21 Weeks

21 Weeks PregnantSo lucky 21 has arrived. Tomorrow meets 21 weeks. Kyle is starting to move more and more. This week at school has been moving along better and that is definitely a good thing. The kids at are becoming more and more excited in anticipation of Santa as the each day goes by.

21 Weeks

David has finally finished fixing the ceiling in the nursery and will hopefully have the ceiling repainted by Monday. He has been working on priming the kitchen the past two days. He will finish tomorrow...hopefully;) Then he can move onto finishing priming the hall beams and nursery. It sucks that he has to do it all by himself but he is doing a great job! As it stands now, David's dad is coming to help paint on Tuesday and his mom on Wednesday. The extra hands helping will surely be nice.

I am hoping to have all the presents wrapped by Friday night so that we will have something under our tree at least for a little bit. Saturday we are going to Easton to decorate the Christmas tree and spend the day with the family.

Bandit has been super stressed with all the activity going on so we are doing our best to spend a lot of snuggle time with him. We hope he gets a little more used to all the activity since this will be going on for a while.

I went to the allergist for my follow up on my asthma flare up earlier in the year. Things are looking better, but I have to stay on the higher doses of the inhaler. David received his H1N1 vaccine yesterday, so we are all covered for both flues. Lets just hope that we continue to stay healthy. My pregnancy rhinitis has improved slightly but still have some problems breathing. The allergist said there is not much you can do...oh well at least it is not as bad as it was over the weekend. I return to the OB on Monday! Can't wait to hear his heart beat again:)

The Weekend

Well, the long school week is over. On Friday I came home with a stuffy nose and watery eyes. I still have the stuffy nose but the eyes seem to be getting better. It seems I have something called Pregnancy Rhinitis. It is basically allergies...blah! Saturday was a productive day. We decorated the tree and cleaned out/organized the hall linen closet. After we did all that, we watched some of the Army/Navy game...YAY NAVY WON!!! Then we headed over to Reed and Mary's for dinner and hangin out. Today is going to be filled with laundry and relaxation in hopes my nose gets better. David works at 2 so we will have a little bit of time together before he heads out. I am hoping that this week goes by quickly. At least once we hit Friday, there will only be 3 days left before a break!

David also started fixing the ceiling in the nursery on Thursday and Friday, so hopefully that will be ready to paint so that that room can get done! I am really looking forward to finally getting the house together and straightened out. Hopefully we will have some updated home pics to share soon:)

The tree all decorated. It is our first realy tree together...ever!
The tree all lite up...yes the top of the trunk is crooked lol.

Now you can see the lights, but its a little blurry...but you get the idea.

20 Weeks

20 Weeks Pregnant

Well, we have finally hit the half way mark! I am 20 Weeks as of tomorrow :) Baby Kyle seems to be growing nicely, and I just hope it continues! Yesterday we went and got our Christmas Tree, and it is in the stand as of tonight. We are going to decorate the tree on Saturday morning, along with straightening out the hall closet. My closet is all done and I can move my clothes back in there tomorrow. David has also primed most of the beams in our entrance. Once he has that all primed he can paint! It is going to be blue like our living room. Then onto the kitchen:) I am hoping that the kitchen will be done by the start of the new year, if not earlier;) We also ran out to get Kyle's bouncy seat tonight. A few days ago I received an email from Babies-R-Us saying that they were discontinuing the seat and if we wanted it, we should get it now. It was definitely our favorite so we went ahead and bought it. We also got a memory book from my school friend Iris to place all the special firsts for Kyle...THANK YOU!!!! Tomorrow David is planning on sanding more in the kitchen and going to attempt to fix part of the ceiling in the nursery that needs some TLC.

20 Weeks

The kids at school are starting to get into the holiday hype, hopefully these next two weeks will go fast and smooth. I go back to my regular OB on December 21. Bandit also turns 5 on the 22nd, so we have a busy few weeks coming up. This Saturday we are planning on going over to Reed and Mary's to celebrate baby Kyle...they will get to drink and I will get to watch (not celebrating if you ask me lol). I will keep to posted on the progress of the house!

Getting Things Done

First fire in the fireplace. Baby Kyle's room all cleaned out.

My old room rearranged.

Well, we have had a productive three days. Yesterday, David and I met at Home Depot after work to buy the paint for the kitchen and the nursery. For the kitchen, we went with a light brown with an green olive hue. For Kyle's room, we went with a light beige/tan color to compliment the greens, browns, and yellows of the jungle themed crib set we want. In a week or so, Tommy, a friend of Davids is going to come over a couple of times while he is on school break to help paint. He also helped paint the hallway and do some of the living room in the spring. He likes doing these things so we will definitely take him up on the offer!

Today, David tried to finish up some spackling and sanding in the kitchen, and my closet. He also finished wrapping one of the vents in the attic...only two more to wrap:) I went through all the maternity clothes I have received and sorted them into summer versus winter. Then I tried on the winter clothes and separated them into the ones that sorta fit now (pants) or that will fit soon, and put those in a dresser. Then the ones that I will save for much later in the pregnancy were put away in a rubber maid to wait, along with all the summer clothes. We also cleaned out the nursery. There were a lot of my grandmother's things still in the closet, plus random stuff that we just had to go through. That being said, the nursery is ready to be painted and then set up with the things we get for Kyle. Items already in the nursery...end table to hold the crib side lamp, dresser that will double for a changing table, rocker, and foot stool. Not much to speak of, but it is a start!

It seems fitting that with the first snow fall of the year, David and I are almost done our Christmas shopping. We did most of it on Thursday. In addition to the shopping on Thursday, our new chimney cap was put on. So in the wet snow, David has built our first fire:) He did a great job! All in all it has been some productive days. Now time to get to painting and really start setting up the room:)

19 Weeks

Well, the news is in...presenting Kyle David Winters! Below is a couple of pictures from the ultrasound this morning. The doctors all said that everything looks good, so fingers crossed that Kyle arrives healthy in April. Tomorrow marks 19 weeks.

19 Weeks

So here is our son:)

Face and hands...the arrow is pointing to the ear.

4D picture of the face, and you can see his tongue...already sucking his thumb :)

Side view, hand in front of face.

Side view on his back. There is the head to the left and legs to the upper right. He is waving his hands at his sides.

Thanksgiving

18 Weeks PregnantLiesel running around screaming NAKED BABY!!!David and his cousin Fionn.Karen, Meredith, Baby Michael, and Nancy.Liesel and I.Gillian and Fionn sleeping.

We went to Easton for the family Thanksgiving 2009. On Wednesday we had soup night at Aunt Marilyn's house. Meredith and Karl made some yummy soups. Gillian was also down from Baltimore with baby Michael and baby Fionn. Billy and Nancy, David's cousins joined us as well.

On Thursday, we had dinner at the Castle on the Creek (the In-Laws :} ). For the most part, the same crew was there except Meredith and Karl went to Karl's parents for dinner this year. Liesel decided she was going to be an exhibitionist and ran around naked from time to time. It was quite cute since she is only 2.

We also went and did our registry at Babies'R'Us on Saturday. It was a lot of fun, but very tiring as well! Peanut is excited to get all new things! We also took an 18 week pic!

Tomorrow we go to the OB for the big ultrasound. We will keep you all posted as to how our little peanut is doing. We may even have a name for you:)

OB Appointment

Well I am now officially on Turkey break till Monday morning :) Conferences went well, and I am glad to have a few days to rest and relax! I went to the OB again today for my 18 week check. Peanut was being feisty and did not want to stay still long enough to hear the heart beat at first, but once the doctor pinned it down, there was a healthy active heartbeat. She noted that I have a lively one...great lol! I also got my referral to go to the special OB office to find out the gender and get all the measurements, etc. So bright and early next Wednesday December 2nd, we will be there to find out what Peanut's real name will be. 7am bright and early that is. We have a definite boy name picked out, but are debating between 2 girl names at the moment. Tomorrow we head to Easton for some QT with David's family. We will be returning at some point on Friday.

On a side note, David has finally gotten all the wallpaper down in the kitchen...now we can spackle, prime, and paint:) After that room comes our room, and then the nursery. Then I guess more wallpaper removal in the dinning room and foyer.

We had one of the chimney's cleaned today and found out that we needed to replace the 6 square feet of chimney cap. You know the metal grate that sits on the top of your chimney. Total cost...$1000...for a piece of metal and labor! CRAZY!!!!!!! Just bad timing that about 2 weeks ago we had to replace the water heater and that was $1000 as well, and we are greeting the holidays as we speak. Well, now we can officially say that all our money is going into the house and Peanut. Who said it was good to grow up? Lol!

As stated previously we are really hoping to get the registry started on Saturday...this will also be our Christmas wish list :)

I hope everyone has a restful and relaxing few days, HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Oh Yeah GO COWBOYS!

Snuggle Time

Kisses for Mommy. Lap time with Daddy.

As close to lap time with Mommy that we are going to have for a while.

17 Weeks Pregnant

It seems to have been a good weekend. My OSU Buckeyes beat their arch rivals Michigan, securring the Big Ten Championship all for themselves and are now heading towards the Rose Bowl on New Years Day!

Yesterday was a nice day at home with Bandit and David. Bandit was in the mood to snuggle and be a lap dog. It was very cute and he just wants to be as close as possible to us.

We also took a 17.5 week photo of baby Peanut. I am definately excited for the OB appointment on Tuesday. However tomorrow I have to make it through 12 hours at school first with it being the first day of conferences...oh well at least Tuesday is only 4 hours.

I met up with April at Babies-R-Us to start looking at some car seats, strollers, pack-n-play, etc so that when David and I go we have a more productive visit and are not sitting there clueless. We hope to go next Saturday to start making the registry list. That is only if it is not crazy busy being the day after Black Friday. Hopefully it will be just as fun to do as it was to create our wedding registry:)

17 Weeks

Well, today marks the 17th week of baby Peanut. We go to the OB on Tuesday November 24th and we will hopefully be making the appointment for the big Ultrasound to find out what Peanut is...fingers crossed. I think I have felt a little fluttering going on, which is baby swimming around. I don't feel it all the time and they say that that is normal at this time since most people don't normally feel movement till around 20weeks. David cannot feel it yet cause you cannot feel it from the outside...hopefully soon! Here is a little more back ground info on where we are with baby Peanut.

17 Weeks Pregnant

I also survived my overnight field trip to Arlington Echo with my 2nd graders. We arrived yesterday at 10 am and got back to school at 1:30 pm. The kids had a blast, as well as all the adults. The weather was beautiful yesterday and we really lucked out in the no rain until after we got home today. Most of the kids went home with their parents...they were SO TIRED! We all were. That's what bunk beds and 7/8 year olds running around having the time of their lives will do to you. It didn't help that I did not have all my comforts of my bed to keep me cozy with Peanut, but we made it! I am just glad everything went smoothly and there were no issues.
I just have to make it through tomorrow at school and then I get to rest on Saturday. Thank Goodness!

Clothes and Packing

Clothes from Mary and Chelley.

Well, in prepping for Peanut, Mary and Chelley gave me their maternity clothes that they no longer needed or wanted. After going through all of them...and Mary had TONS, I have come to the conclusion that I will never need to buy any maternity clothes...thanks guys :) This came at a good time since for the first time today I put on a pair of my pants that I normally wear that no longer fit. Mind you they fit at my weight, but not with the weight being so centralized:( Oh well that is to be expected.

Tomorrow the 2nd grade is going to Arlington Echo for an overnight field trip...wish me luck! I will let you all know on Thursday how it went and if I survived:P
David has almost all the wallpaper down in the kitchen and once that is done, we can paint the kitchen, switch out the hardware, and put up our pictures and we will have another room done. Of course if you are itchin to paint...let us know, I can cook really well and we could sure use the help!