Tomorrow starts Turnip Week (week 17) for the Bean, according to the babycenter.com How Big is Your Baby? slideshow. I think this is my favorite food item comparison, at least until Rutabega Week (week 25).

The Bean is the size of a turnip this week

Tomorrow is also when we’ll be having the level II ultrasound, which barring any excessive modesty on the Bean’s part should probably give us a definitive gender reading as well as detailed views of the brain and other organs and some hopefully less scary face shots. I’m looking forward to this one.

The wedding planning stuff is in full insanity, I mean, swing. I ordered some shoes (finally) and froofy girly wedding stockings this weekend, and we met with the florist yesterday and got the flower stuff settled. The silver tussy-mussy bouquet holder Jag’s mom bought me came in on Friday by some miracle, so we were able to take that with us and just leave it with the florist to make sure the bouquet will fit. Tomorrow after work, we meet with the wedding minister to discuss the ceremony. And Tuesday morning at 8am, we have a 30-minute appointment to do some tastings and make the cake arrangements at Mad Hatter. I think there are still some details to hash out with the restaurant, and I still need to buy some combs for my hair. And I’m still knitting on my “something blue” shawl, which I want to have available in case it’s chilly on the wedding day. I’m way more than halfway there now, but I really need to get this done so I’m not blocking and drying it at the last minute.

In the meantime, I bought a bunch of autumn leaf garlands and other decorations at Michael’s (50% off!) to spruce up the wedding site, and we’ve spent many hours cleaning up the study and its closets and moving stuff out of the craft room/future nursery into the study and other parts of the house. It’s slow going due to the sheer amount of old paperwork that has to be sorted and shredded, but we’ve moved all my fabric (which filled up fifteen 15″x15″ wire cube units and now lives in an almost equal number of big plastic bins) and one of the bookshelves out of the nursery. I’ll be working on the yarn next. At least yarn is relatively light.

Does anyone need a nice set of computer speakers (with subwoofer) or a black wooden double-drop-leaf table from IKEA (a little banged up, but could easily be repainted)? If you say yes, they’re yours.