After Dean got home from work today, he came into the room and said "Guess what?"  I knew it had to be something good because he had a huge grin on his face and his nostrils were a-flaring.

My first guess--"You're...pregnant!!"  Nope. 

Second guess--"We won the lottery!!"  Nope.

Ok, what? 

THE CRIB IS IN!!!!!!!!!  YAYYYY!!!!!! 

Originally, they told us they would contact us in AUGUST to let us know how much longer it would be...we were thinking we'd be lucky to get it before PIP got here, SO this is very exciting and a great surprise.  The crib is the last piece of furniture we were waiting for.  Interesting what thrills me these days...

I've been itching to get on here to give a couple updates...our Internet was messed up for a while (we were trying to block our wireless from our Dub-T neighbors down the street and ended up booting ourselves off...oops.)

So anyways...yes, we now have a PINK room in our house!!! (The color is called "pink mist"...very light.)  It's my new favorite place to be...I'm sitting on the glider in the nursery right now facing the closet full of little girly clothes.  Perfect.   Dean's parents came over this past weekend and helped Dean paint the room...a HUGE THANK YOU to them!!!  We so, so, so appreciate the help!  Dean also put up a white chair rail around the room and it all looks so great!  I'm really happy with the way it turned out.  I did some painting as well...don't worry, it was in front of the open patio door with several breaks...I painted the dresser and nightstand white...that's all!  Dean still needs to do a few things with the chair rail...filling the nail holes and he wants to paint them with a brighter white...they look a little gray, but honestly, there are going to be so many different shades of white in this room, it really won't matter!  I'll post a picture of what we have going so far...

Just today, I received the crib mobile in the mail!  Her bedding set doesn't have a matching one, so I looked on eBay and found one that matches the colors of the bedding perfectly!  It's an octopus with little fish, which has nothing to do with the whole flower theme of the bedding, but it's SO cute!  It winds up and plays a lullaby.  I actually got tears in my eyes when I held it up and watched it spin.  Sigh.

We TRIED registering this weekend (we went to SuperTarget and also want to go to Babies R Us) and it was just completely overwhelming!  We're going to take a breather before heading to Babies R Us.  We had no idea what we were doing!!!  I sort of had a freak-out moment and had to ask Meghan what in the heck I was doing!  I asked her and also Erika to possibly look over our registries once we were all done to see if we were missing anything important and if we had things on there that are useless.  They have both been giving me pointers all along the way...things that they wish someone had told them, things that they KNOW we'll want to have, etc.  Like I said before, real-mom advice is the best kind of advice out there...I can't ever get enough of it, so thank you!

Jamie, Lindsey, and I have been trying to figure out a date for my shower!  August is a little too crazy for everyone...we tried for a couple different dates, but looks like we're going with September 7th...third time's a charm, right?   

We signed up for the Prepared Childbirth classes through Methodist Hospital...we start Monday August 4th and it's once a week for six weeks.  I've heard from a few people that half the classes are pretty boring and stupid but the other half is actually quite helpful.  We'll take anything that makes us just a bit more prepared and knowledgeable!

I'm going to sound like a broken record, but I'm still feeling well for the most part!  I'm getting bigger and rounder everyday!    The arches of my feet have started to ache...from the extra weight, maybe??  It just kind of feels like the bottoms of my feet are stretching out too far when I walk.  Weird.  PIP is still squirming around at the same times everyday...it's like clockwork!    A few nights ago, I looked down at my stomach and the right side was about an inch higher than the left...it was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen!!  Dean thinks she was scooting her little butt up in the air.   As we become more and more prepared for her (well, as prepared as first-time parents can be), we've become more and more anxious and excited for her to get here!  Only about 3 1/2 months to go...can you believe it?!

Ok...one more time...I'm going to try and not delete this entry.  Again.

A bunch of random things, as usual...

We have a name picked out...for my belly button.    Dean has named it the "fun-meter!"  It's never an innie anymore...it's either flush with the rest of my stomach (typically only in the mornings when I wake up) or it's sticking out enough to see it through my shirt.  Dean calls it the "fun-meter" because we've noticed that the harder I laugh, the more it sticks out.  It's pretty funny.  We were at Lowe's the other day picking up stuff for the chair rail for the nursery and for some reason, I was laughing and it was sticking all the way out.  Dean kept poking at it and we were both cracking up in the aisle like a couple of crazies.  People probably thought we were nuts!

Yesterday afternoon, I went over to Ping and Lindsey's house...Lindsey (my sister-in-law) dragged two huge Rubbermaid totes full of 0-3 and 3-6 month clothes that Haylee wore when she was a baby.  We went through it all and she let me take whatever I wanted!  THANK YOU to both Lindsey and Miss Haylee for letting us borrow so much!!!  It'll really help!

Speaking of Haylee, she is going to be the best big cousin ever!  She's 3, going on 4, and is SO excited for her "baby cousin" to arrive!  Before we found out the sex, Haylee INSISTED that it was going to be a girl.  She wasn't going to have it any other way.  She tells me all the time that she wants to hold her "baby cousin" and play with her and share her toys with her.  So sweet.  Just to give her an idea, we told her that by Halloween, the baby would be here, so now she tells me that the baby is growing like the great pumpkin.   She seems to be pretty fascinated with my growing stomach!  Just about every time I see her, she says, "Your tummy is getting big."  So matter-of-fact...little kids are awesome.  One time, I told her I liked her new dress and she responded, "Thanks.  I like your belly."  Hehe.

I think I have decided on a paint color for the nursery...surprise, surprise, it's PINK!   I originally thought about doing two shades...a light one above the chair rail and a slightly darker one below, but the room is so small that I thought maybe that would be overboard.  So as of right now, it's going to be a very, very light pink.  I've read that a soft pink like that is very calming and soothing, so that's good!  Dean wanted to try and get everything painted this weekend...we're also painting a dresser, wall shelf, and nightstand white.  I can't wait to see it all! 

We've gotten all the major things for the nursery...the bedding came and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!  It's even cuter in person!  I can't wait until the crib comes so I can set it all up!  The glider is also here and I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the box.  The color is perfect!  In the picture online, it looks a little yellowy, but it's a very light neutral beige.  I decided to put it together myself because all the reviews online said it was so easy.  I still managed to mess it up though.  I used two screws that were too long and they poked through the bottom.  Boo.  You can't see it though.  We also got our stroller/car seat set.  The stroller is massive!!!  I think I could fit in it!   We like the set though...great color, feels very sturdy, and seems easy to use.

I can hardly believe that I'm nearly 6 months along already...it's gone so FAST!!!  I'm still feeling really well.  Still dealing with the pesky tailbone pain, but it's not constant, so it's tolerable.  My lovely zit problem...everytime I think I may have won the battle, a new one pops up somewhere.  Today, there's a new one on my shoulder.  Who gets pimples on their shoulder?!?  Gross. 

A fun new thing...PIP has found my bladder...she likes to tap dance on it...it's a wonderful feeling.   She's still very active...always while I'm lounging on the couch after work in the afternoons and when I read in bed before going to sleep.  It's so fun to sit and watch my stomach move!  She's stubborn already...when she moves, I try to get Dean (or anyone else) to feel or watch my stomach, but as soon as someone does, she gets stage fright and stops.  I swear she knows that people are watching! 

I haven't been sleeping as well lately...I told Dean that I think it's happening to slowly get me used to functioning on light, broken sleep.  My allergies have been kicking my butt, so that adds to the crappy sleep too.   I'm going to survive though...I really don't have anything to complain about!  Overall, I really do feel GREAT.

I just spent the past 25-30 minutes typing up a new entry and managed to accidentally delete the entire thing.  SIGH.  And yesterday, I tried to post one but it wouldn't work and I lost that whole entry too.  Stupid computers.

I'll try again later this evening...