Nursery Games

From my last post, you maybe saw the most recent color of the baby room: Lemon Souffle.  Or Hello Yello!  I had in my mind this perfect little sunshiny room, with yellow walls, woodland creatures, greens/brown accents.  I never really thought what yellow looks like in person.  Rob painted the room while I was in BA and when I asked how it looked, he said "yellow".  But Rob is not the king of communication.  Ask what he ate for dinner, he'd say "food". So I figured it was the exact cuteness I was going for.  (I have gotten good at reading into the Rob one-liners... "I am sleepy" = "Be nice to me or I will have a mental breakdown" or "I want a snack" = "What do we have in the house that you will make me?  Otherwise I'm drinking beer."  Anyway, I digress.)

The room was in fact yellow.  I thought it would grow on me.  At 7am, when it's still dawn, without lights, sure, I could see it working.  Night time in full incandescent lighting, ow, it hurts to open my eyes.  In fact, we probably could have removed the lighting and just lived off the brilliance of the yellow.

So we googled "yellow baby rooms" just to get an idea of other nurseries that made it work.  You know what comes up?  Yellow = bad!!  Babies hate yellow!  Parents who paint the room yellow should expect months of uncontrollable crying, fear, rage, aggression!  DO NOT PAINT THE BABY ROOM YELLOW!!  Apparently, the color is too stimulating for little ones.  Who would've thought?

Granted, I did not paint the room, but I already felt exhausted by the work put into painting.  We tried to talk ourselves into it: "surely, our baby will not be this crazy", "who reads the internet anyway?", "pinterest has pictures of yellow nurseries, it must not be that bad", "it's really not that bad".  But really, it was.  You saw it.  After two more days of contemplating, we decided to change the color.

This time I looked up nice colors for babies.  What soothes them?  What do I like?  What would not look so ridiculous 5 years from now?  You know, the questions that should have been asked pre-yellow.

Turns out, green is where it's at.  And because we are having a little girl (despite my hesitation and fear of all things girly), we decided to include some pink.

This is what we came up with:

(Don't mind the plumber)

(The new crib)

 (The big girls)

12 more weeks until we find out if babies like green!

Family of Three

While it's not new news to most, I finally am getting around to posting a few pictures of the soon-to-be addition to our new family.

For those who don't know: Rob and I are welcoming our daughter to our lives this June!  We are both really excited to meet this little girl and have been working to make room for her in our home and hearts.

So far, the pregnancy has been easy for everyone, especially me. :)  As my doctor likes to say: I'm boring.  No sickness, no symptoms (besides my bulging belly), and very little sleep effects.  It took awhile to actually show, but once it started, it POPPED!  The past few weeks, I have started to slow down in physical activity and am a little slower to get up.  15 more weeks to go, and I hope I can maintain a good attitude and energy level!

I wish I had more stories to share about this little girl, but it's really been pretty uneventful so far.  She has been kicking a lot lately, especially when yogurt is involved. :)  We do have a few names picked out but will wait to reveal it once we meet her in person.  Overall, I am thankful she has taken it so easy on my body and hope her easiness continues after birth.

Before I post the pictures, I have to mention that I haven't looked back through these until now and am shocked at how thin I was at the beginning.  I will be that thin again, right?  Right??

This first pic was probably at 8 weeks:

The first sign of a bump on our honeymoon:

 (How did that sneak in there?)

(Picking out paint colors for the baby room)

(My photographer likes the hair twirl...)

(Hello! Yellow! We should've gone for the color on the right)

And a few pictures of what we know so far about Miss Hall:

She has feet.

She has a nose.

She likes to flex.

I hope I can keep you updated as we go!  We are finally getting into the stage where we are actively doing things to prepare (besides me just talking a lot and Rob nodding).  Wish us luck!