2 Baby Showers

Ok, I have been so busy that I have not posted anything about the 2 other baby showers I had- one with my dad's family (and Kari) in Oklahoma City on the 6th and one at our church here in Frederick on the 13th. First of all, let me say that I am so grateful for all the wonderful friends and family who have given Jason and I gifts, at the showers and in the mail or just handed to us from people that couldn't make it to a shower. We are so blessed! In addition to the hand-me-downs we have received (thank you so much Amanda and Jennifer), we got so much at the showers themselves! I haven't even had time to go through all the hand-me-downs yet, but I think the only big thing we're missing is the monitor (which we have ordered but it hasn't shipped yet) and the high chair (which we got a gift card for but were waiting to buy until we knew whether or not someone else was going to give us one. So we are pretty much set. We have (just listing the major stuff) all the nursery furniture (crib, changing table, chest of drawers, and armoir), swing, 2 different styles of bouncy chairs, an infant bather, stroller/car seat travel set, a breast pump, one of those backwards-backpack style carriers, lots of clothes, toys, diapers, and wipes. I still want a sling-style carrier, but we have multiple gift cards, and I think that my sister-in-law might even have one that she just didn't know I wanted so it wasn't included in the other hand-me-downs. You guys are all so awesome. I feel much more baby ready now than I did a month ago! Now if we could just get the baby furniture put together and the a/c fixed...

31 weeks

Well, Jason is going to be working late on Mondays and Tuesdays for a while, so I'm moving the photo shoot to Sunday every week. Besides, on Sunday I'm already dressed decent and have my hair and makeup done, so it's a great time ;) My belly doesn't look very big in this week's picture, but it's just the shirt I promise lol. I feel like it's getting bigger by the day.
Jason and I are both starting to get nesting fever. We've spent the last two days in Emma's room- finishing up the drywall in the closet, priming, painting, cleaning and scraping old paint off of the windows, taping off the windows in preparation for new paint, etc. My goal (and we'll just have to see if this happens) is to have the room painted, the furniture put together and in place, and as much of the hand-me-downs gone through as possible this week so we know what we have and what we need. Plus, it'll be much easier to put up what we get for showers (which start next weekend- see why I'm nesting already?) when we get home. We've got another baby appointment and ultrasound Thursday, so I'll probably update again before next weekend.

Emma's Room

Okay I have been veto-ing pink nursery decorations for like 2 days. It is shocking that 97% of all girl nursery decor is pink...I mean come on girls wear and like colors other than pink. I have had to veto so much because one of my platform baby issues was "Thou shalt not have a pink room in thy house". Lilac and Lavender are acceptable.

Emma's bedding

This is the bedding we have picked out for Emma's room. (Click the picture to see a larger image.) Jason has told me from the beginning, possibly even before I got pregnant, that he DOES NOT want a pink room in our house, so if we had a girl we could paint lilac or sage or something. We haven't decided on the wall color 100% for sure yet. We'll probably wait until we get the bedding and then take it to Home Depot with us or something to make sure it looks right.

These are the pillows that go with the set. You can't see them really well in the picture, but they are just too cute, so I had to put them up, too!




Here are the wall hangings that go with it. We won't be buying them, but either Jason will paint them on the wall or my mom will print them (one of the perks of your mom owning her own printing business) and the border.