Calling all moms (and grandmoms)....

[catnapper]

Today's uppydate

We bought some paint for the nursery today. I have no idea what the bedding and such will be -- especially since we don't know if its a boy or girl -- but its a pretty robin's egg blue that if its a girl will have pink & purple flowers painted on top, if its a blue, all the trim and such will be painted blue with whatever design we decide on. Hubby is DETERMINED she'll keep the baby in her room with her... I am DETERMINED the baby needs a nursery all their own. So guess who's going to be painintg a nursery while someone else is at work? Once its done, what can he say?

As for knowing whether its a boy or girl? We will not know until it comes screaming into the world. We apparently missed the window by a week or so. The baby is now too big and scrunched up. Right now, the names she's thinking of are some real winners and I told her to get a little more traditional because everything she's picking out is REALLY trendy and sounds as if a teenager named the baby (which is what she is) but you don't want to do that because he/she is going to have that name for life and she won't always BE a teenager.

[elizabethann]

oh...we should have a baby pool!!!

[Lobodeb]

oh...we should have a baby pool!!!

What's a baby pool?

[Christiansmommy]

What's a baby pool?

I think it's when you guess boy or girl.

[elizabethann]

I think it's when you guess boy or girl.

yep.

[Christiansmommy]

Today's uppydate

We bought some paint for the nursery today. I have no idea what the bedding and such will be -- especially since we don't know if its a boy or girl -- but its a pretty robin's egg blue that if its a girl will have pink & purple flowers painted on top, if its a blue, all the trim and such will be painted blue with whatever design we decide on. Hubby is DETERMINED she'll keep the baby in her room with her... I am DETERMINED the baby needs a nursery all their own. So guess who's going to be painintg a nursery while someone else is at work? Once its done, what can he say?

As for knowing whether its a boy or girl? We will not know until it comes screaming into the world. We apparently missed the window by a week or so. The baby is now too big and scrunched up. Right now, the names she's thinking of are some real winners and I told her to get a little more traditional because everything she's picking out is REALLY trendy and sounds as if a teenager named the baby (which is what she is) but you don't want to do that because he/she is going to have that name for life and she won't always BE a teenager.

Fun! I am in the same process. Jeremy's room is partly painted...Rob will have to do the rest, b/c I get too many Braxton Hicks Contractions and need to rest. HIs room is a baby blue on the bottem half of the walls, and has 2 inch pale yellow stripes painted over the blue...we will do a white chair rail and the top will remain white...our theme is pretty much pale blue, yellow and white w/stars. When it is finished I will post pics. We have a white crib and dresser,the valance is blue and white stars and the curtains are a pale yellow and white stripe. Can't wait for it to be done!!

Can't wait to hear names too!!

[Lobodeb]

We painted Hugito's room not knowing he was a boy. You may or may not know that we didn't want to know the gender before he was born, waited about 8 months, then a nurse slipped and told me when I was having an ultrasound.

His room is a seafoam green on the bottom, sky blue with clouds on top and a Winnie the Pooh border that separates the 2 colors in the middle.

[Karen]

There are many non-gender specific things you can buy anyway, and lots of colors that don't signify gender. And baby won't care if her walls are blue or his walls are pink!

Baby's gonna be a summer baby, and won't need a whole lot of clothes right away anyway, diaper, t-shirt and socks is even too much in some summer weather!

She will quickly learn who her real friends are. How did the appointment at school, and the prenatal appointment go?

[Laura's Babies]

Hasn't this all turned into the most exciting thing??? I am STILL so excited I could POP! I just wish the Mom to Be could catch some of our excitement and get on this bandwagon with us.. I bet she is in just such a state of shock and fear..

Kim, have you ((((HUGGED)))) her and told her how thrilled you are? Has her Dad? 13 weeks huh? WOW! Not much time to prepare.

I agree with whoever suggested to look into freecycle in your area. That seems to be a great orginazation and you could hit the big time on there if the time is just right and get a lot of what you need for free.. You can also post "in search of" on there too so get busy! http://freecycle.com/

[catnapper]

Ok, at the risk of her killing me here she is. You tell me this kid looks 26 weeks pregnant!
Here she is Sunday at my mom's house.


Honestly, in the near-week since then she HAS started showing more. Here's this morning when I told her she HAD to have photographic evidence of what she looked like when she found out. My neighbor told her she wished she did the same thing - but when she was pregnant she felt to self-conscious and now she'd kill to have pregnancy photos. Love my neighbor!

Sitting down saying "Oh my God! You are such a DORK!" when I was taking the photo


Standing forward, with the comments being downgraded to "I can't believe I'm playing along with this ".


Downgraded further to "lets get this over with"


I'd like to reiterate that in the past few days she's really started to pop. I would bet by this time next week she'll look every bit her almost-7-months-pregnant.