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!