Category: life

I am generally pretty practical with furniture and the like — or at least I’d like to think so — which is why I’ve been looking into neutral bedding themes and multipurpose furniture.

I’ve seen some that are just totally cute! I love the yellow and gray theme that everyone is doing right now, but Peter is anti-white crib for some reason (–hey…when a man shows interest in something baby-related, you just go with it).

So we picked out furniture styles that we liked in a dark chocolate color. It is a 4-in-1 convertible set, which means it converts into a toddler bed with rail, without rail, and twin bed. And we are going to use the dresser as a changing table by putting a changing pad on top. MULTIPURPOSE, PEOPLE! 🙂 Here is the winner!

Since we didn’t go with white furniture, I didn’t want to do the yellow/gray scheme, because I thought it might look weird with brown furniture. Yes, I know…none of this really matters, but window shopping for baby stuff is just about the only thing you can actually do when you are pregnant. You can’t lift heavy things, you can’t paint, you can’t do gardening or pick weeds, you can’t go boating, you can’t ride your bike… You can basically eat (with limitations) and shop.

There aren’t many gender neutral bedding sets out there that aren’t monkeys, the alphabet, or birds. So I went with birds! I love all of the owl and fat birds that are popular right now. Peter calls them “budgies.” Is this a real term??

A Contender… Skip Hop Treetop set

The winner! Migi Little Tree set

I love the Migi Little Tree because the birds are just too darn cute. I am going to incorporate some owls in there, too.  I liked that the Migi Little Tree set could be purchased without the bumper (which made it cheaper), since they seem to be a suffocation hazard for babies.  Why get a set that costs an extra $50 for a piece that I won’t use?

I have also been stalking the tubes to find some cute vinyl decals for the wall. Maybe something like these:

I’ve been waiting so long to post any kind of picture of myself online. I am not really “bumpish” enough for anyone to notice that I’m pregnant, but I’m pretty sure people have been noticing my expanding waistline.

I still don’t have strangers saying anything about my belly, and I know people find out that I’m pregnant and say, “You’re so tiny!” I don’t know if this is true or not, but you can judge my gut…

Not a flattering angle to begin with 🙂 About 19 weeks, I think.

Apparently flash has the ability to x-ray capture my bra. About 23.5 weeks

Lately I’ve been feeling like an alien is trying to escape from my loins/gut area. At first thought, I can see how people think it might be gas, but this is no gas.

It feels like a finger poking you from inside at random intervals of time. There is no pattern, no rhythm. Last Saturday night, I wondered if I could feel the bumps from the outside, so I was super shocked when I could actually feel it under my hand.

I know women are always talking about the beauty of life and how miraculous things are to be “growing life inside you.” Blah blah. Hippie crap. I say no matter how much evidence you have to prove that this stuff is going on inside your body, it is still weird as crap.

So naturally, my first inclination is, “Weeeeeeeeeeird. Hey, Peter. Come see if you can feel this.” We have spent all week sitting in weird positions to see if he could feel anything. The conversations pretty much go like this:

Lauren: Did you feel that one?
Peter: No.
Peter: Wait. What was that?
Lauren: It’s your pulse in your hand.
Peter: Oh.
Lauren: That was a big one. Did you feel that?
Peter: No.

There was one time where he claims he felt something…to which his response was, “Weeeeeird.”

Tonight I noticed that my gut will actually distort itself if I look at it while it moves. SEE?!?!?! In what other situation is an involuntary, moving gut something completely normal?

Here is the updated closet. What a crafty husband!

I am starting to freak out a little bit about the lack of stuff I have. Everyone keeps telling me that people will buy you stuff for a baby shower and give you bags of used things, but right now I don’t have anything except 7 little outfits (– thank you so much, Sarah, Brittany, and Aunt Terry!).

I feel like I need to go buy things.

Peter and I went to Lowe’s and got a gallon of paint, an area rug, and a closet organizer. This helped slightly. We also started cleaning our spare bedroom.

But this lower back pain. Ugh! I think I pinched a nerve in my coccyx area because I sometimes randomly limp when I walk. And, booooy, does it hurt like a *****.

In other news, the dogs are loving the fact that I am buying them lots of treats and toys. I can at least spoil my dog children :).

Closet Before

Room Before

Sugar Gliders Moved into Other Room

Relatively Clean Entry Way