Baby Room Pics- w/out decorations yet :)

So things are coming together! It gives me a lot of relief knowing the baby room is almost done. All I have left is the antique chair we're having re-covered and decorations (oh, and the mattress, and the changing pad... okay so there is plenty more to do! But the big stuff is done!). Here are a few pictures (taken by my birthday-i-phone) of the room so far. I bet Austin will be changing these out for some nicer pics, but I just couldn't wait! 

Just for kicks....

So the coolest thing happened this week. Ebie has been saying for a couple of weeks that she has been feeling the baby flutter. The past week our little one has been taking kung-fu lessons or something; it is so fun! I was able to feel the baby really well for the first time the other night. It was kicking away at my hand every time I would push down on Ebie's belly. So much fun....Just for kicks...I figured I would attach pics of the baby room prep!

Belly shot...

~Here you go Mickey!~

So here is a picture of my belly/ our growing baby!              We were doing P90x in our living room and my Mother in law was laughing at me working out w/ my bump bouncing around. Working out, I used to have a solid plank, now I think it looks like sagging lumber! 

           The same morning we took this photo, Austin was able to feel little Cletus the fetus kick! It was doing "Kempo Karate" on my navel! My guess is that this little one will have Austin's personality... because most of the time it's just chilin', but when it takes action it goes ALL OUT! 

          We'll put up pics of the developing nursery soon... it's coming along and looks great so far. 

~BELLY RUBS!!!~

Baby names!!!

     In addition to not finding out the gender, Austin was wanting to keep our prospective names a secret. We decided on the names about a month ago and it has been driving me mad to not share them. Today I finally convinced Austin that the gender surprise would be monumental enough by itself. Plus, I'm so over coming up with other names that we're thinking about when we already really know! 

     Okay, enough prefacing... If it's a boy his name will be, William Henry (William being Austin's name as well as his grandfather's, and Henry being my grand father's name) and we'll probably call him "Will." If it's a girl she will be named, Blakely Jewel (I got the 1st name from celebrity Blake Lively- I just liked the name, I know nothing about her as a person- and Jewel was Austin's great grandmother's name) and we will call her "Blake."

     So there it is... I feel much better now! 

Our new Lactation Consultant

Last night we had dinner with Elizabeth's new lactation consultant. She said we should stay away from beef and "eat more chicken".

Spread eagle

17 week OB visit, check! And no, it wasn't me that was spread eagle this time... you'll see... Anyway, I'm so stinking impatient- July feels like an eternity away! The visit went well. I've only gained 4 pounds so far (but it feels like twice that much). I 'cheated' again (Austin doesn't like it when I take a sneak peak...), the day before my appointment I cheated and had another ultrasound at work. It was so much fun! Little Cletus ("Cletus the fetus"), opened up its mouth in a wide yawn where we could even see its little tongue. Then the little squirt went on to suck its thumb while spread eagle on my placenta. Hehe. It was a sweet sight... Hopefully that will hold me over to my 20 week ultrasound check up! Probably not...

Nursery Patterns

Here are the patterns we are going to use on the curtains, bed bumper, pillows, bed skirt, and window seat pad....we are going gender neutral, and couldn't find that great of options in stores, so we're going to buy the fabric and have Martha Stewart sew them! P.S. I am not Martha and Austin isn't exactly Michael Kors!