All things Baby

I ordered Brock's crib on Sunday and got a call Thursday that it was IN! Quicker than what I thought it would take. Here is the crib we went with:

photo credit- Babies R' Us

I LOVE it, I think its even better in person. So I'm hoping to go pick it up sometime this weekend or Monday after my Dr. appointment. Once I got the call that it was in it gave me some motivation to call and get the bedding ordered. I feel like we are slacking 'first time parents' I'm sure most first timers already have all the stuff ordered and perhaps set up by now? Hopefully I'm wrong. In our defense we aren't in a hurry by any means especially when the little guys room looks like this at the moment:

It's not quite baby ready wouldn't ya say?! ha.

We'll get there, Michael has been working his butt off so I have no worries that it won't be done, I just get myself overwhelmed at times and need a good sob session thats all. :)

So Thursday I spent most of my lunch hour on the phone ordering his bedding, but I loved every second of it. Mostly because where I ordered it is out of Mobile, AL and the lady had the sweetest southern accent! I could listen to someone with a southern accent ALL DAY! I wish I had one! :) Anyways back to his bedding... Its not going to be here until the first part of April. Here's what we I went with:

Love the minky fabrics, I had originally planned on grays and creams but when I was talking to the lady on the phone she said that it was definately white and gray zigzag print. I was a little bummed but then knew I needed to put some other color in there besides just the gray, I didn't want to use white because first our water is horrible on whites and second white and a small child don't mix well. I also had planned on painting the walls gray, so the more I told her my plans we decided that it would be too much gray so we decided to add in some of the Tiffany Blue color too.  I think I may throw in some navy and lime green colors too, not sure yet though.  I liked this because if we ever have a girl its still neutral and I can throw pinks in with it. I'm excited/nervous to see how it turns out and I hope it turns out as good as the vision I have in my head!!

** Only a few more weeks till little Miss Madison is here-- I CANNOT wait! My sister only has a few weeks left and I'm so excited to meet the little one, I hope she has lots of dark hair! I may have to stop in Fairbury every night before I go home just to get my baby fix! haha- Kidding Em I won't annoy you guys that much! :)

Second Appt.

I went for my second appointment on Wednesday (11/9).  I went by myself this time since Michael was busy with work.  These are some of the neat pictures the tech got, I LOVED this tech, she switched it into 3D so you could really see the baby.  It reminds me of the little lego men.  So NEAT though.  The other pictures are too hard for someone like myself to make-out.  I do have a SIL who is a x-ray tech and does sono's so she was able to point everything out to me when I was showing her the pics, which was so nice! The tech took a ton of pics.  I met with the Dr after and she said everything looked excellent which was good to hear, the babys hearbeat was 170 bpm, so much faster from the first time.  I go back in another 4 weeks just for a regular visit and the next time we get an U/S is when we can find out the sex!!

Again, sorry the quality isn't the greatest. 

We're Expecting....

So my reasoning for not blogging much lately is due to the title of this post.  I have been EXHAUSTED, meaning in bed by usually 7:30 every night. 

If you look close you can see the very faint line.

Sorry for the poor quality of the photos.  Anyways, Michael and I have known for a while that we were pregnant.  We came home from the Bama game that Sunday (9/25) and I still hadn't started so I decided to take a test not really thinking it would be positive.  On a side note I had some cysts earlier this year and I thought that it may take us a little while to get pregnant.  So Michael was laying on the couch watching football and I kept saying I think I'm pregnant.  (I had been so tired, but it was hard to tell because we drove 10 hours to Tuscaloosa and my sleep pattern was so screwed up, but I really thought it when my mom and I were shopping at the mall in Tuscaloosa and I was sooo tired I couldn't even shop!)  So back to that Sunday, I decided I would take a test just to either confirm yes or to let me know that I'm just a few days late.  When it turned positive I was SO shocked, yes I couldn't believe what I was seeing, I was so scared, excited, nervous, everything.  I came running out and told Michael "OMG your never going to believe it, its positive"  He was soo excited, I will be honest I was still unsure, I didn't know what to think and I couldn't believe it had happened so quick. 

I ended up calling the doctor the next day (Monday 9/26) to see what I needed to do from here, they said I needed to have blood work done.  My Dr. is in Bloomington and I work in Pontiac and had just taken that past Friday off so the last thing I wanted to do was take off time to go to Bloomington to get blood work done.  Luckily they said I could go to the hospital in Pontiac and they would just send the results to my Dr. 

After that I had scheduled our first appointment for October 3, since I would be off for Columbus Day.  Michael went with to the first appointment.  Here is a picture from our 1st Ultrasound.  Again please excuse the blurriness, I'll have to start scanning them at my moms!! The tech said my sac was shaped like a heart, she thought it was cute.  I was still just in shock!! The heartbeat at that appointment was 140 bpm.  The doctor confirmed that my due date was May 29, 2012, which is what I thought after looking online. That is 3 days after my mom and I's Birthday which is May 26. 

We decided after this appointment we would wait till our next one to tell people which would put me just over 11 weeks.  We thought if everything looked good there then we would go ahead and share the news! I have some neat U/S pics from our last appt. that will be another post! I still can't believe I'm pregnant, maybe once my stomach pops out I'll believe it more, even though I already feel HUGE.  :)