Please pray for my friend!

I have a dear sweet friend who has struggled with infertility for the past year. After changing doctors several times and being on hiatus between doctors, she became pregnant with a miracle baby and discovered the pregnancy a few weeks ago. Since then she's had several complications but on Friday was able to go in to hear the heartbeat for the first time. Yesterday her blood work came back with bad news and she's most likely going to have a miscarriage. I'm absolutely heart broken for she and her husband. Please, friends and family, pray that they will be comforted and strengthened in this time of grief.

Give us your opinions!

Before we found out what we were having Matt and I were pretty much set on a boys name and a girls name. Now that we know that we're having a boy, Matt wants to make sure we've chosen the "right" name. So basically that means we're back to square one! The middle name is set because it's a family name. Kay is Matt's middle name, his dad's middle name and his grandfather's middle name. Because of this I feel it's appropriate that our son's middle name will also be Kay.

Hendrix Kay was the name we'd chosen before we found out it's a boy. Now our list has grown from Hendrix to:

Hendrix Kay
Brodrick Kay
Cohen Kay
Greyson Kay
Holden Kay
Maddox Kay

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So I had my regular monthly doctor's appointment today. Surprise surprise I'm still measuring big-Bigger in fact! I'm now measuring 3 weeks ahead-I think I'm going to give birth to a 2 year old! Can he be potty trained too by the time he comes out? One good thing about it is I'll get to have yet another ultrasound! Hooray! I've got one scheduled next week just to get the measurements they weren't able to get on July 31 and then the next one will probably be some time late September.

I had a funny case of prego brain today. I packed my lunch this morning and left for work. On my way to work I got to thinking about what exactly it was that I'd packed in my lunch. I looked in my lunch sack, there was a small bag of chips, some grapes, an apple and a brownie. That's it. I'd completely forgotten to make and pack my sandwich! Oh when will I get my brain back?

I also had an interesting encounter with a coworker today. The demographics of the people I work with is really interesting. They're mostly 50+ year old men. So this one oldish man whom I've never met nor talked to walked by me-not really close, about 20 feet away or so-kind of hollered at me "You look good in that red thing". I was wearing this beautiful burgundy red shirt that my mother-in-law got for me for Christmas so I'm assuming that's the "red thing" he was referring to. It was an unusual compliment-TOTALLY creepy!

The pregnancy dreams continue. My belly button is really strange to me right now. It kind of makes this LARGE indented circle under my clothes and I hate it. I dreamt the other night that I took some cotton balls and scotch taped them into my belly button to flatten it out under my clothes. That morning I seriously considered trying it out but figured it'd probably just itch!

That's it for now, I'll keep you posted if any further randomness comes up!

To my dear sweet little boy...

Please oh please sweet baby please stop using my organs as trampolines! Though my bladder may get full frequently and infringe on your personal space, it's not necessary to bounce continually on it until I sprint to the bathroom. Let me tell you, little boy, my full bladder isn't fun for either of us and I'll empty it as soon as I'm able!

Also darling, thank you so much for not making me look hugely pregnant yet. Three different people told me how tiny I look today. I love the word tiny!

Your assistance with the bladder problem will be greatly appreciated.

Love you little boy and can't wait to meet you!

-Your Mommy

Ack! Where did THAT come from????

As you may recall, about two and a half weeks ago I posted my first pictures of the baby bump. At the time of those pictures I was 18 weeks 2 days along and had not yet been told that we're having a little boy nor did we know that he's going to be a BIG boy! This is what my 18 week baby bump looked like:

Well this week I've really felt like I've grown a lot! I felt pretty normal at the beginning of the week but by the end I've just felt huge! So out of curiosity today I thought I'd try on the same outfit and compare the difference. Today I'm 20 weeks 6 days but measuring a week ahead so almost 22 weeks. Now that I see the two pictures together, there isn't that much of a difference, I guess I just feel massive! I guess I can't complain, I could be bigger!

Also, on a side note, today's picture was taken in the newly re-arranged nursery and that's the BEAUTIFUL crib behind me.

More Nursery Craftyness

I'm not finished yet, I don't even have all the fabric but I'm just so excited I had to share! I'm making a "Taggie" blanket out of the guitar fabric! See...

Here's a closer look, the colors got a bit washed out but you get the idea

The back is going to be dark chocolate minky fabric like this

I've also looked into paint colors for the nursery and this is what I've come up with. The paint sample that looks like it's yellow is actually an awesome light lime green that matches the tan looking guitars which are also a light lime green. I'm thinking of painting the walls all that color. The blue and dark brown will be used as accent colors to do some kind of polka dots on the walls, see below...

I really love these polka dots, just don't know if I have patience to paint all of that!

This isn't a bad example of what I was thinking, minus the stripes

I've also decided to make a crib quilt, it's going to be a really simple pattern, I like this one the best...

The center will the the guitar fabric and the sides will be the chocolate brown minky fabric. I'm not 100% decided on the corner squares yet, I'm thinking maybe a dark brown with white polka dots but I'm not sure yet. I also haven't decided on what fabric I'll do for the back yet and I was thinking of doing a dark brown or maybe periwinkle blue satin-y fabric for the trim but I'm not sure if that'll be over kill!

So that's all the fun stuff I've been working on, I can't wait until it all starts to come together and I can post some actual pictures of the nursery!

I'm No Domestic Goddess-Surprising Huh?!

Today is Matt's 32nd Birthday and for some reason I chose today to try my hand at cake decorating! Boy, it's UGLY! Oh well, I had to blog about it because it's just that funny! See...

Well I may not be so talented in the kitchen but I am crafty! I've been trying to figure out how to decorate the nursery. I found this super cute guitar fabric on Ebay and have been working on deciding what I'm going to do with it. I don't think I have enough time, energy and guts to sew all of the crib bedding so I think I'll use the fabric as accents in the room. Today I made a cute photo board to put up on the nursery wall. Since I don't have any photos of the baby yet, I put ultrasound pictures on it.

and just a close up to show you the detail and how stinking cute it is! Did I mention that I'm oh so humble? :)

Also, funny story, apparently this little boy already has strong opinions about things. Yesterday I was driving in my car singing away to the radio and the baby kicked me the hardest he's kicked me yet. I was a bit insulted, he's only been on this planet for 19 weeks and he's already making commentaries on my singing? How rude! Hee Hee!