Hey everyone,
There is not a whole lot of news to share ate the moment but here are some tidbits...
I am feeling great and basically enjoying being pregnant. My favorite part is that I can feel Alexandra kicking A LOT! Pretty much, whenever I am sitting still she is working on her gymnastic skills. This has Mark believing that his career plan for her is on track. He thinks that she will be the first female NFL kicker. We have had debates about what we will do if she somehow gets drafted by Green Bay (shudder). I know we will be supportive parents but does that mean we will have to wear green? Being a Giants fan from New Jersey, Mark is equally concerned about the possibility of her being drafted to the Cowboys. I just wonder if that would mean that they changed the name of the team to the Cowpeople. We shall see! :) But seriously, she kicks a lot and I love it! Sometimes it makes me jump...I hope I don't end up with a broken rib by the end of this...
Mom and Mark painted the nursery on Sunday while Grandma and I cleaned. The color is called Honey Butter and it is a very soft yellow that matches the bedding set. I love it! Every time I walk past her room (which is very often since it is across from the bathroom) I peak in and imagine what the room will look like with Lexie in it. I can't wait! Mom bought the crib for us and it should be arriving any day now so we will remember Gary and Joy's advice and assemble it INSIDE the room. :)
Lots of love to you all!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Nursery Themes and such
We decided to go with a gender-neutral nursery theme even though we know that we are having Alexandra rather than a boy. The bedding is called "CoCaLo Alphabet Soup." Here is a almost decent picture of the entire theme line. We are only going to get a couple of the items so Lexie's room won't be quite so overwhelming as it might appear.
Mark and I have already purchased the actually bedding set and those cute wall hangings as well as registering for a couple of other pieces to go along with them. I just love how bright and cheerful it is and I won't have any trouble finding things to match since there is pretty much every color in the rainbow present!
We have pretty much finished the baby registry thing too! I decided that this was even more fun that registering for our wedding...I mean, come on. How exciting can Tupperware really get? I think Mark liked this better too since he didn't have to come along. Mom and Emma were my register partners and may I tell you that Emma ROCKS at figuring out those gun/scanner things! Mom was absolutely essential for me, too. How else would I have known how many bottles and such I will need? Thanks Ladies! We are registered at Babies-R-Us as well as Target.
With the thought of making room for all of the fun baby gear, I have been getting to work clearing out the nursery. Right now that room is kind of the household junk room...Filled with everything from piles of papers to be filed, to off-season clothes that don't fit in the closet to the boxes of my stuff that I have yet to unpack even though I have lived here for over 2 and 1/2 years...Most of this stuff will end up getting tossed or put into a garage sale pile. What's left gets to be packed into storage.
This week I finished organizing the room that it is all moving into and have gotten about 10% of the "junk" relocated. My hope is to have it empty by the end of the weekend so I can clean the walls and Mark can fill in the hundreds of pin holes that his old renters left behind. Mom, Emma and Grandma have kindly offered to come over in a couple of weeks to help with the painting so hopefully the room will be ready for baby stuff come June. I can't wait!
Mark and I have already purchased the actually bedding set and those cute wall hangings as well as registering for a couple of other pieces to go along with them. I just love how bright and cheerful it is and I won't have any trouble finding things to match since there is pretty much every color in the rainbow present!We have pretty much finished the baby registry thing too! I decided that this was even more fun that registering for our wedding...I mean, come on. How exciting can Tupperware really get? I think Mark liked this better too since he didn't have to come along. Mom and Emma were my register partners and may I tell you that Emma ROCKS at figuring out those gun/scanner things! Mom was absolutely essential for me, too. How else would I have known how many bottles and such I will need? Thanks Ladies! We are registered at Babies-R-Us as well as Target.
With the thought of making room for all of the fun baby gear, I have been getting to work clearing out the nursery. Right now that room is kind of the household junk room...Filled with everything from piles of papers to be filed, to off-season clothes that don't fit in the closet to the boxes of my stuff that I have yet to unpack even though I have lived here for over 2 and 1/2 years...Most of this stuff will end up getting tossed or put into a garage sale pile. What's left gets to be packed into storage.
This week I finished organizing the room that it is all moving into and have gotten about 10% of the "junk" relocated. My hope is to have it empty by the end of the weekend so I can clean the walls and Mark can fill in the hundreds of pin holes that his old renters left behind. Mom, Emma and Grandma have kindly offered to come over in a couple of weeks to help with the painting so hopefully the room will be ready for baby stuff come June. I can't wait!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Prego belly shots
I never thought I would intentionally post photos of my stomach on the internet but here I go...
Week 5
Week 14
Week 22
It's a girl!
We are very exited to announce that we learned today that our baby is a little girl!
We had an ultrasound done 3 weeks ago but our baby girl was being very modest that day and kept her legs crossed the entire time. Here are some pictures from that one. (week 19) Please note the modest way her legs are crossed in picture #2! :)
Because the doctors needed some better shots of a couple of things they decided to have me in for another ultrasound today. This is week 22, by the way. We were sad to have to tell everyone that we had no gender news last time so we decided to keep this one a secret. Can you believe that I managed to keep this one to myself? I know I can't! Well, I did tell that lady at the gas station but since she doesn't know me I figured that our secret was safe. The technician said that she is as sure as she can be that our little one is a girl and we have more pictures to prove it...as well as a truly adorable profile shot. Here is our little Alexandra Lucinda!
We had an ultrasound done 3 weeks ago but our baby girl was being very modest that day and kept her legs crossed the entire time. Here are some pictures from that one. (week 19) Please note the modest way her legs are crossed in picture #2! :)
Because the doctors needed some better shots of a couple of things they decided to have me in for another ultrasound today. This is week 22, by the way. We were sad to have to tell everyone that we had no gender news last time so we decided to keep this one a secret. Can you believe that I managed to keep this one to myself? I know I can't! Well, I did tell that lady at the gas station but since she doesn't know me I figured that our secret was safe. The technician said that she is as sure as she can be that our little one is a girl and we have more pictures to prove it...as well as a truly adorable profile shot. Here is our little Alexandra Lucinda!
Isn't she beautiful!
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