Sorry, you'll have to wait until Thursday like the rest of us to find out! Well, this coming week is going to be an exciting one! Only a few more days until we find out if our little one is going to be wearing pink or blue!!!!
Hope everyone had a great Easter! Ours was pretty low key with some family over for a lunch meal on Saturday. I did try to imagine a few times during the weekend what next Easter will be like with a little one around to spoil. I think it will be a whole new and amazing experience!
We had really got a good start on the nursery this past week. We now have all the molding off the windows and the base boards, closet is empty and ready for a little demo and paint (on Derek's to do list this weekend), we moved the bookcase downstairs for the time being, took down the ugly ceiling fan, sold the couch (yea!!!), took out a window to measure for replacements, and now have correct measurements of said windows thanks to the father-in-law!
having a little fun with the window pulled out...with the weird look on my face, i am serving Derek his Dr. Pepper he ordered through the window! :)
Dave hard at work and Derek...well...not so much! j/k...he was a good helper!
Window back in for the time being..but looking like a work in progress!
The room is looking big again without anything in it! I have already gone in there several times and sat on the floor imagining what it will look like and be like to hold our little one in there in 5 short/long months!
I also (with the help of aunt Kris and my mother-in-law) took a drive to the land of amazingly awful and rude drivers (excluding you Angela!)...aka Illinois on Friday to pick up an awesome deal Derek and I found on Ebay...our baby swing!
Love it and the price!
We got it used, but looks almost new from a guy who had twin daughters. A great deal for $100 off the retail price! That was less that half price! Derek's favorite feature of the swing is that we can hook up his Zune to play music! Boys and their baby's toys! We also stopped at IKEA since it was only a 10 min drive from there. I found a bookcase that i really liked for the baby's room but they were all out. The guys offered to have it shipped to us but when shipping alone is $249...i think i will just head back to IKEA another time!
As for how I am doing at 18 weeks....same as last week but with more excitement as Thursday draws near! I have been noticing a lot more of the round ligament pains...those are just annoying, but i know well worth it! My appetite has waxed and waned a little this past week. I usually am most hungry in the morning...sometimes eating supper leftovers (that i had planned to eat at lunch) around 10:30am, of course this is after i ate breakfast at 8 or 8:30am! The appetite does start to fizzle by the afternoon and picks back up again later after supper! Last night a few hours after supper was a whole package of strawberries! mmmm tasty! So happy those are starting to get closer to in season! I am still enjoying the teenage angst of acne, but i suppose most people are starting to look at the budda belly instead of my face anyway...so that is a good thing! The only other thing is the sleep...i know i know it is not going to get any better, but i am pregnant dammit and can complain about it all i want! :) I do find myself waking up on my back alot even with those pillow nicely stacked around me....this might be a battle till the end! Here is picture of said buddah this week.
Still able to "fit" into 1 & 1/2 pairs of jeans, but i bought about 8 shirts that I can wear now but will be able to grow into this summer. I love that they are non-maternity shirts...i just don't see many maternity items that make me wanna wear them.
As for the our little one...he/she is now about 5 1/2 inches long and "growing like a weed" ...funny, i imagine saying that phrase for many more years to come! The uterus is the size of a cantaloupe now, so the baby should hopefully have some play room. The baby is weighing in at a hefty 5 ounces (about the weight of a boneless chicken breast)! I haven't been able to feel it yet, but baby is developing/practicing yawning and hiccuping skills. Also, his/her unique set of finger prints are making themselves present now.
just a funny picture i wanted to share...our neighbors are remolding their bathroom and there was lot of action outside...so like father, like son...they got a closer look from the comfort of our living room couch! too funny!
Well, that is all for now...check back Thursday for the big announcement...will it be a boy, girl, or kangaroo!
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