BL loves packages!!!

Too cute bath robe for BL from Mama Law

Daddy to be

He works hard for his baby, duh-nuh duh-nuh, So hard for his baby, duh-nuh, dun-nuh, He works hard for his baby, So you know he'll treat her right,

Go daddy, go daddy, go!

BL's Room

OK, not sure this will make sense to everyone, but if you have seen the spare room, this might sound logical....

When you walk through the door, the closet doors are on the right, in pic, and the window straight ahead. Under the window I'd like to build or buy a bookshelf. The wall to the left of the closet will be a chalkboard painted wall, half way up. We'll put molding to separate the chalkboard paint from the wall paint.

Another view of the window where bookshelves will go.

Sticky note on the left, is where dresser will go.

Sticky note in the middle, changing table

Sticky note on the right, rocker, near the window to calm mama, dad, and baby
It it all fits, we'll see.....that's why we're still in the planning stage :)

Sticky note over dresser (not the baby's dresser) is where the lovely crib will be

(Rocker to the left, near window& corner of room))

This is the wall you see when you first walk it, it's adjacent to the crib wall. This is where we're going to put our tree. Speaking of tree, the the baby expo last week Mom and I found a local lady who does decorative wall decals and she had the exact tree we wanted. She can also make it big. We're going to be a 7ft by 3ft tree for this wall and she'll come to put it up also!! Yay!

Belly Time

And.....the beginning of BL in mama's belly.....

13 Weeks and 2 Days

All went well today at 8:30. We sat down with a lovely lady named Linda who did our history portion, asking us all sorts of questions. She also gave us a goody bag full of magazines, samples and other things I have yet to look at. We had Linda write in big letters on our file that when we return in 4 weeks WE DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THE SEX OF THE BABY! We were told to remind the sonogram lady before she started. After that we went to see our primary doctor, Vicki Brown. She was very nice, chatted with us for a bit, then went to listen for BL's heartbeat. At first she couldn't find it, so of course I start to have heart failure but she reassured me that sometimes we need to change positions, so I laid completely down on the table and then YAY...the baby was found! BL was down low and we heard the little peanuts heartbeat going a mile a minute. Dr. Brown said it was somewhere in the 150's which is great. I wanted to ask her to keep the Doppler on BL forever just so I could sit there and listen, but I guess that would have been a little psycho of me. She couldn't keep the Doppler of the baby for long because it was moving all around. Dr. Brown said that at this point they are very mobile and when you push down there to find them they like to jet in another direction. Maybe BL will be a speedy soccer player? Ha ha.

I also found out that I tested positive for Group B Strep which means that I'll have to have an IV with antibiotics during labor, but she assured me that that was no big deal and that it's all hormonal. You could have Group B with one pregnancy and then not with the next.

We're headed back to the doc on October 15th for the fetal anatomy survey where they will check out all of BL's anatomy to see if they growing like they should be. We can't wait to see the little bugger!!!!

We're still looking for boy names...let us know if you think of anything.....but here are some rules, ha ha, middle name is James, so see how it sounds with that. We don't like names that have nicknames that take away from the real name, ex: Benajamin --> Ben, Timothy --> Tim. But we don't mind names like Tyler, who you could call Ty once in a while but their real name which they'll hear most often is Tyler.

Here's a trick that I learned from Misty to help with tightening pants....that way I can prolong buying maternity clothes, since I'm really not big, just dealing with tight pants

Fat

Feelin' real fat.....pants hurt today at work. Really wish that it would just kind of pop out and look normal rather than total chubby belly... oh well. BL is growing fingernails and toenails this week and is about 2 1/2 inches long, like your pinkie finger. We're heading to the dr. next week, will update with more info then. Until then, here are a few new gifts we received.

A funny gift from Aim/Mom. I told the family that I don't like all those shirts/onesies that say stuff like,"I'm the cutest in the world, now give me what I want", "I'm to sexy for my diaper", or "loud and obnoxious". So my mom goes and buys this onesie and gives it to Aimee to give to us. Aim then feels bad giving it to us, but we tell her it's not that bad and we'll make sure they wear it when she's around.

Totally cute surfing onesie from Katie and Chris. Greg is super excited about this one.....someone tell him that newborns can't be put on a surfboard quite yet. Thanks K & C!

A swaddling cloth from Calyn. Something new to us, can't wait to try out. Maybe we'll try it on Sydney so when march 23rd comes around we'll be pros. Thanks Calyn!

and a SUPER cute onesie from the Lemmen clan on LI. Greg and I thought this was for a newborn but it says 6 months. It's still going to be that little at 6 months? Yikes! Thanks AML, UR, D, M & K!

Room Idea

What do you think of this tree? I LOVE it! I like the wall color too, that way the room is baby friendly but we can adjust once we know the gender. Oh yeah, about the gender, Mama B (Still hasn't decided on name for herself) would like the gender of the baby, would anyone else? Greg and I are going to have our doc write it down and put it in an envelope and that can be passed around. BUT IF ANYONE RUINS IT FOR US......BIG TIME NOOGIE ON THE HEAD! :)