The THIRD trimester!

Well it's here! Today marks the beginning of my third trimester.

Morgan and I were riding in the car this evening talking about how quickly it's gone by.

Admittedly, I didn't know I was pregnant until I was about 7 weeks along so it went a little faster for me than I think most women, but still...

What an incredible ride this has been.

Already I'm so in love with my daughter. She takes my breath away...in a good way. :)

We can't wait to meet her. It won't be long now.

So my neighbor Kelsey recently introduced me to a website called Etsy. Check it out. It has a lot of really cute baby and toddler items but also furniture and clothing and most everything on it is super affordable.

Happy start of my third trimester everyone!

xoxoL

Rolling into week 26

It's hard to believe I'm already in week 26!

As I continue to grow I wonder more and more what exactly Eleanor will look like.

Will she be pretty? Will she be big? What features of mine will she have and what of Morgs'?

Coming up real soon I have three baby showers (two of which are mine) and a wedding to attend.

Does anyone know where I can get a couple of cute maternity dresses other than Target, Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod?

I'm looking for something colorful, fitted and different. Why do all maternity clothes have to look so dowdy?

Have a good Wednesday everyone!

Sidewalk art

Walking around downtown this morning I saw this and it made me haaaapppy:

Nursery help

Does anyone know of a color (other than chocolate brown) that goes well with pale pink?

I ask because I need to give Morgan some paint options for the nursery and he's really uncomfortable with an all-pink room.

My preference is to paint the whole room a pale pink and be done with it, but for some reason M is fighting me on it so instead of complaining and sulking and doing all those things I tend to do when I don't get my way, I'm going to look at this conundrum as an opportunity to get creative with color.

Take a look at this room. The color is called Robin's Nest by Benjamin Moore. M could perhaps install a chair rail in the room and we could paint the top half a pale pink and the bottom half Robin's Nest.

I also like the idea of striping the room pink and white or choosing two pink tones like this to stripe it.

Sticking with the chair rail thing, we could do a champagne for the bottom half and pink for the top too.

What do you guys think?

This web site has a lot of cute ideas. Check it out, have some fun and help a preggo in need all at the same time!!!

Belly!

Here they are everyone:








This takes us from week 18 to week 25. I know it looks kind of blurry, but if you click on it it'll open up clear.

Also, here's one just for fun:











Yesterday, my husband came home with a card and an assortment of gift certificates for the mom-to-be. It was very sweet and very unexpected. I love you M!

Happy Mother's Day! Here's a belly pic

Can I just say I have the best family and friends in the whole world?

I came home yesterday from a long day at work to find two boxes sitting on my front porch. One was from Meredith, Mike, Carole and Terry (my in-laws) and the other was from my mom, dad, sister and brother. Both boxes contained a beautiful bouquet of flowers for the mom-to-be on Mother's Day!

Also, the other day I received a package in the mail from Jessie. Here's what it had in it:

The tank top says "Ellie Belly" in case you can't read it here. I LOVE IT! Jessie's package also had a card that read: "Great things come in tiny packages." And then on the inside it said: "Happy Mother's Day to a beautiful mom-to-be."

I didn't even know they made Mother's Day mom-to-be cards! So cool.

Oh but the Mother's Day fun continued when I opened another Happy Mother's Day to the mom-to-be card from Carole.

Thank you all so much for thinking of me! I'm so looking forward to being a mom.

And, Happy Mother's Day to all you moms and moms-to-be out there!!!

xoxoL

Weekly update

Going into this work week I knew each day would challenge me in a different way.

Monday I covered media day for the upcoming Best Ranger Competition along with the 50th "birthday" celebration for the "Follow Me" statue. If you live in the area, I encourage you to come out to the BRC either Saturday or Sunday. It really is fun to watch.

Tuesday the 598th Maintenance Company deployed to Afghanistan so I was on post again to speak to families and soldiers.

Wednesday the Columbus Rotary hosted guest speaker Dutch Van Kirk, the last surviving member of the Enola Gay crew. The Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August of 1945. I also wrote about a group of local high school students who held a Skype session with a group of Iraqi teens. That story hasn't run yet.

Today's story for Friday will be about Best Ranger, which begins Friday. Then I'll be out at the competition all weekend. Check my military blog for updates.

Frankly I'm tired. At this point it's just about getting through each day, one at a time, without making any major mistakes.

On the pregnancy front, Eleanor seems to be doing really well. She has definitely established a sleeping pattern that I can now set my clock by. Typically, she's up when I'm down and vice versa. That's just fine by me because it's nice to feel her moving around when I have the time to stop and enjoy it.

After this weekend I'll be taking some much needed time off even though I'm not quite sure when exactly that time will be. All I know is this pace is getting tougher to maintain with each passing week. I can only hope things will soon slow a bit.

One last thing. I know I owe the blog some belly pictures. Things are just crazy right now so all I can say is they'll be up soon.

xoxoL

Week 24

Week 24 is here and boy is it going to be a busy seven days ... for both Morgan and me.

I'm too tired right now to write much else so stay tuned for another, longer post tomorrow.

xoxoL