Here's what I do at night :)

What do I do at night? (or during my lunch when I am bored as in the video below)

I watch my belly

It is hard to catch this stuff on tape- but if you watch you can see baby M rolling around.

I have the camera and am looking down towards my belly- so the view is from above (what I see when I look down). The camera is not moving and nor am I- I am sitting on a chair and you can see my desk in the background is stationary- so any movement you see is just the rumble and tumble of Little Lester :)
Enjoy!

Sneak Peak! Maternity Pictures

SQUEAL! I am so excited to see the rest :)

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BEST SHOWER EVER!

This is part 1 of 2 shower updates. I am awaiting pictures that are being sent to me- and I cannot rave enough about the shower so will do it again when I have pics to post.

Thank you thank you thank you to my mother and sister for throwing the shower. The two of them went above and beyond. I love you two so much!
Mom- you were way too generous. Between booking the restaurant, the carseat, the bassinet, the high chair, the pottery barn bag and baskets, the crib mobile, the magazine subscriptions, and all the work that went into it- you did too much!
Ali- the pack and play, centerpieces, baby pool, stuffed animals, clothesline of outfits, diaper cake and all the hard work you put into it- it was above and beyond.
I am probably forgetting a lot, but there is so much the two of you did that it is hard to remember.

I could not possibly have asked for a better shower- so I want to be sure I declare that in internet world- it was THE BEST. My family and friends were so generous. Lester is a lucky little baby already. It amazes me that we received all of our major items. I listed out some gifts above, my MIL bought us the gorgeous Dutailier glider/ottoman, friends pitched in and were so generous with group gifts including the bouncer, activity mat, ergo carrier, and more. Plus we got adorable other stuff like a rocking dragon and fun bath towels.

Some pictures I took at home to hold you over until I get shower pics

the adorable centerpieces my sister designed, and mom and sis put together- SOOOO CUTE




The diaper cake made by Ali- it had a lot of fun stuff. The bottom is rolled up outfits, washcloths, and prefold colorful diapers to use as burp cloths. There are all sorts of goodies tucked all around it...



Have you ever seen cuter stuffed animals? You should feel them- you would die. We saw them in NYC over xmas and my sis remembered i fell in love with them.

I could not resist putting a pic of the baby pool up- it even has graphics on it from the thank you notes I ordered

The gorgeous, huge, bag from pottery barn my mom bought to use as the wishing well- she put a lot of goodies in it too! ( along with some adorable chair and rocker we received from friends of my MIL)


One of many piles of goodies we received- this is not even close to all we got! (we are so fortunate)

The most adorable towel/washcloth set ever (thanks mom). The washcloth is actually a hand puppet too!


and the favors- so cute, yummy chocolate on top of a notepad, on top of cute printed tissue. The little carriages were set up on the tables and filled with mints


The weekend was exhausting for all- this is what Sunday looked like at our house :)

Nursery Progress!

our furniture is here!!!

I am so excited- I am going to show you before and after pictures of the nursery. In it's prior life, this room was officially called "the office", yet it served the purpose of office/library/my walk in closet. A year ago we had the house painted and the room was painted a cheerful blue called cloudless. I still stand by that decision- i LOVE blue whether we have a boy or a girl. It may seem 'boy' now, but once it is decorated, the blue will look great with whichever bedding we go with and I am not at all worried about having a girl in a blue room. (can you tell I am getting some slack from people about this).

So- the before (and this is pre painting even, so the room did look better than this for a bit, but really it was never decorated as an official room)

view from hall into doorway



Step through doorway, and turned right to face closet


Standing in front of closet, facing opposite wall (door would be directly across from windows)


and for kicks- the smaller one of the two bookshelves in the room (no joke that I had a lot of books to get rid of)



Nursery AFTER
- it will basically stay this way until we get bedding. The only thing not delivered yet is the glider. My thoughts are once the glider arrives, I may switch the locations of the changing table and bookshelf. Then the bookshelf will be right when you walk into the room- and we can put the glider/ottoman in that corner in front of the big windows. I don't think there is enough room to have the glider to the right of the crib- then the ottoman would be blocking the closet, and it would be kind of nice to have the glider in front of the windows.
I have to see how it looks once everything is there though. What do you think??

View from doorway (first pic standing in hall, second stepped just inside the door and angled)





View from standing by closet (envision in this picture having the glider in that corner on the right, with the bookshelf next to it in liu of the changing table)




View from corner by windows (there is a good 2 feet or so to the right of the hutch/dresser so imagine sliding that over, and putting the changing table to the left where the bookshelf is)

3d Ultrasound!!!

First- here is our kid looking straight at us in 2D- kind of looks like an alien!



And now for the fun pictures. The baby is basically folded in half. The limbs you see right in front of his or her face are actually its legs- the feet are about level with the forehead, and in some shots you can even make out toes.




toes below :)




A couple of yawns- so cute :)






And a few more shots- looks like the kid's got chubby cheeks and Eric's nose !