Baby Beatles & Sounds

Baby likes the Beatles, we've been playing all sorts of music for the baby. This morning I had Sgt. Pepper's on and Steph said that he was moving around and kicking within the first song. Also, we've noticed that when she comes into the garage and I'm playing around on the drums he also seems to push on her belly wall. Last weekend my nephew and I were playing around on the guitar and again the baby was moving around. We have found that the baby did not like our hammer sounds when we were working on the floors, so steph would go into the other room while I banged around. Testing out sounds!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to you all! We had a great Christmas with my family in person and Alan's family via webcam. We were blessed with a lot of great presents for the baby. Alan's mom even said that we will get our presents later but that all the gifts she sent were for the baby! We love it! My parents got us all the baby bedding and Alan's parents sent us some beautiful hand knitted outfits and a baby blanket. My parents and sisters also bought me the glider rocker that I have been wanting. However, after Alan and Dad put it together, Alan sat down in it and didn't get up the rest of the evening. I think I will have to fight for it! :)

We are hoping to get this kid named by the middle of January so we can stop calling him "the baby" so help us out by voting on your favorite of our finalist names. I bet you can all guess who had the influence on the last of the three names. If you have other ideas, respond to this post with the ideas. We are still open!

Third Trimester: Jumping up and down

Our little man is very active now, moving all over and every once in awhile, moving so much that it feels like he does a flip!

We are finally in the third trimester. I say finally, but actually, the time has flown by. We are almost done with all the new hardwood floors that we are installing and just have a few more smaller projects to accomplish before the baby arrives. I am wanting to get as much done in the next month as possible, considering that February and March will not be months that I will want to do much. I have been nesting a bit and doing a ton of organizing in the house. I am realizing we have far too much junk. We have made several trips to make donations to the Disabled American Vet and the Goodwill stores and we are packing up other items to join the rest of the junk we have in the attic!

We hope everyone is doing well and we wish you all a very happy holiday season!

Nursery

Here is a picture of the nursery. We ripped up the carpet and replaced it with 3 1/4 inch cherry plank flooring that we love because it makes it looks so clean and bright. We also painted the walls a soft blue called Seaside. The little rocking chair in the room was mine (Steph's) when I was a little girl and when you rock in it, it plays music. When I was about 8 years old, my mom loaned it to a neighbor for their little boy and I was not happy, so my mom wrote on the bottom of the chair that it belongs to Stephanie Marie White and anyone else using it is just borrowing it! I have always been a bit of a princess :)