Time

It's almost time. In three weeks our time as a family of three will be numbered...I am excited. Anxious. Worried. HAPPY.

The last few days I have been feverishly running around, trying to cross things off my To Do list, and it's not easy to do when you are feeling huge and uncomfortable.

Why do we (as women) do this to ourselves? We have a whole 9 months (10 actually) to prepare for this wonderful little human being to bless our lives and we wait for the last month to stress about all those 'things' that don't really need to be done-right now! Nesting, they call it...more like Stressing...

I spent the first 4 months of being pregnant, trying not to think about how the banana I just ate was making me feel nauseous, or how I wish I could just take a nap..

Months 5-7 were great, I had lots of energy, I loved my baby bump, I could still play on the floor with Gray, but I didn't feel the anxious 'must do everything' vibe, because there was still lots of TIME?!

Once the 8th month hit,I started making the list, the dreaded things 'I must have done by the time the baby comes' list. Well, now that it's down to the last few weeks, I really wish I would've done some of these things a bit sooner. You would think I would learn the second time around!

Funny how all of this is done for a baby that is sitting and waiting patiently in my belly, who probably only cares that he is loved, fed, warm and changed. My efforts at making sure all his clothes are folded and in place and the floor behind the fridge is clean, probably seems like nothing to him.

All this nesting will be worth it though in the end...to finally meet Baby Pea Pod (who will probably be nameless for the first few hours, since Mike and I can't seem to find the perfect name!). So, I guess what's left is to just enjoy the TIME, the time spent together as a couple, as parents of a fantastic son, as mom and son and as dad and son....anticipating the arrival of our new baby boy.

Don't look at the all the cat hair...

My little book worm!

Oh, and for those of you who followed my Closet Makeover Challenge, the third closet is finished...

Remember the before:

 After:

(I would love to give all my closets a fresh coat of crisp white paint...but that will have to be on another to do list!)

*Blog posts may be far and few between for the next month or so...as we await and adjust to the changes to come. I won't completely leave you, I will still be here and I will for sure let you know when our Baby Pea Pod arrives...plus I still have to reveal the new nursery (which is still a work in progress!)

{Show your Bump} Feature!

This is so exciting!!! I am being featured on "Show Your Bump."

If you haven't been following the Spearmint Baby Blog, you need to, cause it's the best for moms and mom's to be!

{30 weeks}

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Well, only 10 or so weeks left...and as the countdown begins...I have officially reached the 'awkward' stage of pregnancy. You know the one...peeing every hour in the night, tossing and turning trying to get comfortable, not being able to put your socks and shoes on easily. Not to mention picking up toys or a so called little boy. But I manage...somehow...

The icing on the cake? I get to sit at a lab tomorrow for over 2 hours, waiting to get poked and probed with needles while I gulp back a high sugary drink in the hopes that I pass my second glucose tolerance test. Just like when I was pregnant with Gray, the doctors think I may have gestational diabetes...cross your fingers for me that it shows up negative!

In the meantime, I realized I haven't really posted any 'preggo' pics...so here ya go!

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I grew...

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I used to be able to see my toes, I had to lean forward to get this shot!

...overnight! Well, my belly has arrived, and as I round (literally) out my 21st week, my Dr. assures me that I am right on target! HAHA! Don't get me wrong, I love being pregnant, but when it starts to get hard to bend over, I know that I have a long road ahead of me. Or when someone comments that I must be having a big baby?! Really?!

I think that is my biggest pet peeve while being pregnant; the comments of passerbys. Nice comments are welcome, not so nice comments, the kind that you say in your head, but don't usually vocalize, those are the comments I hate! So people, please keep those remarks to yourselves, you never know how a hormonal pregnant woman may respond, and it could end very badly for you!

On a brighter note, hubby and I have a full week ahead. A full week of completing Gray's big boy room, among a variety of other 'house' projects. Ah, a week off from work, or rather from my 'job', not from work...but I can't wait!
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The Reveal...

Our little Pea Pod is gonna be a boy! :)

Number two...

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So these past weeks have been rather hectic around our house...hectic to the point that I actually found cobwebs entwined through the 'LOVE' sign I have sitting on our window sill. My dining room table is piled high with mail and junk that is dropped there daily, and I am pretty sure that the dust bunnies are having parties...Yep, that's pretty bad. Its even worse cause I don't care...all I want to do is sleep!! Apparently though, I am the only one, so that makes it pretty difficult! Do people not know its hard work growing a baby inside you!? Oh, right...you didn't know that? Well, baby number two is making an appearance in April!! Some of you know all about this thanks to the wonderful world of Facebook, and my husbands premature posting of several pics of Gray wearing his 'I'm gonna be a big brother' tee.

I know he's pretty cute, isn't he?

That's a long story, so I won't go into it all...but it started with a lot of yelling (from me), phone calls (as we had not told some people yet) and then ended with hugs, so what if I'm only 7 weeks? I guess its not that bad that people know...it just means I get to dig out my maternity clothes right away! My stomach seems to think its 4 months preggo, cause I feel HUGE! We are pretty excited though...and nervous...I am not sure what is going to be the hardest...having morning sickness and caring for a 14 month old, or caring for two babies under two. I am also pretty excited about sharing this pregnancy with a really good friend, she's in her 4th month with her first! So it will be prety cool to share our experience together...not only that, but a few blogs that I follow daily, well those lucky mommy's are also expecting!!!! When I found out that Nicole at Making it Lovely was expecting her second baby I couldn't wait to see what ideas she had for the new nursery! Memo's from a Working Mom is another lovely momma that I was excited for, and reading her entries always seem to be right on the money with me...I wanted to post comments on both their blogs so bad, and say ME TOO! But since I hadn't told anyone yet, I bit my tounge..until now!

You may remember my blog about our weekend at Ribfest....where I commented that our Sunday morning was amazing! Well, that was the morning I found out! Oh, and my Weekend Project, well that was all good intentions, but I just couldn't bring myself to do any organizing, first, because I was soo exhausted and second, because that will be Gray's new 'big boy' room...and I am still planning wonderful things to fill that space with. It is going to be so much fun planning and decorating Gray's new room, the nursery will probably stay somewhat the same, we may just change a few things depending on if it is a boy or girl...?
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