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!

Ready for Fall!

I have been busy the past few days, with fun stuff though :) I worked Sunday-Tuesday. Wednesday we had our 20 week ultrasound. Everything looked great, but Miss Avery was being shy. She had her face buried in my placenta with her hands in front of her face. Poor Dr. Hernandez recorded the ultrasound for us, but he couldn't get any good shots. She is definately still a girl, and everything else looked great. She weighs a whopping 3/4 lb! I go back in 4 weeks for my 1 hour glucose tolerance test. He will do another ultrasound then so hopefully she will be hyped up on the sugar and we can get some good pictures! Thursday one of the girls I work with and I drove up to the other side of Houston to visit another girl we used to work with. This is a 21 week picture Josh took before I left, my bump is growing!

While we were up there we went to the outlet mall and I kinda went crazy :) They were having some really good sales and I am going to try to not get too much more. I know we will get a lot of cute stuff for the baby showers, but I couldn't help myself! Today I ran errands. I also stopped by hobby lobby to get a few more fall decorations. I got everything put out today. I think it looks really good. This is on top of our TV armoirre:

This is our dining area:

I also got a bunch of the new fall scents from bath and body works. My house smells like fall! If only it would get cool!

Our Life Lately

Sorry its been so long since I updated. We haven't been up to too much lately.
We have been hanging around the house:
Enjoying the pregnancy (gotta love pickles!)
Our baby girl is growing! These are the ultrasound pictures from our last ultrasound...I was 16 weeks...

I think I am about 18weeks in this picture...Izzy is jumping up for her treat!

I went up to Arizona this past weekend to visit my mom and Gigi. We had 4 generations of girls together (one in utero of course!)

My mom and Gigi both got to feel Avery moving around. Josh got to feel her the night before I left for my trip...she is a strong kicker! Josh says she is going to be a soccer player, I think she will be a high stepper!

Here are some more pictures from my trip. It was absolutely beautiful out there, 70 degrees in the morning, no humidity and beautiful views.

My mom and Uncle Ric:

My Uncle Ric and his dog Lucy

Beautiful Views:

It's a girl!!!!!

It's a GIRL!!!!! No doubt about it. We went to the doctors on August 24th, as soon as he put the ultrasound on my belly, she was there spread eagle. Dr. Hernandez zoomed in and said no doubt about it, all GIRL! I started bawling! I know its bad to say, but I wanted her to be a girl so badly. Of course if she had been a boy, he would have been the most loved little boy in the world and we would have been thrilled. Josh was shocked, he said "I really didn't think we made girls." He is loving the idea of a Daddy's little girl. He heard the Darius Rucker song "It won't be like this for long" and got all teared up, its about a little girl and her daddy. I know he is going to make an amazing father. I was able to contain myself for a whole day, then I had to go get a couple of girly things. Mrs. Aleta got me the outfit in the middle in July, we have kind of been planning for a little girl :)



Everything else looked great in the ultrasound. My due date is still February 4th, 2010. He was able to show us the spinal cord and the insertion of the umbilical cord, everything looks normal with all of that. So there are no signs of any neural tube defects or ventral wall defects. She wasn't as active this time, but I had worked the night before so we were both sleepy. I think I MIGHT be starting to feel little "flutterings" but I think it might still be gas :) I am starting to show a little bit more, but Josh and I are really the only ones who can notice it. Everything is just getting firmer in my lower abdomen. We took some pictures today. I made 17 weeks yesterday.

Everything around here has been going great. I am not working quite as much, so I have more energy on my days off. Josh is in the clinic, waiting to get all the patients and adjustments that he needs to graduate. We go back to the doctor's office September 23. Josh has the second part of his licensing boards September 11-13. So he needs to start studying for that, say a prayer that he does well on them. We are also going to begin working on the nursery soon. So exciting!
That's about all for us now.
Love,
Josh, Cherish and baby GIRL LeBlanc

Nursery Plans

Josh went to San Antonio this weekend, so I have been catching up on housework and playing on the computer. I think I have decided on most of the nursery stuff.

This is the nursery furniture I like:

If its a girl:If its a boy:

I picked out the crib bedding when I was VERY early and surprisingly I actually still like it! I figured I would change my mind a few times before I settled on something, but I keep coming back to it and I really love it. I think we are going to get the furniture and the bedding for really good prices...compared to some of the other stuff I have seen. I will probably order the furniture this week since it is on backorder, that way it will all get in on time. And we will procede with the bedding once we know what we are having. My plans for the nursery/guest room are to turn the big bed we have in there and turn it into kind of like a day bed. I have a tan comforter that will go with either set and then add coordinating pillows for decoration. If it is a boy, Josh gets off easy because the room is already painted blue. BUT if its a girl, I would like to do two pink walls and two tans walls. It just sucks because we will be moving back shortly after the baby is born so the baby won't be in the room that long. But I just can't have a baby without preparing a nursery for him/her!

That's about all that as been going on around here. I worked 4 days last week, so I was exhausted by the end of that, I have recouperated this weekend, and get to do it again on Sunday. The good thing is though, I only work two days, then I have 4 days off. Josh has finished up with all of his classes, praise the Lord! So now he will just have clinic duty. His schedule will also be a little bit better, he should get off around 1:00pm if he doesn't have any patients. Hopefully that will give us a little more time to spend together. One more week till THE ultrasound! We will find out what this little jumping bean is! I will keep everyone update.