A Very Nice Weekend

While I anxiously wait for my shower this coming weekend, I thought I'd give you all a little update on the nursery progress. We have begun with decorations!

First off, we have the oh-so-adorable dragon mobile. It arrived in the mail on Saturday and I immediately put it together. Bry has been very busy with school work and work work, so he hasn't had a chance to hang it up yet, but hopefully he'll get to that tomorrow evening.

Next up, and last up for now, is the first of the dragon paintings. I can't remember if I mentioned these before, so bear with me if I'm being repetitive. I bought three small, flat canvases each measuring 8in. x 10in., as well as a set of acrylic paints and brushes. I printed out two dragon coloring pages I found online and one picture of my own creation - a G with a clip art crown on it. I traced the first dragon picture onto the canvas and painted it over the weekend. It's not perfect, but I'll touch it up soon. What do you think?

In addition to nursery decor progress, I also received a shower gift in the mail from my cousin - 5 lamaze toys! We now have Paddy the Panda, Jacques the Peacock, Tucker the Turtle, Sydney and Sandy Kangaroo and Captain Calamari! I love that Captain Calamari has a hook on one of his tentacles!

After putting the mobile together, painting a dragon and opening the gift, I headed out to a good friend's informal divorce party. It was a nice little get together - totally last minute thrown together once her divorce was finally final. Very nice to see some friends and eat some awesome cookies!

Sunday, I had a haircut and a pedicure. Thank heaven for pedicures, as I can no longer reach my feet! To top off an already great weekend, my Ravens won their home opening game against the Browns. Go Ravens!

32 Week Checkup

What a wonderful day it's been!  Not only did a good friend get great news and have a huge weight lifted off of her shoulders, but Wee Man and I are doing fabulously as well!  Since I'm not having the biweekly ultrasounds anymore, one of the OBs in the practice who I had my prenatal scheduled with wanted to check my cervix and just make sure everything was still fine. I'm happy to report that I'm all closed up and Wee Man is very high up and not putting any real pressure on my cervix. Horray!

A few stats:

• Wee Man's Heart Rate: in the 150s
• Weight Gain: 19lbs total
• Measuring 34 weeks
• No new stretch marks still
• Depending on Wee Man's position, my belly button is about to pop

I'm so very glad that Wee Man is not even close to making his appearance. I do think though that they are going to have to pry him out of me when the time comes!

Up next...Baby Shower!!!! T minus 8 days :) 

Nursery Furniture...Complete!

That's right, folks! We've got all the major pieces of furniture in and put together. The last piece is my mom's rocking chair, which will arrive whenever I get around to calling my brother and figuring out when he can haul it up to me. Below are some pictures. There is no decor as of yet, but that will be coming soon. There is, however, an adorable dragon keeping watch over Wee Man's room. Without further ado...

The crib, complete with mock-child trying to escape.

View of the room from the doorway showing the crib and changing table.

The dresser with bookshelf hutch.

And an up close of Douglas the Dragon who is now sitting on the bookshelf.

30 Week Checkup

Today was my 30 week prenatal check. A few stats:

• I am a fulll 30 weeks exactly today
• 70 days until my due date
• 42 days until the cerclage comes out
• Measuring 32 weeks - yes he's a butterball!
• Weight gain: 17 lbs.
• No new stretch marks (yet)

So, I have 3 weeks until my shower, 6 weeks until cerclage removal and the possibility that I will go into labor at that point, and about 20 billion things to do both here at home and at work.

This weekend we will be putting the crib together and getting the mattress. I'll post a few pics after that's all done, but there are no decorations yet. There are, however, three stuffed animals already - not a big surprise since I have a stuffed animal addiction, but I only bought one of them and the only reason I bought it was because it was a dragon. I have no idea how I'm going to get everything done in time - especially at work - since all I really want to do is sleep.

Stay tuned for pics!

My Favorite Maternity Pic, and a Big Congrats

First of all, I got all of my maternity pics back from my friend. Below is my absolute favorite. She managed to capture Bryan in a very natural state with me!

Second of all, and more important than a picture, a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Tanika & Chris on the birth of their beautiful baby boy, Ethan. I couldn't be happier for you guys!

Maternity Photos

My lovely friend, Jess, is a wonderful photographer. A couple weekends ago she took some maternity photos of me. She's still editing them, but here are a couple she's completed. My belly is HUGE already and only going to get bigger! (please note: this is not a complaint, just an observation)

Lovely evening on the water with my belly boy!

Bare Belly

Bryan, Me and Wee Man G!

Standard Heart on the Belly