Showering Baby OH!

This post is long over due but it took me a while to get the pictures together from various people because of course I took no pictures of my own!

Two weekends ago, two of my best friends threw Baby OH a shower. 

When they both offerred to co-host I was excited because I knew that they would work well together and were both so excited that they made me excited.
I only had three requests:

1) Cake- I LOVE CAKE!

2) The colors be the same as the nursery- gray and yellow.

3) Lemonade- I heart this stuff pregnant!

They spend months planning things together and basically just letting me show up and enjoy!

Which I love about both of them!!
My shower for me was totally stress free!

 My mom offerred to host the shower at her house and I like this idea because it is where my wedding shower was and made it easy for both of my friends since having it at their houses was not an option.  I headed over to my mom's house last weekend and was in awe of how beautiful everything was.

I TOTALLY HAD THE PREGNANT WOMAN MOMENT WHERE I WANTED TO CRY!

My friends and family are awesome!

My two girlfriends decided to keep with my nursery theme of ...

"You are my sunshine."  

So the invitation looked something like this...

 Missie made Hot Chocolate favors which JOE absolutely adored!

 Keely picked out the same cake that Joe and I had at our wedding and had the the invitation placed on the cake.  OMG - speechless!
Not too mention delicious!

The decorations were amazing from washcloth wreath welcoming people on the door, to the table decorations made out of babies socks to the wonderful diaper cake.  Missie and Keely could have been party planners and in fact a number of people thought they were!

The presents for Baby OH were crazy- to the point that when I saw this pile, I quickly looked at Keely and Missie and stated we were only going to open gifts for people who were here.

The gifts were AMAZING and so creative.
Susan (one of my really good Clemson friends) came up from Charlottesville with her mom.  

Susan had hand made cute little animals- a giraffe and a zebra which I totally love, and they two of them had put together this quilt.  They even tied the invitation into it.  

To say that I love it would be the understatement of the century. 

I heart it!

He got a number of sailor outfits which I totally Love

GO NAVY - Beat ARMY!

Basically Baby Oh is loved!

My mom's rocking chair from when she was little painted yellow and the beautiful rocking horse which Keely and Missie made for Bug!

Me and my two awesome friends who planned everything!

Future grandmother's to be.

Joe helping me open the remainder of the gifts after people headed home!

  

 Me by 7 pm... I was exhausted!!

It was amazing seeing all our friends and family but more amazing seeing everyone so excited to welcome this little boy!  

We can't wait to meet you Baby OH!!!!

You are already loved so much!

Thank you so much for the most amazing Baby Shower EVER!!!!

Our new addition

When you find out you are going to have a baby people tell you if there is anything you want or need you should get it before the baby arrives.  For us, I really could not think of anything that we needed or wanted.  We had done all of our house updates to this point, had our cars paid off, had been on all the trips we had planned for, etc.  

Then about two to three months ago- it hit me.
I HATED OUR COMPUTER SET UP!

Up to this point Joe had his large laptop which has functioned as our home computer.
This was becoming a problem as Joe is ALWAYS on his computer working either on school or work.   I would have to schedule when I could use it to pay bills, do family stuff, etc.
It was becoming an issue around our house.
Also I hated that we had different accounts with no streamlined way to manage photos, documents, etc.  I wanted one family computer which everything would be on and none of Joe's school stuff would be on.  

So after may long discussions and a couple nights at the Apple Store and Best Buy,
we decided to take a dive a get a Mac.

You may ask why a Mac-
I love Apple because if nothing else their customer service is amazing.
Every time I have had a problem with my ipad or iphone I get the problem addressed and they are always pleasant interactions.  I hated Joe's laptop which was an HP and swore we would never buy a HP again, and was not happy with my last Dell that I had a couple years ago.  Joe was very hesitant as he had no idea how to work a Mac, and I knew there would be a learning curve which was great to do before the baby arrived.
So we ordered it around Christmas time and it came last week.
We were waiting for the weekend to set it up as we knew we would want time to play with it, merge files, etc.

This weekend, we set up the computer which had a couple of frustrating moments of cussing at the computer- more so from Joe's view than mine.  I am loving the new set up and how I am allowed to keep everything organized that way I would like and keep all of Joe's school stuff on his laptop computer.  I know there will be a learning curve with how to do things on a Mac- but I am just practicing patience and giving myself more time to play with it.   Plus I love the wireless keyboard and magic pad instead of the mouse (also wireless).

It is great addition to our family!

MKL Weekend= Baby Weekend!

 MLK Day meant a four day weekend for my husband and a four day weekend for me!

He had Friday thru Monday off and I had Saturday thru Tuesday off.

WAHOO! 

Normally we would go out of town but I requested my shower to be the weekend before because I knew this would give us plenty of time to do the stuff we needed to get ready for Bug's arrival.

So this weekend while I was running around returning items which we got duplicates of and arranging stuff in bug's room, I gave Joe a to do list.  

On his list were the following

1) Install Car Seats- our inspection is next weekend

2) Install the baby Monitor

3) Install the Foscam

4) Install the Baby Gate on the main level

5) Help me install shelves in bug's room

So on Thursday night he installed the car seats which took all about 15 minutes.  

Hopefully he did it right and we will find out next weekend when we get them inspected.  

We ended up going with Graco Snugride 35 because one of our friends is letting us borrow their snap and go stroller for the first couple of months.  It is big but fix well in our cars.
I love that Clemson sniffs all the baby stuff out.  

Friday Joe had off which was great because I came home to the baby monitor being already installed and him working on installing the Foscam.  We opted to go with the AngelCare Monitor because Joe is concerned about SIDs.  We got the AngelCare Delux which came with two monitor systems.  One in now in our room and one on the main level.  He said it took him about 15 minutes to install and most of that was moving the mattress and putting something under the monitor pad.  

He also worked on setting up the Foscam which is a wireless video monitoring system.  

Our friends had used this and loved it and Joe loves the idea of being able to see bug when he is at work.  This was trickly and took a little time to set up.  However now with the uFoscam app which was $4.99 I can view Bug from work, shopping, etc on my phone and so can Joe.  

Friday night after I got home, we went to work on putting the shelves up in bug's room.  We had a couple things that we were given as gifts that I wanted to display.  I picked up the shelves at Target on sale for $18 and it took Joe about another 20 minutes to hang them.  

 Finally, on Sunday while I was out running some errands he installed the baby gate for the main level.

We registered for KidCo Angle Mount Safeway Gate because our neighbors had use this with good success in their house and it had great safety ratings.  

We received two as gifts but decided to just install one right now.
I know this is something we will not use for a while, however, I liked the idea of starting to use it with Clemson to help training him not to run down to the door whenever the doorbell rings.
This took Joe about 1 hour by himself, but he did an awesome job!

As we were sitting in front of the TV watching the news Monday night we both were exhausted and realized how much we did this weekend!  

Thank God for long weekends!!
Thank God for husbands who are handy... =0)

My "Crap- We are having a baby" moment

When did it really hit you that your life was about to change with this new little addition to the family?

I can tell you exactly when it hit me.  

January 13 at 1215am.

On January 12, my two best friends threw me the most amazing baby shower which I still am in awe about.  It is so amazing how much love this little boy has surrounding him and he is not even here!  Joe and I are so lucky for our friends and family, and to be honest the shower caught me a little of guard because in a way it was overwhelming.  More to come on my shower later...

We headed home with multiple cars packed full of stuff and decided to just place everything up in bug's room for the time being that way i could slowly start to go thru it over the next couple of weeks.  I walked into the room before I went to bed and was a little overwhelmed at the task that was in front of me.  Joe and I headed to bed with a full  house of house guest including my best friend Keely, and Joe's parents in our other guest room.  

Out of a dead sleep at 1215, I hit Joe.  Joe of course thought it was "go time," and I quickly explained it was not.  I just looked at him and said "Crap we are having a baby!"  He of course laughed at me and stated that he was happy that it finally hit me at 32 weeks.  I guess it was seeing all this baby stuff that made it a reality for me- we were going to have a baby!!!

What was your moment when you realized that your life was about to change?

31 week visit

Again I am late bug in writting this but ALOT had happened this month!

Now 33 weeks, it is starting to hit me that you are going to be coming soon, whether we are ready or not!  

My 31 week visit happened two weeks ago and to be honest it was non eventful.  

Which is a good thing.  

We passed our glucose test- WAHOO!  I do not know but this was one thing I was really worried about.  The place I am receiving my care makes everyone do the 2 hour test, but fortunately since I have no risk factors, the midwives let me do the one hour test.  My iron was also fine which is good because I have not been taking my iron pills because well I forget!  

Fetal Heart Rate was 150s.

Fundal Height was 30- 1 below normal but my midwife is not worried about it and neither am I because I was small and still am small and this means that you might be a little small.

Weight gain- 2 pounds!  I was so proud of myself for this because my 28 week visit was right before the holidays and I did not want to be one of those women who gained alot of weight between the holiday visits.  So I tried very hard to eat right and exercise like crazy.  

I am now speed walking/light jogging on the treadmill 4 times a week for 40 + minutes and find that it helps me be less sore and also less cranky =0)

Total weight gain at this point 9.5 lbs.  

Position-  Bug you are head down and have been for some time, thank you for behaving!    

Moving-  You move like clock work.  6 am,  2pm, and 7-9 pm, and occasionally at 3 am.  

Things I have noticed since last visit

-I am starting to feel pregnant and officially have a belly.  

-Pica- yes I have developed PICA and love the hospital ice!  

-No real food cravings other than fruits and veggies.  

-I am a sleeping champ- this has been my only pregnancy discomfort so far.  I can sleep anywhere with anything going on.  I love it!

I got a surprise from one of the doctors at my work.  One day I was on Labor and Delivery and it was not very busy so she told me to come down to the Prenatal Assessment where they do the high resolution ultrasounds and they would take some 3 D pictures of you.  I was expecting 1 or two pictures, but 30 minutes later I walked out with about 20 photos.  I got to see what you looked like and am amazed and can not wait to meet you- however your father has stated that you have to stay into 37 weeks.  

I totally love you and you are not even here yet.

Clemson has taken to hanging out in your room like he knows something is going to happen  and he like to lay his head on my belly every nigh before bed.  

We have our next visit on next Monday around 34 weeks and hopefully I will do a better job of blogging.  But lots of things to come including my amazing shower, my not so Zen pregnant Laura moment, and our new nesting addition.