Welcome to the third trimester

We are now at 28 weeks Margaux and I.

28 weeks

*side note- I seriously need to get my point and shoot camera fixed!

Her room is coming together really well. In fact, if I'm ever able to get through the mess that is still lingering from the hardwood floor job to my sewing machine, I can get some of the final touches in place. It is taking me forever to get all that put back, because I'm weeding through and saying goodbye to a lot of things in the process.

We had a check up last week and we are doing well, Margaux and I. I warned my doctor that Margaux would probably kick her little heart rate monitor when she pushed on my belly with it. She did. She has gotten where she will nudge back if you push on my belly. If she's awake that is.

My sugar test was a little high, so this Thursday I go for the glucose tolerance test. I'm not thrilled about it, but my doctor thinks it will more than likely come back negative for gestational diabetes. My sugar level was only slightly past the cut off.

This past weekend I got out all the little outfits we've bought and that have been handed down. Girl is totally set with clothes. She has a few newborn outfits and lots of 0-3 and 3-6 month onesies. And many people have told me that pants aren't really necessary for summer babies. Just on the occasional chilly evening. But she does have pants. She also has about a dozen sleep sacks. . Like I said, she's got a lot. Of course I've bought a few things, because they were just too cute to leave without. And a friend who has two daughters, one with a July birthday and one that will be a year old in June, totally hooked us up (and I really appreciate it).

6-9 mth winter clothes ready to space bag

Matt is about to burst with anticipation. He is currently reading "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" to Margaux at bedtime so she can get familiar with his voice. He's really sweet. My mother gave me a large book with the whole collection of stories and the wonderful illustrations. Time really is moving right along. It won't be just Matt and I for much longer.

It's hard not to catch

Margaux fever is spreading around our house as well as our friends and family. It's hard not to come down with a case of it. My best friend from High School has it and blessed us with a box of the cutest things EVER! Here are some of the cute little things that her and her Husband picked out for our little girl.

Thank you Monica and Jay! She's going to look so cute in all of it!

developments

Well, I'm now a little over 26 weeks pregnant and we have less than 100 days until baby Margaux's due date. As you can see the belly is getting bigger and bigger by the day now. When I lay down I can see my belly jump when she punches or kicks and I can also see it protrude and morph shape as she presses against it from the inside. The second picture is taken on the same day, but after I got dressed for work. I thought it would be good to have one with my face in the picture. Its funny how different outfits make the belly look different.
You can also tell we have started working on her room. I love it. very clean and calm. we have a hodgepodge of furniture and none of it matches, but I don't care at all. A friend gave me the crib and I love it. I also have the dresser from my room when I was little, a dresser that is being changed into a changing table, and a cabinet that is being modified into an armoire type thing. I'll post pictures when I'm closer to being finished. But I've made a promise to myself that I'm not going to start on any more baby projects till I get the house back in order from the hardwood floor project. Otherwise, I'll start 10 new projects and not have one done.

I registered for baby stuff last week. I wasn't sure I was even going to register for anything, but people told me I should. Most of my friends know more about what items are good to have than I do. So I mostly registered for necessities, diapers, bottles, pacifiers and nursing related items. Oh, and some extra crib sheets (I've been told you'll want extras) but some how I managed to scan a pot holder while I was looking for a friends wedding gift on the same trip. Funny, I kept trying to purposely scan desitin and saline, but it wouldn't let me. Now target won't let me sign on online and take it off. So if anyone looks up my registry, sorry about the random pot holder. I'm sure its beautiful and great, I have no idea what it looks like.

No more nasty carpet

Thanks to the hard work of my family we now have hardwood floors in our house. Nice, clean, new hardwood. No more smelly, nasty, dingy carpet.

My Dad is one of the hardest working people I've ever met in my life. I'm serious... the man is an insane machine. He takes few brakes and pounds away. He is amazing. With his guidance, Matt, my mom, my father-in-law and even I (yes, I handed wood and ran the saw, even though my mother kept griping at me for even bending/squatting down. In my mind, if I ever quit, I won't be able to do it anymore.) We were able to put down a little under 700 sq foot of bamboo hardwood flooring in our house and it looks wonderful. It looks so good, Matt and I don't want to put our crap back in there.

We did run into issues. We were surprised to find that our subflooring had rotted to the point it was unsafe and had to be replaced. In fact, my parents dachshund fell through it once it was exposed from under the carpet. The actual support beams under one of the doors had even rotted out. But all got fixed and looks great.
*side note- if you buy a door from a salvage place, check it over really well. We saved over $100.00 on the new door, but the handle was cut out in the wrong place, and now I'm worried about leprechauns having too easy of an access point to our house:)

I realized after we got started I had not taken any before shots of the project, but here is our TV room before and after.

Before

After

Making Margaux

So I'm now at 24 weeks and things have still been going well.

I've been going to ultrasounds really often, because she is curled up in a funny position. The doctors have been having trouble seeing some of the things they wanted to see. Mainly her spine. They could see the top, where it meets up with her head. And they could see the bottom where it became her tailbone. But there was a little section in between that was eluding the machines. They kept thinking the bigger she got she would move around more and they could see. Well, no. apparently baby Margaux is quite happy right where she sits, which is breech. It's her happy spot. She doesn't move much from it. She kicks and punches around (mostly in the wee hours of the morning), but she stays pretty much put. The doctors told me that she has plenty of time to turn into the right position. She's also a sleepy head, she yawns a lot in the many ultrasounds we've had. She's even sucked on her little arm.

Here's her little profile

and this is the bottom of her large foot and the top of her head.

See what I mean about being folded up like a taco. And she definitely has my foot and toes!

Well today should be the last ultrasound for a while. I went to a special doctor and they could see her spine pretty well. All looked good, as well as everything else they saw. She weighs 1 lb 9 oz and her legs are a little longer than they should be (like mom and dad). The doctor's office about gave me a heart attack though. They said everything looked great as I left. No need to come back. Well I grab some lunch, get to the office, eat and then see that I have a missed call. I check the voicemail. They scheduled me a follow up ultrasound next week. What? Another one? I got a little worried. I had been told everything was fine. I run to court come back. They had called and left another message that my next appointment would be the following week after that. WHAT. IS. GOING. ON?!?! So I called immediately, a bit freaked out. Explaining nicely, to the nice lady, the doctor had told me everything is fine. Did I miss something? After waiting on hold for a bit, the nice lady was very apologetic that there had been a mix up and everything was fine and that I did not need to come back. She had spoken to the doctor and everything was fine. My heart rate returned to normal, but I do hope that my regular doctor gets MY information. The lady in front of me was pretty upset and apparently had some complications. I really hope that my doctor doesn't get someone else's info thinking it's mine.

Sew cute

Here are some of the little projects I've finished for Baby Margaux

This is the quilt for her crib. The one it was going to cost me $78 to have quilted at a shop, so I decided to hand quilt it till I buy an attachment for my sewing machine.
I purchased a bumper and crib skirt from target that is dark brown with white polka dots to go with. And my Mother is making back and seat pillows for the wooden rocking chair out of the same material as the quilt.

It's not really fancy or intricate. I should have broken up the center instead of leaving it all one piece, but I'm happy with it. Here is an up close of the farm animals and polka dots.

Here is Margaux's first onesie applique that I've made for her.


And for Momma, a necklace from anthropology that I saw a tutorial on how to replicate. I have a few girls night groups that I thought this might be a fun project for, but I wanted to test run it.

Here's mine. I placed my flowers too close together so it looks like one big ruffle. I get a flash back to the Seinfeld pirate shirt episode. And I'm not real happy with how it hangs but I'm going to try some things to get it to hold its shape better.

If all else fails, I've decided I'm going to use it as a headband. So I'll get to use it some how.

Here's another idea from Ann Taylor Loft I could do. They attached them straight to the tank top. I could dress up some cheap Maternity tanks maybe.

22 down, 18 more weeks to go

22 weeks

Well, Matt and I picked out a car seat this weekend. Geesh! I cannot get over how many different types there are. Car seats, strollers, and travel systems OH MY! We ultimately made our decision on the amount of space they took up. We found a combo system (that the stroller had to be bought separately) that folds small like an umbrella stroller. Awesome! Seeing that both of our cars are small, and the jeep doesn't have the biggest storage in the back. It's neutral colors, so it will work if we are blessed with a male heir one day and it has great safety ratings.

We also went on a flooring excursion. We've made our decision and will be buying it pretty soon (its on sale for a week). We are putting down actual bamboo hardwood this time instead of laminate flooring. I'm pleased with the laminate we did last summer, don't get me wrong. But I'm glad we are investing a little bit more and getting actual hardwood. The laminate was a PAIN IN THE NECK to put down, and it sounds funny like its hollow when you walk on it. But dang was it cheap! So we will be able to begin that project soon. I'm pretty excited that Margaux will have a nice clean floor to crawl around on. No more stained (dip spit, coffee, and various others), burned (for real, it's burned in one spot), cigarette smoked, and pet hair (dang cats) carpet.

Other recent things. I man let me get in front of him at the grocery because I was "carrying around an extra". He also said I was gorgeous and glowing. I thanked him, but I didn't tell him that the "glowing" he was probably talking about was the constant rash/blotches due to the extremely sensitive skin I have been plagued with since becoming pregnant. Probably TMI. The cat laid on my belly Saturday morning and started vibrating and purring. In response, Margaux started wiggling around like crazy. I'm not sure if she liked it or hated it, but it was funny. Speaking of movement, Matt can feel it now. She was thumping around pretty hard at the top of my belly the other day. And lastly, we have been given so many ADORABLE hand-me-downs for her, and I'm super pumped about all the cute goodies. I even came across a dress that my Great Grandmother (Clara Belle), that Margaux is getting her middle name from (Claire), made. She is so getting a picture in that dress.