little pea

birth date: april 8, 2007

Friday, January 26, 2007

30.5 weeks along


We just came home from our now biweekly doctors appointment where Dr. Looff said that I am the model pregnant patient. This is great news because it is known in my family that I am the one who gets the odd and rare, sometimes comical sicknesses. I don't really want to get into the details of my medical history, so I'll just leave it at that...
Paul and I are both getting really excited to meet our little guy. Our friends Tim and Jean pointed out to us that the coffee creamer they just bought expires after Rex will be born! It is all becoming more and more of a reality. People ask me if I'm nervous, and I don't think I am. At times I wonder how it will work out, but I'm realizing that just like everything else we'll take one day at a time, and adjust what we need to when we need to. God has never given me more than I can handle so far.
Rex is estimated to be about 3 pounds and 15 inches. I read somewhere that he can even start to get a sense of flavors from some of the food that I'm eating. I don't know how reliable that is, but it kind of makes sense. So I'm trying to eat my vegetables so that someday it might make it that much easier for him to eat his vegetables.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

BELLY BELLY BELLY!



Alast!, more belly pics! Three cheers! For those of you interested (because I know people are interested...I would be), I have gained 21 pounds so far. I'm supposed to gain between 25 and 35 pounds, so I'm right on track with 10.5 more weeks to go, gaining about a pound a week from here on out.


Here is Paul rocking in our brand new glider that just came in the mail today (thanks mom and dad green!!! we LOVE it!). You may notice that Paul is rocking a 20 lb. bag of dead sea salt patting it and pretending it is our little Rex. He is going to be the best dad ever; Rex is a lucky little guy. If you are wondering why we have a 20 lb. bag of dead sea salt I am making a little pomegranate salt scrub to give as a thank yous to those that support us in this time.


Momma is quite the seamstress, check out the curtains! And here is the home for the glider.


I cut out the letters from a really thick cardboard type card-stock and painted them with some paint that we found in the oops! section at Lowes. I love it. It turned out exactly like we wanted it to.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Oh the places you will go!

Here is the Nursery! Paul and I spent the few days that we were here over Christmas break painting. It was actually part of our New Year's celebration—to finish the paint job and to unveil the white line by taking the tape off of the wall that we used to create the line. I think the nursery is becoming our favorite room in the apartment now. Also, as the title of this blog suggests, we are using "oh the places you will go!" as a loose theme for the room. Quite loose actually, we are just going to have it written on the wall and that is about as far as we want to take it.
I am 28 weeks along now, which is third trimester, our little guy is almost here. He is about 14.8 inches long, a little over 2 pounds, and he can now open his eyes. Check back soon for a pic of the belly!