more shower pictures :)

i posted about a baby shower a little while ago and i forgot to include these pictures! :) 

 cousins

love these beautiful friends!!

and these ones!

trying to take a picture

having more success

let's take one where we're all touching the bump...

I babysat this sweet girl from the time she was about 1 or 2 and she was the flower girl in our wedding a couple years ago.  can't believe how grown up she is!

so so so blessed :)

painted dressers

I've been toying around with nursery ideas, as I mentioned a couple days ago and one thing I'd like to do is a paint a dresser that will function as a changing table/ storage/ dresser.

These are some fun ones I've seen on the internet in all my time-wasting research.

from young house love - stained a $30 craigslist dresser and added a white top!  cool and classy but I probably will end up painting instead of staining.  one day when i'm fancy and have lots of time, i'll stain so it looks pretty like this.

i LOVE the color of this one! so cheerful :)

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loving the yellow

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I also like varieties of turquoise/ teal/ aqua/ what-have-you

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this one is a good color but I really love how pretty the dresser is 

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again, not the best pic, but you get the idea.

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so what do you think? green, yellow, turquoise, other??

I'm hoping to do pale gray walls but we

Nursery on my mind

Last night, for the first time, baby girl's little kicks woke me up.  It was cute last night, but I have a feeling it will get tiresome as it becomes more frequent :)  Maybe she'll learn to sleep when mommy sleeps so that when she graces us with her presence she'll automatically sleep when mommy wants to sleep.  (haha jk!)

We also bought this little girl's first outfit.  Well, first outfit from us.  It's kinda silly, I know, but it was fun to go pick out something together!!

Sunday, instead of lesson planning, I dreamed up how to decorate her nursery.  We live in a rental house, so I don't want to go crazy (considering we might be moving 6-8 months after she's born), but it's still fun to do a little something.  These are some things I liked...

These zinc letters from Anthropologie

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This giraffe print (etsy).  It comes in rainbow and pink.  I can't decide :)

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This paint color and crib

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a mobile made from these- paint chips + heart punch!

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I found a bunch more but I can't give it all away ;)  Plus, she's not coming out for another 19 weeks, so it's not time to go crazy yet.


Seen any cute girly stuff!?!!?  Got any nursery tips!?!?

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These were both taken at 17 1/2 weeks :)

 Speaking of 17 weeks... the bottom RH corner shows 'actual size' (ish) footprints of our baby girl at 17 weeks. the cutest footprints if you ask me!

 hot date!

 right before our ultrasound... so excited!!

 20 weeks and off to work!

p.s. i thought i would be one of those people who takes a cute picture in the same outfit and location every week but the weeks have been passing so quickly!  oh.my.goodness. well at least it's cute when other people on pinterest do it...

girl

Well it's been a few days weeks since I wrote last. 
I'm sitting in Denver, slightly teary-eyed before my computer screen after reading this blog post and thinking about the sweet baby girl that will make her earthly debut 21-ish weeks from now.
 
oh, you didn't hear? 
yeah, baby! we're thinking pink bows and frills over here.

After much debate, we decided to find out the gender of little baby Cook at the 20 week ultrasound.  For the first 10-15 weeks, I was thinking boy, but then a little 'click' inside me went 'girl' and I knew on some level (of course one can't be completely sure) that she was a little girl.  So when the ultrasound tech told us, I can't say I was completely surprised.  But I can admit to being completely overwhelmed.  Seeing her on that screen - moving around, even waving and kicking her legs.  Wow.  The minute we walked out the door with that long strip of pictures in our hands, I was full of tears (and on my way back to work!)  Ben popped his arm around me, pulling me into his shoulder and we walked back to the car in awe.  When we got in the car, I giggled through tears and said "A little baby girl...I didn't think I would get so emotional," and we both laughed out loud.  [Because let's be honest, what doesn't get me emotional these days?! But we can save those stories for another time.]

19 weeks and counting,
Renee

a lime, a peach and a lemon oh my!

Go Big Red!  a onesie from Aunt Elsie and Uncle Al! 

Grammy and Papa sent jammies and a book after we told them the big little news :)

June 27, week 12: baby is 2 1/2 inches "crown to rump" - the size of a lime 

July 4, week 13: baby is approximately 3 inches long, the size of a peach :)

July 11, week 14: baby is approx 3 1/2 inches long, the size of a lemon

the food comparisons confuse me because the shapes are all different, but they're kinda cute.
i get a little email each week telling me all kinds of details about baby's growth.
in one way January 9 (d-day... "due day" that is) seems far away.  on the other hand, i can't believe it's already been 14 weeks!!

i officially couldn't button a pair of pants today. not as in uncomfortably tight. couldn't button a pair of pants as in they absolutely wouldn't button.   pulled out the old rubber band trick.  turns out it's rather uncomfortable to wear pants unbuttoned.  on the other hand, it makes me feel legitimately pregnant :)

growing,
ren

rice

3 weeks after we found out we were pregnant, we just weren't quite sure how far along we were.  i felt more sick than i thought was "normal" for 5-6 weeks, and if we did the math right, that pregnancy test would have showed up positive WAY too early.  so we decided to do an ultrasound to date the pregnancy.  i was secretly hoping i was magically a month further than we thought, but alas, just a few days.  

getting ready.  the ultrasound tech thought there was 2 babies at first!!!!! but, she confirmed there was just 1. 

6 weeks-ish

this is the ultrasound she gave us.  it was fun to get one done, but that baby looked like a grain of rice!! the cutest grain of rice i've ever seen if i do say so myself.  

at our 11 week doctor appointment, we heard the heartbeat. wow! so speedy. 

B is for...

baby :)

considering most people who read this blog are people i know, this is probably not new to you.  but this blog is an outlet for me to write about life, faith, teaching, family, whatever....

and now, life includes a baby.  well, a baby-in-utero currently.
so along with the rest of my random thoughts, you get random baby thoughts!

this moment was so exciting. i just kept blinking and looking at it to MAKE SURE there were 2 lines.

we found out at 3 in the morning... need i say more?

daddy.

well there it is folks.

more to come.