32 weeks

(No new size update till next week, sorry! Apparently she's still squash-sized.)

I think we just passed another milestone - according to my friend Ryan, babies born after 32 weeks are very unlikely to have any sort of lasting impairments from being premature. Yay!

Also, I double-checked the statistics: 90% of babies are born within 2 weeks of their due date (in either direction). That means we have a 90% likelihood of meeting Baby in just 6 to 10 weeks!  All of the sudden things are starting to feel more real!

Decal fail

Remember the super cute wall decals that I put up behind the crib yesterday? Well apparently they decided en masse to defect to the floor. The migration is already in progress. Sigh.

Any other ideas for ways to safely decorate the nursery? Apparently hanging pictures/frames or curtains/quilts is a no-go since she might yank them down and clobber/suffocate herself with them. Ideas?

the nursery!

We made a lot of progress this weekend in getting Baby's room ready for her! We still have a little work left to do, but at least she'd have a pretty complete place to call her own if she (heaven forbid) were to arrive tomorrow.

Huge thanks for my mom and dad for the crib, Mike's mom and stepdad for the crib mattress, Mike's dad and stepmom for the glider, and my former practicum supervisor for the changing table!

And I also just wanted to show off the fun time I had organizing things into baskets! :)

Diapers and toys in the changing table:

Clothes in the closet:

We're getting closer and closer to being ready for Baby's arrival!

maternity photos (my favorites!)

I'm usually much more comfortable behind the lens than in front of it, but Mike and I had a great time taking our "belly pictures" today. He turned out to be quite the photographer, if I do say so myself!

Here are my favorites (in no particular order):

 

maternity photos (outtakes)

I decided a couple months ago that I wanted to have some photos taken while I'm pregnant, just to commemorate this whole experience. But after we started looking into the pricing for professional photos ($200 per hour, plus mandatory print packages starting at $300?!) we quickly decided to just do it ourselves. Mike did a little cramming online (mostly from this site), then today was the day! I'm still sorting through all the pictures and editing the ones I like, so here's a few outtakes in the meantime!

This next one is definitely not flattering!  So much for that photo idea!

Here I am, attempting to get up off the floor and pretty much just failing miserably.

Lucy was quite "helpful" during the whole process.

After we finished our "photo shoot," I got to work on the pot roast that we have planned for dinner (thanks to my awesome new menu board!). Mike thought it was hilarious that I was...

...barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. :)

Stay tuned for more pictures!

To do

We're making progress on our never-ending baby to-do list!

Baby shower

We had a wonderful baby shower on Saturday with lots of extended family! I'll post more details later (I'm reverting back to my 7pm bedtime of the first trimester again), but for now I thought I'd post this photo of me and Mike with our own baby photos. Any guesses who Baby will look like? :)