So since my last post we have officially finished getting all the really "big" things (in my eyes) done for our little miss's arrival in June. Shortly after my last post we got the baby bedding in and I was relieved because it looked as good in person as it did online. Kyle had been telling me to go and just buy a crib mattress while we were waiting on the bedding to get here so that when it finally did I could put it all together to see what it looked like. I insisted that we wouldn't need it right away and that we would just wait and register for it. Clearly my husband knows me way too well because the bedding came, and there we were that night driving around town looking at the very poor selection of crib mattresses available. I was determined to get one and we finally did. We came home and put it all together and it looks great! I will post pictures soon. I was even happier because Kyle liked it also-not too much pink for him.
This past weekend I went to Edinburgh shopping with my friends from Hershey and Kyle stayed at home-painting! We decided since the bedding and furniture are overall pretty dark that we didn't want anything extravagant and dark on the walls. We went with a really pale pink and an ivory color. Again-I was nervous because Kyle's initial thoughts were that there would be NO pink painted on the walls. I worked him into settling for a pale pink and he was happy we did. We were somewhat restricted in what we could do because of the different heights of our ceilings upstairs, so we went simple. I figure I can jazz it up a little bit with other decorations within the room. Again, I will post pictures here soon.
Needless to say I feel like we're way ahead of the game, but I really can't say that I expected any different. We are both the type of people that when there is something to be done and we are excited about it and/or want it done-we get it done ASAP! I told him I wanted the majority of stuff done before I got huge and uncomfortable. Being lazy and out of school while I'm 8-9 months pregnant sounds ideal.
Now it's on to the task of looking into classes to sign up for and registering. Again, I know it's probably early for both, but I know the dates of classes are not "regular" and will be here before we know it. There are a couple I am interested in taking, but I don't want to do too many to get too much information or have it be a waste of time. I know I'll be lucky if I can talk Kyle into going to more than one so I better chose wisely. As for registering, it's just one more thing I would like to have checked off my list before I am big, uncomfortable, and the last thing I want to do is walk around a store for hours looking at everything.
And apparently even though my own personal shopping time has decreased due to my increasing size and inability to fit into normal clothes anymore, that doesn't mean I haven't steered towards buying "her" anything. The kid is spoiled already and I'm wondering what I've gotten myself into. The girls clothing is just too cute and she is quickly creeping on having just as many clothes as her mom. I just can't seem to help myself when I see a cute outfit. I've been trying to buy in a variety of sizes because I know it all goes by so fast anyways. However, now I am forcing myself NOT to buy her anymore clothes because I'm sure that will be a popular gift whenever I have my shower.
Stay tuned for the big announcement of her name...
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Halfway there already?!
Well I'm officially 20 weeks-halfway through the pregnancy-and I can't believe how fast the time has gone so far. There have definitely been times when I have felt like time is dragging, but when I think back to when we found out on Oct. 13th that I was pregnant, time really has gone by fast. The good news is that I've been feeling great. People kept telling me that once I hit the second trimester things should go back to normal and they were right. I'm no longer gagging over everything and am not tired all the time. I think I'm most thankful for the less frequent trips to the bathroom recently. I felt like I was always in there that first trimester. I'm sure that will come back as she gets bigger. When we went to the doctor for our ultrasound her head was on my bladder-apparently it's comfortable. I've finally started to gain some weight (about 5 pounds) and my belly has officially POPPED! It seems like within the last 2 weeks you can definitely tell I'm pregnant. The girls at work are telling me it's about time. She is also kicking more and more. What I once use to feel only once or twice every couple days has turned in to quite a few times everyday. It's still nothing Kyle can really feel, but I think hopefully sometime soon he'll be able to feel her. It's truly such an amazing feeling! As I feel her in there right now!!
Kyle is finally coming to terms with having a girl. He's even gone with me to pick out a couple of outfits for her. This is when I truly realized how much trouble I was in-the girls stuff is just too cute. I'm going to have to keep myself in check. We've even picked out her crib bedding. This was honestly much harder than I thought it would be. I'm kind of thankful we aren't having a boy because I know those options are so much more limited and I really would have had trouble deciding. I wanted something classy and elegant-NOT with flowers and butterflies, which seemed to be just about everything. When I did find something that I liked, it was either $500+ or Kyle didn't like it. We finally decided on some custom bedding off of EBay and are currently waiting to get it. I'm so anxious to get it and see if it looks as good in person as it does online. If not-I am dreading the searching process again.
The weekend after we found out we got new carpet upstairs. It's been something that we knew we would want to replace eventually, but now that we're having a baby I told Kyle I would rather start out with some fresh, new carpet that we know what's been on it. There's a guy that he works with at the city that lays carpet on the side, so he got us a good discount on a really good carpet and installed it for much cheaper than the average carpet store. I am so happy with what we chose and it definitely made the house look 10 times better. I had told him before that I wanted to get carpet in the living room also. We currently have hardwood, which looks nice, but with two large dogs that shed the hair collects so much. I also would feel more comfortable laying the baby on a carpeted floor than a hardwood floor. He wasn't so sure about thise at first. After we had all the new carpet installed he informed me that we are getting carpet in the living room once winter is over. I guess I couldn't have asked for that to work out better. Maybe I can convince him to carpet our bedroom too.
So naturally I have been working my tail off to get everything organized upstairs again. We had to move our massive computer desk to lay the carpet and decided to put it in the smaller of the two bedrooms upstairs, making the nursery the bigger bedroom. I'm glad we did. It makes it look more office-like now. The only piece of nursery furniture that we had to put together was the crib. We of course did that as soon as the carpet was laid. So now all of the nursery furniture is set up and in the room. We're just waiting on the bedding to make sure that we like it so that we can paint and begin decorating. I'll have to take pictures of what things look like right now post new carpet and pre nursery decorating.
I'm trying to talk him into driving down to Indy tomorrow and look at Babies R Us-maybe register. I know it's early, but might as well. It's winter and I'm tired of sitting in the house doing nothing-especially after having 2 snow days and 2 2-hr delays this week. I'm so ready for spring. I want warmth and sunshine back. This winter weather is definitely not helping me with my desperate want for a vacation to the beach. Hopefully we only have this month and nice weather will be on it's way in March. One can only hope.
Hope everyone survived the winter storm!
Kyle is finally coming to terms with having a girl. He's even gone with me to pick out a couple of outfits for her. This is when I truly realized how much trouble I was in-the girls stuff is just too cute. I'm going to have to keep myself in check. We've even picked out her crib bedding. This was honestly much harder than I thought it would be. I'm kind of thankful we aren't having a boy because I know those options are so much more limited and I really would have had trouble deciding. I wanted something classy and elegant-NOT with flowers and butterflies, which seemed to be just about everything. When I did find something that I liked, it was either $500+ or Kyle didn't like it. We finally decided on some custom bedding off of EBay and are currently waiting to get it. I'm so anxious to get it and see if it looks as good in person as it does online. If not-I am dreading the searching process again.
The weekend after we found out we got new carpet upstairs. It's been something that we knew we would want to replace eventually, but now that we're having a baby I told Kyle I would rather start out with some fresh, new carpet that we know what's been on it. There's a guy that he works with at the city that lays carpet on the side, so he got us a good discount on a really good carpet and installed it for much cheaper than the average carpet store. I am so happy with what we chose and it definitely made the house look 10 times better. I had told him before that I wanted to get carpet in the living room also. We currently have hardwood, which looks nice, but with two large dogs that shed the hair collects so much. I also would feel more comfortable laying the baby on a carpeted floor than a hardwood floor. He wasn't so sure about thise at first. After we had all the new carpet installed he informed me that we are getting carpet in the living room once winter is over. I guess I couldn't have asked for that to work out better. Maybe I can convince him to carpet our bedroom too.
So naturally I have been working my tail off to get everything organized upstairs again. We had to move our massive computer desk to lay the carpet and decided to put it in the smaller of the two bedrooms upstairs, making the nursery the bigger bedroom. I'm glad we did. It makes it look more office-like now. The only piece of nursery furniture that we had to put together was the crib. We of course did that as soon as the carpet was laid. So now all of the nursery furniture is set up and in the room. We're just waiting on the bedding to make sure that we like it so that we can paint and begin decorating. I'll have to take pictures of what things look like right now post new carpet and pre nursery decorating.
I'm trying to talk him into driving down to Indy tomorrow and look at Babies R Us-maybe register. I know it's early, but might as well. It's winter and I'm tired of sitting in the house doing nothing-especially after having 2 snow days and 2 2-hr delays this week. I'm so ready for spring. I want warmth and sunshine back. This winter weather is definitely not helping me with my desperate want for a vacation to the beach. Hopefully we only have this month and nice weather will be on it's way in March. One can only hope.
Hope everyone survived the winter storm!
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