Let's not forget the star of the show!

Now that we're all caught up nursery-wise....lets get caught up baby-wise! I had an ultrasound a couple weeks ago to check on my low-lying placenta. Not only did I get another good view of my baby, but my placenta has moved up and out of the danger zone! I'm so glad (at least for now) I don't have to worry about placenta previa or anything. They said he looked to be just over 4 lbs so he's growing great! Here are the pictures from the ultrasound:

here he has his foot right next to his head...I don't know where he gets this flexiblity!

pretty soon after this picture was printed, I got one of those belly-shaking kicks and I said "I bet that foot isn't by his head anymore" and sure enough it wasn't. I guess that's how he can get the momentum needed to kick me like that. It was so funny to be able to see that!
Here he is flexing his muscles for the ladies:

The next three are face pictures. The profile one has his umbilical cord right in front of his mouth so it looks like he's blowing a bubble.

I know a lot of people can't really tell what they're looking at but I think if you use some imagination you can see just how cute this baby will be - not that I'm biased or anything ;)

And here's the view from the outside - 32 weeks along!

Other Nursery projects

I decided to just make another post because it's so beyond annoying putting pictures in these blog entries. In our baby care research, one of the way to help prevent SIDS is to install a ceiling fan. One of our friends who recently had a baby also said that her baby really likes to stare at ceiling fans and when we found one for like 60% off we figured it was meant to be! I'm glad Dan is willing to take on these projects, I know I wouldn't have the patience. Anything electrical involves a fair degree of slowing down and being really careful so you don't like electrocute yourself or something...I'm no good at slowing down, so I decided I will not do electrical things and just stick to painting (which I do the best). Dan worked on the ceiling fan while I was working last weekend and even though he had a few set backs (one involving a rather large hole in the wall that I'll have to repair) it is now mounted and we are just trying to get it balanced:

Today, I completed the Tree project. I bet you were thinking that was done but I was holding out on you! It's actually a FAMILY Tree project. I got baby pictures of myself, Dan and our parents and framed and mounted them on the tree. I think it turned out really cute!

I'm working on getting some shades for the windows so that will be the next big thing to be done in there. I sure hope our furniture comes in soon...I'm really getting sick of waiting for it!

Nursery Progess - Closets!

Yes, it's been a while since I updated again. We've been hard at work getting the closets done - ClosetS - plural! Since Dan's clothes and some random other stuff was in the nursery closet, we had to get that stuff out before we could redo it for the baby. We decided to convert the den closet into Dan's closet since it was basically only being used for random office things and other random things that could easily be either thown away or moved elsewhere. So we bought another shelving unit for the basement and a small closed cabinet for the den. We moved all the random things down to the basement and the office things into the cabinet so they would still be where they are needed. Then we tore out the existing rail and shelves and installed 2 rails and an upper shelf to take care of Dan's stuff. I think it turned out pretty good!

Before (this was taken a while ago just to laugh at the cat, but it looked pretty much like this):

After:

Now we could tackle the nursery closet! First we tore out the existing stuff then we installed a high rail and three shelves on either side to best utilize the space. For further storage we put a small drawered closet organizer in the middle. I painted everything white including the closet doors and trim and as an added touch, put cute little animal drawer pulls on for handles.

Original set up:

The shelves:

Open door view:

Closed door:

This is what the drawer pulls look like (of course ours are on a white background) I'm looking forward to moving the baby stuff into the closet - probably won't be too much longer before I'll be able to do that!

My Second shower

I'm sorry it's been so long since I've updated. I've been a bad blogger! Things have been busy around here sorting through stuff and working on the great closet switch. We haven't made much progress in the nursery but this weekend we will hopefully be moving Dan's stuff and other random crap out of the closet so we can reorganize it for the baby. Since I still haven't discussed it, here's my review of my shower from August 15th!

My mother-in-law and sister-in-law came down and threw me a shower here in Wichita and it was AMAZING! They did a rubber ducky theme which was perfect for us since our sunday school class mascot is a rubber duck (it's a long story) and so we are already a big fan of those. Here are some pics of the decorations:

There was great food, great family and friends and it was just perfect! Even though I had like nothing to do with the planning, I still threw my own touches in with a slideshow of my belly and nursery progress as well as putting the DVD of the baby waves session on in the background. We got a lot of great stuff and I have 2 showers worth of thank you notes to get to work on. Here's a cute picture of Bonnie in the car seat/stroller frame:

She is going to have such an adjustment to make when the baby comes - she is so our baby right now!

Hopefully, I'll have some new nursery progress pictures after this weekend. For now I will leave you with my 30 week Belly pic!

3D ultrasound today!

I had my 3D ultrasound today and it was pretty good! The little stinker was a bit stubborn with putting his face against my uterus so it was difficult to get some good shots. By the way the u/s tech was talking, I guess the scans usually turn out better but we did get to see our baby and I think he's going to be really cute (not that I'm biased or anything). They estimated his weight at just over 3lbs. He's got a lot of growing to do but he's doing pretty good so far!

8/2: Baby Shower/BBQ

On Sunday, August 2nd, my parents threw a BBQ and baby shower for me. They had a ton of good food and a bunch of people there. My grandpa and Carol as well as my Uncle Lloyd and Aunt Maryann and their daughter Lilly came, then there was a whole bunch of my parents friends, most of which I've met before. It was a good time, I could tell my parents enjoyed themselves and it was nice to see some of my family and chat with the nice people my parents are friends with. I got some really cute clothes and thing and people were good at knowing we had to bring gifts home on the plane with us and we were able to fit everything into our suitcases so it was all good. My mom has the pictures so as soon as I get them I will add them to this entry.

Finally got pictures!!

I was pretty worn out by the end of the day but I got a bunch of cute things!

8/1 - Picnic with my high school friends

I've been really busy lately so I'm going to have to make up for lost posts now! On August 1st I had a reunion with some of my high school friends and their families. It was good seeing people again. This year was our 10 year reunion but I couldn't make it for the actual one and neither could a couple of them so we decided to just have our own. I would bet it was more fun than the actual one...especially since I can't drink and that seemed to be the thing to do there (based on people's pictures on Facebook anyway)!

so here we are, Mary Beth (who is about 3 weeks further along than me), Heather, me, and Rebekah:

the dueling bellies: I was carrying kind of high that weekend and Mary Beth is carrying pretty low. We're both having boys though so so much for the old wives tale about being able to tell what you're having based on how you're carrying!

We had a good time playing lawn games and generally catching up.

Mary Beth snapped a cute picture of me and Dan before we left:

I got pretty sunburned but it was my own fault for not wearing sunscreen and avoiding the sun all summer. Hopefully we can all get together again in a year or so with our new babies!