Such a rarity, two posts within a month of each other! Woke up at 4am and haven't been able to get comfy again so here we are! I promised some people I'd update the blog with some pics of the nursery.

So some big news came yesterday. We had our anatomy scan, which is an ultrasound where they measure the baby and my cervix and check where my placenta lies. From what I understand, the baby is measuring pretty average, no concerns. The coolest thing was seeing the spine and the ribs, they were moving around cause the baby was moving and it was really clear what we were looking at. I asked the tech before hand if she was able to if she could check the gender and tell us. Well, it was like every Christmas of my entire life (past/present/future) when she said it looked like a girl! I cried a little, Chris looked somewhat emotional and that was that. The tech did say that there is always the chance that it could be a boy so we are preparing a back up boys name and already have some pretty cute gender neutral onesies so I think we will be ready for anything. Now comes the exciting part of picking a name!

I am up at the ungodly hour of 4am due to all the kicking going on in my abdomen. I swear it feels like there are 2 or more babies in there with the way she moves around all the time. Like, pummeling me from the inside! I used to be so excited to finally feel her move, and now that she does it all the time its like geez kid, could you take a break for a minute?

As a celebration, Chris and I went to "dinner and a movie" lol more like Wendy's and cheap night Tuesday movie. It was nice though, I enjoyed the food (mmmm, frosty) and the movie was alright. Chris had a good time too, and it was nice to spend time together. I feel like every chance we get we should be doing something like this, just taking a break from being at home with the dogs because soon we won't have this many chances.

Speaking of dogs, they are all being so good lately! After the initial night or two of them begging to be in the bed with us, now they no longer cry they just get into beds. I figured out Paul was getting cold so I tuck him in at night and in the morning he is still in there. I sometimes even find him tucked in after Chris goes to work, he pulls his blankets on himself! Its a big relief and doesn't make my emotions go nuts to hear them cry all night cause the whine sounds like "mama, why did you leave me on the cold floor" plus sad puppy dog eyes? Yeah. Its hard to say no to that.

In terms of the nursery, things are coming along awesome-ly, if that is even a word. We have most of the furniture in there, and I've had the chance to paint the new stuff we added recently. Chris brought a book case home that he made many years ago, and I painted it. Then I painted the glider I bought, and bought some new material to cover it because I'm a bit of a germaphobe plus the previous owners had got it quite dirty, the seat cushion is really gross. So now we have some nice soothing yellow with owls printed on it all cut out and ready to go! I don't think I have pics of the fabric but I love it. Chris and his dad are going to prime and paint the walls, and then hopefully sometime in the next few weeks we will have the crib to put in there and it will all be more or less "move in ready" for our lil girl.

I made a joke to Chris the other night about how the baby sure is moving up in terms of space and decor and he asked me to elaborate. Well, my uterus is not very big, even with it growing etc with the baby in there its still relatively small. To go from my small uterus to a big room all by herself almost overnight, it would be like me falling asleep in our bed (I wish) and waking up in a mansion. If only it worked that way!

Anyways, I am finally starting to feel sleepy again so here are some pics. Enjoy!