22 weeks, nesting.

I still haven't really caught the nesting bug, but I'm doing what I can to prepare the house for Emily. My parents ordered our crib this week and it will be delivered next week. The bedding I found on Ebay should arrive at the same time. Chris had the idea of getting lowercase wooden letters and painting them to hang in the room. Not her name, but the whole alphabet, going around the top of the walls. I think it will look really cute, I just have to find the letters at a decent price! Everywhere I've looked only sells capital letters. Anyone know where I can find them around town? I think it would be a fun activity for Audrey to help paint them when she's here, I just have to find the letters first.

Audrey will be here in two weeks! I can't wait. We have most of her room put together, but we need a few more things. We don't have much time because we'll be out of town camping all next weekend, then she will be here a few days later. That means we'll have to do it this weekend, but it's Memorial Day weekend which means it's going to be crazy busy in town. Tonight we're supposed to finish registering at BuyBuy Baby, but Chris may be working until 7 or 8. I'd go tomorrow, but he invited some friends to spend the day at the lake on his dad's pontoon boat. Sunday I've got a baby shower in Austin, and I really would like to be able to relax on Monday.

We'll figure it out, maybe Sunday after the baby shower.

I'm pretty excited about tomorrow. Chris' friend Josh is coming with his girlfriend. I don't know them too well, but they're nice. I invited John and Kristen but they have family in town so they can't go. However, Lauren and Jamie are both going! I'm so glad they can come, it'll make it more fun for me to have some of my friends there. I'll post about it on Monday! I plan on sitting in the shade and reading most of the day :)

I've got my 23 week appointment next week with the doctor. The next one after that will be my glucose test, which I've heard wonderful things about (insert sarcasm here). I think next week will be pretty basic, but they'll be drawing blood again (ugh) next month. After that, I'll start going every two weeks, which means that Emily will be here before we know it! Crazy! I have to just keep reminding myself that all of this will be worth it when I finally get to see her, it's just so hard to be patient!

Here I am at 22 weeks.

21 week picture

I almost forgot!

Bedding!

I finally found some bedding that I loved on Ebay and bought it this afternoon! Hooray!

It comes with: quilt, bumper, sheet, 2 window valences, crib skirt, diaper stacker, toy bag, 2 pillows and 3 wall hangings.

The set retails at $269, sells for $130 on some discount sites, $99 on Amazon, but I got it for $75 (including shipping) on Ebay! Amazing.

21 weeks and we finally have a name!

After going through many names, we finally decided on...

Emily Jean Tyre!

We can't wait to meet her :)

My girly weekend.

I have to brag about my weekend. It was awesome. I finally got some much needed girl time.

During the beginning of my pregnancy, I just didn't want to go anywhere. I didn't want to see anyone. I wanted to sit on my butt at home and go to sleep at 7pm. It wasn't fun. I never got sick, but I felt like crap. If anyone tried to cheer me up, I would stomp on their optimism. I was Debbie Downer.

Now that I'm further along, life is sunshine and rainbows again (ok, not every day, but waaaay more often than before). I want to go out with my friends. I want to see people. Away from my house. I actually drive out of Blanco, it's amazing.

Saturday morning, I headed out to Bee Cave to meet Kristen and Jamie for pedicures! I really needed one, I have gotten to the point where while I can still reach my toes, it's pretty uncomfortable. We all decided on some bright summery pink colors, then sat and gossiped for a good hour while our feet were pampered.

See how happy we are? I forgot my camera, but Jamie had us covered. After the pedicures, we stopped at HEB for some fruit for smoothies, hot dogs and macaroni and cheese (homemade by Kristen, not Kraft). Our afternoon consisted of drinking beautiful non-alcoholic pool drinks:

Floating in our awesome $5 floats:

Lounging in the pool (Jenny and Elijah joined us later on):

And being incredibly jealous of Jamie's stupendous hat:

I found out that I'm allergic to starfruit (after I ate it I nearly lost my voice for about an hour, but it wasn't a big deal). I also discovered that my little girl reacts to the cold pool water and going from being in the shade to being exposed to sunlight! Her eyes aren't open yet but she can sense light and dark, and the sunshine made her wiggle. I was sure to give her plenty of it (with plenty of sunblock of course):

Yes, that is me in all my pregnant bikini wearing glory. John is kindly cleaning the dead frogs out of the pool. There were probably about 50 in there, no joke. They can swim, but they can't live in chlorine. Sad. And gross.

Meanwhile, Chris was at Mudfest in Poth, TX. He had a good time, aside from having to sleep in his car and losing his phone twice. Luckily Davey found it twice, once after Chris had completely given up hope and gone home without his phone, telling me it was lost in the mud. Turns out it was in the front seat of someone's truck. Ah, boys. He came home covered in mud, head to toe. Hard to be mad at him for staying out all night when he looked so exhausted, but I managed for a while. He slept while I spent the afternoon with my mom and visited with my family. Dan is finally home from Lubbock! It's nice when the whole family is home.

Oh, we picked a name! More on that later :)

FINALLY picked out a crib!

Yesterday I went to Babies R Us with my mom and finally decided on a crib! We're getting the Davinci Kalani Convertible Crib:




Pretty, right? Now I have to decide on bedding!

New bed!!!

I came home from work yesterday and Chris looked like he had been sitting around doing nothing all afternoon. He told me he hadn't made it to the grocery store yet, but I knew he didn't have much to do all day. He asked if I would go to the store with him, then mentioned that Roger pooped in our bedroom earlier. And he didn't clean it up.

"What!? It's still there? Did you leave the bedroom door open while you were gone? What is wrong with that dog? Bad dog! The bedroom is going to smell so bad, I can't believe you left it there!"

His reply "yeah it already stinks."

Ugh, fantastic. I'm pissed off, I grab some paper towels, a plastic grocery bag and some Oust and prepare myself to walk into the poop den. Instead of poop, I find...

Oh! It's not poop, it's a new bed! [I did ask him if the dog really pooped or if he just wanted me to go look in the bedroom as a precaution. No poo this time.]

I'm so excited! It's the bed we picked out a while ago, but hadn't gotten around to purchasing. We've been sleeping on a nice mattress on the floor for a few weeks. Chris drove the whole way up to Round Rock, managed to get through Ikea without buying anything except the bed and some kitchen towels (we love their 49 cent towels), brought it home, set it up, AND saved us $50 by getting his own boards & cutting them to size instead of buying the slats that Ikea sells with their beds.

Now I don't have to monkey crawl my way in and out of bed, I can just sit down like a normal person.

He's pretty wonderful sometimes.