Week 20 - February 25, 2007

Did some more work on clearing out the computer room - amazing how much junk can be crammed into one room! My mom, Andrea and I also went to Babies R Us and Cribs to Teens this weekend to start getting ideas for the baby's room. The Cribs to Teens store is all very high end furniture and bedding (out of our price range) but soooo fun to see the beautiful stuff they had! (Thanks for the tip Jenny S.!) We did see a few bedding sets we liked at Babies R Us. Here are a few liked:
1. Bees: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2266594&cp&type=trigger&page=2&searchId=2615966&doVSearch=no&pageBucket=0&promoId=2615966&parentPage=search
2. Silver Lining (has animals): http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2415187&cp&type=trigger&page=3&searchId=2615966&doVSearch=no&doVSearch=no&pageBucket=0&promoId=2615966&parentPage=search
3. Safari: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2466448&cp&type=trigger&page=3&searchId=2615966&doVSearch=no&doVSearch=no&pageBucket=0&promoId=2615966&parentPage=search


The challenge is, as I always do, I have a picture in my head of the mixture of patterns using a mix of colors and now I either have to find it or create something of my own! OR we can just do some basic pieces and mix and match the colors...I'm sure I'll figure something out - lol.

I think we might do a blue sky ceiling and some clouds in the room - my mom's idea which I really like :) We also found a glider on sale that has a pretty mint green fabric on it and the wood matches the crib. Some pictures of the room as it lives right now are below if you'd like to see (nothing exciting yet).

As for me personally, I'm feeling really good! I have been on a fruit kick (Amanda - you called this one!) I can't get enough sweets but the fruit kind especially smoothies. I'm watching the Oscars as I type and will be making a smoothie at the break. My new one is like Ben And Jerry's makes them - raspberry sherbet, apple juice strawberries and bananas - yummy!

We have our monthly dr. appt tomorrow so we'll let y'all know about anything new (I had the wrong date in the previous posting!)

Week 20 - February 20, 2007

So, I've been hearing some clammering that I'm not updating the blog enough...I'll try to get better and at least update it once a week (just for you Dee :)

According to my calendars, today starts 20 weeks - half way which blows my mind! Still feeling really good and definitely starting to put on a few lbs. but nothing out of the normal range (thank goodness). I'm still in regular clothes but I don't think that will be the case much longer. My pants as so tight by the end of the day that it's just so uncomfortable so I'm got to break down and start wearing some maternity pants of just more stretchy pants. I bought some cute gaucho pants from Old Navy that don't look maternity like and are cute w/ knee-high boots so I'll be wearing those a lot. I was also lucky enough to get a ton of clothes from Denise and Jenny D. which is great! That will help me out tons. And I hit a good online sale on OldNavy.com for maternity stuff.

Still struggling w/ the baby room idea - I think I'm going to stick to the possible combo of blue, green and yellow. The stuff I ordered from Landof Nod.com is cute, but not as nice as I had hoped (http://www.landofnod.com/family.aspx?c=35&f=633&pc=8) and a bit pricey!

I have a dr. appt on 2/29, so I'll let you all know how it goes.

Week 19 - February 17, 2007

Started to feel the baby moving around this week - it's a very strange feeling! You're not really quite sure that you're feeling it and then you just think, well what else could be stirring in my stomach like that :)

Had fun at Jenny Schmucker's shower today - just a preview of all of hte stuff we're going to need. It's amazing how much a little baby can need.

With all of the snow we got this week, Dave and I got a jump on moving all of the junk from the computer room (future baby's room) to the game room. We rerranged all of the gameroom furniture as well - after about 6-7 arrangments, we finally found a winner! The next blog posting will have pictures of the baby's room before and during....I'm sure this is going to be a long process until I make up my mind what colors I'm going with for the room. Most likely blue, green and yellow.