Is it a boy or girl?

Which way is the necklace swinging???

My friends and I were playing around a few weeks ago to see what gender our babies were going to be. There are millions of different gender predictor tests and a lot of mine said boy, whereas my other preggie friend (who is to remain nameless for now) got girl results on most of the tests. I think she's convinced that these tests are accurate. I guess we'll find out in 4 months with me!

Belly shots

Here are some recent shots of my ever-expanding belly (and booty).

Week 19 and still growing...

Also, my friend Terri gave me some photos that she took of me earlier this year. Drew and I didn't know we were pregnant in the first shot (it was taken about 4 days into my preggie stage according to doctor calculations).

Do you think I've grown any???

4 days preggie...

12 weeks preggie...

"A 'Little Bit' of Yellow and a 'LIttle Bit' more of Yellow"

Yes, the stripes are finished!!!!

Thanks to Anna Carol, I have come up with the names of my yellows in the nursery, in honor of my baby, Little Bit (hence the title of this post). Also, thanks goes out to mom, Kerri, Will, and Dixie for helping me get the nursery painted today. Will supervised and Dixie tail painted a bit. :)

My mom is one of the best trim painters in the world!

Kerri putting Will in his "paint gown" to better supervise us.

Again, after about 4 trips to Sherwin Williams getting the paint mixed a shade darker by a hair each time, I finally came to the right shade darker that I like for the room. It's the right amount for me and I am so happy to have the walls finished. Now I have to finish painting the changing table and rocker, and wait for the crib to get in. The nursery is finally coming together!

Thank you to everyone that has helped me paint my nursery and work on my furniture!!!!! I couldn't get it done without your help.

Let me out of this nutshell

Getting ready for my baby's first pictures.

It was a crowded room. Pop, we missed you!

We went to the doctor today and got our baby's first pictures. Drew, his mom, and my parents all joined me. It was quite exciting and there were plenty of tears from the females. Everything seemed to be fine. The baby is about 9 ounces and it looks like I'm 18 weeks and 5 days as opposed to the full 19 weeks that I thought I was going in today.

The good thing about the ultrasound was that the lady doing it couldn't even tell what it was because it was breech (which is normal at this stage apparently), so it's meant to be that I'm not supposed to know. :) Here are Little Bit's first profile shots. Just about everyone that has seen them today is calling it a boy. Either way, in the first picture, he-she looks like Austin Powers trying to get out of a nutshell. Hope you enjoy these pictures as much as we have already!

"Help! I'm in a nutshell. How did I get in this nutshell?"

~Austin Powers

Little Bit relaxing on its back and legs up in the air. What a life!

Another profile shot.

Not everything revolves around Dixie

...well, at least the title talks about her. I just wanted to update everyone because apparently people are convinced that this blog page is set up for my dog's sake. It's just that she's the only thing exciting right now, and she's stinkin' cute! But I'll update you on us and Little Bit.

In my nursery, I'm planning on doing tone-on-tone stripes with the yellow wall color. So last week, I got chalk line stripes on the walls with the help of my friend Kerri. Then, last night I taped off the stripes with my friend Lauren. Our AC is giving us fits (AKA, not working) and all I have to say about it is Arkansas in July, hot, me pregnant! So Lauren and I decided to come to a stopping point after we taped off the room. She said that this is no condition for a pregnant women to be in...I didn't argue. We're going to attempt to beat the heat and paint the stripes tomorrow night. Pray that God gives us another cool night. Luckily this week hasn't been as hot as we've had here before, but the humidity is thick!

I finally started to feel Little Bit move inside of me around the beginning of July. Sadly, though, Drew hasn't been able to feel the movement yet. I can't wait for that because I know he's anxious to feel it! But I'm sure that will come soon.

The next week I went to the American Idol concert with some friends of mine (Drew got the tickets for free from work in case you were wondering) and I think that we might have a musician, or at least a music lover, on board. Little Bit kicked quite a bit during the concert. Weird feeling, but totally cool! We joked that he-she was crying for Sanjaya. :)

Other updates:
I'm FINALLY going to get my ultrasound on Thursday and I will be 19 weeks!!!!!!!!!! The grandparents, minus Pop, are coming with Drew. They're convinced, or at least Drew is, that the person doing the ultrasound is accidentally going to tell us the sex or that the sonogram will be so obvious that we'll know what we're having. I hope they're wrong!

The other update is that the food of the week is a sweet potato, and Little Bit is approximately 7oz.. Last week, Little Bit was the size of an onion (thankfully, that yuck food is over!).

OK, I think that's about it for now. I'll be sure to post pix of my nursery and the sonogram soon.

Welcome to the new yellow

I have FINALLY come to a decision on the nursery's paint color!!! After 4 samplings from Sherwin Williams, going to Home Depot and Paint Depot to pick out a million other possibilities, I actually made a decision and got the room painted on Wednesday. Thanks Terry and Mom!!! Sadly, the guys at Sherwin Williams now know me as "The girl with the yellow fabric swatch", or just shortened to the "Yellow Girl who wants to darken or lighten the color a hair, a dash, or just a smidge." My mom knows what I mean when I use those technical terms but unfortunately those boys didn't. You think they'd learn technicality at paint mixing school. Seriously, though, the guys were really helpful with me and my crazy measurements of yellows. I just need to come up with a name for the yellow that I created and tackle the daring task of painting vertical stripes on the walls. I know I have until December, but I only have about a month until my freedom is taken again by school.

On another note, I wanted to show y'all Dixie's new spot to get away from me and my craziness. At first, she moved to the new guest bedroom and hung out by the window to catch the sun rays since she doesn't dare go outside (she's not spoiled by any means!). But now she has resorted to hiding underneath the guest bed to completely get away from it all. I can't decide if it's stinkin' cute or just plain depressing. You decide!

Stop the madness!!!!

I'm not quite sure how Dixie is handling all of the changes that have been occurring around here in the past 4 months (I'm 16 weeks today and Little Bit is about the size of an avocado, by the way).
Let's see:

• It all began about 12 weeks ago when I first told her that she was going to be a big sis. She just turned her head and looked at me like "Why is this crazy human talking to me?"



• Since the summer has started I've been hanging out with Kerri and Will a bunch, and he's been helping get Dixie "child-ready". I just think Dixie isn't quite sure why all of these little people keep coming over here and wanting to feed her dog food from their tiny hands. :) Knock on wood, but she's been doing very well with the kiddos coming in and out of the house and chasing her around. But please keep those prayers coming!!!



• Then last week, Pop (Drew's dad) came in from NY for Drew's bday. While he was here, I put him to work and got him to move the office furniture out of the house because I have now changed the office into the new Guest Bedroom and am changing the old Guest Bedroom into the nursery. But the problem is, the office furniture consists of probably Dixie's most favorite spot...a very comfy worn in couch. I think Dixie has finally realized something is wrong -- she can't find her comfy throne anymore and the old Guest Bedroom is virtually empty with the exception of a few different TERRIBLE yellow paint samples slapped on the wall (I'll probably talk more about that later). So as I was blog searching tonight (yes, I've become a complete addict with this and it's fun since I can't go to sleep easily anymore), Princess Dixie decided that she is not going to give into all of these changes yet and she made her own little palette with some pillows in the spot of where her couch was. I thought her little prissy attitude was too cute not to share with you all.
  

This is Dixie's couch...it will be missed! :)