Baby Stuff!

The last month or so has been filled with tons of baby prep! It's exciting and scary all at the same time. I've known everything I wanted for the baby for a while now, and the buying of it all was officially given the go ahead when our new carpet was finally put in.

It took the guys forever to do it and I am going to gripe about it a little. The buying of it took several hours in the store even though we had an estimate and everything already done when we got there, the install date got pushed back, the carpet got in late, and when the guys came to finally do it they were late and took forever! All day. It looks good, and is a 100% improvement over the nasty stuff that was here before, so I am very happy with the end result. And now the baby room actually has more than a subfloor.

Corey with the shelves and dresser and newly carpeted floor!

We have most of the big stuff ordered now, except we are still debating the need for a glider. We are waiting on the crib to get shipped since it got lost on the first try. For some reason the processing of the order is taking a lot longer than the first time, so it is still not even close to shipped. :( They say between the 1st and 7th of July is should be here. Very excited to get it and get it put together!

 As soon as the crib gets here I am going to put in a major decorating effort! We already did the not so fun prep like the painting and replacing the fan blades and stuff, so all that is left is the girly decorating part that Corey wants no part in haha.

Last Saturday I went to a cool event for military moms to be called the Boots and Booties Baby Shower. It was hosted by the city and they had tons of raffles and cool things they did for 1000 expecting moms from Fort Bragg. Of course, I didn't win anything lol, but someone even won a car. I got to eat all the food and treats though and meet other preggo ladies, it was pretty fun and an awesome thing for the city to do.

a picture from the event

me at 31 weeks and 3 days right before I went to the boots and booties thing

While I was at this event Corey spent the second day in a row at the Toyota dealership. It took them three hours, maybe more, to do his 5k mile check up the day before. The truck had several recall notices, so we asked if they could check that stuff too. They said they couldn't, so we had to make another appointment for that. It took them over five hours. So frustrating because they literally have to look at a number on the part and compare it to the recalled numbers. We even had an appointment, both times.

Corey did some asking while he wasted his day off there, though, and decided to buy running boards. The guys at the dealership gave him advice on where to buy them cheapest and said he could install them no problem. So Corey is getting a present for his truck that I will appreciate. It's getting harder and harder to climb up into that thing! I am sure he will post a picture on facebook when they come in.

Here are some other pictures! (can you tell who is the most spoiled dog of them all??)

Mya trying out the swing my sister Elena & bro in law Mark got us.

Mya testing out the car seat

me at 30 weeks 2 days

Mya hanging out with Jocelyn. Best friends already!

Corey, being the awesome husband he is, bringing me pillows to make me a pillow castle on the couch!

Two weekends ago we paid for another elective ultrasound. We wanted to see how much she had changed since the last time we'd seen her at 19 weeks. She had her hands in her face the entire time, so no face shots, but I will never get tired of seeing her!

sucking her thumb, so cute she did it the whole time.

I had to change doctors, so at my first appointment on Monday they, to my surprise, did a growth ultrasound. (The Army doctors/hospital I was at before don't do this.) Again, so cool to see her! From her head, spine, femur etc measurements they say she is measuring two weeks ahead, in the 80th percentile. Pretty cool that they can do that even though I know they are often off with those measurements. 

I like the new doctor, I actually got to meet him!! On post you just get whoever is on call that day and there is a large number of them. This was the first time I actually saw an OB since I got preggo. The best part is that their office is like five minutes away from the house and the hospital we will deliver at is just as close. Much better than a thirty minute drive on post.

Since we didn't get to see her face in the ultrasound we paid for they let us come back yesterday for a free re-scan. This time the placenta was all in the way of her face, but we got something. At both ultrasounds I had this week the doctor and tech said that she has a ton of hair already! I think that's crazy and I can't wait to see if they are right. 

Corey says she has upgraded from skeletal alien to a zombie. 

zombie baby lol

I can't believe it's May already!

April Update!

April has been a pretty crazy month for us! We've had tornado season like crazy, as has much of the south if anyone has seen the news lately. Fayetteville and surrounding cities got hit pretty hard a couple weeks ago. I'm terrified every time we hear about a tornado watch or warning now just because I have seen the reality of the destruction it can cause, whereas before it was just a distant possibility. We live far enough out from the main city area that our home and neighborhood were safe, but many were not so fortunate. One thing that was nice to see after all this is the community getting together and helping each other out.

This was a Lowes after the tornado!

Corey and I spent a quiet Easter together. We made a nice dinner, colored some eggs, and ate candy (that part was probably just mostly me... we can pretend he helped me eat all the cadbury eggs) 

In anticipation of getting new carpet we have been trying to organize/ spring clean our closets and garage and things. We spent the last couple weekends cleaning! I had Corey rearrange our living room furniture, go through all our clothes and shoes and everything and make donation and trash piles. We had a Corey-truck-load of trash to take to the dump at the end of it, and I still have one more closet to go through! Everything looks way better. I should have taken before and after pictures just remind myself how bad we had let things get, haha. I felt like a hoarder at the end of it all. 

After the furniture move, we have our old couches piled on one another in our room. Corey, of course, thought it would be fun to crawl in them haha. We should probably move them to the garage or something. 

Mya has been very sick lately! I had to take her to the vet multiple times. At first I thought she had caught Bubba's kennel cough, but the vet said no, she had allergies. She also had a weird limp, and it turns out she has a bad knee that pops like crazy. Poor baby was so sick and limping.. it was so pathetic. When she wouldn't get better and she just got sicker and sicker I took her again and asked them do more testing. They ended up finding out that she had a really bad upper respiratory infection (I don't know how they couldn't tell just by listening to her struggle to breathe!). They put her on some stronger antibiotic and got her treatment started there for a while before letting her come home. She is much better now, I am happy to say, but still a little sick. I hate feeling helpless when any of the babies are sick.  

We had good weather the past two days so we wanted to get out of the house and go exercise. We tried to go hiking in a place we haven't been to yet, about an hour away. We took Bubba and loaded geocaches into our GPS and everything, and when we got there they were having a lame festival and had ruined our plans. They wouldn't let you park, you had to take a shuttle, and Bubba couldn't get on the shuttle that was across the freeway from the place, so we called it quits and went home. We were very disappointed. Maybe we will try again next weekend if it doesn't rain or tornado on us again. 

Baby Update: 

We have decided that her name will be Joslyn (I am pretty sure on the spelling, I asked most of our family members what they thought and I think I am persuaded on this spelling/very slight pronunciation difference over Jocelyn). I can feel her moving around sometimes now, which is a pretty weird sensation. Mostly flutters and every once a couple days something stronger. Hopefully Corey will be able to feel her soon! 

We still haven't bought much for the baby or started on the nursery besides having painted a couple months ago. We are waiting until our new carpet is installed before we buy furniture or anything, but I have a million ideas so hopefully within the next month I will have pictures of progress!

I don't know if anyone saw these on facebook, but they do this all the time haha. They are so cute
 Bubba is in Mya's bed. 

Mya is in Bubba's bed.