Sugar and spice...

Friday morning the painter showed up very punctually and early, at 7:30 and was ready to paint. We talked with him for a few minutes about his drive (he came from Ft. Worth!) and then he was in there working away. I kept checking on him while he was there to see if he needed anything but he kept saying he was okay. He said he'd brought a sandwich to eat, but unless he just jumped down off his ladder and ate right there on the carpet; I never saw or heard him eat or drink a thing. Maybe that would explain why I never heard him use the restroom either!! He was there for a total of about 8 1/2 hours and I never once heard him come out of that room! All I heard the whole time he was in there was him moving his ladder around.

Anyway, I couldn't be happier with the work that he did. The pictures just don't do it justice. I don't have her window covered in there yet so it was sort of hard to get a good picture because it was so bright in there. I ordered the valance that matches her bedding this past week and I'm going to get the window coverings done once that valance comes in.

It is a little strange seeing this room come together as a nursery! It makes it all seem so much more real. Barry and I have both been caught just standing in the doorway looking at what little is already done in there. I know this isn't his first child, but I think he is just as mesmerized as I am; in anticipation of his little girl's arrival!! And, speaking of...I have to mention what he did on Thursday evening. He got our video camera out, set it up on a tripod and started a video for his baby girl. He said it was the "before you" video and he wanted to make it for her to see someday. He introduced himself, me, Duke...walked all around the house explaining all the rooms and "showing" her what our house looked like before baby!! He had me take a few minutes of video of him putting her changing table and dresser together and everytime I started the camera up he would say "Hey baby girl"!! It was honestly one of the cutest things I have ever seen in my life! He is so smitten already! We are definitely amateur home video'ers so I'm sure we will get many a laugh out of it someday, but I hope she enjoys it & knows how excited we were/are to finally meet, hold & love her!

Can we get internet at home already??

So, we still don't have internet at home which makes for keeping up with this blog a little harder. I have to remember what it was I want(ed) to write and try to find time at work to post it. Anyway, I can make do, I guess...

So, this past Friday we went to our Dr's appt. with another sonogram scheduled. It was an early appointment but because of the sonogram and the fact that Preston got to go with us; I was pretty excited. P wasn't feeling well at all (we later discovered he was running a 102* fever) but he still seemed excited to see the baby on the screen again. Within the first few seconds it was obvious that Little Sister has put some meat on her bones :)!! She just looked so much bigger than before and it already looked (and feels most of the time) that she is running out of room in there! After the tech took her measurements & showed us what all it was she was checking, she tried to get us a peek at the baby's face...NO GO!! She wasn't having her picture taken at all! She was head down, face down and there was just no getting to see her that time. I was a little disappointed but I guess that anticipation will just build until I actually get to really see her little face.

We were told that that our due date would most likely be moved up about 2 weeks, which puts us at about Aug. 10th. Reason being, she already weighs between 3.6 and 3.9! I was actually a little shocked hearing that. Even being bumped up to Aug 10th, that still puts us at 7 weeks left to go; and he told us that she should be gaining 1/4 to 1/2 pound a week from here on out! I am so incredibly thankful that she is healthy (in fact Barry said it looked like she had little sausage legs!!) but when I do that math on the possible weight gain for the time we have left....OH GOSH!! We might have a big'en on our hands!!

Other than that, they said that I was right about the "no news is good news"... I am diabetes free and I'm not anemic so we were pleased to have heard that. Everything with her looked as good as it could/should have so we left there once again with huge smiles on our faces!!

Now, if we could just get her to show us hers!!

Still catching up

So, we finally got our crib bedding for Little Miss!! (notice all the nicknames so far??) I am so excited about this bedding! I had been looking for a while and did what I would like to consider some pretty extensive research online for bedding sets from stores that I could register at, like BabiesRUs and a place here in Frisco called Lone Star Baby & Kids. But, I didn't find anything that I thought I could make myself fall in love with, and since we already have so many other things, like nursery furniture, that we need to buy I was really trying to stay on a budget with the bedding. This set, I found on e-bay, and immediately fell in love with it, but my heart sank when I saw the price because it was double what some of the sets from the other stores would've cost. I couldn't stop looking at it and was determined to find a way to convince myself and my husband that this (more expensive, but...) absolutely adorable bedding was what our little princess needed to have in her crib!! BUT, I didn't have to. I showed it to my Aunt's Patti and Kristy, and they offered to split the cost of it for me, as a shower gift!! The listing on e-bay even said that the set included a pillow that you could have your baby's name embroidered on, and since we have decided to keep the baby's name a secret until she arrives, they just paid for it and let me order it and have it shipped directly to me! How blessed am I? I know you both read this, so thank you (again & again) for buying that for us. It may seem to be a simple purchase, but I cannot explain how thrilled I am to have that bedding! I absolutely cannot wait to get her crib in and put together so I can finally get it all set up! Thank you and I love you both with all my heart!!

The painter is coming Friday the 26th to paint the nursery and I am elated!! He's going to use the pink color from the bedding and do a border around the top of her room. The wording will be "Sugar and spice and everything nice... That's what little girls are made of" and he said he thinks he can get it down 4 times to make it all the way around the room!! Can't wait to see it!! I will post a picture of that after he finishes!

I thought since I was posting pics of bedding and whatnot that I'd put a couple that I'd taken of my work in Preston's room. It's safe to call this a work in progress, but I think he is happy with the look so far. I've just tried to get as much done in there as I can so that when he's home with us he can enjoy his space, and also before all our efforts are directed toward the nursery.

When we moved into the new house we got a new set of furniture so we put our old set in his room. I know it's not typical 10 year old boy bedroom furniture, but the whole 5 years we were in the apartment, he never had a headboard or nightstand or dressers. So he is enjoying that too. He got the comforter set for Christmas last year and he LOVES it.

These are the curtains I put up in there that I got on sale from IKEA. I didn't realize they weren't "ready to hang" when I got them. They had to be hemmed, and I did that myself. Barry isn't thrilled about the way they turned out, but I don't think they look all that bad. Our main reason for needing to put them up was because of the light coming in that huge window. Since we are on so much land, and don't really have to worry about neighbors being able to see in or things like that; we are still debating what kind of window treatments we want to do. We love the natural light and just aren't sure if we want every window covered with blinds or shades. But, the light was always so bright, Preston could never sleep in and most importantly, to him, the glare from the sun kept him from watching his TV!! :)

Two good things about these curtains are: They're not permanent, and I got them on sale...they were a cheap "try"!!


Two more things I need to tackle in here are his initials above his bed. He wants them painted either orange or blue....SURPRISE!! And the "fathead" things we can't get to keep sticking so we're going to have to figure out something with those. The texture on the walls is too rough and they just won't stick.

It's overly obvious that the boy is a Gator fan. Not a whole lot makes it in his door if it isn't royal blue or orange!!

It's been a while...

I have been slacking... It's been way too long since I have posted anything and so now that I am I feel like there is so much I should write about. I intended for this to be a "diary" of sorts, not only about our lives, but to have and look back upon to remember everything about this pregnancy and I feel guilty that I haven't written in over two months.


Anyway, hmmm..... where to start?? This may ramble a bit as things come to my mind, but I'm going to try and catch up.

This past Monday, June 15th, we hit the 30 week mark!! I cannot believe that in just a few short months we will finally be able to see, hold & love on our little girl. It seems like just yesterday that I was looking at the sonogram of the "blob"!! At first it seemed like the days and weeks were going by so slowly so now that we're over 30 weeks, I'm wondering where did the time go? I've been told that's how time will fly, too, when the baby finally gets here and quite frankly, I really don't want that to happen. I have really enjoyed this pregnancy and part of me already doesn't want it to end. She has become very active and I just love getting to feel her kick and dance around inside me. I don't think anyone can truly understand or fully describe that feeling. I am so thankful for this pregnancy and that I am lucky enough to get to be living out a childhood dream. I can remember when I was younger, always wanting to be a Mommy and the Lord has blessed me with fulfilling that dream.

We have reached the mark where our appointments are now 2 weeks apart and that really caused a tad bit of anxiety to set in, even though I am excited for that. I could never get tired of going in and hearing her heartbeat or getting to see her on a sonogram!! Speaking of which, we go back this Friday for another sonogram and I am so excited! We haven't had one since we determined the gender, so it seems to have been a very long time. And, since Preston is out of school, we're picking him up this Thursday evening so that he can go and see his little sister on the screen with us again. I don't know who's more excited, me or him!!

At the appt. 2 weeks ago I had to do the test for gestational diabetes, and even though I heard all kinds of horror stories about how bad the "stuff" is that they make you drink; I didn't think it was bad at all. Granted it was very, very sweet, but I was STARVING so I think anything they would've given me at that point would have been fantastic. I hadn't eaten since a fairly early dinner the night before and I don't do well skipping breakfast. I'm not really good for much in the mornings until I have something on my belly. While I'm in the waiting room, my darling husband went to "go get some coffee", which I was okay with because I knew I couldn't have any anyway... (I have cut out caffiene...) but came back with a diet coke and a pretty good sized bag of jalapeno cheddar ChexMix. I could have smacked him! For any of you that know me, know that pre-pregnancy... a cold, caffienated beverage was a staple in my breakfast regime!! Not to mention, the ChexMix smelled delicious!! It was all I could do not to go tattle to the lady at the front desk that there was some inconsiderate man in their waiting room eating and drinking even though there was a very noticable sign in there that said: "Please no eating or drinking in waiting room." I totally should have, but I didn't. I let him sit right there beside me the entire hour crunching and smacking away on that crap!!

Aside from all that, I haven't heard back from them regarding the results of the test so I'm hoping that no news is good news. I guess we shall find out on Friday...

Since we're playing catch up; I guess I should mention that a couple of weeks ago (May 26th) I ended up having to go into the hospital to be checked out. To make a long story short, I had started having back pain late one Friday night. It continued, with some mild abdominal cramping, through Saturday and Sunday but had seemed to have gotten (just a little) better by Monday. With much encouragement from my friends and family, I finally called my Dr. and described the pain to him and he suggested I come into L&D and let them just check to make sure I wasn't having contractions. Luckily, I wasn't having any and after only a few short hours they unhooked me and let us go home. We were both so thankful. Preston was born at 26 weeks and spent a few months in NICU, so Barry was hoping he wasn't about to have a deja vu, because I was only 27 weeks, 1 day!! I was thrilled there was nothing going on, too. I want, very badly, to see her little face but I will make myself wait! And, I sure do hope the bed in the delivery room is more comfortable than the one in the triage room, because that one was seriously like a brick! But, I did thoroughly enjoy getting to hear the princess's heart beating for a couple of hours straight! I could never get tired of that!


I think I'm going to have to add the rest of my thoughts to another posting... Ta Ta for now.

Already wrapped

So, lastnight and this morning, my husband started talking to his little girl. We laid down to go to sleep lastnight and he put his hand on my belly, leaned toward it and told her good night. This morning, he was still lying in bed and I was getting ready to leave for work... I walked over to kiss, hug him & tell him bye, and he lifted up the bottom of my top, kissed my belly and told the baby bye and that he loved her!! I know that he has a reputation for being a tough guy, and I know there are many, many people that would never believe any of this without seeing it, but it's true. I know how much Barry loves his son, and their special bond is undeniable. I just cannot wait to see, first hand, my tough guy with his precious little princess. She's not even here yet, and she has already begun to wrap him around her little finger.

(The picture attached above is one of the very few belly pics I have so far. It is from the MPD awards banquet.)

IT'S A GIRL!!

So, I have asked myself before, can my life get any better than it already is... Well I think as of last Friday, the 27th of March, it did!

We had our Dr. appt. where we knew they were going to do the sonogram and attempt to discover and tell us what the gender of our baby was. We were so anxious and excited for this day. We went and got Preston out of school early too, so that he could go with us. He'd not been able to go with us to any appts. yet and was very excited to get to go and hear the heartbeat. I'd babysat my niece the night before my last appt. and she ended up having to go to my appt. with me the next morning and she got to hear the heartbeat. Preston was a little upset that she got to go and hear it before he did, so needless to say, he didn't mind missing the 2nd half of his day of school!

So when we got there, I checked in and they called us back right away. I was anxious, as were my boys...especially Preston, not knowing exactly what to expect. We went back to the sono room and got ready. By the time she turned the lights off my heart was pounding. I can't explain the feeling. I wasn't nervous. I wasn't worried about any bad news. I really just can't explain it. I knew that what we were about to hear, as a family, would change us forever. I was so excited to see the baby on the screen again and just kept looking at Preston's face to see what his expressions were as she pointed out to him what everything was. She pointed out things that she'd already pointed out to Barry and I, just for Preston...so that he would have an idea of what he was looking at. It was the longest time I'd ever spent in that room, because the baby was so active and moving around that it was hard to get a good look sometimes. The baby must've known that her Big Brother was there to see for the first time! As she's explaining what everything is, she looks at her chart and says, "I see y'all would like to know the gender of the baby?" and Barry and I both said yes. So as she is moving around trying to get "the picture" she explains to us that she does not give anyone the sex of the baby if she is not (her words) "100%, take it to the bank, go ahead and start shopping certain". So just a few seconds after that, she snaps one shot and holds it to the side of the screen, moved around a little more and snaps a second picture, takes the thing off my belly, turns so that Barry, Preston and I can all see her face and she says "Well, y'all are definitely going to welcome a little GIRL to the family." I don't remember much that was said after that... I immediately started crying. I haven't cried at any of my appts so far, but this was uncontrollable. I was elated and I cannot explain the extent...

Many of my family members have said that if we did end up having a girl it would totally ruin Barry's reputation. Because of that, and so that I do not spark the beginning of a disintegration of his manly, tough guy reputation I can neither confirm nor deny that I was the only one crying in the room upon the announcement that Baby Eaves is a Baby GIRL!! We both, of course, just wanted to hear that our baby was healthy. The next best thing to hearing that was hearing that our "it" is actually a little girl!!

After leaving the hospital, we all three (or four) went and celebrated the news with an ice cream date! It was truly a blessed day! Having not only my husband, but 'THE BIG BROTHER' there too, will always be a memory I will cherish and I hope they do too. I know I will never forget it.

And I'm not sure exactly when I'll come down off this cloud...



(I attached a picture of my very first purchase...the cutest thing I have ever spent $6 on!!)

So confused

Today is a pretty nasty day outside, and I honestly have to say my mood is comparable.

I am baffled today as to why some people refuse to see that the world does not fully revolve around them. Literally, totally, completely and utterly confused... How some people just can't function unless there is trouble or drama. The ones that can't let go of rediculously old grudges and let them ruin relationships. Actually dissolve realtionships! No regard for the ones around them, no regard for the people that their actions or inactions affect... I wasn't raised to be that way and I just can't fathom why some of the very people that taught me that think they don't have to abide by those same values.

I am truly at a loss for words and that's uncommon for me...