All dressed up and nowhere to go....

So, Justin told me earlier this week to mark my calendar because it was "Open House" at Daniel's school. lol, for some reason the idea of going to an "Open House" makes me really feel like a Mommy....silly, I know!

We were running late, but we got all dressed up, packed the car and rushed down to school....but the parking lot was empty. There wasn't a sign of life around at all.

I called Miss Barb to ask if I had missed it. Guess what folks...it's next week!

So, I thought I would share some pics of Daniel because he was so stinkin' cute in his little outfit! (Oh yeah, and I had to document the insanely hilarious way his hair is looking these days......crazy but absolutely adorable at the same time!)

See you next weekend Miss Barb! :)

Additional Storage!!!!!

What do you do when you have to convert the office of your dream cottage into a nursery and therefore give away your desk and only organized filing system?????

You have to be sneaky and look for storage/filing options in unusual places, like empty corners, under beds, unsuspecting pieces of furniture....

Here are some of the ideas that kept spinning in circles in my head:

Should we buy a cute little 2 drawer filing cabinet similar to the ones at Pottery Barn? No, it would look out of place if it wasn't displayed in a office.

Hmmmmm...should we buy a cheap filing cabinet and put it/hide it in a closet? And take up some of our very valuable, practically non-existant closet space?! No way!

Ugh! Who wants to keep paper anyway?! Let's just throw it all out! Now Katie, don't be silly! You can think of something!

{Insert "Ah ha moment" inflection here}

Hey! Wait a minute!!!!! What about the cedar chest that Julie gave us?! *PERFECT*

Here is a picture of the cedar chest (and Ollie the helping cat) before we added our filing system:We are using this cedar chest as a coffee table so DVDs and other tv related things were being stored in it. All of those things have found a new home in a piece of furniture that my husband lovingly refurbished for the baby's room.....but we couldn't get it around the corner and into the nursery...oops! maybe we should have thought of that before all the hard work went into re-doing it!

Anyways, here's what the inside of the chest and our sweet little Mango look like now:

We have our current documents filed on the left side, papers to shred (separated by the year to shred them) on the right, and miscellaneous office supplies in the middle!

LOL, now the hard part is staying this organized!!!!! HA!

Have a Happy Saturday!

The Nursery Reveal!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen.....I would like to share "after" pics of Daniel's nursery!!! If you would like to see the "before" pics, click here. And here is the design that we had in mind.

Anyways, here it is...and we think he loves it!

Justin had just finished constructing the bookcase and we had our neighbors and friends over to see it about an hour before I said, "Justin, I think my water just broke" as I just sat down to eat my ice cream and chicken nuggets. LOL, I guess we finished with the nursery just in time!!!

Happy Shark Week!!!!

Hello!

It's been quite a while since I have last posted, and an awful lot has been happening! I will catch y'all up over the next few weeks. I am hoping that I will be able to carve out some time to blog, but it's just so hard to put little Daniel Austin down since I don't get to hold him all day, so I am not making any promises!


First of all, our little blueberry was born on May 2, 2010!!!! He was 7 pounds/7 ounces, 19 inches long and sweet as can be! We are absolutely smitten with our little man!

Here is our little stinker today (notice the sharks on his outfit):

Happy Shark Week!!!

Weekly Survey!

Happy 31st Week Birthday Little/Big Blueberry!

How far along: 31 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: 1 pound since last week

Maternity clothes: yes

Sleep: Yes, please!

Best moment of this week: Pulling up to our house and seeing the landscaping crew putting our plants in!

Food cravings: Chicken in any form gets my attention these days! Chicken sandwiches, chicken tenders, chicken nuggets, pan seared garlic chicken, chicken parmesan...I feel like I sound like Bubba Gump!

Gender: Boy!

Labor signs: Not yet!

Belly button in or out: Still in...

What I miss: Roast beef subs from Sharkeys and Domenicks

What I look forward to: Our yard sale on Saturday followed by the Sowinski family shower in Orlando....I have my wristbands in my purse already; I don't plan on getting carsick before the shower!!!!

Baby Classes!

Good morning, Everyone!

It's about 45 degrees right now....according to the weather man, 60's should be about the norm this time of year! Oh well! I have given up wishing the cold weather away because it seems that I am wasting my time and energy. The longer the cold sticks around, the less I want my mittens and scarf to brave the temps that earlier in the season would have been "unbearable".

Anyways, I have exciting news! Justin and I attended our first baby class last night! This is the first of three Caring Baby/Carseat Classes that we will be attending. Then we will go to one Breastfeeding Class, and then three Childbirth Classes....whew! Justin is taking one class at church and two school classes at the same time, but he is such a sport and keeps on trucking although his days start around 6 and it's well after 8 before he gets any down-time.

Last night we learned about all kinds of "stuff". Like how baby boys pee on you when you change their diapers, how to properly wipe a baby when you change his diaper, how to treat the belly button before it falls off, and how to interact with the baby.

Thankfully the baby interaction part seemed very natural and it felt good to know that even if we hadn't decided to get more prepared by taking these classes that Daniel Austin wouldn't have ended up with some disorder because his Mommy and Daddy didn't know how to be nurturing and caring.

The part that did not seem natural, and made me cringe, was the belly button. I can comfortably say that the whole belly button turning black and falling off grosses me out more than labor and delivery. There is good news though! Rubbing alcohol dries out the belly button, so applying it often (more than 3x per day) encourages the belly button to fall off faster! I already have a whole bottle of alcohol that I plan to use to get that belly button to fall off in record time!

Oh yeah, I forgot to ask, and they didn't mention in the video, does the rotting belly button get stinky?

Survey Says.....

Happy 30th week birthday, Little Blueberry!

How far along: 30 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: 12 pounds from the day we found out we were pregnant

Maternity clothes: Yes, and boy are they comfortable! :) I can still wear my old clothes, but I have to use a hair tie to hold the button closed on my pants, lol

Sleep: I am not as sleepy as the first trimester, but as the days go on I get tired more easily

Best moment of this week: Getting a restful night of sleep.....I had a rough patch of nights where I didn't sleep very well, and I thought that the rest of my pregnancy may follow the same pattern, but thankfully I have been able to sleep well for about a week!!!!

Food cravings: I haven't had any of those crazy cravings where I make Justin get up in the middle of the night to get me anything, but if I eat something that I really like I get totally obsessed with it.

Gender: Bouncing baby boy....lol, and trust me, he is bouncing!

Labor signs: Thankfully, no

Belly button in or out: Funny you should ask....it's in for now, but I think it may be dangerously close to poking out.

What I miss: Summer! I know this has nothing to do with the pregnancy, but I can't wait for summer to get here!

What I am looking forward to: I am certainly not rushing our darling little Daniel and I am enjoying our time together, but I am looking forward to some relief from the darn pregnancy side effects....sciatica, heartburn, constant sleepiness (although I hear this one doesn't get any