Nursery Projects

As I mentioned in my last post, my college roommate, Diana, is helping do some things in the nursery. On Tuesday I went over to her house and we worked on some fun projects. Diana is a phenomenal artist. I knew this before I lived with her (we went to high school together also). She was an Interior Design Major and Art Minor so she is really good at all this kinda stuff. When we were in college we painted a picture for our living room together. I'm pretty sure I still have that thing somewhere. I painted the frames and she painted the birdhouse and box. She did have to help me fix the striped frame because my taping skills were lacking and paint seeped under the tape. But all in all I think as a total non-artist, I did a pretty good job. Diana is also painting some canvases for me to hang in the room. I can't wait to see those things. They are going to have little girl princess fairies on them. I'm not allowed to see those until they are finished.

The white frame has glitter on it. I LOVE glitter!!!

Nursery

This past weekend Terry and I FINALLY finished painting Bella's nursery. My college roommate, Diana, has been giving me some tips. She suggested that we change the color of pink that we had originally painted, so we did, and it looks much better. We had a really hard time figuring out what we were going to do where the pink and chocolate meet. We were going to do a chair rail but I had a feeling that would never get done so I decided to take into my own hands. I had seen on a different blog that someone had painted a ribbon around their little girls room. It was super cute so I thought I would try a variation of it. I still have to put the stitching on the "ribbon" but I was very pleased with how straight we got the lines around the room. TEAMWORK!!! Her bed came in and we put that up. I've always heard horror stories about putting together cribs but I must say this was very easy. Someone- I shall not say who- forgot to get the mattress when "he" picked up the crib so we don't have that in there just yet. We are still waiting on the dresser/changing table. Here are some pictures that will give you the idea of what it is going to look like, but much cuter when it all gets in there.

30 weeks

Here are my 30 week pictures!!

Courtney Performs

Last Friday night The Friendswood Christian School held their annual auction and dinner to raise money. Courtney is in Pre-K there and her class performed a song before the auction. I ended up not even getting to see her sing because she was standing behind the flag. I think she was ok with that since she has this new "selective shyness". I think that is kinda like "selective hearing". My husband has that disorder.

Courtney and her friend Raquel being silly. This is very normal for these two.I'm sure she did a great job behind the flag!!!

Dallas Shower, 29 weeks, and a Chicken dance

Terry and I traveled to Dallas this weekend for a baby shower given to us by two of my aunts and my cousin Tiffany. The shower was a double shower for Terry and I and my little brother and his girlfriend who are having a boy at the beginning of May. We left on Friday after work and headed that way. We had a pretty uneventful trip up, which is the way we like it. We had a great weekend and a HUGE thanks to the hostesses for giving us such a wonderful shower!!!Standing behind the diaper cake my Aunt Marcia made. (29 weeks)

The table


My cake. My cousin Tiffany made this cake. There was a cake disaster but she did a great job at remedying the situation. She had stayed up until 4 o'clock the morning before making the cakes and mine decided to jump out of her hands on the way out her apartment door on Saturday morning. She was really upset when she came into the house and I knew something was wrong. They told me what happened. I felt really bad for her because I knew she was really tired. She just happened to have made an extra cake so she iced it up and we ate it. It was delicious. Thank you Tiffany for the WONDERFUL cake. I brought some home. I think I'll have a piece when I'm finished blogging!!!Aunt Marcia, Me, Aunt Michele and Tiffany (The hostesses)

Terry, Me, Alyssa, and Tim

Mom

Terry and I with our moms.

Terry and I with our grandmothers. Both of our dad's mothers.

Cousin Tiffany and I

Tiffany, Me, and Calli

Terry and I with his sister, Angie

Proud parents-to-be!!!

My friend Melanie and her little girl Hunter. Melanie was a bridesmaid in our wedding. She is a fellow lumberjack!!

opening gifts

Another gift!!


After the shower we decided to go out to eat for the birthdays in March and April. We ate at Babe's . YUM!!! This is the adult table.


And here we are at the kids table.Aunt Marcia and Aunt Michele with their chicken beaks getting ready for the birthday chicken dance.

My cousin Tyler.


And last but certainly not least....Papa, with a chicken on his head.
Now for the best part. Papa performing the birthday chicken dance.

4D

Well I couldn't wait for the scanner. I took pictures of the pictures with my camera so I could go ahead and get them posted. They aren't the best quality but hopefully ya'll can make them out. I will explain as we go along.You can see that she has my hands as she has her long skinny fingers covering up her face. Her left hand is on her left jaw.

She is sucking on her right pinky finger and her left hand is now closer to her left ear.

This is a great profile shot. Check out those lips!!!

In the middle of this picture is her left leg. She is on her back and sticking her legs upward. She is playing with her toes. Look how chunky her little thighs are already. I just wanna pinch em they are so cute!!!

As soon as we get the scanner up I will scan in the really pictures. They are much better quality than this. I just couldn't wait to show her off.

28 weeks

Here I am at 28 weeks. My belly button is quite close to popping. Today for the first time Bella had the hiccups. I think they irritated her because she sure did get squirmy. She has had them 3 times today. I feel bad for her but there isn't anything I can do.

We had our 4D ultrasound yesterday. It was so awesome to really see her little face. Her face is shaped more like her daddy's and she already has cute little fat cheeks and I'm oh so jealous of her full lips!! She gets those from her daddy too! The tech was amazed at how much fat she already had on her. YIKES!!! How much WILL she weigh???? Of course we think she is the cutest thing we have ever seen. She got irritated during the ultrasound and crinkled her nose and eyebrows. It was quite funny but not as funny as when she actually licked her foot. I'm gonna blame that one on Terry. It was hilarious. She grabbed her ankle and stuck her foot up to her mouth, opened her mouth and licked her foot, then put it in her mouth. I will get the pictures up as soon as we get the scanner hooked up. They are pretty amazing!!!