19 weeks

 

 So this what 19 weeks looks like.   Totally crazy to think the baby is the size of a 6 inch heirloom tomato.  Besides surviving morning sickness, this is the first time I've truly *felt* pregnant. Next Wednesday is the big day, we find out who is stowing away in my belly, boy or girl.  The majority opinion of my work friends is that the baby is a girl.  We'll see if they're right.

This is the Droid you are looking for

I've had my phone for a little over 4 months now, and even though there are a few things I miss about my Crackberry, I think I've fallen in love.  The next generation of the Droid X will be coming out in a few months, but unlike when I owned my Storm, I am not longing for the time when I can upgrade my phone to get here so I can get rid of a POS. I thought I'd  take time to list a few of my favorite aps available on the Android Market and talk a bit about them.

•  Vignette - iPhone users have instagr.am which is pretty nifty in it's own right.  Vignette has 68 different photo effects and 56 frames available to chose from.  I've been having a lot of fun playing with the Polaroid and photobooth features. Once the baby gets here I know I am  going to be a photo-taking fool!
• Google Maps with Navigation -  Surprisingly Verizon didn't eliminate the ability to use this application in favor of Verizon Navigator.  Verizon has been notorious for crippling their products so you can't utilize the phone's total functionality.  I've ditched using my husband's gps in favor of using the Google Navigation system.  
• Amazon.com - I constantly find myself using the barcode scanner feature while out shopping to see if Amazon has the item for less.  We have Amazon Prime, so with the free two day shipping, not buying an item that day isn't such a big deal. I have been in scanning over-drive since beginning to price out baby items.  I just wish I could figure out a way to silence the scanner's beep so no one will hear what I'm up to.
• Beautiful Widgets - One of the things I missed the most about switching from Blackberry to Android was losing BerryWeather. Beautiful Widgets comes very close. My only real complaint is that to look at the weather radar, the application opens up a browser window instead of performing the function in the app.
• Advanced Task Killer - I haven't had to do any battery pulls since buying my droid which was a daily, if not more occurrence with my Storm.  The task killer enables you to "kill" applications you may not be using to free up memory. 
• Baby Bump Pregnancy Pro -  What size is the baby this week?  Is it an apple, an eggplant, or perhaps an heirloom tomato?  Not only does this application tell you that, but gives you daily and weekly things to think about, has illustrations on where the baby and uterus are in relation to the mother's body and what the baby looks like that week, and has a "kick counter" so you can measure how often the baby kicks.  I feel that this would not be a stand alone item for an expecting parent, but is great in conjunction with reading pregnancy books.

I decided against listing the games I have installed on my phone because I felt the addictiveness of Angry Birds and Tetris spoke for themselves,  I am always on the look-out for new apps to try, so if anyone has any suggestions, let me know!

Baby talk

Even though we don't know the sex of the baby yet, it's never too early to think about color.  I've been looking all over the web for inspiration for the baby's room; there are so many cool ideas out there for a turtle/woodland themed nursery.  I can't even begin to list how many cool things I've found on  Etsy and Amazon.com.

1. Turtle lamp - Carter's Laguna collection,  amazon.com.
2. Tree bookcase - by Shawn Soh.  At $2500, this is way out of my price range. Need to figure out a way to fabricate this for less!
3. Bilingual eco wall cards #'s 1-10, by Art and Philanthropy on Etsy.
4. personalized applique name pillow, by Whimsy Co. on Etsy.

I've been trying to figure out a way to make the bookcase out mdf or a similar material. The original bookcase is made out of powder-coated metal but there has to be a way to make it more child friendly and out of wood.

Oh, to my one reader, I finally updated so you would have something, even though it's small, to read.   Thanks for kicking me in the butt to update. ;-)  You know who you are.