So as of yesterday, 6 weeks until this Baby Girl is supposed to arrive. It's still crazy for me to imagine her being here that soon! I googled animals with gestation periods of ONLY 6 weeks and a squirrel came up - not sure how accurate it is, but we'll go with it for the sake of this blog. Can you imagine having only 6 weeks to prepare for the birth of your child?! I've already had months and I'm still feeling ill-equipped in many ways.
This past week has been a VERY active one for Baby Girl. She's been moving around a LOT and Mommy has been feeling it - very forcefully! :) It's so fun to feel her moving and even sometimes see my belly move when She moves. Two nights ago, I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep and all of a sudden, I started feeling very steady thuds against my belly - I told Dan and he felt it for a couple of minutes too. It continued on for about five minutes straight, it was so bizarre and rhythmic. "They" do say that this week the Baby is able to hear familiar tunes - so maybe She was playing out a song in there? :) Either way, very fun to interact with her as she moves.
Yesterday, I started to experience what is known as 'nesting'. From Baby Shower #1 in November until yesterday, we have just had piles of stuff sitting in the Nursery. I'm not sure why I hadn't started taking things out of boxes/organizing - since that's my natural tendency (in life) - until yesterday. Dan ran some errands and came home to a living room of folded up/broken down cardboard boxes all over the floor. Meanwhile, I was busy organizing and consolidating our gifts in the Nursery. It feels really good to start putting things away. My next big project is to clear out the closet and hang up the MANY articles of clothing waiting for an adorable little girl to wear them -- fortunately we have one of those on the way! :)
Here are a few previews of what the Nursery looks like so far...not sure we're set on furniture placement yet - but for now it works. I decided to put my limited creativity to work and made some artwork to hang on the walls.
I couldn't resist - how cute are all of these booties?! This may be a dangerous start to a shoe collection like her mommy's! :)
SO excited to celebrate Christmas in just 2 days -- though this isn't her first Christmas, it's special knowing that this is our last year of just the two of us...I can't even begin to imagine what it will be like celebrating with our little Girl next year.
On that note - I did have someone worry me a little about confidence in expecting a little GIRL...As I look around the nursery, here's hoping the ultrasound tech. was right - because we do not have much to offer a little boy at this point!! :)
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