Nursery Update.....Baby Shower time!!

Wow so much happens in such a small amount of time. The nursery is coming along more and more! Painting is done, the crib and changing table are put together and decorating started today. Slowly but surely it is looking more and more like a nursery, a lot of love has already been put into it, and a lot more to come.

Today, I had my first baby shower! Had so much fun, this one was held at Subie's (my mother at work) house. Which she, my sister Michelle, my "other" sister Kristin and my dear friend Mariah hosted. There was a good amount of dear friends from the Y that attended, and a few of my close friends from church. Opening all the shower gifts was overwhelming for me, I hate being the center of attention and I always feel like I don't express how appreciative I am of all the gifts and everything my friends have given by just a thank you.... the gratitude goes so far beyond just those two words. There was a moment today when I looked around and saw all the people that were around me and realized how blessed I am to have each one of these individuals in my life. Each person has touched my heart and my life in one way or another and has helped me through this pregnancy is one way or another. Either by personal advise, having a listening ear, making me laugh and just wanting to get a good belly rub in. I feel so blessed. I must say too though that I did give some amazing hand made gifts to my wonderful hosts.... I have absolutely no creative stitch in me so I have no idea how I was capable of thinking of this idea or actually putting them together and having them turn out so cute. My little treasure boxes to those I treasure.
Our little man did give Al and I a scare last week... I called my doctor on Thursday to let her know that I had not felt any movements or kicks for the past 2 days. Which led me to be asked to go to Labor and Delivery, I had a heart rate monitor placed on my belly to hear his heart beat. All checked out great, his heartbeat was strong and healthy, thank God!!! When my doctor called me the next day to ask if I had felt anything yet I still had not. Which led to going to her office for a sonogram to check his heart beat, breathing, movement and amniotic fluid. Mr. Chance passed with flying colors in all 4 areas, but he was breach and that may have been a reason I could not feel anything. Luckily though he finally decided to start kicking and moving around again a day later. Little stinker is being stubborn and giving us a hard time already and he is not even born yet.... what is this mommy in for??!!!!

                                                                Here is a picture of the wonderful hostesses from the shower, each one I am so blessed to have in my life!

Slowly but surely

I am so excited that the nursery is slowly starting to look like a nursery. There is still a lot of work to be done, but finally the walls were taped off, the drop clothes were laid and 1 coat of paint has been put up on the wall. I love the color that Al and I decided on..Tropical Breeze, it is so calming and beautiful. There are a few holes that need to be patched in the wall where we had anchors that held up some old shelving. So hopefully by this weekend we can have the another coat painted and be done with that phase. I am so excited to start putting together the crib and changing table. Of course they came in flat boxes that I am sure have 150 pieces inside of them, but even still I am excited to have us putting it all together.
    I had a doctor's appointment last Wednesday my doctor told me she was putting my pregnancy at 28 weeks and 3 days. Which now means that my due date would be November 28th verses the 24th. Getting closer and closer to having a December baby like I am hoping for. Not sure why exactly maybe just for the fact that I love the month of December and absolutely everything about the Christmas season. This would be just one more reason to love the month and look forward to a birthday at the end of the year. I told Al the other day that it would be very fitting since his birthday is January 9th, mine is February 3 so of course we should have back to back to back birthdays.... it only makes complete sense. Haha. Other than the date changing everything has been going really well, Chance has been kicking, poking and jabbing me but as long as he is comfortable and making room for himself, I will just stand aside and suck it up. My Glucose Tolerance Screening came back good, I was really happy about that because I have been craving sweets like crazy in my 3rd trimester and cutting back on those just would throw me into a hormonal outrage. And I know nobody wants to see or deal with that.

Wanted to attach a few pictures of the in progress nursery and will update you on what it looks like next week!

Third Trimester...already!

   I can not believe that I am already in my third trimester, it seems as though the last 6 months have just flown by. One of my our baby showers is coming up on the 24th of this month and it felt like it was yesterday when I thought our first shower was so far away. So much to do in so little time.... still needing to put the nursery together, Al and I have a prenatal class to attend which I am excited about next Saturday at UTSouthwestern. I am not for sure how much he is looking forward to it, but I really can't blame him. Hopefully they will make it a little interesting and not just a classroom set up.
   I have to share a funny story from about 2 weeks ago... Al and I went to Buy Buy Baby to register for a few items that we need, he was not able to go with me when I registered at Babies R' Us and Target, and I really wanted him to be apart of the registering experience so I held off registering for the car seat, the stroller and a few other items. We spent a total of 2 hours in Buy Buy Baby., 30 minutes going through the majority of the store and an hour and a half in the stroller/car seat section!! We had this very nice lady talk to us about all the differences between the car seats and strollers and safety regulations on each of them. She was disconnecting the car seat from the base and showing us if it was a metal clip or plastic clip that keeps them together. She also was showing us all the different strollers and how to connect the car seat to them and how to collapse and open the strollers back up. Overall, a very nice and educated sales associate but she was talking both of our ears off, so we were happy when she finally left us alone. Here is where the fun began..... we went back to the car seats to figure out which one we wanted to register for, we could not for the life of us figure out how to disconnect one dang car seat from its base. I think we tried to disconnect at least 5 or 6 and failed on all. With that frustration we gave up and moved to the strollers. To start we had one car seat that was already connected to the stroller so we decided to give it a shot and disconnect it from the stroller so we could figure out how to collapse the stroller.... of course no luck. Al was lifting the whole stroller up in the air while trying to pop off the car seat... no luck there either. Finally, we gave up there are just went to a stroller to collapse and open it. We pulled handles, pushed buttons, pushed levers, kicked with our feet bars and knobs towards the bottom of the stroller.... it wasn't budging. We with success finally got one stroller to collapse then could not get it to open back up...of course. But I think the Big Guy above was done laughing at us and finally we got a car seat disconnected from the base (high fives on Aisle 3) and we finally picked a stroller that was one push collapse and one pull to open (Happy Dance on Aisle 2)!!! Of course we had been there so long that our registry scanner decided to time out and we had to reactivate it again at the front desk to scan both items. HELP US!!!! 
   My third trimester has been going good so far, still have good energy but there have been days where it is a little harder to move around. I definitely am struggling to tie my shoe laces before I work out, my belly is definitely popping out more and more every day, maybe I should just think in investing in some grandpa Velcro shoes to make it easier. Overall though I really do not have any complaints, although, most if not all my mommy friends tell me is just forget about moving around my last 2 weeks of pregnancy, all I am going to be is big and miserable. I am really glad that this pregnancy has fallen in the time frame it has so hopefully when I do get pretty big at least it will be semi cooler outside and I can start walking in the morning. I'm trying my hardest to stay active as long as I can.
   Another thing that I am waiting on is seeing a hand or foot pop up through my stomach. Chance has definitely been kicking, turning and doing somersaults a lot in the past 2 weeks. Some days I feel like he is about to kick me out of my chair at work, while others it feels like when I first felt him move, just a little flutter here and there throughout the day.
   I am so excited and ready to put this nursery together, I put together the cube organizer yesterday, it looks so cute. But first thing is first we have got to paint that room!! Al and I went to Best Buy a 2 weeks ago and got 3 samples of paint, 2 light brown and a baby blue. I think both of us fell in love with the baby blue (called Tropical Blue). So hopefully this week he and I can start putting painters tape down and have the room painted by the end of this week. I feel like a little school girl and really happy and excited to start this project.