ups and downs

this nursery thing is for the birds! well, at least today it is...and once a week or so. i get SO frustrated trying to decide what exactly i want! i hate decisions...and they are especially hard now for some reason...i guess pregnancy is not on my side on this one. i've decided on colors...black, white, and teal. we're having black furniture and 3 white walls and one teal wall. then comes the bedding...
i need help. and i've been working w/my mom and her dear friend, Carrie Jo, and love them and their help. just lately, i've been short. my attitude is short. i mean, they keep throwing more and more ideas out at me everytime i ask an opinion and then that leads to more dreaded decisions!!! then i get verbally frustrated. then i feel bad b/c i know i asked for their help. and the worst part is my mom gets the brunt of it. she's like the "go-between" between Carrie Jo and I. and that's not easy. for me, but probably especially for her. and i hate that for her :( she's my mom and i love her.

so what shall we call her???

after much thinking, debating, and discussion we finally reached a desicion for our new little girl...i really wanted a family name, but couldn't make any of them work or fit or we just both didn't agree. so family names went by the wayside...therefore, this post doesn't have much explanation except that we found a name we both liked and agreed on. (even though some of our family doesn't quite think as highly of it as we do :) so, we proudly announce to the world (or just those of you in my blog world) that our sweet little girl will be named:

Ruby Belle Smith

and that's that!! :) i guess it could change...we do have a little less than 3 months to change our minds, but i'm pretty sure they are made up. we fall in love with our little Ruby Belle more and more each day!

what's in a name...?!

so, we have a name...but only 1/2. we're still debating on her middle name. hopefully we'll have that soon, but, man are names hard!!! i am obsessed w/them, and i want hers to be perfect, so maybe that's what's taking us so long. i know, we have 4 months until she arrives, but i'm not patient w/this naming thing. my husband is SO opinionated, which i'm thankful for, but it makes it more hard to decide on a name we agree on. i guess for now, i'm glad he's opinionated b/c i am having trouble deciding everything these days! (as if i wasn't already decisionally challenged!...it's worse now that i'm pregnant!)

next...deciding on details of the baby room!

we did buy a crib today!!!! our first baby purchase!!! and we're (my husband) painting it black!

more to come!!!

22 weeks

so, here's yet another belly shot. i know...kinda getting boring if you're following my blog b/c i all i do is post pics of my beautiful slowly expanding belly. so sorry! :) and sorry about this one...can you tell i just woke up? (if you look close you can see the marks from the bed sheets! :)

22 week appt

well, this was my first visit w/my MD after my ultrasound. so i was excited and nervous to see what he had to say...what his professional opinion was after seeing the zillion pics (i had no idea they take pics and measurements of everything from the collar bone to the pelvic bone!) they took of our sweet girl. so, he walks in and says, "so everything looked good on your ultrasound,..but we need to talk about one problem." WHAT?! uh-oh...i braced myself. and he was silent, so i finally said, and what is the problem?! so, come to find out, i have a "low-lying placenta." this is apparently pretty common this early on, but i will be having another ultrasound at 30 week to see what it looks like then. if it doesn't correct itself by then, then i will have no choice but a c-section. and i really, really don't want to plan for a c-section. really, i don't want a c-section at all...unless of course i will be putting the baby at risk. i was really hoping to have this baby w/o many (if any) drugs and w/o an epidural. so, MUCH different than a planned c-section! so, in the meantime, i'm praying that this placenta will move on up away from my cervix...

belly at 20 weeks!

still not the greatest photo...will work on the back drop next time:) (and sorry for those of you who are already tired of "belly shots!" i'm gonna keep it up until i pop! but that's me at 20 weeks!! it really looks bigger when i'm looking down at it... i'm officially halfway!!!

proof that "i'm a girl!!!"

this is it...the picture that supposedly says "i'm a girl!!" wow. ultrasound techs are some seriously trained eyes. that's a view from the bottom up...like she's sitting on a glass bottom bench or something...it says Girl!! :)