asakiyume: (good time)
So nowadays, if you're pregnant, there's an app that will tell you how big your baby is, week by week, with fruit and vegetable comparisons (lentil sized, grape sized, lime sized, and so on). There is a website for this, too.


I found this out because the tall one's girlfriend (I'll call her "the sea spirit") is pregnant! And they have been keeping track of the pregnancy this way. And now that they're out of the first trimester, I can talk about it ;-)

Anyway, I find these comparisons very fun if sometimes a bit ??? I've been making felt pins for each week, starting with week 12, so the sea spirit can wear a different one as the pregnancy progresses.

Week 12 is a lime, 13 is a pea pod, 14 is a lemon, and 15 is an apple.

(... I know! These things come in various sizes. I know some apples that are twice as big as others. And are we talking key limes or...?)

lime lemon apple peapod

Week 16 is an avocado, 17 is a turnip, 18 is a bell pepper, and 19 is a tomato (specifically the website says an heirloom tomato (?))

(I know very few tomatoes who are bigger than a good-sized bell pepper, but okay. If you're wondering where the bell pepper is in the photo, it's the pale orange one, because the website had an orange bell pepper and I'm apparently very suggestible.)

avocado turnip tomato bell pepper

Week 20 is a banana--not in terms of weight or volume but length. Week 21 is a carrot (same stipulation). Week 22 was a spaghetti squash--and I cried foul. Spaghetti squash are huge and weigh way more than the 1 pound they were saying your baby weighs at this point. I made a delicata squash instead. And then week 23 was a mango. Have you ever seen a mango that was bigger than a spaghetti squash? I rest my case. My attempts to represent all the subtle gradations of color--from green to red!--that you can get on a mango resulted in this Halloweeny Frankenmango, but eh, you win some, you lose some.

banana carrot delicata squash mango

Next up is an ear of corn! I've begun work...

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Apr. 16th, 2018 09:23 am
asakiyume: (turnip lantern)
Babies like human faces, I'm told, but apparently especially other babies' faces. There were two baby girls in the arms of family members, sitting in front of us in church yesterday, both about nine months old. On the right, the youngest of six siblings (a beautiful family--I've really loved seeing the kids get older and each new baby turn into a small child). This child had caramel-colored hair, tights with hearts on them, and a pink sweater, and at one point her next-up sister gave her a glittering, pink-flavored rhinestone bracelet to play with, which she proudly showed to everyone, including me. (I was gratified to be included.) Next-up sister was the baby seems like just days ago, but now she's a little person with her own style. I was reminded of the phrase in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican--"Someone's coming to take your lap." Next-up sister wasn't showing any hard feelings, though.

Anyway, this friendly, outgoing baby caught sight, over to the left, of another baby girl, a more-shy-seeming baby with brown curls and a beautiful dress with white designs of rabbits, ferns, and flowers on a blue ground. (This baby had only one sibling, an older sister, about three or four years old, who was playing with a set of plastic toy horses on the pew.) The eyes of big-family baby lit up when she saw this other baby. She smiled broadly and waved her arms and cooed. The other baby noticed, and a smile spread across her face too, and the two babies looked at each other like they'd just discovered a long-lost friend. They're just starting out their adventure in human existence, and here's a fellow traveler, a comrade.

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