Busy Bees

Okay, LOTS has been going on since my last post (thankfully)! I'm 27 weeks pregnant now and the weeks are really flying by at lightening speed. Only one more week (less actually) until the third trimester! Crazy, but I cannot wait to meet our little angel. She's been letting me know her presence with constant kicks, flips and she just got her first case of hiccups today (at least the first I've felt)! My belly looks like it's been taken over by an alien with the way you can see her moving all around. Speaking of belly, it's DEFINITELY out for the world to see and know now. Strangers are asking me about my due date, which is so much fun! So anyway, on to what have we've been up to in baby world...

Registering...lol...was interesting to say the least. Justin and I went in to Babies R Us and got the low down on the registering gun, what to put on the list, etc. Immediately Justin was wandering off playing with the gun-his first item was a Baby on Board sign-LOL! We tried to tackle the strollers and ended up on the aisle for about an hour with nothing on the registry. Also, we managed to fold up a stroller, spend 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get it back upright and finally ended up leaving it on the display all folded up. Hopefully they come with detailed instructions!! haha! We did end up putting some items on the registry, but left Babies R Us feeling overwhelmed and confused. Thankfully, I have been gradually adding online and that has been MUCH easier. I still haven't really tackled the bottles, pacifiers, etc section. I guess I need to get on that soon...The Pottery Barn registry was a million times easier because it's just all cutsey stuff.

I've also been gathering lots of fun items for Macie's room! My mom and I went antiquing this past weekend and found some amazing decorative items (including an adorable handmade vintage linen dress from the 50's that I'm going to frame in a shadow box!). We have the crib all set up and the bedding (which was originally on back order til Nov 4) is on its way to us now (thanks for picking it up from PBK Houston Lindz!). We ordered her changing table and I think it should be here in less than a week! YAY! We've also decided to use an armoire that my parents have at their house for her clothes and things. So, most of the furniture is settled (just needs to get to our house), but we do still need the glider and rug. I don't know if it's the fact that I'm only one week away from the third trimester or what, but I am suddenly beyond anxious to have everything set up.

After some minor (and some major) freak outs, we've settled on a childcare option, thank goodness!! We'll send her to be cared for by a lady who watches babies in her home. She came highly recommended by a friend who sends her little guy. She's really nice, flexible and it seems like it will be the best situation for us. The only downfall is that it's a little out of the way, but not terribly. I just feel so relieved to have it set. Especially since I had a major meltdown last week after visiting a potential daycare--think me bawling on the car ride home...not good! I'm not saying the place was horrible, but it was just old and dingy looking, crowded and EXPENSIVE! Plus, I felt like the little toddlers were all looking at me with sad eyes. Maybe that was in my head, but who knows...

Maybe one of the most exciting things we have done recently to prepare for baby Macie was buy a mommy mobile this past weekend! The Honda Accord was a good little car, but it was definitely time for something more reliable and bigger. Sooo, we decided to get a Rav 4! I love it! It's perfect for all of the new stuff we'll have to haul around and it's so precious. I'm really enjoying cruising around in it! :) We're so excited to have two reliable, safe and baby friendly cars now.

Also, my Baby Shower is in 3 weeks! YAY! I'm so excited! We're starting birthing classes next week and I've scheduled maternity pics for October 1st. With all of these activities, plus football season starting, it's going to be a really exciting September!

XOXO,

Katie

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Commitment!

Okay, so I have been waffling on the name issue for what seems like AGES!!! I am just ready to have the decision made, sooooo here we go. Officially (unless we freak out at the last minute and change our minds-ha love how I'm still giving myself an out just in case), we are going with

Macie Kate Miller

Yay! I think it will be a good name for our little bambino. I like the double M, I love that it's French sounding and it's not too popular. Even though it's "trendyish sounding" (I guess), I think it sounds vintage, which I love too. Hopefully we (and she) will love it and it will totally fit her! :) I am going to be posting again soon because we have lots of little updates to share...

XOXO,
Katie

P.S. It feels so good to get it set in blog world! :)

And the freak out begins...

Okay, so I'm 23 weeks and 2 days pregnant today. The past 5 or so weeks have absolutely FLOWN by and all of the sudden I am starting to freak out about getting everything ready for Baby M's arrival! I think it really hit me when I tried to schedule an out of town work meeting for November 21st. It took me a minute to realize that was only 7 days before my due date-lol, yeah that won't work! So that little realization got me thinking about the million things we need to do in the meantime...finalize day care arrangements, finish setting up her room, settle on a name (lol), register (what the heck do we really need/want anyway vs what just seems like a good idea to put on the registry), schedule maternity pics, figure out what the in the world I need to do to prepare for d- (delivery) day, the list goes on and on... These are the little things that keep me up after my nightly 4 a.m. bathroom break.

We have made some progress we've made since our last post though, thankfully! My amazing parents bought us the Penelope bedding from Pottery Barn! Y-A-Y! I am SOOO excited. I cannot wait for it to arrive!!!! Also, we found and bought a crib. It should be at our house this Friday (yay) and I'm promptly requesting that Justin get it all set up in her room so I can start putting wall decos up and we can look for the other furniture. Hmmm...that might be about it.

Oh, I'm forgetting the best part, we got to see the little peanut (well not exactly a peanut anymore--corn of cob I guess would be a better size description) on 7/26 at an ultrasound. She looks great! She's measuring right on track, at 1 lb 2 ounces (doc says 51st percentile). We got to see her adorable profile and have started making guesses about whose features she has. She is also kicking so much now. I love it! You can definitely see her moving around in my belly. I'll post the sonogram pics as soon as I figure out how to scan them into my computer...

Okay, well that's enough for now. Maybe I should go tackle some of my to-dos! :)

Crib we Bought: