Painting the Nursey

What a good husband! Ben painted the entire nursery this weekend, hooray! He was concerned that the paint fumes might affect the baby so he didn't let me help at all. Now, I'm pretty sure unless the paint had led in it (which I don't think they make anymore), it would have been fine for me to help. But, none the less, I enjoyed taking a bit of a break and watching Ben prepare for baby Lucy's arrival.

Don't worry... what he gave in work, I repaid in food.

30 Weeks Belly Picture

Only 10 more weeks left, it's hard to believe! Still feeling pretty well, belly button is starting to feel a little stretched and back is a little more achy, but overall enjoying carrying baby Lucy.

The Name Game

I thought I'd finally "come out" on our blog about the baby's name - many people have been asking if we are naming the baby Olive, and even more are asking what we've decided. We have been telling friends and family, and at home we use the baby's name - so it's time to say goodbye to Olive (our name for the fetus) on this blog and say hello to.... LUCY!!! Officially, she will be Lucille Marie Wehner, but will most likely go by Lucy.

Of course we reserve the right to change our minds once we meet our daughter face to face, but we've been stuck on this name for a couple months now, so I feel it's ok to annouce it!

How we decided- Ben and I had come up with a list of about 10 girl names and 5 boy names that we both really liked. We went for a walk the night we found out the baby was a girl, and started going through the list of ideas. After going through our favorite girl names, Ben mater of factly said - "Lucy, that's it, Lucy Marie is my favorite." I of course, being the indecisive one, ran through all of the other names 3-4 more times just to confirm that Ben realized all of the options we had in front of us, but even still he loved the name Lucy. And that of course made me fall in love with it too.

Additionally, if you think we are naming our children/animals (Ruthie, Lucy) after 7th Heaven characters, you would be correct. Our next child will be Matt or Mary.

Showered With Love!

I had my first shower a couple weeks ago. I feel so blessed to have such good friends that would throw me a shower and even more that would support us with their love and help us prepare as we get ready for the baby. I was overwhelmed with all the goodies we received - I really feel like we are close to having all of what we need for Olive's arrival, and fortunately we have one more shower to go that should help cover what we have left to get. How lucky our little girl is, and she doesn't even realize it!



Quick overview of the shower - we had yummy food, hot apple cider and hot chocolate. After chatting for a bit we played how well do you know the mommy to be (guests tried to guess what characteristics I would want Olive to have from dad and what I would want her to have from mom), guess the size of my belly, who can drink water out of a bottle fastest (hilarious) and baby bingo as we opened presents. The shower was a blast, decorations were adorable, games were hilarious, and the company was perfect! Thanks to Katy, Courtney and Beth for an amazing baby shower.



More pictures on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2741677&id=6817044&page=2

Our Last DINK Christmas

Ben and I went out last Friday for my company christmas party - thought I'd include a shot on the blog of us all dressed up! Sorry Ben for using the picture where your head is cut out - this is the one I looked cutest in ;) When you have your own blog you can choose which pictures you want to put up.

Please note how handsome Ben looks in his sweater vest... shouldn't hear wear this all the time?

Watching her grow!! 28 weeks, 7 months

I'm now officially in my third trimester! Only 12 weeks left, but I'm hoping those 12 weeks go slow! Fortunately, I've really enjoyed carrying around our little girl, so that has made pregnancy go quite smoothly. I also still feel like we have tons to do to prepare for her arrival, all these thoughts keep running through my mind: when are we going to paint the nursery? are we financially ready for this? we don't have a car seat or mattress yet! how many date nights can Ben and I fit in (an afford) before the baby comes? And so on, and so on...

Every once in a while I just need to take a deep breath!

Here are the latest pics of my belly (to see how much I've grown, just click the belly tag at the bottom of my post and you can see all of my belly pictures from week 14 on).




(two things to note in this picture, that are different than all of our other pictures: 1. Ben surprised me last night with the final piece to our bedroom suite - my night stand! 2. Somebody had an accident on our comforter last weekend so we are borrowing the guest room comforter unitl ours is done being cleaned... I won't name any names, but let's just say it wasn't Ben or I)

26 Week Belly

Ok - these are more like 26.5 week belly pictures, but life got away from me for a couple days! Belly is growing week by week, no real complaints other than some major back pain this week. I don't think it's necessarily from the extra belly I am carrying, but just from sleeping wrong or having bad posture at work. I just wish I could take some heavy muscle relaxers or at least have a glass of wine right now... Aspirin just doesn't have enough kick.

It's funny, I never would have thought it, but I've realized how many drugs my body is reliant on- now that I can't have them... caffeine, ibuprofen, cigarettes... ok, just kidding about the cigarettes, but still - I'd love a nice dose of Advil right now.