Making Room for Baby

Yesterday we gave Allie's room a little make-over, to get ready for baby sister!

This is the baby corner. I took the old mirror that was attached to the top of the dresser and added a changing pad instead. To replace the mirror, I scoured Hobby Lobby and found the perfect one in the perfect shade of red to hang on the wall.

On either side of the mirror are Sarah Jane illustrations!

Near the changing pad is this little rocking horse Dustin made Allie a couple Christmas' ago..

Nesting

Nesting instinct refers to an instinct or urge in pregnant animals to prepare a home for the upcoming newborn(s). It is found in a variety of animals (both mammals and birds) including humans.^[1][2]

  Its seems to me that my nesting instinct has hit and is in full swing. I'm 24 weeks along and feeling good. I'm not too big to be miserable and I'm not sick. Heck I haven't even been exhausted for a while! I'm in the perfect mood to clean the closets, bathrooms, pantry... oh wait.. no! I'm in the perfect mood to decorate and rearrange things! I'm dying for the kitchen remodel to take off. We've schedule a day for tile to be laid but cabinets take a while to build.. and I just want to buy appliances and cute stuff and get going on the fun part.

To take my mind off of the kitchen.. I've been playing around on Pinterest (surprise, surprise) and have been pinning all kinds of things for Baby Sister and Allie's room.

A friend just introduced me to Sarah Jane and I've fallen in love with her Wee Wanders line. The quilt picture above is made with her fabric designs as well as the horse and deer prints. Sarah Jane studios is having a 20% sale this weekend and I'm dying to "buy all the things"! I would love to see Allie and Baby Sister's room become something like the board I've put together. Fun quotes, color, whimsy, lovely, bright and horses or course.

For now, I will go clean a bathroom and dust something!

Its a GIRL!!

Back in January, when I found out we were expecting, I thought for sure we'd have another boy. After having three boys in a row, I didn't even let my mind think girl.

Since this is my fifth pregnancy, I decided to wait a while before I went in for my first doctor visit. That ended up being when I was 12 weeks along and I had my first trimester ultrasound at 14 weeks. At 14 weeks, the ultrasound technician said, "It looks like a girl, but we could have a late bloomer. So don't set your hopes on it yet." I was so surprised to hear that, that I still didn't let myself think, girl!

When I went back for my next regular check up, I was about 17 weeks. After measuring my stomach, the doctor proceeded to check the baby's heart beat. But nothing was coming up on the doppler and my doctor had a concerned look on her face. I hesitantly asked if everything was okay. My doctor said she couldn't find the baby's heart beat right away. But that it was okay, just that the baby was just moving a lot!

The baby was moving so much that every time my doctor had found the heart beat the baby would move again right away. Instead of chasing the baby around, she brought in a portable ultrasound machine, to see the heart instead of trying to guess. My doctor found the heartbeat right away and said everything looked great! Then she asked me if I wanted to take a peek at the gender. I told her heck yes!! And she said, "It sure looks like a girl to me!"

But still I didn't get my hopes up! I knew it would be a few more weeks until my full ultrasound screening, so I tried not to think of pink or ponies or ribbons! 

Then today, at my 20 week ultrasound and check up, we were thrilled to hear “it’s a girl!”

We can’t wait for little sister to meet us in September!!