Furniture & Bedding

Yeah, we've finally got the nursery done and ready to show off!! Once we confirmed again that Olivia is, in fact, a little girl - I washed the bedding and got it all up and in place today (as well as the curtains!) - well, ok, not COMPLETELY done, I still need to get a glider, hang SOMETHING on the walls and maybe get a little bookshelf - but you get the idea!

Anyway, here are the long awaited pics of the furniture and the bedding. The glider will go on the same wall as the dresser - on the window side.

I still need to hem the curtains a little, but I think the room looks fabulous! I'm so excited that it is finally looking like a nursery. Now it is going to seem much more REAL that we are having a baby - now that we have a CRIB!!! Oh my goodness!

Doctor's Appt. Update

Ok, so I had my "big" doctor's appt this morning and after being poked, prodded and thoroughly checked out here are the results:


1 - The placenta has moved off of the cervix opening (good news). However, the edge of it is still only ~1 cm away from the cervix opening (still not out of the woods). They are going to do another ultrasound at 36 weeks (8 weeks from now) to check on it. I am assuming that at that appt. if it has moved away more - we are good to go for a normal delivery, if it is still really close to my cervix, I may be scheduled for an early C-Section. So, we'll wait and see on that. But for now, I do not have any major restrictions anymore (unless I have any bleeding between now and then). So that is good news!


2 - She is still a girl! We confirmed that again just to make sure. Too many people have been trying to scare us with their stories of their "girls" winding up coming out boys! So we confirmed that Olivia is not Oliver! ha ha (Now I can wash the bedding and get that all put together)


3 - Here are Her stats: She weighs approximately 3 pounds & 1 ounce. That is in the 64th percentile (already an over-achiever!). Her heart rate was 154 beats/min. And she was moving around like crazy for the whole thing!

4 - I had my glucose screening today, as well. I won't find out about those results for a little while.

5 - My Iron is back up within normal range! All that Iron-fortified cereal has done it's job! (Thanks Thursall, for sending me that great info about Iron-rich foods!)

Here are her pictures from the sonagram. She kept putting her hands up by her face, so we didn't get any great pictures. But here are the best of the bunch:

Here's a nice profile of her.

This is a nice head on shot of her face. This is basically what the 3-D one would look like. Looks pretty cool! She still has a hand up near her face, but pretty good picture for being a sonagram! She's already a cutie!

Well, that's about all for now. I'll come back and write more about the nusery and furniture later on or in the next couple days. I want to get it all looking good to show you all some pictures. Until then, take care!

It's here!

I got a call this morning - our furniture is here awaiting us to come get it! Yeah!!! Alan and Susan are coming this weekend to help us go get it. Then we can put the bedding together and have the room almost finished. Just a little decorating, getting the glider and little bookshelf (hopefully we'll find these in Hickory next weekend) and some little finishing touches. I'll post pics as soon as we get the furniture and bedding in there this weekend.

I also have my BIG doctor's appt. coming up on Monday morning. I'll have an ultrasound to check on that placenta AND we'll get to see our cute little one again! I'm worried about the appt, but excited to see her this far along. She is quite active these days and is even reactive to me pushing in on my belly now. Grant and I heard her heartbeat the other night with his stethescope. That was pretty cool!

Wish us luck with our appt on Monday. I'll keep you all up to date as soon as I have any news (or pictures).

Have a great weekend!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! Grant and I are just hanging out at home this weekend. Grant had to work yesterday anyway and we'll be seeing a lot of our family coming up in the next bit - so, staying home for Easter is ok. We went and bought ourselves some yummy Easter candy yesterday so we are good.

Ok, so big news - ok . . . I think it is big . . . The nursery furniture will be here this week!!! Yeah! They said that it should be here around Wednesday. Susan and Alan (my in-laws) said they would come up and help us pick it up at the store with their truck and bring it home when it got here - so hopefully they are free this weekend to come help us! Grant is finishing up the touch-up in the nursery as I am typing this. Yeah!!! I cannot wait to see how awesome the furniture is going to look in there. The nursery is already exactly how I wanted it . . . once the furniture is in there - It'll almost be done and I'm so excited!

As far as things with me go - My ribs still hurt here and there and make it hard to lay down to go to sleep. I don't think I'm going to have another good night's sleep until long after she arrives and learns to sleep through the night. I guess this is natures way of preparing me for sleepless nights - I'm already there!

I have found out that some of my girlfriends from college are going to do a shower for me here in Raleigh - they haven't quite set the date yet, but I'll let you all know once they do. It will be April 27th at the earliest through sometime in May.

I have my neighborhood bunco at my house tomorrow night - so I am going to attempt to make this cute bunny cake for everyone to be festive. I'll be handling that this afternoon.

Well, that's about all for now. I'll definately get some more pictures of the nursery once the furniture is in there for everyone to see. Still on our search for the perfect glider, not sure when we'll find that but we are going to head up to Lenoir/Hickory in a couple weeks to look around up there at all the furniture places. Maybe we'll find one up there.

Have a great Easter!

Nursery Pictures

Ok, so the nursery still isn't 100% completed, but it is close. Grant still has a little bit of touch up to do - but you will at least get the idea from the pictures of how it will look. I think it looks fabulous and am soooo excited to get it all finished and get the furniture in there.

THANKS GRANT AND DAD! THE ROOM LOOKS GREAT!

Here are the before pics:

Here are pics of them putting up the wanescoting:

Here are pics of them putting up the chair rail:

Here are the "finished" pics:

Here is a picture of the cute green shelves we put up in the closet. They'll be baskets on each of the shelves:

Let me know if you all like it! I think it looks great! I'll put up more pics when we get the furniture in there.

Update

Hey there everyone! Well, nothing new to report on anything. I've got a picture of me and Grant to show you all. Other than that - no word back on the sonagram - but I'm thinking that it isn't gallstones anymore - it seems to be more positional based. So I guess rub it when it hurts and just deal with it for now. Hopefully it will go away.

Here's the picture of Grant and I from the end of last week (~26 weeks along):

Shower Change

Just wanted to update you all on my shower in Lenoir that Susan is throwing for me. It will now be Sunday, April 20th from 2-4 (instead of May 4th). The shower in Huntersville with my mom is still on April 19th - not sure of the time. That will be one busy weekend!! :)

Maybe not gallstones . . .

Well, I had the sonagram this morning to look at my gallbladder, liver and kidneys. I didn't see any white thingys in the gallbladder so I don't think that was it. not sure about the kidneys or liver - but my bloodwork came back ok. I'm not really sure when they will get back to me - I assume they'll just call me sometime to either tell me everything was ok or to bring me in for an appt. if it wasn't. I'm thinking it will be fine. Not sure what that pain is if it isn't gallstones. I'm still getting it - though it is getting a bit less frequent and really only is bad at night when I'm trying to go to sleep. ugh! Once that pain kicks in at night - there's no getting rid of it!

I was also hoping that the sonagram tech would take a sneak peak at Olivia for us - but not only did she not look at Olivia - she didn't even let Grant come back with me so he rearranged his work schedule and came with me just to wait in the waiting room. Oh-well, I didn't get to see the little bean anyway so he didn't miss anything. I guess we'll have to wait until the 31st to check her out again . . . . . AND look at where that placenta is! That will be a BIG appt for me.

On a much better note, I talked to Susan, my mom-in-law and she is going to throw me a shower in Lenoir on May 4th (which is Chad's birthday!). So that is fun. Now I have my showers planned for both my home town and Grant's. I really appreciate both mom's thowing me the showers - they'll both be great Grandma's for little Olivia! :)

We went out to Babies-R-Us last night to look at gliders. They have a couple we liked. We wanted to see what they had and what prices so we'll kind of know what to compare to when we look elsewhere. I think when we go to lenoir for the weekend of my shower - we'll take a little trip out to Hickory to look at gliders there and maybe we'll get an even better one at a better price. We should have the furniture by then so we'll know how much room we have and a better idea of what we want. I'm soooo excited to get her room all finished up and ready for her.

I'll be finishing up my 6th month tomorrow and starting the 3rd trimester. Looks like we are coming into the home stretch here! Yeah . . . and ugh! I'm very excited about it getting closer to her being here - but the further along we get, the more tired I am and the less I'm sleeping. Maybe I'll figure out how to get a good night's sleep soon.

Well, hopefully we'll have the nursery paint job finished this week to show you all. But Grant won't be working too much on it this weekend - it is the ACC tourny, he'll be working sat. morning AND he is turning 30 on Sunday - so I don't want him working too hard. He needs to celebrate. Maybe we can get some people together to go out and celebrate Saturday night.

Well, I'll keep you all updated if I hear back from the Doc. and about the nursery. Until then, take care! :)

To Gallstone or not to Gallstone.

Ok, so for the last several weeks I have been having (and complaining about) my bad rib pain. I was becoming worried that it may be something more than just expanding ribs - my friend Sara would up with gallstones - so I asked her if my pain was in the same spot as hers and what hers felt like (like a hot poker stabbing me in my right rib always in the same pin-point spot!!). She confirmed that it sounded the same and after several sleepless nights I went to the doc. on Friday and they also said that it sounds like it may be liver or gallbladder issues. They took blood to check my liver function (though they don't really think it is liver since my blood pressure is still really good) and I have an ultrasound scheduled for this wednesday morning to check out my liver and gallbladder. If it is my gallbladder, I will have to go on a very LOW FAT diet for the rest of my pregnancy - yuck!! I mean I like my junk food and it's about to be easter and cadbury eggs are out!!! I'm going to have to stock up on them and save them for after she is born so that I can have them later!

I'll let you all know what I find out on wednesday. It would be nice to have a reason for the rib pain and know how to control it - but why must it mean that I lose my junk food! ugh!!

As for the nursery - Grant worked on it all day yesterday doing some touchups and still has just a little more to do. Maybe by the end of the week, I'll have pictures to show you all. I did sell both the desk and couch that were in there. The guy came to get the desk last weekend and the same guy is going to wind up coming to get the couch wednesday night. Yippee!! That's a little bit of $$$ toward the nursery renovation. The furniture should be here any time now. When we ordered it they told us 10-12 weeks. The end of this week is 10 weeks - so tick tock, tick tock! I cannot wait for it to get here and see how wonderful it looks in Olivia's newly painted room! Then it will REALLY feel like a real nursery!

My mom also called me today to let me know that she is planning on doing my shower back home on the weekend of April 19th. So, that's exciting! Not sure about any other shower's yet - but I'll keep you all posted.

Anyway, I'll keep you all up to date on my gallbladder stuff and post pics of the nursery once Grant finishes.

25-Week Belly Shots

Hey there everyone! Ok, so I have reached 25 weeks and Grant has taken my belly shots to show you how my belly is growing. This is the BIGGEST change so far. I've been growing at rapid speed these days! :) Enjoy!

(BTW - Grant is working on the touch up in the nursery. I should have pics of that for everyone by the end of the weekend)

Livy's Room

Yeah - the nursery is well underway! My parents came up this past weekend and the boys worked on the nursery all weekend. It still needs some touch-up and a couple little things to be completed, but it looks great! Once it has been touched up I will post some pictures of it. They primed the red walls and painted them a light yellow. Then they put up wanescoting and a chair rail and it looks so sunny and bright now. I'm sooo excited to get it finished and get the furniture in there now. Maybe the furniture will be ready in the next couple weeks.

Thanks Grant and Dad - you guys did a GREAT job on little Livy's room! It looks wonderful!

Other than the nursery, mom and I went out and got some panel curtains to go with the valence and her, myself and my friend Diane went to a scrapbook store and got a scrapbook and some supplies to do a scrapbook for Olivia. Diane is going to teach me how to scrapbook - tonight will be my first lesson! :)

Aside from all of that, we've just been working and staying pretty busy. My ribs still hurt and I am still having a bunch of issues trying to get to sleep and stay asleep at night. I spend most of the night tossing and turning and trying to find a comfortable position that doesn't hurt my ribs and doesn't make my legs ache and. . . ugh!

Well, hopefully Grant will finish the touchup this week/weekend and I can post pics of the beautiful new nursery sometime this weekend or next week. Until then, take care and keep in touch!