Coming right along.

We're doing what we can to declutter the house and get ready for baby to come. Its hard to believe that we've now got less than two months before the arrival of Baby Wolter. I asked my Aunt Lizz to make curtains and a matching skirt for the crib. Last night we went to a huge fabric outlet store to try and find something that we liked. We had a great time shopping through the gazillions of bolts of fabric. I couldn't believe how much stuff there was in there. Since the fabric store was near the Sherwin Williams store, we decided to stop in and purchase a gallon of the paint color I had selected for the nursery. We got home, Lizz moved the remaining junk out of the nursery and we got to work! I did the trim work, Lizz worked the roller and before we knew it we had the whole room painted. It maybe took us 2.5 hours working together. It felt like such a great relief to get it all done. I looked in the room this morning and can see that I will need to do a little bit of touch up here and there, but man it feels good to have that accomplished. I really LOVE the color too, it turned out great. Of course I could barely move after we finished, but after a night's sleep I seem to be getting around just fine.

Ouch!

For the past several weeks, mobility has been a challenge for me. Be it back pain or ligament pain, I have been getting it all. Many of our friends have been advising us to go out and do things while we still can, so I told Eli that we should go and see a Wild hockey game. I didn't really think about the logistics of going to the game, just thought the idea would be fun. I actually work about half a mile from the Xcel center and normally when we go see the Wild, Eli will take the bus to downtown St. Paul and then we will walk there watch the game and then drive home together. Well since I can't even shop at Target without it being painful, I didn't really think it out how I would be able to get all the way over to Xcel center. So when Eli informed me on Monday that he had purchased tickets for the game on Tuesday, I kind of panicked a bit. I figured if worse came to worse, I could always have Eli drop me off at the door, drive the car back to the office, park and then walk to meet me and do the same for after the game. Tuesday ended up being a pretty hectic day for me. I had an emergency hearing in the morning in Anoka County, which I won! Then I had made a scarf for the Minnesota Special Olympics that I needed to get into the mail. I realized that I didn't have a darn index card so I needed to stop at Target and pick some up. I did get parking in the front row, but of course I had got in on the food side of the store which is completely opposite of where the office supplies were. So after an entire trip around Target to by 44 cents worth of index cards I was on my way to the post office. Can you believe that it cost me $5 to mail one scarf from Coon Rapids MN to Minneapolis MN, its less than 10 miles people. Sad! I was pretty happy when I got back to the office and realized I wasn't experiencing any pain from my Target jaunt so I figured I'd risk it and walk to Xcel for the game. By the time we made it to the game I was pretty wore out, but I wasn't feeling terrible. We did have some pretty nice seats in the second row of the upper deck. So I did have to encounter the steep stairs, but nothing too terrible. About half way through the game though I discovered I had another problem. I got up to go to use the restroom and realized that the inside of my thighs were on FIRE! Yeah thats right, somehow my legs had rubbed together and I was chaffing bad. Thats the terrible thing about maternity pants. You pull that elastic waist band up all the way, but for some reason I always get saggy crotch. I ended up making the walk back to the office ok with my fire thighs. When we got home I had to borrow some of Eli's creams that he uses to combat chafing after running marathons! After two days of healing and many applications of cream I think I'm finally back to normal!

For you Aunt Sue!

Here's a picture of the baby bump. I took this two weeks ago I think. I looked in the mirror this morning and I'm pretty sure its grown a bit since this picture. I tried to take another one, but I am just not good at taking pictures of myself in the mirror. Even this one is a bit embarrassing. I think I look like Ramona Singer from the Real Housewives of New York when she was in that fashion show. Anyway Eli comes home from Toronto tonight so maybe I can get him to take a few pictures to post.

It's green!

So I'm pretty sure that I've decided to paint the nursery a sage green color. I picked out a color from the Sherwin Williams color wheel that I was sure I liked. Eli and I went to the store to buy a color sample, they were completely out of sample paint. The guy told us that we could run to one of the other stores. I seriously contemplated just buying the actual paint rather then drive the 5 miles to the Brooklyn Park store, but luckily Eli talked me out of it. So we got the sample at the BP store and I immediately went up to the room and put it on the wall. I really hated it. When I was putting it up on the wall, the wet color reminded me a lot of a nasty baby poop color. I thought to myself, I cannot stand in this room and change dirty diapers that look the same color as the wall. Eventually when the color dried, it of course didn't resemble baby poo, but I still wasn't quite in love with the color. I just felt that it was too dark. For those of you that know me, I have this strange love with dark wall colors, hello townhouse! Anyway since I can't figure out how to place pictures and text in a blog, the picture is of the two green colors. The color on the right is the lighter one and the color on the left is the darker one. What do you all think?

Pastel Threw Up on Our Nursery

So I'm not the greatest here at figuring out how to upload photos and text, sorry for the funky layout. When we moved into this house, we figured that the former owners had used this room as a nursery. I think it looks like pastel threw up in there. One wall is mint green, baby blue, pink, and then light yellow. At one point in time, I was going to paint it lime green and a brownish purple color as evidenced by the paint sample on the wall. I'm pretty sure that I've made up my mind that I want to paint the room a light sage green then have purple as a contrast color in the accessories. I picked out a color from Sherwin Williams called cleary sage, bought a paint sample and slapped some more sample on the wall. The more that I looked at it, I wondered if it looked too much like baby poop. I think maybe the color is just a little too dark. I'm thinking of trying the color that is one step lighter.

Third Trimester Morning Sickness?

I just threw up my lunch in my wastepaper basket at work. Sorry about that cleaning lady. I used to have all kinds of problems with eating during my first trimester. There was a lot of different foods that I just couldn't stomach the thought of eating. So for the most part I stuck to eating things I refer to as comfort food. Mostly pasta and things that your mom would make when you were a kid, like mac & cheese. I didn't have what I would normally think of as morning sickness. I assumed that it meant that you threw up every morning. Most of the time I was just nauseous a lot. I would only throw up if I had some sort of strange trigger. Mostly weird/bad smells, or if I couldn't stop coughing. Today I bit into my chicken burrito and I must have gotten a fatty piece. It was the different fatty texture that was the trigger. I tried the whole mind over matter thing, but that didn't work. Good thing I've got a spare yogurt in the fridge in case I get hungry later.

Ultrasound pictures.

A New Chapter.

Eli, Spencer and I are about to start a new chapter of our lives. Baby Wolter is coming in just three months. I thought it would be a great idea to abandon my old blog and start a new blog documenting our adventures into parenthood.

Pregnancy thus far has been pretty uneventful (knock on wood). First trimester I felt pretty terrible. I was tired all of the time and experienced a bit of nausea. At the time, I felt like it was the worst thing ever to be pregnant. Looking back, I now know that it could have been so much worse of an experience. Luckily second trimester rolled around and I got my energy back. I still have a lot of trouble sleeping through the night, but I at least wake up in the morning have my one cup of coffee and feel like I can make it through the day. With third trimester rolling in, I'm waiting to see what new fun stuff is in store for me. I've already started experiencing some back pain and I do have some trouble moving around, but for the most part I hardly look like I'm pregnant. We've had several ultrasounds though and baby is growing just fine.

I'm starting to get in a nesting mood. I've been knitting away at baby hats, sweaters, and booties. I can't wait to dress up the baby. I'm also trying to brainstorm ideas for the nursery. Picking a wall color seems so important! I just can't seem to make a decision. The ultrasound tech is pretty sure that we are having a girl. However, I just can't bring myself to have a really girly room. I'm looking for just that right balance of a sweet baby room and a bit of girliness.