15 weeks, maternity maxi and baby thrifting

We've got an action packed show today, ladies and gentlemen!

First: my stomach is definitely puffing out (especially after a long and hard day of eating) and my crystal ball shows that maternity clothes are in my very near future.

Hopefully I can hold off until we move because I don't even want to think about taking a machete to the jungle of packed boxes in our basement, living room, kitchen and bedroom until we are safely in our new nest. 

I was awake blowing my fire hose of a nose for two hours straight the other night/morning and stumbled across this smart maternity dress tutorial.

I tried my hand at the brilliance with an old Old Navy tank top and some eggplant stretchy material to produce:

a nightgown. 

or perhaps some reallllly modest lingerie?

Eye

Dee 

Kay

All I know is that:
1. Just like a nightgown it is very comfortable and
2. it was medium-easy to low-difficult to pull together

I was particularly pleased with the photo below that Simon snapped as I was marching somewhere...and am considering putting a portfolio of photos together to try my hand at maternity modeling:

thank you Simone

On the Julia clothing front: she is bursting out of most of her clothes and so I went on a little thrifting trip to see if I could find some outfits to adequately cover her little butterball body.

Her favorite finds were the little boy shoes and the Mr. Rogers cardigan:

success never looked so handsome/pretty. 

and this is directly before we endured the most horrendous teething tantrum breakdown in the history of her 7.5 month life:

All of our favorites came for the party: spitting, arm flailing, back arching, machine gun sobs and squirt gun nostrils. 

I hope we can do that again in the very near future. 

And now I'm off to glare at Jillian Michaels for 27 minutes before I jog-walk half way around the block listening to the techno version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" 

 don't worry...I'm definitely not kidding. 

See you later.