Nursery???

After looking at about 15-20 places the past two days in Crossville and Cookeville. We found a very promising brand new condo that actually has 2 other condos right next door for our good friends Chuck & Colleen and Michael & Alarie. They aren't finished obviously and they will be done by June so it works out perfect. I'll post more pictures later, but so far we love it!

Like Father, Like Daughter

I know the saying is usually like father, like son but since Kyle didn't get his boy like he wanted he's determined on making this girl a sports loving, golf playing, fishwerwoman. My grandma searched all over the place for a fishing pole and golf set for Kyle and Aubrey when I was home for spring break. She wasn't able to find a fishing pole but she did find a set of clubs for Kyle, ok really for Aubrey since they are plastic. He's excited to teacher her how to play golf.

Another fun present we got from our shower was something that I see in Kyle's hands 24/7. Kyle's computer is out alllll of the time for studying and "other" activities (i.e. ESPN and silly mind game websites). Anyway Aubrey now has her own pink laptop, which is perfect so now Kyle and Aubrey can both play on their computers.

I am headed to Crossville and Cookeville to look for places tomorrow. Unfortunately Kyle has to stay and study so I'll be taking lots and lots of pictures. I will be meeting my friend Colleen in Cookeville, because she has a seminar in Nashville and we are going to be looking at some really promising places on Saturday. We get a fun girls night in Cookeville though tomorrow, so I'm definitely looking forward to that. I'll post pictures if we find anything that we fall in love with. I'm crossing my fingers, one of these 40 places I've called is the "perfect" place.

Our Nursery

Our Nursery, isn't it cute!!!

Ok, so it isn't exactly what a normal baby's nursery looks like. Since we are moving 3 weeks before Aubrey is due, we are just having to pack everything up and decorate the nursery when we move. Wherever that nursery, house, apartment, condo, or whatever may be. (Colleen and I are going to Cookeville this weekend to start looking for places to live.) When I brought our "loot" back from the baby shower we had baby stuff in our living room, office, and extra bedroom. I told Kyle it looked like Babies R Us had thrown up all over the house. Well I finally got the motivation last night to organize, pack, and even clean the newborn clothes we'll use. It felt so good to get everything organized. So above is our "baby corner" in our extra bedroom. It may not look organized but I can tell you where anything is. This is a picture of what it looked like before and I should have gotten a better picture because our living room was a disaster!

I even have her clothes separated into 3-6 months and 6 and above months boxes, I know, impressive, right? Well I was on such an organizing kick that I wanted to have everything we'll need when she gets here easy to access in case she comes pre-moving, although both Kyle and I have had several talks with her and she knows she needs to come after June 10th (possible moving date). Well I got her a box full of stuff we'll need as soon as she gets here and that includes all of her 0-3 month clothes cleaned, folded, and boxed away. It was the most fun load of laundry I've ever done!

Here's my organized newborn box.

Yay for organizing!!! I feel so much better now. Now just to find a place to put all of her baby stuff in oh and a place to put our baby in too.

Hello Third Trimester!

Well I am happy to say this week I started my third trimester. I can't believe that in 3 months we will have our little baby in our arms. It's been a good week in the fact that I passed my glucose test at the doctor, woo hoo no gestational diabetes! My doctor's appointment went well and we had lots of questions to ask the nurse practitioner who we met with this time. I really like the nurse practitioner, I like our doctor too but I've always had female obgyns and I feel more comfortable with the nurse practitioner. Our other big thing is I had to get a Rogam shot because I am RH negative, which means I'm A- blood type and since Kyle is O+ I have to get this rogam shot at 27 weeks and then again when I deliver. I don't have a problem with shots or giving blood, but this wasn't fun. The nurse put the shot in the back of my hip and when I turned around I hadn't seen the needle (no problem, shots don't bother me, right?) well Kyle's eyes got really big and I jumped forward when she stuck me. That sucker was long and hurt pretty bad. Kyle's eyes were big at the size of the needle. Overall everything went great and now I start going to the doctor every two weeks.

Here's a picture from our SAA shower. Rebecca is 34 weeks, I was 27 weeks and Alarie is just 5 days behind me.

We've talked about her name a lot, and we even got some things embroidered from my baby shower last week so we're sticking with the name unless she comes out looking like a Frederick or something else. Sooooo we will be calling our baby girl...

Aubrey Lynne
We are having a relaxing Sunday, but I am going to start boxing up some of the baby stuff that we won't use until after we move. Kyle and I both say it looks like a babies r us has thrown up all over our house. We have a thunderstorm in Harrogate right now, which we don't have many. That is one thing I miss about St. Louis is all of the tornado warnnings, thunder, and listening to the rain. I know weird, but I love listening to a good thunderstorm. You can't really tell in this picture but we kept our front door open watching the rain and Bailey seems to like it as much as we do, until there was a loud clap of thunder and she ran over to us scared. Well I'm going to sit back and enjoy the rain. (When I really should start on the boxes, but they can wait.)

My Hilarious Nephew

I had so much fun playing with my 2 nephew and neice this past week. I wasn't able to catch every funny thing they all did on camera, but I was able to catch two funny things that Caden had done. Caden and Pa Pa watch clips from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, yeah Pa Pa gets in trouble for this sometimes. There is a part in the movie where they have the Knights that say NI! He loves saying it and it was cracking us up.

The other thing I caught on tape was Caden picking toe jams. He used to have this fetish of looking for toe jams a while back and he started looking for them again last week. He goes through each toe methodically and if he sees anything he picks it. Well then he decided he needed to pick Aunt Kimmy's toes too. He had us all cracking up. I'm glad I have a funny neice and nephews. I can't wait to see what they teach their cousin.

I'm back...

Well I made it back safely from a great visit with family and friends back in Bethalto. Just some of the fun things I did.
1. Go out with Kimberly several times for her birthday!
2. Go to Disney's on Ice with all of the kids, sisters, and mom
3. Have an awesome shower and got tons of stuff for our baby girl.
4. See Kyle's mom, sisters, and tons of the Toti family. (Thanks guys for coming all the way over to Bethalto)
5. Go shopping in Chesterfield...oh how I miss you civilization.
6. Have lunch with my teacher friend Katie
7. Hang out with several other friends (see Joy and her new baby Reese, dinner with Amanda, and hours of chatting with Lauran)
8. Spend a ton of time with my nephew Caden and experience his hilarious antics.
9. Breakfast in bed (crepes and bacon), with my mom and sister, while watching Grey's Anatomy...I know it sounds like heaven, right?
10. Watch everybody jump on Caden's new trampoline, I just got to watch though. No jumping for me and baby.

I had an amazing time but was glad to come home and see Kyle and Bailey, I missed them a ton! We had a great day in Gatlinburg yesterday after dropping my mom off at the airport and then we headed to a friends house to watch the Kansas game, bbq, and roast smores (minus the hershey's part). This morning I woke up and was in the middle of a dream where I was in labor, so I told Kyle I'm 5 cm so I'm going back to bed to finish this thing. I couldn't wake up like that only being halfway done. So I go back to bed and for some reason my mom was there in the delivery room and we were waiting for Kyle. So I had to go back to sleep to see how this thing ended, hopefully with a beautiful, healthy baby. After starting to feel some tightening contractions I wake up and realize that what I was feeling was real...weird. I'm only 26 weeks and I didn't freak out and think oh my gosh....pre-term labor. I just laid there for a while to wake up some more and see what was really going on. Kyle had read about the possibility of Braxton Hicks happening this early so I figured ok this is probably what it is, I'll just see how it goes. I woke up Kyle to give him a heads up and explained to him what I was feeling and he was guessing it was the same thing. This went on for about 30 minutes and I finally fell back asleep. I told him it basically felt like someone was twisting a rag for about 30-40 seconds and then letting it go. I wonder if this is really how a contraction will feel like, I guess I will just have to wait and see. The one big thing I learned from this was if I tensed up when my stomach tightened then it hurt more and lasted longer. If I just relaxed then it seemed to not be as bad. I'm feeling fine now and we're not worried but I am going to let our doctor know about it at our appointment next week. This was definitely a learning experience for me and for Kyle.

New Baby Belly Purpose

Kimberly turned 21 on Friday and we found a new purpose for my baby bump. We had two fun nights of going out, more to come about that later.

A beer holder!!!

Happy Birthday sis! Love ya!