Baby Girl's Room

Well, any of you who are friends with me on Facebook know we've been painting Baby Girl's Room for somewhere around 5 days.  Yes.  I said 5 days.

Why 5 days you ask? Well....the room used to have a purple Faux Finish that I didn't like along with a border of stenciled flowers.  After finding our colors at a local Benjamin Moore store, I decided to buy my paint from them.  I'd done some research comparing the two paint brands and found many people thought BM performed better and was worth the extra $8 a gallon.  Normally we are Behr people.  Never had a problem with Behr.  I wish we had gone with Behr or decided to prime the room first.

After the 4th day of painting, 3rd coat of yellow, 2nd coat of light pink and realizing we would need another coat of each, I was done.  I was crying while rolling on the 3rd coat of yellow and profusely apologizing to Josh for choosing a different brand of paint.

Our friend Jessica assured me all the work would be worth it in the end and it is.  I love the colors.  I have loved them since I chose them and now each time I walk into the room I smile.

This is the closet.  We took the doors off and painted the back wall a darker pink.  

The changing table will be in here as well as the typical closet stuff.

We are using the same dresser we used for Ethan as a changing table but we have painted it and spruced it up a bit.  You'll get to see that another time, can't show you all the surprises at once!

Door to the landing.

I want to use scrapbooking paper in here some where as wall art I am just not sure what to do yet (I am open for suggestions).  Oh, wait, I just came up with an idea!! (No, you don't get to know).  The accessories are undecided as well but I'm sure it will all come together.

Corner where the crib will likely be.

 I'll likely make the curtains but again, I have no idea what I'm going to do there (again, suggestions are welcome).

My tummy ~ 27 weeks.

As for Baby Girl and the pregnancy.  Things are going very well.  I am feeling very good.  This time with Ethan I was working full-time and my feet were so swollen I couldn't wear shoes in the evening.  Only minor swelling right now.  Josh, Ethan and I are enjoying feeling Baby Girl move around which is getting to be so easy because she is growing big.  Less than 90 days and my due date will be here.  We can't wait! Well, yes we can and we will!

Baby ?? Barcklay

After a few months of trying, Josh and I became pregnant with baby #2 in April.  This little one is due January 6th, 2011! After waiting until the birth with Ethan, I decided with the second I would like to know the sex before with any future kids.

One of our friends (Amanda) had seen a cool idea for how one of her acquaintances found out the sex of their baby.  I liked the sound of it so I adopted the idea before we were even pregnant! The hard part was waiting another few hours after the ultrasound! Here's how it worked:

A day or two before our ultrasound, Amanda baked essentially 3 cakes.  One pink, one blue, one both colors.  At our ultrasound we told the technician we wanted to find out the sex but we would like her to write it down on a card, seal it in an envelope and not tell us.  We passed the envelope to Amanda a bit later in the day and she went about frosting the appropriate colored cake for the gender that was on the card.

12:45 was the ultrasound, we weren't going to find out the gender until 7:00 p.m.-the waiting was kind of hard but not too bad.  Our friends came over around 7 (a few minutes late...I think they were trying to torture me just a bit longer) and after a few minutes we cut into the cake brought over.  A PINK cake!! I teared up and laughed.  I so wanted a baby girl.  I thought I was having a girl but I couldn't tell if that was me just REALLY wanting a girl or truly feeling it.  

Let me tell ya, the deck was stacked against me.  Supposedly the man "decides" gender.  Well, Josh is one of 4, 3 of those are boys.  His dad? One boy, one girl.  His grandfather? 5 boys.  Me? 6 girls, 2 boys.  Andrew and Josh were betting against a girl from the get-go.  

Ethan thought there were twins in my belly (my little sister, Lizabeth just had twin boys).  Twins were definitely not out of the realm of possibilities since my little sister Lizabeth is one of twins, and she and one of my other sisters, Brittany, have given birth to twins as well! As far as we can tell there is only ONE baby in there.  Thank goodness.

So for now I need to get what is now my craft room cleaned up so that I can sew for Baby Girl Barcklay and also clear it out to make room for our sweet little Girl.