29 Weeks

14 May

Here is my belly as I wrap up week 29 and enter the 30s! I say it every single post and I’ll say it again, because it’s true: where have the last three months gone?

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The baby is still super active and I love getting sidetracked to watch my belly wiggle and move. Health-wise, I feel good. I can eat and work out like normal. If I go on walks, I do need to slow down a bit from my normal pace otherwise my right leg will go to sleep or tingle, making it hard to walk, but being pregnant hasn’t slowed down my working out.

On the other hand, my back and ribs are still giving me lots of pain. Regular chiropractic adjustments help, which amazes me, since I’ve never been one to believe in the kind of ‘stuff.’ I can only make it about 2 weeks max before I need to go in for another adjustment. I just went in today and he said the pressure points are changing as I get bigger, and my body is just trying to figure out how to carry the weight, hence all of the aches and pains and numbness.

Though to be honest, I can’t be too mad about all of the pain because the baby is healthy and still cooking away! It is annoying though……

Last night the hubs and I were talking about hitting the 30 week milestone and how if this pregnancy goes as it did with Georgia, we have less than 2 months until the baby arrives – 7 weeks to be exact. Now who knows if that will actually happen, or if I’ll go past my due date this time like most people, but it’s crazy to think we could have a second kid in less than two months! It’s about to get real!

 

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Mother’s Day 2013

13 May

I hope everyone had a great Mother’s Day today! I know I did!
I got to sleep in until 8:15 (after hearing the hubs and Georgia ‘whisper’ to go downstairs and start breakfast, I rolled over for a bit longer), and let me tell you, when I got out of bed I felt like it was 10:30 or something! Just 8:15, but it felt amazing.

Then I came downstairs to a huuuuuge breakfast. Ryan made – from scratch – eggs benedict with hollandaise sauce, plus ham and cheese  omelets, cinnamon rolls – it went on and on.

My girl and I eating breakfast.

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And what did I get this year? I got a zero-gravity lounge chair! It’s perfect for sitting outdoors, tanning and for this lady who is pretty uncomfortable sitting up in a regular chair, it is absolutely wonderful. It’s actually been sitting in the  living room all day. I read the paper in there, and I maaaay be typing this blog post from the chair. Yes, eventually I will take it outside, but it’s so dang comfy. Maybe I’ll put it in my cubicle? :)

I couldn’t post this without a pic of me and the best mom in the world. People say we look alike? Hardly, right?

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Mom’s are a pretty big deal. They’re your sounding board. Your cheerleader. Your friend – and I’m lucky to call my mom all of those things!

Anyway, it was a good day and a good weekend. Heck, I even got a nap both days!

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(Georgia’s earrings look bling bling in this pic, but I swear it’s just the flash — they’re the tiniest little blue studs… I swear!)

The hubs snapped this pic – and I know it ain’t pretty, but I’m well aware that the days of Georgia being an only child are numbered, and I’m going to take advantage of them while I can. She’s growing up so fast and I know the next 10 weeks are going to fly by. I imagine every mom goes through this as she’s anticipating the arrival of her second child, but I worry that Georgia will be mad at me when the baby comes, she’ll think I’m choosing the baby over her and that just breaks my heart. How will I ever have enough time and love for two kids? I’m sure I’ll figure it out, but for now, I’m soaking up all of the time I can with my baby girl.

Hope all of my momma friends had a great weekend, too!

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Picking a Name for the Baby

10 May

Like I mentioned in the previous post, Ryan and I have been having some trouble nailing down a name for our baby girl. We had a pretty solid list of 3 before we found out if we were having a boy or a girl, and now I think knowing it’s a girl has been messing with the hub’s head. He liked being able to SEE Georgia before naming her, and while I agree with that, I think we could easily nail down THE name before we meet our second daughter.

Last night we went through the long list I’ve been accumulating on my phone and each made lists of our Top 3 Faves. Will I share them on here? No Way :) but I will tell you my #1 name and Ryan’s #1 are different. His fave is #2 on my  list and vice versa, and our #3 is the same…I feel better that we’ve gotten THAT far at least. I will not let him waver on those!

In all of this, Georgia has had an obsession with one name in particular, and I have no idea where it came from. She’s been talking about naming her baby sister this for months. She talks about it so much that the teachers at her school actually thought that’s what we were naming the baby! The hubs also jumped on the bandwagon and said, “But how cool would it be for Georgia to name her sister?” I agree, it would be cool, but I’m just not a fan of the name. Last night I was ‘grilling’ Georgia, trying to get her to tell me why she likes that name and see if she would like her baby sister to be named anything else. I didn’t make much progress:

(also, you’ll have to crank the volume for the middle portion, I must’ve moved my big fat finger over the speaker for a while…. sorry!)

Georgia – picking baby name from Kelly Eagle on Vimeo.

P.S: She doesn’t have a mustache…we had just eaten chocolate ice cream after dinner.

P.P.S: I’m afraid we’re going to have a very sad/confused girl when she finds out the baby’s name is NOT Alex. Uh oh.

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Weeks 28 & 29

7 May

As I enter week 29, it’s time for an update! How has it been almost 3 weeks since I posted an update or belly pic?

I had my 28 week doctor’s appointment last week and the lovely glucose test for gestational diabetes.

Why can’t they make this drink look more appealing?

LIMEONDEX? Really?

LIMEONDEX? Really?

Then the nurse thought it would be fun to wiggle the needle under my skin hoping to find a vein until she did, leaving me with a big bruise….but my blood must’ve looked good since I didn’t get a call back from my OB. I assume I passed – thank goodness, too, because I hear if you ‘fail’ or show signs of gestational diabetes, there is a 3 hour test you have to do, and it isn’t fun.

  • Baby’s heartbeat: 155bpm (she has fallen right in that range for the past few months)
  • Measuring at 29 weeks (so right on track – I guess within 3 weeks of your actual pregnancy is ideal)
  • Total weight gain: 16 lbs! (By my count it’s closer to 18, but I’ll take either one!)
  • Now I begin appointments every 2 weeks!

Two week appointments seems like they snuck up on me! I will go every two weeks between now and I think 36 weeks, then they jump to weekly. EEEK!

Other updates:

- Back pain is still tough. I am going to the chiro every other week now, and it does help – more than I care to admit as I’m more of a traditional medicine kind of gal.

- We are having trouble narrowing down a name for this little girl! Before we found out the sex, we had a list of 3-4 names for each gender, and since then, I think the hubs has changed his mind on almost all of the original choices, while I’ve only cut one out because it’s so classic, it’s popping up everywhere. We’re at the point of searching name lists and texting each other random names through out the day. So far, nothing for sure.

- The nursery is holding steady. We need to paint and maybe that will happen this weekend. Seems like a good gift for Mother’s Day right? Once it’s painted, then I we can begin hanging things and buying decorations.

Belly pic coming soon!

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Life as of Late

3 May

I have to be honest, life as of late has been sort of a mess.

I started writing this post, went back and read a few paragraphs and almost scrapped the entire thing, but I need to be honest, right? Isn’t that what this blog is all about? Life, our family, our home..and not just the pretty pictures of a bathroom makeover (but, if you haven’t seen how pretty it is, check it out).

While I would love for the last few months before baby #2 arrives would be full of beautiful bonding moments between our family of 3, unfortunately that has not been the case.

I’ve been uncomfortable and grouchy and tired. And maybe this is TMI, but my doc and I cut my anxiety medication dose in half because that’s better for the baby and I think that is part of the problem with this mood I’ve been in. Then when I get home at night, it takes the last bit of my energy to play with Georgia and cook her a meal with at least a few of the food groups in it. While she eats her dinner, I normally pick at what I made or just eat grapes and cereal. Food is just not that appealing, especially when it involves cooking it.  And, in the evenings, I’m not as hungry as I am in the morning. But in the morning, keep your fingers back!

By the time Georgia is finished with dinner, I’m ready to lay down and rest my back, so we’ll do something low-key, like play with her Buzz and Woody or wind down with a the iPad or cartoon so I can lay down. It’s normally 7 or 7:30 by then, and getting close to bath time, so a little tv time to get her to chill out is ok in my book.

In all of this, Ryan has been working crazy hours, late nights and weekends for about the past 3 weeks to a month. He’s fabulous about picking up G when I have a board meeting or something else I need to get to after work, but otherwise, he has been needing to work late and the past few weekends has even gone in on Saturday and/or Sunday. This weekend will be about the same, I think. He hates missing out on the evenings and even if he gets home by 7, he misses dinner and a couple of hours with G.

By the time he gets home, he’s exhausted, I’m cranky and super exhausted and frankly, there isn’t much talking or hanging out that happens. It’s usually a toss up who falls asleep on the couch first. Needless to say, it hasn’t been that fun in our house and I get that it happens, but it’s starting to make me frustrated and sad.

Is life always going to be this crazy? Will we be able to handle it once the new baby comes? How will Ryan and I ever find the time to spend together, away from jobs and kids and with energy to spare to have a conversation beyond, “Did you shut the garage door? Did you feed the dog?” or to do anything fun? Is this just the crazy time in our lives and it will get better? What are we doing wrong? Is it like this for everyone?

I don’t mean to be whiny or to scare off any of you who aren’t married or who don’t have kids yet, but I’m finding the second time around, it’s harder to make time for your spouse and for yourself. You do what you HAVE to do (go to work, cook, care for children, pay bills) and beyond that, sometimes not much else gets done.

It’s obvious to Ryan and I that we both need to work on being in better moods when we get home and forcing some fun into our house, so that’s our goal going forward. Sometimes you just get caught up in all of the yuck that it can suck you in….here’s to crawling out!

…aaaand the nursery is back on track!

26 Apr

Yesterday, I got a great phone call. I was going to say the best phone call, but that seemed a little over the top….but I was grinning from ear-to-ear when I hung up!

My friend Bridget from Land of Nod called me again (and when I say friend, I mean the customer service girl who has been keeping me up to date on the backorder situation) to follow-up on the back-ordered bedding situation, and this time had good news! The bedding I ordered should arrive in 2-3 weeks! I am pumped! I told her she made my day and just took a big weight off of my shoulders because I don’t have to start the room from scratch. Whew!

So, here is the inspiration board I shared a while back.

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We have the crib and dresser, the curtains are here and hung, and in a couple of weeks when the crib skirt and sheet arrive, we can buy paint and really get to decorating this room.

I have a plan again.
I don’t have to spend anymore time scouring the internet for bedding I like, though would never like as well as this from Land of Nod.
It will all be here soon and hopefully, we can have the nursery done before June 1st.

Happy Friday, peeps!

 

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Laundry Facelift

25 Apr

Every week it blows my mind the amount of laundry the three of us create. I mean, there are only 3 of us. Where does it all come from?

One of the main tips I have for keeping laundry under control is designating a basket for each family member. When I do laundry and fold it – normally in the living room in front of the tv – I sort everyone’s clothes into their own baskets, which makes it easy to carry upstairs and put away. This way, I can also keep the master bathroom towels separate from Georgia’s bathroom towels and washcloths. Those things can fill a basket quickly!

While sorting the clean laundry was easy, in the master bedroom we just had one big wicker basket for all of our dirty clothes. Often midweek, it would be full and the lid would rest at odd angles on top of the laundry which was spilling over the edges. Looking at that every day drove me crazy! I was constantly thinking about how much laundry I had to do, and I would try to smash the laundry down into the basket every time I was in the bedroom. Annoying.

So, I decided to get two new laundry baskets to separate the lights and the darks. That way, we could have (almost) twice as much laundry and not ‘know’ it until laundry day. Here is our laundry corner now.

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I also framed little signs that say LIGHT and DARK, so the hubs knows what goes where. This also saves me time sorting — it’s the little things in life, people.

A seemingly small change that has made a huge difference.
Baby girl already has her own basket in her closet and I’m hoping with the effort I’ve gone to keep laundry organized makes a difference when there are 4 of us creating dirty laundry!

 

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Nursery and Bump Progress

25 Apr

I’ve actually surprised myself by the lack of progress I’ve been making in the nursery.

We’ve gotten the room 90% cleared out, I sold a ton of stuff on Craigslist over the last two months, but that’s about it. There are still random books that need to be stored elsewhere, suitcases need to moved to the basement and I need to find a spot for some of my summer clothes that I keep not being able to wear.

Here’s what the room looks like – it’s embarrassing to show you!

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(sorry for the crappy iPhone pics..too tired to deal with the good camera tonight)

Tonight I did start going through the 0-6 month tub of clothes, sorting what I wanted to use again, tossing out gross undershirts that had  yellowed over time (remember, Georgia was a puker), and hanging things up in the closet so I can asses what I have.

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It’s safe to say the baby won’t be naked!

It was fun to go through the clothes and remember when Georgia wore them and how different our lives were then! It seems like ages ago when Georgia was a tiny 8 pound baby. Going through the bin of clothes also reminded me how tiny she was! She was wearing newborn clothes well into July when she was 3 months old! We have plenty of newborn clothes, that’s for sure. I’m so interested to see if this babe will 1. Come Early, or 2. Be small and match up season with G perfectly or be huge and not match up seasons/clothes at all. Time will tell I guess!

The other thing holding us back from making much visible progress on the room is the baby bedding. The bedding I pinned and used in my inspiration board a while back is backordered. Originally it was backordered until early May, which I could live with. Now it’s back ordered until mid to late-June. That is too close for comfort for me, so although I haven’t cancelled it yet, I have started looking for an alternative.

Without the bedding, I don’t want to paint or start buying accessories. We did it backwards with Georgia’s room and I have never quite loved the way the paint color works with everything else, and I do not want to paint this room twice. So in the meantime, I’m slowly cleaning out the room and getting everything else organized.

I’m also getting a big bump!

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Here’s my belly last week at 26 weeks. Big, right?

Hopefully the next time I give you an update on the nursery, I’ll have bedding chosen and ordered and maybe even the rest of the room flushed out. I’m getting antsy! (Hard to imagine, I know!)

We have a 3 year old!

22 Apr

On Saturday, Georgia Mae turned 3! Can you believe it?

 

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Like most parents, I can easily say, I have on idea where the last 3 years went! They time has flown and she has changed me, my life and my marriage so much – for the better, of course.

One of the best things about being a mom to such a silly, sweet and sassy three year old is that she reminds me to play. I’m a person who can get so wrapped up in what’s next, that I have  a hard time focusing on the joy right in front of my face.

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Motherhood has changed  my mindset drastically, and even though some days I literally have to vacuum or pick up the mess, I’m much better at allowing the house to be chaotic until she’s in bed, so I can spend those precious moments with her.

Some of her favorite things:

  • Books! We still make weekly trips to the library and there is always the request at bedtime for one more book.
  • Movies. This girl looooves her cartoons and movies. If the hubs and G are into a cartoon or movie, good luck breaking the spell. Right now her fav is Toy Story (1 & 3)
  • Singing/Music. She requests loud music in the car, loves dance parties at home and for her birthday got a killer Hello Kitty karaoke machine. I promptly made her a mix cd with all of her faves (With everything from’We are the Dinosaurs’ to ‘Baby’ by the Biebs)
  • Independence. She wants to do things on her time, how she wants and if it wasn’t her idea? Forget it! I know this trait is pretty common for kids this age, but she is definitely a stubborn little girl. I’m hoping this serves her well in the future.
  • Pictures and Videos. If she sees your phone, she immediately asks to watch videos on it. She is obsessed with watching videos (mostly of herself) and looking at pictures when she was a ‘teeny tiny baby.’
  • Going to school. She loves the daycare/school she goes to – and we love that she loves it! She learns a ton, knows all of her letters and can sound out words and tell you what they start with. On the weekends, she asks if it’s a school day and if she gets to see her friends. And today, she moved from a room full of 2 year olds, to a room with 3 and 4 year olds! (plus, our tuition dropped – yeaaahhhh!)
  • Her daddy. Depending on the day.
  • Her mommy….on the other days.
  • Her puppy, Ari.

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Georgia spent the weekend with us and her Grandma and Grandpa Eagle. There were trips to the park, lots of cake and presents! She’s obsessed with Woody and Buzz for Toy Story so she got both, and this sweet softball tee. I have to say, her swing is pretty natural! Look at her working that front leg for power! I did take a video of her playing in the back yard then running  ”bases.” I’ll upload it and post it. I would be thrilled to have her love softball. Fingers crossed.

Anyway, we couldn’t be more proud of our big 3 year old! Tomorrow night is her party with all of her friends. More pics and cake to come!

Happy birthday, Big Girl! We love you!

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Master Bathroom Redo

17 Apr

Like I said before: there was nothing wrong with our bathroom – it just lacked style. And color.
Yah, it was awful :)

I’d gotten some beautiful grasscloth wallpaper from work and didn’t have enough to do an accent wall in a full room so I had to rethink where it would work – and behind the mirrors in our master bath was perfect!

On the right is the new paint color. It’s fresh and not too dark and not too blue. It’s the perfect shade for a bathroom.

First, we painted the room, minus the area behind the mirrors where we would be putting the wallpaper.

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Then, based on a tutorial for hanging grasscloth I found online (find full instructions there), the hubs and our friend Jake began by stapling the sheet to the wall up near the ceiling and then covering the wall in paste, instead of putting wallpaper paste on the back of the paper.


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Stapling the paper to the wall was the best thing to do because the paper was heavy and thick and now that we’ve removed the staples, you can’t see the marks at all in the textured paper. It completely sped up the process. Fantastic advice for anyone who is going to hang grasscloth wallpaper.

Once the paper was up, the hubs used an exacto knife to cut around the outlet and the hardware that hung the mirrors.

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The paper was so wide that it took one full sheet and then only half the width of another sheet. Who knew it would take that little paper? ObviouslyI’m bad at judging the size of a wall!

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So after getting all two strips of wallpaper up on the wall, it was time to start putting the mirrors back up.

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Once everything was hung, the room was finished! Quick, (mostly) painless bathroom redo!

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I love the way the room turned out. It feels finished now. It feels decorated. Now, the only project I really have left is the baby room. If only the bedding wasn’t backordered until May!

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