Nursery stuff!

I know what I forgot last night! I went and bought my paint from Menards for the nursery! YAY!!! I have big plans to clean everything out of the room and the closet. Once Jake gets his Christmas gift from my parents, we'll be able to reframe and drywall the closet so it's a real closet, instead of a deep hole in the wall, surrounded by paneling. One that I throw random crap into.

We'll get some really nice shelving, etc. too.

I'm going to have a to find a decent place for my crinoline from my wedding dress...actually, I should ask Liz if she would like it. They aren't exactly cheap and I don't need to hang onto it for a million years. Hmm...

Facebook message, here I come!

Anyway, I will post pictures when i get a chance. I plan on painting next week while I am off and so it should be all pretty by this time next week!

Half-Baked

I'm over half way done now.

I was looking at my little ticker box off to the side there and I have been pregnant for around 125 days (I know it says 128, but I really haven't been preggo that long, yet).

The reality of the situation is that I am probably due closer to mid-May than the beginning of May. And that's okay.

I am getting kicked every day now. It started a few weeks ago and he has his patterns. He must have slept a lot today, because I didn't feel him most of the day. But, he wakes up between 5 and 5:30!! He kicks me and it's uncomfortable now -- I can't imagine when he's big enough for others to feel. He's kicking me as I write this, in fact.

I finally "fatted" out of my pants last week. I have my three pairs of Old Navy maternity jeans and that's all for the pants area. I tried to buy a cool pair of velvety/dressy pants, but they are WAAAAAAY too big. I have to send them back with my other shirts, if I can find them.

Had another doctor's appt yesterday. Uneventful, as usual. Do I have questions, no, listen to heartbeat, feel my tummy to see if I've grown enough and I'm on my way. I did have a lot of blood drawn for the rest of my OB panel testing, but I doubted that they had the results back for me today, with the snow. So, I'll call next week and just make sure everything was a-ok. I don't expect any big surprises.

Next appt is Jan 15.

I think I may have mentioned it before, but my mom and aunt are planning on throwing us shower some time, probably in March or April -- a big, "Jack and Jill" (I guess that's what they call them) shower, for the girls and the boys. I have so many male friends that I don't want to feel like I can't have all my friends. Besides, I did the girl only thing for wedding showers and my bachelorette party and I really wished that Jake and I had just had a big ass drinking party at the house for everyone. I mean, Jake could have done something with just the boys, like he did, but a big "The House" party really would have been perfect.

I'm off to try to buy more Christmas presents online and hope that they get here in time.

QMA, all the way

Despite my posturing to the contrary, I have pretty much known that I am having a boy the whole time. My uncle has two boys, my cousin has two boys. I now have my own boy. Those Foster family genes towards boys are strong.

I will have to wait a bit longer to have my Lily. And that is okay.

I've got a Ryan Joshua instead.


He looked perfect in the ultrasound too. It was awesome.

His head is facing down toward my right leg, so those movements that I was feeling was either me getting punched or head-butted. Either way. It's still funny.

We are both very happy and I am thrilled to know the gender, so I can stop saying "it" so much. And now, I can finally pick out some baby things...in boyish colors.

And I am sort of glad that I picked a 'gender neutral' bedding that is predominantly blue.

So, things are really looking good for him. It'll be awesome! :)

Made a decision today...

We've (and by we, I mean, me) decide to try cloth diapers for the baby. I just can't a) justify spending so much money on disposable diapers -- which we have conservatively calculated at $500.00 a year and b) put all that garbage in the landfill.

Babies are gross anyway, so I guess we can handle a little more grossness.

I found some really sweet ones. It's not all diaper pins and folded pieces of cloth wrapped around a baby butt anymore.

Click here and click on the bum Genius link on the side menu. Currently, I am planning to purchase 12 bum Genius AIO in x-small for the newborn size and then 12 bum Genious One Size for regular baby diapers. They have snaps that can change the size of the diapers to fit.

I'm pretty excited about trying this out. It's better for the environment. Okay, I'm sure it evens out, because you're using more water to do more wash, but as long as I'm not adding to the landfills, I think I'm okay here.

If it doesn't work out, I'll probably try to sell what we haven't used somewhere. The best part is that we will have them forever basically for the next kids.

Getting ready to have a nursery has also made me realize that this house is really only going to support 1.5 kids. Once we are preggo with #2, moving will be top priority. In fact, moving may need to be done before we try for #2. But, maybe I am getting ahead of myself here. That's how I roll.

I also have picked out my bedding and I don't remember if I posted that or not. I guess I should go back and check if I did. If not, click here to look. I bought one roll of the border, so I could pick out paint colors, which we did yesterday. Now, I just have to go back and purchase them.

I'm thinking about using Satin on the walls instead of eggshell -- probably easier to clean and it's not as shiny as semi-gloss; plus, I can buy the little jugs for paint instead of the gallons. I want to see how little paint I can use. I have plans to pain the top blue, the bottom yellow stripes, with the border about light switch height. Probably over my vacation time at Christmas, just because I will have free time to do it. A little bit anyway.

I'm really excited for Tuesday, but if my appt gets cancelled because of the SNOW (!!!!), I will be PIST! PISSSSSST! I'm very hopeful that it will not, because this doc has a really full schedule. Cross your fingers and toes for me. :)

Some number of weeks...

I think 18. Yes. 18 weeks.

I think that I got my first kicks -- like actual kicks -- this week. I was sitting on the couch on Thursday night and all of a sudden I feel this sensation like I am getting flicked from the inside. This is probably the weirdest sensation that I have ever felt. Hands down.

I felt a little bit today while the cat was laying on my belly this morning too. I expect that I will probably be feeling more and more as time goes on here.

I got the maternity clothes from Old Navy this week too. They are pretty good too. I got two fleece zip up jackets -- which are slightly big. Most of this stuff is to grow into over the winter months. I have a sweater that I am wearing currently, which is awesome. I got a hoodie with a fake fur lined hood. Couple shirts. A pair of jeans, which while they are too big for me currently, in a month or two, they will be totsweet.

I have two shirts that I will send back -- one looks like a muumuu that is a shirt; one is just ugly. It looked cute online, but not so much on me.

If only Maurices started making maternity clothes, I would be in! But, Old Navy works too. And the jeans are really nice. I will probably get a couple pairs, because I am dangerously close to being too "big" for my regular jeans held closed with a hair tie.

Anatomy ultrasound on TUESDAY!!! So, hopefully, at 4 pm or so, I will know if I have Lillian or Ryan growing in here. And yes, I think that we have actually decided on a boy name, which surprised me. Maybe this baby will be born and we'll totally change our minds...but I doubt it.

I'll be back at Tuesday, probably between 5 and 6 to spread the news! :)

I finally win at something!!!

So, instead of my gender/anatomy ultrasound being RIGHT before Christmas, it's Dec. 9th at 4pm!!! YAH!!!

I called the doc to get the number for the place where Dr. Stadler sends people, just to get my appt set up well in advance and when I called the receptionist she was confused as to why I was waiting so long, considering I will be 18 weeks by their date on this Wednesday.

Plus, this doctor is going away for the holidays (he will be gone 17th through 27th to Germany) and has very limited appt space as it is.

So, the only available appt was Dec. 9th at 4pm, basically. So, I took it and made sure it was okay with Dr. Stadler -- I talked to his nurse, Anna, whom I LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! And it was fine -- she basically told me that they would defer to what the geneticist said about my appt time.

SWEET!!

So, as I said on Facebook, I get to find out if it's a EAI or a QMA on Dec. 9th!!! HOORAY!!!

Oh, and also if the baby is healthy. I guess that's good too.