Random Updates...

It's amazing how much a woman can lose herself in pregnancy. Honestly, I feel like there isn't anything going on in my life except for being pregnant. It's crazy. I guess it's more of the fact that everything else has kind of taken a back seat to the pregnancy/baby planning.

There is hardly a moment in each day that I am not somehow thinking about being pregnant. Just when I get absorbed into something else, I am somehow reminded that I am pregnant by a swift kick to the bladder or an ache in my back. Not to mention my ever growing belly and the fact that I hardly recognize my own reflection in the mirror. I am not mentioning any of these things in a negative light. They are all amazing in their own right, trust me. Feeling Lily move around, especially on a particularly active day, is indescribable. It's exciting and reassuring to say the least.

I have noticed how much I have gravitated to my previously pregnant friends and how much more significant they are in my life (not that they were any less special or important before but now so more than ever). I can feel a small division growing between me and some, not all, of my non-mom or non-pregnant friends, which makes me a little sad but I think it's par for the course at this stage of life.

I was trying to think of something, anything, else to blog about...but I fail. About the only other things that are happening in our lives right now, besides the baby planning, are 1.) planning a small weekend getaway in February and 2.) the continued planning of our anniversary trip to Costa Rica in September.

We decided to stay local for our February getaway and go up to St. Augustine/Jacksonville to spend some time with friends. It will just be a three night weekend and we are so looking forward to getting out of town.
As always, we are beyond excited to get back to Costa Rica. I actually had a dream about Dustin and I taking Lily there as an infant. SEE! I can't even dream without the baby being in my thoughts!

I'm almost 22 weeks now and feeling the best now that I have the whole pregnancy. I have more energy and I am enjoying food A LOT...so much so that my weight gain is a little, well, a lot on the high end! I had my monthly doctor's appointment the first week in January and I need to slow the weight gain down a bit! Not a terribly difficult thing to do. I know what I'm doing wrong. Eating Chik-fil-a more than once or twice a week and hardly exercising is probably where my problem is (:sarcasm:). I have started walking a few nights a week again and I am trying to eat a bit healthier. I have to be honest though, eating a salad for lunch does not cut it for me. I need substance! I'll find a balance...I hope!

Dustin has been working on the nursery and I have ordered the furniture. The crib bedding came a couple weeks ago and we are so excited about all of the decorating. Dustin is loving designing things to paint on her walls.

The bottom color is a little more pink than we anticipated. It was called "Drama Violet", and looked a bit more purple in the sample, but it will look great with all of the dark purple accents. The top color is actually a very light green, not yellow as it appears in the pictures.

This is the bedding and the dark purple color is what Dustin is going to use to freehand some butterflies and dragonflies all around the top portion of the walls. He's going to put some water lilies on the bottom too.


And here's Bear with his violet butt. He had to see what was going on while papa was painting and mom was in there talking to him. Opps.