gettin' crafty

Jut and I have been busy making things for the baby's room, here is the magnet board we made :)

29 weeks

Sorry not the greatest picture, I took it of myself with the camera timer. But here I am last week at 29 weeks. We went to the doctor for my 30 week appointment and everything is looking good. She is head down and weighs about 3 pounds now. She is very camera shy...the closest we could get to seeing her face was her ear, but we go again on the 12th of Feb. and the doctor said we could do another ultrasound to see if we can get some pictures!

to paint...or not to paint??

So originally I just assumed we would paint to walls in the nursery, the wall color we have isn't what you would typically pick for a baby's room, and I didn't think we would be able to find bedding that would match. Well, the more and more I looked at bedding, I couldn't find any that I really liked, so my mom and my sister are being so sweet and are going to make my bedding and these are the fabrics that we picked out. Justin and I were still planning on painting the room, but we were having a hard time agreeing on a color. So after we put the crib up I threw the fabric swatches in the crib and realized that the yellow in the fabric is really close to the color on our walls...so the questions stands...to paint or not to paint the room?? any suggestions?

assembly required

We finally got our furniture for the nursery on Thursday...it was only like 3 weeks late. So of course as soon as we got it home we had to put it together! Jut and I did a pretty good job if I do say so myself :)

first baby blanket

For Christmas I got a sewing machine, and this is one of my first projects! It didn't turn out as perfect as I wanted it to, but for my first try on a new sewing machine, all by myself (ok I had a little help from my mother-in-law, Lynn, over the phone) I guess it turned out just fine. I hope it becomes her favorite blanket.

...the belly at 20 weeks...

So this is me at 20 weeks! It's so much fun to feel the baby move all day, she seems to be very active right now. Although at my target ultrasound she was pretty content to just stay in one position...so we weren't able to get a whole lot of cute pictures of her, but I will post what we got soon. (I accidentally left them at my in-laws over Thanksgiving)

It's a...

Girl!! At my last OB appointment at 16wks we found out that we are having a little girl! We weren't supposed to find out at this appointment, but once again my doctor is really nice and Justin is a really good talker! :) As we were finishing up my regular OB checkup, my doctor says, "we'll get you back in about 3-4 weeks and at that time we'll do your target ultrasound and be able to find out if it's a boy or a girl." Justin knowing before hand that we probably weren't finding out at this appointment had a plan for how he was going to get the doctor to do an ultrasound at this appointment and not have to wait. So Justin says, "Really?? oh, I totally thought it was today! I've been reading all those pregnacy books with my wife and it says you can tell right now if it's a boy or a girl." My doctor being super sweet says, "you know what? I bet we can get the girls to set up the ultrasound real fast and we'll take a quick look and see if we can find out." So we did the ultrasound, and at first she was being modest and trying to cover up, but eventually we were able to get a good view and sure enough it's a girl! We are really excited, but a little stuck on names...any ideas??