a baby…;)

This pregnancy has been very easy.  I had a minimal amount of nausea for 2 weeks.  I never threw up.  I haven’t had any extreme exhaustion.  I pretty much love being pregnant.  I feel great- possibly better than I felt in my non-pregnant state.

The only real food cravings I’ve had are for sour fruits and sweet potatoes. 

The ring test said it’s a girl.

That’s all I can think of.  If you want to know anything else leave it in your comment and I will add it to this post.  And now for your viewing enjoyment, a bump shot.  I don’t do bare belly shots so don’t even ask.  I’m 17 and 1/2 weeks in this shot.  Keep in mind that I’m 6′2.  I think it will be a while before I’m really sticking out. 

I also have a bonus contest for you.  I’m in a very contesty mood.  See this picture?

These are my neighbors, the Lawnparkers.  I mentioned before that they like to display assorted junk in their front yard.  Well, a few days ago a very choice piece of junk showed up in their yard.  Can you guess what it is?  It’s framed by the front window of the red car (parked on the lawn).  You have to be very specific with your guess.  You can click the picture to make it bigger.  The person who guesses exactly what that piece of junk is will win.  If you want, I will try to sneak over there and steal it and mail it to you.  Or I can send yarn.

Leave your guesses in the comments.  Here are the rules:  You can only guess once.  Please guess either “boy” or “girl”.  If the baby is being modest and we aren’t able to find out on Friday, all guesses will be saved until we find out.  For the bonus contest, the first person to guess correctly wins.  I will post the answers some time on Friday evening.  I’ll pick a winner over the weekend.  Happy guessing! 

I made Mr. Yarn Pirate take me to the fair today.  I’ll be there on Wednesday for a spinning demo (I’m doing coils!) but I couldn’t wait.  I wanted to see if I won anything.

We forgot the zoom lens for the camera, so no extreme closeups (although I did talk them into letting me go into the display area for better pictures).  Everything I entered won a ribbon!  I was so pleasantly surprised.  My 2-ply won 2nd place, my singles won 2nd place, and my coils won first place and a big fancy ribbon for “Most Creative”.  I entered this little baby hat, and it won 2nd place as well.  I think that’s pretty good since I’ve only been spinning for 7 months.  There were so many beautiful skeins of handspun entered.  It was very flattering to walk away with so many ribbons amongst such talented spinners.  I couldn’t enter as Yarn Pirate, so in the pictures below look for my real name, Georgia.

The other fiber arts represented at the fair were so beautiful.  I’ll get better pictures when I go back.  The basket weaving and loom weaving were my favorite.

There were cute animals too.  Lots of them:

We also ate a bunch of scones (they didn’t last long enough to be photographed).