Week 20.5

The baby bump is continuing to grow!! I am halfway through week 20 and am feeling very good! I started feeling my little boy moving a little last week. I haven't really felt him kick or been able to feel him from the outside. I cannot wait until Josh will be able to feel him.

We have starting working on decorating Gus's room. We still haven't picked out his bedding yet, but we have been looking at things for the walls, etc. We found some prints of illustrations from the classic Winnie the Pooh books to frame for the walls. We are still waiting for those to come in the mail. We also found a lightswitch cover that matched that already came. I was so happy because it matched the walls perfectly!!!

Things are about to get really busy over the next month! I'm going to be working almost full time, and we will be gone most weekends until Thanksgiving. I'm excited about everything going on right now :) I know that Gus is going to be here before I know it!

Sweet Baby!

Yesterday we had our second sonogram! I am just amazed by the technology and by how big our baby was! Within 30 seconds of starting the sonogram, we had found out something very important about the baby----- IT IS A BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think even if we had decided not to find out we might have because of the different ways we saw him. Josh and I both thought it was a boy, so it was just amazing to find out. Everything looked perfect on the sonogram. It was fun to see all the parts of his body working just the way it should. I think my favorite, besides of course see his profile, was seeing his heart beating. Here is our precious gift!!!
I love his little hand in this picture. He weighs 8 oz (1/2 pound) and was where he needed to be on his growth. It was just so reassuring to know everything is going so well. I am more excited to meet this little man.

To tell my grandparents what he was, we went and bought an outfit for him. We let them pull the outfit out of a bag to discover the sex. Here is his first outfit:

It is so strange to know it is a boy! Now I can start decorating the baby room which I'm very excited about. I think I am even more excited now, I get more excited everyday about my sweet baby :)

18 Weeks

The belly is growing!! The biggest pair of normal jeans I could wear I now can no longer button. Looks like maternity pants from now on! As the belly has been growing, I have been having some back and abdominal pain. I think it is just because the baby is growing so much right now. My next sonogram is Wednesday, and I cannot wait.

This weekend my grandparents came to visit on Saturday. They had not been for several months and got to see the different things we had done with the house including the paint in the baby room. Josh cooked prime rib for lunch.

Josh took some pictures last night and they turned out really good. This is my favorite.
This is Josh's favorite:

Favorite things

This is going to be a mix of several things- I could not come up with a theme so this is just a few items I am enjoying.

First, I love flowers!! Josh is so good to buy me flowers, but the United in town doesn't sell them, so we usually buy them when we are out of town running errands. I especially love the color of these:
They smelled wonderful too!

Today I got my diaper bag in the mail. I saw it a couple of months ago and really liked it. But I kept looking to make sure this was the one I wanted. It is so cute, I can't wait to use it with the baby!
It also has straps with hooks so it can be attached to the stroller:
The bag is very light weight even though it is big. The inside is lined in red.

Today I tried two new things for dinner. Josh found a recipe in my Southern Living Christmas cookbook for the main dish, and we modified it. The main dish was a pork tenderloin biscuit. I had cooked a pork tenderloin last week and froze the leftovers, so I just had to heat it up in the oven. Then I made homemade biscuit. Josh made apricot preserves a few months ago, and I heated some up in the microwave. These three things were made into a "sandwich". I also made mashed potatoes. I was watching a cooking show a few weeks ago, and they put a clove of garlic in the water with the potatoes to boil. I tried it and then mashed it up with the potatoes, it tasted delicious! I also added butter, cream, salt, pepper, and sharp cheddar cheese to the potatoes. It wasn't too difficult of a meal, but tasted very good.

I always love posting pictures of my babies :) Here is one of their favorite activities:


It cooled off here and feels so wonderful!! We built a fire on Sunday afternoon, and I took a nap in my chair. The leaves are starting to turn in our neighborhood. Yay for Fall and getting closer to Christmas!!