You know how you are supposed to be careful about sharing your personal information on the Internet? Well, don’t look at me to be your role model because not only will I tell you more than you need to know I will also put my answers on the open Internet forum like formspring.me. This is all in the name of the contest to win some fabulous baby accessories from Pink Bowtique, of course! So as promised, I am posting a picture of my 17-week-old baby bump:
And one cannot ignore the most commonly asked question on the Internet these days: do you look pregnant from behind? Well… since you’ve assked…
As you can tell from my pose, taking picture of my assets in front of the neighbor’s windows wasn’t awkward at all. Also, in case you were about to ask – contrary to popular belief I do not own a picture of my pre-baby behind so that you could compare, but it pretty much looks like this or wider most of the time. In fact, some days I put on my white pants and let the kids watch projector movies on it.
Here is a quick summary of your guesses on baby’s gender this far:
Boy – 8
Girl – 16
The baby will have their legs crossed – 0
We still have time till March 10th, but what am I going to do if nobody chooses the third option and it will turn out to be the case?! Uh? *throwing hands in the air*
P to the S by popular demand I bring you back… The Baby Header!
Leila somehow managed to pick up a few dying germs of the fading flu season. The first 24 hours of full house arrest were easy, the other 48… KICKED.MY.BADONKADONK. There is a limit to how many peekaboos I can do and how many bubbles I can blow before my brain slips into self-induced comma to protect itself from further degradation.
I know I was being punished for something, because as soon as she recovered the weather decided to hit the fan… there goes my caffeinated afternoon at the park. I have no idea how mothers survived before Borders and Barns&Nobels because it pretty much became our default rainy day playground. There is no better place to practice my cage-free parenting – I just let her go wherever her little wobbly legs take her and try to keep up with the mess she is leaving behind. Eventually she will get to that toy bin in the kids area where she will happily chew on a few labels while I browse baby name books. Once in awhile a concerned mother will interrupt my bliss with comments like, ”excuse me, but she is chewing on something” or “oh! she is crawling on the dirty carpet!” to which I will respond with my best fake-shocked- and-grateful face, remove Leila from the concerned mother’s field of view, put her back on the “dirty carpet”, give another toy from the bin and slip right back into the oblivion… for those four precious minutes of my day, because that’s as long as Leila will go on without personal one-on-one entertainment or at least before she decides to kamikaze herself over the book shelves.
Seriously, all the sick and bad weather days pushed my creativity to the limit… I was all over the babycenter.com and twitter with SOS messages until somebody said just give the girl a mirror… so I did and I have no idea what that conversation was about, but I don’t think it ended well:
Remember The Marshmallow Study? The one where they have offered a group of 4-year-olds one marshmallow, but told them that if they could wait for the researcher to return after running an errand, they could have two marshmallows. The “errand” took about fifteen to twenty minutes. The theory was that those children who could wait would demonstrate that they had the ability to delay gratification and control impulse. Fifteen to twenty minutes for a toddler is like 2.5 years for a 30-year-old. Would YOU wait for a second marshmallow? I say, life is short -- stuff your face, kid! Nevertheless some of those kids were truly amazing and absolutely hilarious:
I was hoping that by the time I got pregnant with the second baby somebody would invent a test that tells you the gender of the baby the minute you find out you are expecting. Well that hasn’t happened yet, because some people are just not on top of things… and since I like my marshmallows yesterday, I will be finding out the gender of our baby on March 10th.
This is really good news for you too, because last week I was feeling so good about myself that I emailed Pink Bowtique asking if they would be so kind to give one of my blog readers a gift… (and you say I don’t love you!)
If you have been reading this blog for more than a week you know that I have a very healthy and totally under control habit of buying hats for Leila. These are just two of my favorites that I have purchased from Pink Bowtique in the past:
It’s not a secret -- I’ve been sponsoring Pink Bowtique since the day Leila was born. Still, the next morning I woke up and was all OMG! What have I done?! I could just hear all the people at Pink Bowtique rolling on the floor laughing at my email… rolling so hard they now need new floors… except nobody laughed and they simply said “YES”!
Pink Bowtique have graciously agreed to give the following two items absolutely free of charge to one of my readers:
size small (0-9 months) -- Leila rocked it last Easter!
and
size small (baby not included *sigh*)
Consequently, I have decided to do a contest. All you have to do is guess the gender of our second baby in the comment section below this post.
You have three options: 1. a girl, 2. a boy, 3. I won’t find out because the baby will have their legs crossed just like Leila did.
Comments will be closed at 8am PST on March 10th, the winner will be selected through www.random.org and results announced on the 11th.
The winner will have to email me their address within 7 days (you snooze -- you lose).
A few important points: although Pink Bowtique does ship all over the world, they are only able to offer free shipping within the United States for this particular contest. If you live outside the US and are willing to pay for shipping (or know somebody who lives in the United States and use their address) you are welcome to participate as well. Either way, you can still make a guess and leave a comment, just make sure to clarify that you are not qualified/interested in free gifts.
Need hints? Have a question you want to ask regarding this contest to help you with your guess (what do I crave? do I have a morning sickness? etc, etc) all those can be asked through “Ask Me Anything” service. You can ask questions anonymously, however all my answers will be made public on “Ask Me Anything” website (also available on my sidebar). I will also gladly do any online gender tests you want me to do, just email me the link at mrs.notouching ["at" symbol] gmail ["dot" symbol] com - will get back to you within 24-hours.
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