Day Off

This week has been different! My parents stayed with us from Saturday until this morning. We have a ton of fun together so it was a nice change having company over for that long. Before hand, Mom and I planned out all the meals we'd have so we would be prepared. Taco night, leftovers, steak night, hamburger casserole, and Wednesday they had church so we all had to fend for ourselves. Our dog Baily loves Daniel so much, it's insane. She adores him. But I think this week she took to Papa and didn't want him to leave! Here is a picture of his truck all packed up this morning.

Yesterday I was lucky enough to get a "yes" from my boss to take today off. (thanks!) Daniel has been on vacation all week, and this will be the last time we would be able to have a day off together before Gunner gets here so I took it off. We started the day by getting life insurance! (Woo hoo...) Something I never thought about until now...actually Daniel mentioned it since he seems to think more long term than me. Good idea though. Then we went to see Inception at the theater at noon, so there was practically no one else in the whole theater. That is a good movie I might add. It'll make you think. After that we stopped by Bath and Body Works because they were having their 5 for $15 hand soap sale (yahoo!) and of course I had to take advantage! What a deal. On our way home we picked up some Chinese food and had a REALLY early dinner since we didn't eat lunch, and I fell asleep on the couch. When I woke up Gunner started kicking. He's bee incredibly active the last few days, either that or he's just so big now that I can feel any time he moves. It's really fun, and really distracting at work. Yesterday he was kicking so much I had one of the girls in the cubicle next to me come over and feel my belly! Some people say they hate when people rub their belly, but I just want to show him off! It's so fun when he's kicking and others can feel it! I'm already proud of how hard he kicks...ha!

According to "What to Expect", on Sunday I reached the third trimester! Here is the picture we took that day.

What Have We Been Up To?

I will be attending my first baby shower in three weeks! Really? Is it already time for that? I cannot believe how fast it has gone since we made our big announcement. The first trimester crawled by at a snails pace because we were trying to keep a secret, but it has been a whirlwind of a time since then. Several weeks ago I was itching to start on the nursery, and now we’re kind of at a stand still as far as what we can do. We painted it and got the crib set up, but I don’t have the bedding yet. My crazy talented mother is making the bedding and curtain, so I will have to wait until that’s finished. She has the quilt done, and she’s working on the bumper pad and dust ruffle/bed skirt currently. I’m hoping to be able to help with all that at some point! No pictures will be posted until the big reveal! I want to show all of it together when it’s in the room. Cannot wait!

We bought a used stroller/car seat combo the other day and it’s sitting in the nursery along with the changing table and “co-sleeper basinet” Mom got us. It looks more like a small pack and play than a basinet. That thing is going to be a permanent fixture beside my bed for the first few months. I’m so glad to have it!

I also bought a used little activity center that I could not find anywhere except at Babies R Us (for a whopping $90!!!) but I got this one for $40! Talk about a deal. My sweet nephew has the same one and LOVES it! I need to post a picture of him playing in his soon.

We’re doing the cloth diaper thing and my mom got me a few diapers to start my stash. I will have to do a whole post on those some day soon. They’re pretty cool and so adorable. I registered for lots of diapers so hopefully I will get all I need! I am so thankful to have my sister in law and several people at church who use cloth available for me to ask my many questions to. They have been a big help. I should probably have all of their phone numbers on hand when Gunner gets here, because I know I will have even more questions and concerns by then!

Aside from a handful of outfits, some socks and a few hats, that’s all we have so far! It’s a good start though. I’m starting to wonder where on earth everything is going to go… I guess I will figure that out later!

In pregnancy news, I passed my glucose tolerance test the other day! It wasn’t bad at all really. I just hate having my blood drawn. The doctor said I was doing very well, and that I was measuring a week bigger, which isn’t too big of a deal. I’ve only gained a total of 7 pounds so far, so I’m hoping it doesn’t get out of control in the last trimester. I know I will get much bigger and gain more, but I want to keep it under 25 pounds total!! We start our child birthing classes on August 9th! It’s a 6 week course and we have it every Monday night (except for one was moved to the day after Labor Day). I am looking forward to it.

Gunner is doing well and moving so much every day! His movements are starting to get really big and are in different areas now. Sometimes it even tickles my ribs! The other day I think he rolled over, but he kept pushing out with an arm or leg or something and I pushed where it was and I could feel something hard under there! SO WEIRD! He seems to have changed his sleeping schedule, because he’s moving at different times during the day than he usually does. He used to not move much until I got to work, and he would squirm randomly till I ate dinner and then would settle down for the night. Now he is really active when I try to go to sleep! I feel him moving much more in the mornings too. He should be about 15 inches long by now! Holy cow! That’s huge! Pretty exciting stuff. My next appointment isn’t until mid August.

Even though I really want to see what he looks like and hold him, I’m not quite ready for him to get here yet! I’ve got too much to do before then, and I’m still pretty anxious about D-Day! I still wish I could skip that part!

We Are Registered!

Well we officially registered for some baby items for Gunner today! We took Mom with us because we had no idea what we were doing. I armed Daniel with the scanner gun and set Mom loose to tell us what we needed. She was a huge help. It was pretty tiring too. We went to Wal Mart and Target, and when I got home I created a very small registry at Babies R Us for a couple of items I would really like that I can't really find anywhere else. I've got to go back to Target too because some of the bigger items that I wanted are going to be clearanced out and unavailable, but in a couple of weeks they're getting a totally new set of items in so I'll just add those to the list when they get them. So basically, it's an unfinished list. But we're almost done!

Here are the links! (I don't know how to do a hypr link or whatever it's called where you just see a word, and when you click on the word it takes you to the link. If you want to explain to me how to do that in a blog, have at it.)

http://www.walmart.com/giftregistry/gr_detail.do?registryId=52601860001

http://www.toysrus.com/registry/myregistry/index.jsp?overrideStore=TRUS

http://www.target.com/registry/baby/15Q91EWXCTYA6