I have been more busy in these past few weeks than I think I ever have before in my life! Still enjoying life and trying to not over do it (although I’m not sure I know what that means exactly), but hoping this little girl is not feeling my stress in there. Lots of exciting things are happening though.

Most exciting and at the top of the list is that we had a sonogram to check baby’s position. She was head down and I now know that the large lump on my right side near my belly button that keeps poking out is her little booty. She is constantly sticking that thing out. We are so happy to know she is in a good position. Of course she can still move, but I feel good that because she is there now she’ll know how to be there again when the time comes for her to grace us with her presence. We tried to see her face, but yet again she was covering it. Only this time she was using both hands and an arm to hide her face. Seriously girlfriend? No peeks? I didn’t even care though because I was practically crying knowing that she was head down. They are estimating that she was 3 lbs. 11 ounces (this was now 2 weeks ago), her heart rate was 122 and she was showing to be in 49% for growth, so just right at average. As much as my family (and myself included) is convinced I am going to have a HUGE baby I would just like to say no monster size baby in here yet! I was a 10 lb. baby and Trey was just under 10 lbs. so we shall see…

My wonderful friends, Erika, Lauren, Liz & Roxie, who I love so so much, threw me such a cute baby shower. So many family and friends came to celebrate and we feel so lucky to be loved so much! Guests brought books instead of cards so we have started a nice library for baby girl. I can’t wait to start reading with her! And we took home quite a haul of some great stuff for bath time, bedtime, many outfit changes and more.

I am starting to feel the imminent deadline at work as I try to get things SUPER organized and all lined out for when I am out. Luckily I have the best staff in the world so I know that whatever I look over or do not get wonderfully organized before January they will be more than capable of taking care of. We are also getting much further along regarding our studio building. It finally looks like we really will be breaking ground in January and most of the paperwork, meetings and planning is largely done now. That is also feeling more real and exciting, I just can’t believe its all happening at once.

Other things that have happened these past few weeks
– breast feeding class (I feel better about it and more overwhelmed about it all at the same time)
– birthing class- I am actually feeling very confident about this and not scared at all… yet!
– met with a Doula- we are not sure yet if we are going to use one. I loved her and we are just so torn on whether or not we should have one with us
– the Nursery is almost TOTALLY done- I can’t wait to post pictures of it. I have worked so hard on this room and am pretty proud of it- lots of help from the hubby & my mom has definitely helped
– shopping spree! I bought just about everything else we didnt get from our showers and I feel like we are pretty set
– regarding the emotional roller coaster- there were a few days that both Trey & I agreed I was much more irritable than my normal self, then it passed. Some days I just feel stressed, some days I am so happy and feel like I am on Cloud 9 and then the past day or 2 the tears have been much easier to come by (including a dramatic breakdown because I spilled my entire plate of bunless burgers before I even got to eat- all over the white rug).

Regardless of what is going on I really am loving this journey. Only a few more posts to go and then we will get to meet this little girl, see what she looks like, see what her name is going to be and start that whole new world.