22 Weeks, Paint is all done!

So we had 2 very productive weekends and Arturo managed to get ALL of the painting in the baby's room done, and put up the chair rail. it looks FANTASTIC! Everyone I show pictures to cannot say enough about how wonderful the room turned out! Now I get to do my thing and go crazy decorating with all the accessories! All I can say is there will be lots of purple and butterflies in there when I am all done! Yesterday while at Target I picked up a mattress for the crib and a thicker pad for the changing table. It is so crazy to think a baby will be sleeping on that mattress in a few months!

Arturo is getting more and more excited about the baby coming, he goes on and on about how he cannot wait to meet her and see what she looks like. He plans to take 2 weeks of paternity leave to be with me and the baby after she is born. I am really looking forward to having some good quality family time for the three of us to really bond and get the hang of things around the house. :-)

I have been trying to get more creative in the kitchen these days. My Mom pointed out a great recipe booklet for me to pick up at the grocery store by Taste of Home, the feature this month was "Fall Freezer Meals". Meals large enough to make one batch to eat tonight and one to freeze and eat later, I have already cooked a few things from it and they are great! (and now I have a few things in the freezer to make later when I don't feel like prepping a meal) The idea behind this is that I can master these recipes now, and when I am closer to my due date I will cook up a handful and freeze them to re-heat and eat later after the baby arrives, because I am sure the last thing I will want to do is cook and we want to avoid eating out too much.

Thats all for now, here are some pictures of the finished paint job in the nursery!

Coming in the door

 Looking around the room.

 Another View

 Closet

 Closer look at the detail.

Arturo practiced putting a diaper on this teddy bear! He did a pretty good job!

21 Weeks

Since we found out we are having a girl last week we have kicked into full planning/decorating mode. We picked a theme for the nursery, it will be Purple and Pink with Butterflies. (My favorite things!) and Today we bought paint and Arturo started the painting. For right now the room is completely pastel pink. Tomorrow he will tape off the bottom half of the room and paint it lavender. In the lavender, he will tape off 2 inch stripes, and when we peel it off there will be pink stripes in it. The finishing touch will be a white chair rail all around the room. Then I plan to decorate with tons of touches of purple, since it is my favorite color after all!

Now that I am officially 1/2 way through my pregnancy, a lot of things are becoming more real. Before I didn't really "feel" pregnant, or look pregnant, or anything else too exciting. Now things are getting fun! My tummy is starting to take shape, getting rounder. The baby moves all the time and I can really feel her a lot these days. She is a pretty active child already I can tell. Today Arturo and I were laying in bed in the morning and he wanted to see if he could feel her move, so he put his hand on my lower stomach and waited... then, BAM she give a good kick and he flies up and says, "was that her? I felt something!" So Arturo was able to feel her move for the first time today, now he keeps asking me all day, "Is she moving right now? Can I feel? I'm so jealous you get to feel her move all day!" He is so cute.

Other than the excitement of the baby and all the fun stuff  going on with that, I am getting excited for Halloween to be coming in a few weeks, I think tomorrow I will get out some of my Halloween stuff and decorate the front of the house. Our niece Mikayla also turns 2 on Halloween! Along with Halloween comes Arturo's Brithday the day before, I am a big birthday person so I am looking forward to making the day special for him and having some fun. Now if only this Arizona weather would finally cool down... That would be really nice!

Well thats all I have for now. I will leave you with a picture of Arturo painting the baby's room today.

We are having a...

GIRL!

I just got home from the ultrasound office, and it is official, we are having a little girl! We got a quick look at my doctors office a couple weeks ago but he was not sure, so today we saw much better that there is definitely a little girl in there! We are really excited! We had a feeling all along that it would be a girl so it is fun to know that we were right all along. ha ha!

Update: I have added puctures from the ultrasound.

Yes, she has her feet on her forehead, she is very flexible!

Spine

Hand, arm.