Moms everywhere...

This pic was taken near the end of February - (from right to left) Kelly had just had a baby, Jen had a baby about a week later, and I'm expecting in August!

Nursery update...

After starting to get semi-frustrated about the much-sought-out fabric, I emailed the designer of the blog that I found it on to ask her about my search. She was great & said that it had been discontinued but that she had some of it that she would sell me! So, even though she doesn't have a lot of it, we are going to buy a few yards & make it the accent fabric. YAY!!!

While we were in Maryland this past weekend with my family, we all stopped by a Babies'R'Us. This was our first trip into one & I was excited to look at furniture. Apparently it was a smaller store so they only had a few crib sets on the floor so it didn't turn out to be as interesting as I thought it would be but at least we started :) Cyrus & I are going up around DC this Saturday to go to one of the huge stores & hopefully we'll find some things that we like. Did I mention that we're going with dark wood? I am a white furniture lover but we decided that dark wood would be better for either a boy or a girl. Cross your fingers that we find just the right stuff!

New due date...

So I forgot to mention before that they moved our due date up 2 days so now it's August 2!

18 weeks and counting...

So I was mistaken about my appointment yesterday - no blood sugar testing but we did have an ultra-sound. And we were amazed at the baby's growth - fingers & toes & even a nose :) Everything looked exactly as it should so we were able to breathe a sigh of relief. We brought home pictures of the bottom of a foot, the head, a forearm w/an index finger & thumb forming an "L" (so cool), and then 2 full body profile shots. The baby had its legs crossed in front of its lower body so it wasn't obvious what the sex was thank goodness for us! It kept moving around and Cyrus sat there saying, "that is so crazy" over & over - too cute. Now I can't wait for the next ultra-sound in 10 weeks!
Oh - and I gained 2 lbs. - finally!

Success...

Whew - I finally found it! After much searching, this is (in essence) the look we're going for:

Now I just need to find the fabric so we can do it ourselves - ugh!





Tomorrow is my 2nd - and longer - blood sugar test but I'm really excited to get to see the baby again. There was such a drastic change from the first ultra-sound (just a dot) to the second (look it's an actual baby!) that I can't even imagine what this one will look like. My Mom is out-of-town & my Dad's going to meet her tomorrow but is going to wait until after my apt. so that he can take the new pictures to her :) Tomorrow we could also find out what sex the baby is - very tempting but we're still holding steady in our decision to not find out. Hopefully I've gained some weight!

We'd like to congratulate our friends Jen & Jon on their new arrival! Austin James was born on Sunday at 9:44 AM weighing 8 lbs., 1 oz.. We are so happy for them! Babies babies everywhere :)