baby shower

Yesterday was the first baby shower for the little guy. Tim’s family hosted a beautiful shower at a lovely little winery called La Dolce Vida. The weather was beautiful, the food was delicious and the patio was decorated in  the cutest baby boy blue and dots.There were also some gorgeous flowers and cute candle centerpieces and the most delicious cake made and decorated by Tim’s mom.

Tim has a wonderful family and I always enjoy getting to see them all. With such a large family it seems like showers and weddings are the best time to catch up! It was especially nice that his sister, Dawn and Aunt Kathy who live out of town were able to make the trip. Everyone was also so generous in helping us get ready for baby Gau’s arrival and I can’t wait to get everything all set up in the nursery. Thank you so much!

Special thanks to the lovely hostesses, Brita, Mom, Dawn, Sandy and Missy for making our first baby shower so fun and memorable. I love you all.

more photos here

it’s back!

For all of you who have been wondering if our baby would be sleeping in a drawer come November, worry no more. The crib we really really wanted and have been watching online is finally available for purchase! I nearly spit out my drink when my daily perusal of the website came up with an “in stock, add to cart” button instead of “out of stock online.” So, now that I have my receipt in hand verifying my purchase, I thought I’d share the news with all of you. It will be delivered early to mid-September, which is plenty of time to have the nursery ready to go for the little man.

I’m sure there are a bunch of moms and dads-to-be out there who have been waiting like us, so I doubt it will stay in stock very long.

she’s crafty

After only 4 years of living in our house, I’ve finally found a home for all my art and craft supplies in one easily accessible location…the basement. I used to have quite a few supplies on shelves above my computer in the orange room, but countless other things were stashed away in bins and boxes in the attic and basement. So, the first step of the gauhaus room shuffle has been to pull everything out of storage and take over one half of the laundry dungeon, I mean room, and create a crafting space.

Its still a work in progress and not anything fancy, but it is just the space I’ve been needing to tackle all the ambitious baby projects I have in mind.

28 week update

This week the baby is about the size of a cabbage. He is almost 15 inches long and is starting to develop more fat. He also has eyelashes and can open his eyes, so he can start recognizing light from inside my tummy. In our childbirth class we heard that we can play a fun little game of shining a flashlight at my belly and see if he reacts to the light with a kick or a punch.

Also, at my appointment yesterday my doctor showed me how to feel for his head. Although I was a little apprehensive about squeezing on his little noggin, it was pretty fun to feel where he was. Currently he is positioned head down – just how we want him to be. However he still has a bunch of room for acrobatics, so we’ll just keep our fingers crossed that he stays that way and isn’t too inspired by all the gymnastics we’ve been watching lately.

Other than the sore throat that my husband so kindly passed on to me, I’ve been feeling great. My back pain hasn’t been to bad and I still have my 2nd trimester energy level. I’m also very excited for my upcoming shower this weekend given by Tim’s side of the family. It will be at a cute little winery near my sister-in-law’s house, and I can’t wait.

a little bittersweet

As I mentioned previously, we’ve started to switch around our rooms for the baby. So as not to forget all the work we put into our home as a newlywed couple, we took some shots of our two bedrooms in their current state for posterity.

The turquoise room was our bedroom and although the white furniture has been great, we feel we should graduate to something more adult. So we’re passing the furniture and the room on to the baby, with a new crib and rocker of course. The thing I think I’ll miss most is the quilt on the bed. The colors in our new room will be much more muted and a little less feminine, so I’ll be packing up the quilt and saving it for a time when we have more than two bedrooms.

The bright, and I mean bright, orange room is the guest bedroom and office. This room will become our bedroom, with a much more toned down and tranquil gray for the walls. I’ve always loved the way the orange walls go so well with the dark furniture, and the shelving above the computer desk is my favorite. Although the bright orange isn’t all too relaxing for sleep, it is quite energizing during late nights glued to the computer, plus we’ve never really had that many overnight guests anyway. Luckily our living room is almost the same color palette of this room in reverse. It has dark brown walls and orange accents, so at least all the orange I’ve collected will have a new place to live.

I have loved owning and decorating our first home and have spent a lot of time and care on each and every room. So, while I’m endlessly excited to redecorate, I still love the rooms for what they are and I am a little sad to see them go.

27 week update

This week the little man is about the size of a head of cauliflower and weighs about 2 pounds. If only that was all the weight I had managed to gain! It doesn’t make a girl feel good when her doctor says that her overall weight gain is fine, but she might not want to have another 7lb month. Oops! I guess all the chocolate and ice cream cravings are finally catching up. Too bad I don’t have cravings for cauliflower – ick.

I had a wonderful pregnancy for the first and second trimesters, and now that I’m heading into the third, I’m hopeful my good fortune will continue. However, I have noticed that a lot of things aren’t as easy as they have been before, such as bending over. Tim has been sweet about it and will happily pick things up that require awkward movements and groans for me to accomplish on my own, but I still haven’t convinced him to paint my toenails or tie my shoes – the nerve. I guess I’ll just have to treat myself to pedicure and spend the rest of the summer in flip flops.

We have our last childbirth preparation class tomorrow night, which has been wonderful. Judging by his lack of interest in reading any baby books, I wasn’t sure if Tim would take much interest in the class, but he surprised me and has been soaking it all in. I am so lucky to have such a caring and compassionate husband and I know he will be wonderful in the delivery room.

That’s all for now. I plan to have a new belly photo up on Flickr in the next few days.