Week 27 (In Utero): Mommy's Little Craft Project

It is weird to think that we are in our Third Trimester now. It has gone by so fast as compared with Marshall's pregnancy. Chloe is getting really big now. She is so much bigger than her brother was. She is much stronger too. She kicks really hard. So much so that the other night Marshall was laying on my stomach and she kicked him really hard in the stomach. He looked up at me with the sweetest SURPRISED expression. It was like his eyes said "Mommy your tummy poked me!"

Chloe is having a busy week though. We are really excited that on Wednesday we will get to see her on a sonogram and her furniture is delivered on Thursday.

Last Friday, I finally figured out how I wanted decorate the baby's room and I was eager to begin this little craft project for Baby Chloe's room. I essentially used the valance as my model; drew up some sketches and dragged my boys to Michael's early the next morning to buy paint, canvas and ribbon.

By the way, as I write this blog, it is as if she knows that I am thinking of her - she is kicking so hard that my stomach is moving around. Chris is actually getting to experience this since Marshall would always stop kicking as soon he would watch/feel.

Week 26 (In Utero): Can you say...Indecisive???

Well, now that the room is painted (since the room is empty it has become Marshall's "play room" this week), we started taking out the furniture from the boxes...and decided that we didn't think that the furniture went well in a little girls room. It's just too trendy of a color to have for a girl for the next 20 years. So we put everything back in its boxes and are returning the furniture tomorrow.

So we turn to the Internet to decide what would fit and spent most of today checking out all the baby furniture stores we could think of. We saw a few things we liked but found that they fell into two categories - "It's nice but if we go with this we need to repaint the room/get a different bedding set" and my favorite "Delivery will be 8-12 weeks."

As we turned the car toward home in disappointment and despair, we realized that Frisco had a baby store off of Preston. It was all reminiscent of a similar little drive up Preston we had last year when we were looking for accessories for Marshall's room last year. Lucky for us the baby store was having a liquidation clearance sale! We found the EXACT bedroom set that we loved at Stacy's Furniture's "Oh Baby!" but for half the cost. The best part is that it will be delivered and fully assembled in less than 2 weeks!

It was one of those moments where the clouds parted and the sun poked through. Baby room back on track! This is what we ended up getting all in White! (So imagine the crib in white and a dresser with three drawers in the middle with the cabinet doors on either side. Oh and please don't mind my photoshopping the hutch onto the dresser).

Week 25 (In Utero): Getting Busy in the Baby Room

Well, like with Marshall, Chris and I are starting to feel the pressure in getting the baby's room ready, and felt this surge to get busy and make that room ready! Especially now that we have the crib and upper part of the book case camped out in our dining room in boxes. The dresser and lower part of the book case is supposed to be arriving around June 20th.

Well we finally came to a decision not to do the wainscoting . I thought that even though it looks sharp as a contrast against the paint, it would feel too black-and-white in the room against the dark furniture. Chris and I think that for some reason Marshall's room was so much easier to figure out how to decorate - there are just so many options for little girls for room deco.

Chris and I came to a middle ground on the paint color (He liked a little darker shade and I like a little lighter shade of pink). It came out looking like a bubble gum sort of color. Emily, Chris and I work well into the wee hours of Sunday Morning having a painting party. We had a lot of fun chit-chatting and joking around. I think for a pink room, it came out pretty well.

I would really like to do some wall art that I paint free hand. I'm leaning toward something on canvas rather than a mural. So we'll see what Marshall lets me work on in the coming weeks. I can't wait to see it all come together.

Oh, Marshall helped a bit too!

Week 24 (In Utero): Regular Checkup and Update

Ms. Chloe had her checkup today and she is still doing really great (still measuring larger than Marshall). Sadly though we won't have any more scheduled sonograms so we won't get any great 3-D shots of her like we did Marshall. I think though, based on her previous sonograms, she's going to have Chris' head shape. Chris thinks she's going to look like me, but we'll see.

Marshall ended up going to bed early this evening and I became super motivated to finally clear out her room. Basically it was a room with no furniture and a huge pile of misc items, laundry, blankets, sheets, pillow cases, down comforters and featherbeds (I won't be posting a picture of that because it was just embarrasing). It's hard to get motivated to do up her room when there is such a huge mountain to move, literally... But it's finally done.

The next tricky part is figuring out how to decorate the room. We really like the wainscotting in Marshall's room but aren't sure if we also want it in Chloe's room. Hopefully we can figure out what we want by the weekend.