Avery's Room!

I had picked out Avery's furniture and bedding at the beginning of the pregnancy, and surprisingly enough I still liked them when it was time to order! We got her stuff in a couple of weeks ago, but were waiting to start on her room until we had some free time. Then my mom came to stay for a week for surgery. Well this weekend my mom went back to Arizona to take care of my Gigi, and we didn't have any plans so we decided to start on her room. This is the before shot:
Josh hard at work in his baby girl's room

We put tan on two walls and pink on two walls, it turned out amazing!

This was my contribution to the project since I couldn't paint

Almost done!

It's really hard to tell the true color of the pink with the weird lighting, but it came out sooo cute. Its not pepto bismol pink, nor is it too pastel.

I worked last night and was having a rough night, we got some bad news about my Gigi (her cancer has spread). I asked Josh if we could work on Avery's furniture today, he texted me back this picture:

My sweetie put together and made up her bed for me as a surprise. He is so thoughtful. I absolutely love how involved and excited he has been with the whole pregnancy. He even painted her whole room without complaining (and he HATES to paint). My work momma Tracy got Avery her bedding, I absolutely love it!

This is what we have in her room so far. I plan on putting a tan comforter on the guest bed with some pink decorative pillows. I also need to figure out where we are going to fit her changing table and dresser, it will be a tight squeeze but I absolutely LOVE her furniture! It is very sturdy and classic looking.

I love this picture. I imagine looking down from this angle and seeing our baby girl curled up in her bed dreaming. I can see myself picking up a sweet, chubby, little smiling (or crying!) angel out of this bed in the mornings. Having the crib in the house has really made it real to me that in about four months our entire lives will change. I am excited and nervous, but I mostly feel so blessed to be reaching this stage in our lives.

This is Avery's pumpkin I carved for her :)

And here is the 24 week belly picture, on our way to watch the Saints game with some friends of ours.
Last night one of my patients asked me if I was pregnant. She was the first person who didn't know I was pregnant to notice it. I am really showing a lot more now, and I am so excited. She is still so active, and still breech! So I feel all of her movements down in my pelvis. I don't know which is worse, having a baby tap dance on your bladder or lungs! I guess I will find out when she finally decided to turn around!

Surgery and Shy Baby!

My mom came in town last week to visit and get her shoulder fixed. She had been having problems with it for awhile, and I was able to get her an appointment with a shoulder specialist out here. She got here last Sunday, her appointment was that Monday, and he was able to squeeze her into surgery the very next day! The surgery went very well, there wasn't as much damage as originally thought and she is already feeling better! This is her recuperating afterwards and enjoying the pain block!


Taking good care of her:
In baby news, everything has been going great! My belly is definitely starting to fill out, I am much more comfortable in maternity clothes now than the skinny clothes. One of the doctors at work gave me BAGS of maternity clothes, so I really shouldn't have to buy very much, just a couple pairs of jeans since my legs are so darn long!

The belly at 24 weeks:

Izzy trying on one of Avery's bows, she didn't like it very much!

Miss Avery is getting bigger and stronger everyday! She is much more active at night, and sleeps during the day, just like her momma! We will have our hands full if she keeps that schedule after she's born. Every night before we go to bed Josh lays with his hand on my belly and she kicks her daddy. He can even feel her kicking his butt when I am spooning him at night :) We had our 24 week Dr's appointment today. I had to take the 1 hour glucose tolerance test, hopefully everything will be normal with that. I sure have been enjoying the Halloween candy! I have only gained 3 pounds so far, but Dr. Hernandez said she is growing adequately so not to worry about that. She weighs 1.5 lbs, is in the breech position right now and and was being shy again for this ultrasound. She likes to keep her hands in front of her face! These are some of the pictures we were able to get:

She's got both hands up, playing with her umbilical cord and smiling:

Her little profile, looks like she's got the Danford chin:

Tomorrow my mom and I are going to get pedicures, then I am back to work for another long stretch. My mom starts her physical therapy with Josh on Wednesday, he is going to whip her back into shape. Next weekend we are throwing a Halloween party for some of our friends, so I will try to post some pictures from that. That is all that we have been up to, just school, work and enjoying spending time with my mom!

Weekend Getaway!

What a great weekend! We went to Lafayette this weekend for Ashley and Brian's wedding. Instead of staying in a hotel, I found this really great bed and breakfast to stay at.


It was absolutely beautiful! The house was completely renovated from the 1800's

We stayed in the slave quarters in the back...haha! I liked it a lot because it was seperated from the main house and was kind of quiet and secluded. This was our room, it was decorated so cute and full of antiques, AND they kept it at about 65 degrees so Josh was in heaven!

I was really impressed. Everything was really clean and nice, and the breakfast was to die for! The couple that owns the B&B used to run a restaurant, so they cooked us some of their recipes from that. We had cream cheese stuffed pancakes with fruit topping one morning, and then their "cajun" version of eggs benedict the second day. It was really nice, sitting down for breakfast and meeting all of the other guests. We had a great time. While we were there we had dinner with Josh's cousin Dane, and then Ashley and Brian's wedding was on Saturday. Here are some pictures from the reception.

Jon and Lauren were there:

Gotta love the garter toss:

Josh and the beautiful bride:

All in all it was a great weekend. We have been so busy with school and work and the pregnancy, that it was good to get away and just reconnect and spend time with each other. Nothing new with Miss Avery, she is just kicking and moving and growing and we are loving every minute of it!