Silly Baby Decor & Baby Showers!!

Crib & Dresser

After two weeks of searching for a crib, we finally made our decision this weekend! It is the ChildCraft Legacy "Bergen County" conversion crib in Honey Oak finish (as shown above). A conversion crib means it can be changed into a toddler bed and then into a full size bed!

For a toddler bed, we will lower the mattress and remove the front rail - replacing that with toddler safety rails. To make it a full size bed, the back panel of the crib becomes the headboard and we have extension rails for the frame!

The dresser is a combo changing table and dresser. As shown in the picture above, there is a removable hutch/shelving unit attached to the top of the dresser - we are not getting that!

Monica's mom, "Grandma Simon", is purchasing the crib and Tim's mom, "Grandma Giacomino", is purchasing the dresser. Thanks Moms/soon-to-be-Grandmas!!!

Silly Baby Bedding

The bedding we picked out at Babies R Us is "Baby Cocoa" and the official theme of the nursery is safari! The colors are a light sage and warm light chocolate brown. Next up will be painting!

An image of the bedding is above!

Silly Baby Showers

Monica's family will be hosting a shower on Saturday, April 4th in Milwaukee!

Tim's family will be hosting a shower on Saturday, April 25th in Chicagoland!

Registry

Tim & Monica started Silly Baby's registry at Babies R Us this past weekend. There's still many things to register for, but I think we are off to a good start. Feel free to "browse" around! We plan to complete our registry at the end of February.

Week #20: Halfway Point!!!

Every Sunday, which is when my pregnancy week begins, I read the write-up on that specific week from my "What to Expect" book. Then, throughout the week on lunch, I continue to google things about that week of pregnancy. So since I don't have many updates since my last post, I'll just go ahead and share what I've read for 20 weeks - the halfway point!

• Silly Baby is the size of a cantaloupe
• Silly Baby's digestive system is busy creating meconium (a tarry black substance made of swallowed amniotic fluid, digestive secretion and dead cells), which will fill the first diaper after birth. And, speaking of the diaper situation... Silly Baby's genitals are now fully formed!
• Silly Baby's little delicate bones continue to ossify and toughen while their itsy bitsy finger and toe pads are finishing up.
• S/he little monkey now has teeth buds, although they’re hidden beneath the gum line.
• Their limbs have reached their relative proportions—no more alien baby!
• Their cute pink lips are more defined, and might be helping out in a bit of prenatal thumb-sucking.
• What’s more, eyelashes and eyebrows are also visible. At this point, your little one really looks like a miniature baby—and we do mean miniature as your little swimmer currently weighs a mere eighth of their final birth weight. With half the pregnancy behind you, the most significant gains are yet to come!

As for mommy & daddy, we began crib shopping over the weekend in Milwaukee. Grandma Simon will be buying Silly Baby their crib! Thanks, Grandma! While we did find one we really like, we are going to continue to browse. We will making our decision and getting our crib by the end of February, as we officially begin "nesting."

WEEK #19: Sonogram Pictures

The 4th Dr.'s Appt: Ultrasound

We got to see Silly Baby for a good 10-15 minutes last night during the ultrasound. This ultrasound was to measure the baby as well as its organs to make sure everything is what it should be. This ultrasound, for some, is also to find out the gender - which we did not!
As soon as we walked into the ultrasound room, I blurted out that we did not want to find out the gender!
At first, Silly Baby was twisting and turning all over the place, making it very difficult for the ultrasound tech to see what she needed to. It was pretty funny seeing Silly Baby flopping all over the place in there! And laying still on the exam table, I could certainly feel the movements. I haven't noticed if 6pm is Silly Baby's active time, since that's usually when I'm doing things around the house, making dinner, etc. But it certainly was its active time last night!
Eventually Silly Baby calmed down and the tech was able to see all the organs, etc. that she needed for measurements. As she measured the organs she would tell us what it was, so we got to see Silly Baby's brain, heart, spine and abdomen. We mainly got to see its profile - but for just a moment, Silly Baby looked right as us! But it wasn't long enough for the tech to take a picture, because after a few seconds, Silly Baby seemed to become shy and turn its head down and bury it from us. That was my favorite part of the ultrasound :)
There was also a view when the tech was measuring Silly Baby's head size, that we were looking down from the top of the body, and the way Silly Baby's arms were - it looked like it was boxing!!! So we decided it's learning to play Wii Boxing since I was doing that a bunch on Sunday :)
Also, when Silly Baby settled down into the profile view we got to see the most, s/he kept opening and closing its mouth! S/he looked like they were smacking bubble gum! Very funny to see!
Even though we didn't want to find out from the tech the gender of the baby, of course it is hard not to look for the "boy part." I don't think I saw anything - not to say I don't think it could be a boy, just that I didn't see anything that would be obviously a boy part from what I could tell. Tim didn't think he saw a boy part, so kinda thinks it could be a girl, but again - I'm sure the tech steered clear of that area when she could so we never got a real solid long look at the area to know.
We won't see Silly Baby again until Week #35, which is the last week in April.

Now for some updates:

• Silly Baby currently weighs 10oz. (which is normal)
• Heart rate was 143
• All organ measurements were normal
• Monica has gained 8lbs. total since the beginning of the pregnancy
• Tim & I will begin our "Prepared Childbirth" classes at our hospital-St. Alexius-on Monday, February 9th. The classes are every Monday for 7 weeks from 7:30-9:30p.m.