Welcome Baby Pea Pod!!

Westyn joined our family on the morning of Sunday April 3, 2011. He was a week early and weighed 8lbs 7oz and was 20.5 inches long. He is the most precious little boy ever, and once again I am amazed at how much love your heart can hold for a little human being!

My labour was quick-start to finish only 4.5 hours-compared to when I had Gray-which was over 15 hours start to finish. I feel great, and am so happy to be at home with our new family of four!

Nursery Sneak Peak

It's almost ready! Ready to the point that if the baby came right now, it would be OK. But I am still playing with a few things and have yet to personalize it with baby Pea Pod's name (which we are narrowing down, finally!). I am absolutely loving how it is turning out!

Here is your sneak peak...

{Show your Bump} Feature!

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

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{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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Lot's of ideas!

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Since we found out we are having another boy, my head has been filled with all sorts of ideas for a new nursery. Actually, that's a lie..I've been dreaming about it for a while, although the pink and frills have turned into shades of blue and maybe not so much frills! I love the room we have now, it's sweet, gender neutral and practical. Buuuuut...when the opportunity presents itself, I have to take advantage of it, right? Since this will be little 'Pea Pods' room for a while, we might as well finish it off with a bang. Once Gray moves into his big boy room, hopefully in the New Year, we can start the process. I am torn between the bright colors that I am usually attracted to and the more muted tones of soft grey and beige...so I may just have to come up with something that marries the two! In the meantime, my dreaming has resulted in a file on my computer full of beautiful rooms...

Photos courtesy of Chic & Cheap Nursery and Ohdeedoh

Photos courtesy of Etsy- Sellers are listed above

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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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