Nursery Trauma

We received the furniture back on the 17th. However, they sent the right furniture with the wrong finish. What we ordered was the cherry finish and the company sent a natural finish. The furniture was beautiful, but there just was not enough contrast in the room. It made the room look WAYYYY to yellow. In the pic below, the natural looks gorgeous. But walking into the room at night with lots of lighting, you are knocked down by the brightness. I went back to BRU and they graciously corrected the order.

Last night the correct furniture was delivered and the incorrect furniture was picked up. While the delivery people were pushing the chifferobe up to the house on the furniture dolly, rushing I should add, it falls and cracks a corner. So now we have 2 of the 3 pieces of furniture we ordered.

Mark and I put the crib together today. I have to say it is quite a nice piece of furniture.

So at this point the only furniture to add is the chifferobe and a chair of some sort. I can't decide if I want a regular La Z Boy, or if I want a rocker glider.

Of course I have already started buying cute little boy clothes. I have to give Mark credit, he purchased the first 3 pieces of clothing for the baby. But...

Here is the difference between Mommy and Daddy.

Daddy Clothes:

Mommy clothes:

We will have a 3D and 4D ultrasound Thursday evening. The next update should be soon there after with pics and video. As soon as I can, I will post my pregnancy progression pics as well.

A Few Views of the Nursery in Progress

I finished painting tonight. The furniture arrives tomorrow. After all is set up I will post more pics.

The yellow is not as bright as it is in the pictures.

Here is some artwork I found at JoAnn's today. I thought that they were cute and would add some bright colors to the room.



We had another appointment with the perinatologist yesterday. It looks as if I will be giving birth to a moose. He is measuring 4 pounds at this point, about 2 weeks ahead of schedule. Of course this measurement is based only on his head circumference. Mark and I both have big heads and there is usually some margin of error with these measurements. As I calculate it, if his growth rate is 1/2 pound a week, he should be about 8 pounds when he joins us sometime in March. That is really not bad considering my brother and I were 9 pound babies. Mark was only 6 pounds, so I am really hoping for that margin of error. :)

Oh yes, I almost forgot, he is still a boy!

27 Weeks 3 Days

I know it has been sometime since I have updated the blog. Things have been getting exciting around here. Now that the new year has approached us, Mark and I will be ordering the furniture for the nursery soon. We made an agreement not to make any big purchases until January 1. It made Mark feel more comfortable about the pregnancy and not getting all caught up in the excitement and then something tragic happen. It is not that something tragic cannot happen at this point, just playing it safe. Ian has a better chance of survival at this point if he comes early.




We have rearranged all of the bedroom furniture. My old bedroom furniture joined the old living room furniture (the 70s couches Michelle, Cully, and I had in Savannah) in the in-law suite downstairs. Jaime's bedroom furniture (we are housing it until she returns from Japan) was moved to the middle bedroom so that we could use the back bedroom closer to our bedroom for the nursery. Our main color of choice was a pale yellow. The room was originally painted a dark taupy color. It was quite a drab room. It has now starting taking on a different personality. Any accents will be done in a sage green. I chose the James Giraffe collection (not to be confused with Jeffrey Giraffe, the spokestoy for Toys R' Us).






The most exciting thing to happen occurred today. Our little man has been moving around a lot! It is very exciting, yet very strange and "alien"ish at the same time. Well today, he moved around and kicked hard enough for Mark to feel the movement! It was truly amazing!

For any of you expert mommies out there, check out my registry and let me know if there is something I have left off that will be life saving in the years to come.

Ian's 22 Week Ultrasound

Here is a short 5 minute clip of the ultrasound from 22 weeks. Thanks Alicia and Ron for transfering it for us!

21 weeks 6 days and The Big News

It's a Boy!
I had a 22 week checkup today, and of course it came with another ultrasound. We had the same ultrasound technician as before. She knew how hard it was to see the gender last time we were there. Today, she went right to it. Lo and behold, boy parts! He is measuring about a week ahead of schedule in length of legs and arms and in circumference of his skull and abdomen. He is in the 57th percentile for weight at his fetal age (about 19 ounces). The doctors are pleased with our progress.

Below are the pics we received today. Mark is trying to capture the ultrasound video. We hope to upload it soon.

16 Weeks 6 Days

Wow! That is all I can say! Today we saw the perinatologist (or the one on duty in the office today). First things, first, the ultrasound! Mark and I were able to see so much more of the baby today. Because the baby is about 5 inches long at this point, they are unable to measure the baby from head to rump in one picture. They had to take several pictures of the different body parts to measure growth. We were able to see the baby has two legs and feet and two arms and hands. The spine and heart were amazing to see as well! Mark said the pictures of the spine looked like Giger's alien illustrations.

We are still anxiously awaiting the gender of the baby. The ultrasound tech could not get a good shot. At first she said she thought it was a girl because there were no protruding body parts in the genital region. Then a few minutes later she says, "I think you have a boy, " and points to what she thinks could be little boy parts. In the end she wasn't sure. Regardless of whether it is Brenda 2.0 or Mark 2.0, we now know the baby looks healthy thus far.

For my friends and family worried about the diabetes, the doctor was quite impressed with my glucose control. He said because I have been on top of my diabetes, the chances of having any birth defects or abnormalities were in the range of the normal population, about 3%. The next appointment is November 22, the day before Thanksgiving. This is definitely something to be thankful for.

Below are the coolest pictures we have so far. I absolutely love the profile shot!

14 Weeks 4 Days

We went to see the OB today for our monthly checkup. It was probably the quickest appointment I have ever had. She was in the room maybe 5 minutes. In that 5 minutes she looked over my vitals and said everything looks like it is going very well. She brought with her a dopler. This was exciting because she quickly found the baby's heartbeat! It sounded like a steam locomotive pulling out of a station, except faster. The heartrate was about 140. Normal is said to be between 120 and 160. She asked about my blood sugars, which are great according to my endocrinologist and lab work, and then sent us on our way. The entire ride home Mark and I would catch each other making woosh sounds trying to mimic the heartbeat.

My next appointment is with the perinatologist. We will be about 17 weeks along at that point and hope that we will be able to find out the gender of the baby.