31 weeks

I know I say this every week, but I can't believe I'm already 31 weeks pregnant and what a week this was! I've been looking forward to this week for the last couple of months; it was Baby Shower week! Before our shower, we had our second attempt at the 3D ultrasound and it was a semi-success. Our camera shy little boy let us see his tiny face for most of the appointment. Sure, it was more of a side profile view, but we were able to see more than just his cute little nose. We got two really great shots of Emerson grinning at me and his Daddy. Towards the end of the appointment he started to work on his yoga poses and ended up with his feet covering his face. When the ultrasound tech was looking at the black and white ultrasound she noticed a halo of long hair surrounding Emerson's noggin. She said she can normally see a little bit of hair on babies, but from what she was seeing Emerson already has a lot of LONG hair. Should be interesting to see how similar our 3D image is to Emerson once he's here. I just hope the long hair is all on his head and not all over his body! Here's a little snap shot of our grinning babe.

The weekend was finally here and that meant baby shower #1 was finally here! Our first shower was thrown by my mom and sister. We have a very large group of family and friends so my original guest list to my mom had 65 people on it. I thought it was already too many people to ask my mom and sister to host, but apparently I was mistaken. My mamacita ended up adding to the list and making it a grand total of 96 invites! We are so blessed to have that many wonderful people in our lives, but thank goodness not all of them were available to spend the day with us because the 60 or so people that did make it made for a very cozy afternoon. Sunday's weather was expected to be a warm 88 degrees, but thankfully the breeze was blowing so it turned out to be a nice day to sit outside. Well, it was a nice day for everyone who's not pregnant-I was a sweaty mess for most of the afternoon. 

The theme of the shower was all things lime green, blue, and mustaches! I was beyond impressed with the decor, Grandma and Auntie outdid themselves! With such a large group of people it was hard to play the typical shower games, but that didn't stop my mom and sister! They found the best shower game ever! Each table was given a nursery rhyme and told to re-write it to include me, AJ, and Emerson and I would pick which table wrote the best remix. Of the six tables, four of them remixed the nursery rhyme to include some sexual innuendos. Knowing my family and friends I was expecting to hear some naughtiness added to each song, but my mom was completely surprised. I'm not sure why she didn't see this coming, it's not like a baby shower was going to tone this group down! Every remix was amazing, but the winner ended up being the table with all the Aunts; they won because they found a proper way to include the word va-jay-jay! Here's a link to videos of each remix.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5WBoLYRj7puTGN6MHp1cV8tTTg/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5WBoLYRj7puWmtXcmxqYUZIUXc/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5WBoLYRj7puYXRoa3BvZW9ZRkE/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5WBoLYRj7puY0llTDNzOGF1OG8/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5WBoLYRj7pualVubWVFQ1U5djQ/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5WBoLYRj7puYU9hRFgweUlYcXc/edit?usp=sharing

One of the many bonuses of knowing so many incredible people is having our little man get spoiled! I can't even begin to name off all the wonderful gifts we received from everyone. I'm already getting hand cramps thinking of all those thank you notes!

This shower just blew me away and I couldn't be more thankful for my amazing Mom, sister, family and friends. We are so blessed to be surrounded by all of these fabulous people!

In other baby news, we made a few upgrades and changes to the nursery this week. Our home was built in 1956 and I'm pretty sure the windows are all original to the house. We have been wanting to replace them all, but it's too expensive so we are doing room-by-room, starting with the nursery. One of our friends was able to get us a really good deal on a window and he helped AJ install it Saturday morning. Emerson will never be too warm or too cold with this new window! 

This week AJ also finished painting our hand-me-down chifferobe and it went into the room. Once we had the chifferobe, rug, crib, glider, and changing table all in the room we realized one of these things is not like the other. As much as we love our blue changing table, we both realized that once it was all in the room it just didn't look right. A very frustrated AJ and I decided it would have to be sanded down and repainted to match the chifferobe. That is on next week's list of projects to get done. We have to make it happen because until it's done, we have an incomplete room, which prevents us from putting away all of our gifts. As you can see the gifts have found a home in our living room and we've just made trails to work around them all. 

We started putting together some of our goodies and thought I'd share a picture of what is most likely, who am I kidding, IS going to be our future.

First item in the stroller wasn't baby, but a lime-a-rita!

Next week my work is throwing me a baby shower and we have another one at the end of June thrown by AJ's dad's side of the family. Needless to say we will have a mini Babies-R-Us in our living room before Emerson gets here!

Emerson will be gracing us with his presence in just a short 9 weeks!

 

How Far Along: 31 Weeks

Weight gain: 38 lbs, but I'm sure the scale at the Dr's will say differently
Maternity clothes? Of course
Stretch marks? My dot is growing, but still pretty small
Sleep: Getting a bit more solid sleep because the frequent urination has slowed down a bit this week, but I'm pretty sure I just jinxed myself. 
Best Moment of the Week: Getting spoiled at our first baby shower!
Miss Anything? My figure
Movement?: He's starting to do a lot more stretching and a lot less punches and kicks. 

Food cravings: Jamba Juice!

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope
Gender: Baby Boy
Labor Signs: None

Symptoms: Massive heartburn, scatter-brained, aweful groin pain, and restless legs
Belly Button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or off? Off
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy!
Looking Forward To: Starting and finishing our changing table and starting to organize all Emerson's goodies!