Since I don't want baby #2 to end up with an inferiority complex because every second of my pregnancy with LP/his birth/his life so far was documented on my blog and in photos, I thought I should really start doing some pregnancy updates. (And Baby #2- if you ever read this, LP's baby book is no where near complete and he's 3 now. So don't feel too badly if you don't even have a baby book! I'm sure there are thousands of photos of you....)
So I'm at 16 weeks. Also known as 4 months. In June of 2008 I was 16 weeks along with LP and was feeling pretty good- not as exhausted as I was in the first trimester. I posted the following Babycenter update which is right where we are today:
"Get ready for a growth spurt. In the next few weeks, your baby will double his weight and add inches to his length . Right now, he's about the size of an avocado: 4 1/2 inches long (head to rump) and 3 1/2 ounces. His legs are much more developed, his head is more erect than it has been, and his eyes have moved closer to the front of his head. His ears are close to their final position, too."
This time around I'd have to say that I'm feeling about the same. I have a teeny tiny baby bump and most of my regular pants don't fit so I had to bust out the old maternity clothes a bit earlier. I do have one or two pairs of jeans I can still wear pretty comfortably but otherwise I'm happy to slip on the elastic-waisted pants. I'm pretty tired by about 6 p.m. but am pretty sure it's a combination of pregnancy/three-year-old. A little bit of heartburn (particularly if I lay down on the couch after dinner), no cravings, no crazy emotional/hormonal outbursts, no nausea.
I know, it's a pretty lame update but that's where things are right now. And really, I'd rather have nothing more exciting to say than "I feel tired and the baby is the size of an avocado." "Exciting" things to report can sometimes be scary things.
On March 30 we go for the big anatomy scan ultrasound and hopefully find out the sex which I think will make the whole thing seem more real. LP is still convinced it's a baby sister named Molly (ala Toy Story). We'll see! I'm also doing research about VBACs (Vaginal Birth After C-Section) as my doctor suggested I think about it. Any thoughts from the peanut gallery?
Mar 15, 2012
Checking in....
Thought it was time for a little update on the projects we're working on at Casa LeBaron.
In living room news, our fireplace is almost finished! The new tile has been grouted (no pictures yet) and all we have left to do is seal the grout and install the new fireplace doors. Then I have to figure out how I want to style the mantel- I usually just throw a bunch of frames and things up there but am not sure if that's the way I want to go right now...
Here's how it's looking (or, here's how it was looking before we grouted the tile):
Below is a close up of how we fixed our cabinet doors. Originally they were oak with horrible brass hardware. The panels on each door front was cracked and they were U-G-L-Y. So we popped out the panels, painted the frames, and used my handy dandy glue gun to inset new panels. The new panels were made from one sheet of radiator screening that we cut to size and sprayed with oil-rubbed bronze spray paint. We added new handles and sprayed the old hinges with the paint as well (I need to find a paint pen or something that matches to cover up those brass screws). You can see a little bit of what's in the cabinet from close up (liquor on one side, CDs and DVDs on the other) but from far away you really can't see much. Love it!
And a close up of the tile we chose- it's a mix of glass and stone. We have a slate hearth which we thought would blend but now, of course, it looks totally dated compared to our shiny new tiles. Eventually we might tile over the hearth too with larger tiles but for now we're going to give it a good scrubbing and apply a sealer and hope that it adds a little shine to the hearth.
This weekend we'll get it all put back together and I'll share some final photos! It's really made such a huge difference to our living room- brightens up the whole space and finally the last of the dreaded yellowy oak in our house is GONE!
Our next project? Mr. "Can't Be Without Something to Do" emailed me from work yesterday to tell me that this will be arriving at our house in the next few days - in boxes, of course, all ready to be assembled:
So we have a few small trees to cut down in the backyard and need to level off a space for it. I told Paul I thought it looked kind of big and he said "it's only the same dimensions as our living room- it's not too big." I'm sure LP and future baby will love it though!
Mar 8, 2012
Inspiration....
So in three weeks we'll hopefully know if baby # 2 is going to be another boy or a girl. My bets are on boy, mainly because I've felt the exact same way throughout this pregnancy so far as I did with LP (i.e. no morning sickness but completely exhausted all the time).
However, although I've predicted tons of other babies correctly (seriously, I haven't made a mistake yet in all of the times my friends/family have had babies), I thought LP would be a girl and was obviously wrong. So we'll see.
And you know me, I love to plan projects and make up inspiration boards for decorating. If we have another boy I'm sure I'll make some changes to the nursery, but not as many as I'll make if we have a girl! Today I thought I'd share all of the girl nursery ideas that have been keeping me up at night!
Our plan either way is to use our original nursery since we moved LP into his big boy room. Once again we'll use the crib, glider, and changing table that we used before. And we'd like to avoid painting as well, so I'm working with walls that are painted in a color called "Forever Denim." Fortunately, I think I can easily make it work for a girl's room!
Here are a few "in progress" shots when we were putting the room together for LP so that you can see the chair, crib, wall color, and changing area. (The blue is not QUITE this bright in real life- these pictures were taken before I knew what I was doing with my camera).
Here's what I've come up with so far:
I'm going with a sort of "vintage sewing" type theme (shocking, I know!). The background color in this image is our current wallcolor. #9 are the additional colors I'd like to bring into the room to make it girly but not over the top princess pink. In our original nursery we took the doors off the closet to put the changing table inside and painted the inside of the closet green. I'd like to repaint that in the "grenadine" color which is sort of a coral-y pink. Then, like in image #5, I'd like to add a border around the room that looks like eyelet lace- either with a vinyl cling on like the right-hand image or a DIY project like the left (which is contact paper cut to look like scallops).
#7 are the fabrics I'd like to bring into the room. The two florals are from a line called "London" which is fitting as I spent a year in England in college and am a HUGE angliophile. I'm thinking about using the yellow gingham to faux-upholster the ends of our crib (in the top picture you can see that one end is wooden and the other end is plexiglass with primary colored balloons. This was my crib as a baby and is still in great shape but I'm thinking that I might try covering those ends this time around.).
Along with the eyelet border, I'm consdering a wall mural based on this one I saw online a while ago (#3). It's painted to look like cross-stitch on the wall and I LOVE the technique! It seems like it would be fairly easy to do as well! My mother has a lot of my Nana's cross-stitch patterns so I'd probably try to use something from that stash. Speaking of my Nana, many many years ago I took several of her vintage hankies and sewed them into a wall-quilt (#10). I haven't found a place for it in this house and think it would be perfect in a girl nursery. I still have some hankies left and might do a a bunting of sorts with them (#4). I also have quite a few spools of thread from my Nana's collection and love the idea of using them as hooks (#1). I think a collection of them on the wall with a vintage baby hanger and baby dress hanging from them would be so sweet.
Other touches will be new curtains and a little table next to the glider chair. I'm not normally a tulle person but I think the use of tulle as a tableskirt is so cute (#2) and I already have the perfect little table stored away in our basement. I wouldn't do blue curtains but like the curtains above (#11), would love to stitch vintage buttons (again from my Nana's collection) to something drapey.
Years ago I purchased a print from one of my favorite children's artists, Sarah Jane, of this little girl reading (#8). It's been in my sewing room but a baby girl nursery would be the perfect place to hang it. I also love this quote from Audrey Hepburn who has long been one of my idols and would love to incorporate it somehow (#6).
So there it is! A girl nursery, all planned out and put together (in my head!) Now we just have to wait and see if I'll get to use these ideas or if I'll have to start over with a boy nursery!
What do you guys think? Does it pass the "girly but not over the top" test?
Mar 6, 2012
I Heart Faces- Beautiful B&W
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