Nursery

kase's nursery is coming along. it's more my style to keep it simple and that's what i am going for with his nursery, i just had to finally make a decision on something. the colors will be chocolate brown and deeper shades of red, blue, gold and green (see fabric below).

the people we bought our house from had 3 little girls, so all of our extra bedrooms were extremely girlie. since we are having a boy this girl thing just isn't going to work any longer. the room we chose to use as the nursery was painted pink on top and green on the bottom (see pic). this room has been kyle's game/man room (apparently pink and flowers worked for him...hehe).

it also had flowers painted all over the ceiling.

we chose to leave the green on the bottom and paint the top tawny, which is just taupe/khaki.

and ta-da! much more boyish!

this glider was my craigslist find. we love it! it was the exact one i was going to order!

no more flowers!

these are the fabrics that we are going to use. i loved them the moment i saw them! they are the perfect colors! i really didn't like anything that i saw at the baby stores, so my mom is going to make all of the crib bedding and accessories.

this is the inspiration crib bedding. except, where they have stripes i am going to use the argyle fabric above and in place of their large polka dots i am using the cream fabric above with the little dots. the other fabrics will be accents in the room.

this jar of pickles was a gift from my friend jade and her family. i think this is the cutest idea! in the future my pregnant friends will probably be receiving scrapbooked pickle jars.

my poor child currently has about 10 pairs of shoes...but how can anyone resist them!?

he may not have everything, but he will have stylish footwear.

boots, a necessity of every infant, right?

20 Weeks

20 week belly pic. everything about being pregnant is just weird. don't get me wrong, it's wonderful (now that i'm not sick) but it is still weird. the weight gain has started, luckily it is all belly right now. i can live with that.

here are the cribs that we have picked out:

they are all pretty similar, the one on the top is my favorite. we'll see, i need to survive christmas and then we will get serious about baby furniture. if i could i would buy baby stuff all day long, i am attempting to pace myself. so. hard. i want him to have everything!

ooo boy, i love you so

it took forever, but the 18 week ultrasound finally got here! obviously...it's a BOY!

i woke up at 5:30 and started drinking all of the liquids i could so we would get the best picture. i read to drink and eat sugary stuff so the baby would move around. when i went to look everything we have is sugar free...the only time this has been a problem for me! we did have diet d.p. so i chose that and thought the caffeine might help a little. it helped a little too much, he was wiggling and flipping the whole time, but she finally got a view at the goods.

Clark, Fuller or Garth???

we attended ben and kelsey's annual halloween party last saturday. the theme was to dress like a celebrity that passed away this year or a character from a movie who's director passed away. i chose to go as a pregnant girl, i feel pretty dead lately and i'm famous right??? kyle decided to go as clark griswold from christmas vacation. i felt though he looked a little more like fuller from home alone and at one point he had on a blonde wig and he looked exactly like garth from wayne's world.  

you can decide: 

i made witch fingers and pumpkin fudge. so good...yet so bad. i can't stop eating them.  

be my, be my, be my little baby

what am i? boy or girl? 

vote in our poll! 

whoo-hoo! i want to scream and shout! one more week until we get to find out if we are having a boy or a girl! ultrasound is set for next friday, the 30th at 9 a.m. we also chose to take the whole day off to celebrate! 

yesterday was our third baby check-up. i love going so much. it is such a relief to hear the heartbeat. i hate going for a month at a time not knowing what's going on down there. the heartbeat was 155 this time and 176 last time. it is still pretty high...i am told this means girl but not getting my hopes up i really have no clue what it is going to be and to be honest don't care either way, i just want to KNOW! 

 

14 weeks.

14 week pics, but i am actually 15 weeks this weekend. yay. it feels like forever and still forever to go. 3 weeks to go until we find out if it is a boy or a girl. we have picked names. boy will be patrick kale (will go by kale), girl will be sloane alexandra. we were having a heck of a time picking names. it seemed like we didn't like anything that the other person liked. so, we compromised, kyle got to pick the boy and i got the last say on the girl. now if baby h will just be a girl so i can win....hehe. 

at 12 weeks all of the morning sickness disappeared. i have an occasional hit of it still, but nothing like the first trimester. thank you lord for taking that away. i'm finally enjoying this. my belly is large enough now that you can tell i am prego and not just do that she might be or she might not???

11 Weeks Pregnant

these were taken about 20 minutes apart. in the bottom picture kyle insisted that i put on my convict-mug shot face. after i saw the picture i thought it was to serious. so I made him retake it with a happy smiling one. 

whether you can see it or not, i promise there is a little bump there. it is keeping my pants from buttoning already, not cool baby h, but i guess i will let it slide.