Nesting

I am less than 2 months away from my due date and nesting has started to take place. This weekend I have cleaned the entire house and have done so much stuff in Kayden's room. I can't actually believe how much I have done especially in there! However, doing it all in a day and a half has really taken it's toll on me physically so hopefully I will be able to keep up with just picking up after ourselves so I won't have to do the whole full out cleaning again. I have also cleaned out my car and vacuumed, washed the windows, cleaned out the trunk, etc. My car was pretty dirty because I am really bad at keeping it clean so that was a whole other project in itself but I am glad it is done and hopefully will stay clean before baby comes!

I believe it has finally hit that tomorrow is August, and that means that in 31 more days it will be September... the month I am due! Nick and I have both been working hard in Kayden's room to make sure things are coming a long in there and so that we do not have to do it all right before he comes. It looks like on Monday we will be finishing the decorating on his wall. We have the letters up but we are wanting to put the design that is on his bedding onto the wall on each end of his name and one big one underneath it. Then all we will have left is to hang the picture frames above the dresser (whenever that comes in... hopefully within the next week)and then continue putting things away from baby showers. Our house is so little that it hit us once we started bringing in all of the things from our first baby shower that we will have to make sure we are just putting things up right after each baby shower... otherwise we will get REALLY overwhelmed with everything! So as of now everything is in it's place from the last baby shower and then we have 2 this weekend that we will be putting things away for. Luckily, we have planned to have all of the baby showers done before September so that we have time to make sure everything is in place and that we have everything that we need before Kayden comes.

On Facebook I asked mom's to put their input in on what the things were that I needed to make sure I already had at home for the first weeks that Kayden gets here. Luckily I got a lot of responses. I'm going to make my list here so that I don't lose it and can refer back to it once it gets closer to time. If anyone has anything else to add feel free!!
Boppy Pillow (and multiple covers)
burp cloths
mylicon drops
blankets (swaddling blankets also miracle blanket)
medela lanolin breast cream
itzbeen timer (which we got from our first baby shower... thanks lauren!! ) :)
different pacies in case he doesn't like a certain one
swing
bouncy that vibrates
glider (also already have!)
pinxav (diaper rash cream that is apparently really good www.pinxav.com)

1st baby shower!!

My parents decided to take a picture after half of the people left already... these were just the remaining people at the end, and I had already changed into a t-shirt but o well! :)




Tonight my best friend Amanda Greenfield threw me my first baby shower! She invited some of my old friends from church and friends from high school! It was so great to get to see all of them again and spend time with everyone. I wish that I had more time to talk to everyone and catch up on their lives though! Everyone was so sweet and generous in the things that they got for Kayden! We got some more adorable clothes for him to wear. We also got bottles, diapers, our exersaucer, space saver highchair,bath tub and some breastfeeding goodies a long with lots of other stuff! I feel so blessed to have such awesome friends that are just as excited as we are to welcome Kayden into our lives.
My mom took pictures of the baby shower which I do not have right now but I will definitely post some as soon as I get them. It really was a lot of fun and like i said, so awesome to finally catch up with all these girls again!!
The next weekend I am also looking forward too even though it's going to be super busy! We are taking our maternity pictures on friday night, my mom and sister in law iare throwing a shower for me with all of her friends saturday afternoon, then we have a wedding to go to and on sunday they are both throwing another shower for all of my mom's side of the family! Busy Busy but so much fun!!

Video 2 of Kayden

Video 1 of Kayden

3rd trimester!

This is probably going to be the most random blog post but I have finally reached the third trimester and I am understanding why everyone says the 2nd trimester is like the "honeymoon phase". It's like the day I hit the third trimester I became nauseas and exhausted all over again. I could probably sleep for 12 hours and still be tired by 8 p.m. I also have been getting sick again at random times. I know it's the last stretch so i'm just going to try and get through it... only 11 more weeks!!

I have noticed Kayden moving a TON lately. You can see my stomach jump and move when he moves. It kinda creeps Nick out but it's really fun to watch. I can finally tell where he is and what body parts are where so I think that's pretty cool. I still feel tiny compared to other people who are 7 months pregnant but I continuously ask the doctor if he is ok and she says that he is just fine! As long as she says he is fine then i'm not going to worry too much about it. It's nice that I can still wear a lot of my regular clothes and not have to spend money on a bunch of maternity clothes.

The nursery is slowly coming along and Kayden has soooo many clothes! All of his clothes are laying on the floor in his room right now and it's rediculous how much he has. I can't wait for him to be here so that I can put the clothes on him!

We went on a family vacation with the Coopers which was fun and interesting. I was not so excited about going since I get really tired and hot easily, however it was very nice and laid back. We really did not do much but sit at the beach and the pool so it was relaxing. We had a beautiful view from our bedroom and balcony so it was nice to have a little bit of a "babymoon" before Kayden comes. It will be our last vacation without a baby to take care of!

The next 2 1/2 months are going to be super busy with baby showers, maternity pictures, weddings, etc all coming up so i'm sure the exhaustion is just going to increase but atleast it will make the next 2 1/2 months go by fast..... OH.MY.GOODNESS.... 2 1/2 more months!!!! I can't wait to meet Mr. Kayden.

Nursery!

Today we started on Kayden's nursery! Nick's mom came over and helped paint. The smell was pretty overwhelming so I didn't get to see the paint color until it was all up on the walls. I was really worried that I would not like the color up on the walls once it was up but I really do like it, especially with the bedding. Skye also enjoyed watching the paining process. He did very well about not going in the room and just laid down in the hallway so he could still see what was going on! We put the crib up and put the bedding in it! We still want to do a lot of decorative things such as painting some things on the wall, putting Kayden's name up on the wall along with window treatment and all that jazz so it's no where near finished but we have a start at least! I can't believe that in 3 1/2 months there will be a baby to put in the nursery!

Books

So.. I'm lazy and do not feel like getting up to get a paper and pencil to write this down and I know I will just lose above piece of paper so writing it on the blog will be the safest place. The youth minister at our church just found out that they are having another boy. (They have one already, adopting 2 from Ethiopia, and expecting their 4th boy in october). He recently asked for advice on parenting books and a lot of people replied about "boy" specific books so I am taking notes so I can remember what books to get! Yes... this is a very random post!

- Bringing Up Boys by James Dobson
- Parenting By The Book by John Rosemond
- The Well- Behaved Child by John Rosemond
- The Strong Wild Child
- Modern Day Knight
- Creative Correction by Lisa Whelchel

I'm sure there are many more but along with the new parent and sleeping books I'm not sure I will be able to get to them all before the baby is born :)