Welcome March 1st!

We are welcoming March 1st with open arms, for this is a BIG month for us. Not only do we find out the sex of our baby, but Ash is also done with his prerequisite classes for nursing! A good month indeed!!

We've been rooting around some antique stores lately and have found a few fun items. Both are practical pieces that will allow us to store goodies away so we don't have to see them out all the time.  Mostly I'm just talkin baby stuff.  Take a look...

We bought a crib on Sunday.  No pics to share yet because it's broken down and stored away but we really like it. It's got a slightly older style to it, I think, and looks like it's going to do the job just fine.  It's very simple and sturdy.  The sides don't move up and down and it doesn't covert into a million baby bed styles.

We also think we have figured out what to do with our second room, the "baby's room."  It will take some rearranging but ultimately should work very nicely.  My friend Ellie is graciously sending me an exquisite, detailed, beautiful stencil of a peacock that she handmade.  It absolutely blows my socks off!  I'm hoping to stencil it on the wall of this room, maybe in a color slightly off from the wall color already, a darkish grey.

Things appear to be progressing well.  Here is a picture of my 16 week belly.  It's always kind of hard to tell, but I think it's coming along?? ;)  I read that the next few weeks call for a growth spurt. I'm up 5lbs. Baby is approximately 4 1/2 inches long, weighs 2 1/2 oz. and it's heart is pumping around 25 quarts of blood per day.  Supposedly I might feel my first flutters of the baby's movement between now and 20 weeks.  I'll keep my radar on full alert for that!  Bye for now.