Coming together…

The nursery is starting to come together. I got her bedding from the Cotton Patch last weekend. I absolutely love it!! I go in her room everyday just to look at it. She also got a new dresser and chest of drawers for her room. Now I need to start on art for the walls and a rug for the floor. Then I can start on the other accessories. Her room is going to be the best looking one in the house.

As for me and baby, we are doing well. I am 26 weeks now and she is growing so much. She is moving around a lot these days. It is so cool to have this precious human growing inside of me. Skip has only felt her move one or two times. Every time I tell him to feel it, she quits kicking. I guess she doesn’t want to hurt her daddy. Hehehe!

Getting started...

I have finally gotten started on the nursery. My sister, Ginger and I painted the walls yellow last weekend. It was a major job, but it is done. A few weeks ago I picked out the fabric for the bedding at the Cotton Patch. If you haven't heard of it, it is a cool little fabric store in Brookhaven. All I had to do is pick out the fabric (which was a little stressful because I wanted all of it) and they are making the bedding that should be ready in a couple of weeks. I can't wait! This week we purchase a crib that I should have this week or next. Even though I have a long way to go, things are moving right along. I have posted some pictures of the yellow walls.

This month's doctor visit...

Skip and I went for my check up yesterday. They did an intensive ultrasound. It was so neat. It was amazing to see how much she has grown in 4 weeks. She wasn't moving around as much as she has in the past, but we did get to see her waving, playing with her feet and sucking her thumb. The doctor said that everything looks great and is right on schedule. I have posted some of the pictures from ultrasound.

Profile picture...can you tell who she looks like? I can't.

She is waving at us...

See her sweet little foot (this one is my favorite)

This week's blurb...

Not much to update on this week. Tuesday, I went to the hospital to do the pre-admissions. It was very easy. I just had to sign a lot of paper work and then I was given two cards that I have to give to the ER when the time comes. They say all I have to do is show up when the baby is ready and they will be ready for me.

As for me and the baby, we are doing pretty good these days. I think I have started to feel her moving around this week. I am not sure if it is her or not, but it is something that I haven’t felt before. I am sure I will be feeling her kicks before too long. I can’t wait until my next ultrasound. I want to see how much she has grown. My belly is growing a lot faster these days. You can check out where I am in my pregnancy by clicking on the link below.

http://www.babycenter.com/6_your-pregnancy-19-weeks_1108.bc

We have a back yard now!!!!

For the past two years our back yard has been washing away. We have either been putting off getting it fixed or we couldn’t find anyone to come do the work. Well, 13 loads of dirt and 5 pallets of sod later, we have a yard! Trey Logue did the dirt and did a great job! Then Skip and some friends put down the sod. Now we have to just keep it watered. I don’t even want to think about what the water bill is going to be like. I am just very excited that we have a back yard that we can enjoy. Now Hogan has more room to play and our daughter will have a back yard to play in. I have posted a few pictures of the project…

The dirt work...


Our big helper...


The sod project...


Taking a break...

It's a girl...

I got a little scared today. I went to my doctor visit by myself because the doctor said they were just going to listen to the heartbeat with the doppler and make sure everything was okay. Well the nurse took my blood pressure, which was 122/67. So that was good. Then she tried to hear the baby's heartbeat with the doppler, but couldn't find it. She called another nurse in to try again. I asked if I should be freaking out and she said no. Then we heard a thump. She said that is probably a kick. I thought that was pretty cool, but I am still upset that there isn't a heartbeat. Then the nurse calmly said, "we need to just do an ultrasound because we can't find the heartbeat." My heart kind of stopped. As I am walking to the room for an ultrasound the nurse asks if I want to find out the sex of the baby. I hesitated at first because Skip wasn't with me. She asked a second time and I couldn't resist. She found the baby right off the bat. That little thing was jumping everywhere. Then she tells me it is a girl! I got a little teary eyed. It was so cool to see her (I don't have to call the baby "it" anymore). At one point she tried to straighten her legs, but we didn't get a picture of that. She looks like she is going to have some long legs. After the ultrasound, I talked to the doctor. He said everything looks great! At my next visit on August 18th, they will do another ultrasound to measure the baby's organs. So everything is going good. Now we get to start shopping for girl stuff. I can't wait!! I have attached a few of the ultrasound pictures. Enjoy!

We are finally home…

Skip and I got back from our trip to Delaware late last night. We had a great time. I wasn't really to come home, but I was ready to see Hogan. It was so nice to relax and do whatever we wanted. We went to the beach almost everyday for a few hours. Skip was like a big kid on the beach. He played in the water most of the time while we were on the beach. He had a yellow tube (my aunt calls it the Cheerio) that he would sit in and just float down the beach. He got dunked by the waves a couple of times, which was pretty funny. He lost his hat in the one of the wipe outs. He thought it would wash back up, but we never saw it again. After the beach, we did some shopping and a lot of eating. There were several good restaurants that we were able to enjoy. I wish we had time for all of them. One afternoon we decided to rent a scooter for an hour. It was called the scoot coupe. It was so much fun. It didn’t go any faster than 35 mph, which was fine with me. Skip and my cousin, Beth went fishing one day for 4 hours. They didn’t catch anything, but they seemed to have a good time. We didn’t take very many pictures, but here are a few that were taken.


Skip in his Cheerio...

The scoot coupe...