Pumpkin Carvings

I got home from work this morning and found a carved pumpkin on my kitchen counter. Tim said he made it as a tribute to my morning sickness. I thought it was hilarious! On another note, I asked one of the doctors I work with to ultrasound me a couple nights ago at work so I could see my Sweetpea. We were able to see the baby and the heartbeat. The machine had such bad resolution that we couldn't tell a whole lot about it, but its always fun to peek.

The Nursery: Thoughts and Ideas

We haven't started working on the nursery yet. We really need to get started soon, because we are going to have an incredible amount of work to do. We plan on moving Tim's office into what is now my office and moving all my stuff into our bedroom. We will then make Tim's old office the nursery. My current office has a sliding glass door leading out onto the deck and we figured that probably isn't the smartest thing to have in a baby's room. We really should have considered things like that when we moved in, but we really weren't thinking about kids at that time.

I have absolutely no idea what our nursery will look like if we have a boy. I haven't seen anything online that I was particularly attracted to for a boy's nursery. I have found some really cute stuff for a girl though. My current favorite bedding is called Tiger Lily by Kidsline. I actually ran across it before I knew I was pregnant when I was looking at bedding online with my best friend Vanessa, who is also pregnant.

2nd Appointment - 8 weeks 1 day

Its been two weeks since our last prenatal appointment. Today we had our ultrasound first before speaking with my doctor. I was absolutely amazed at how much our Sweetpea has grown in the last two weeks. You could see the little arms and legs moving on the screen. It was really amazing. Today the heart rate was 178. Unfortunately I probably won't get to see the baby on the ultrasound again until our appointment around 20 weeks when we will find out what the sex is. Well, actually I probably will because I like to take a peek when I'm at work on occasion. Shhhh!

We have decided on names. I really love our girl name and I'm ok with our boy name, but I'm not quite as excited about the boy name. If its a girl she will be Amelia Claire McQueen and if its a boy his name will be Donovan James McQueen. Subject to change without warning, of course.

1st Baby Gifts

Today was my neice, Ashlynn's birthday party. She just turned 3. We had a great time planning for her party. I don't get to see my neice and nephew as often as I would like because they live about 2 hours away in Birmingham. I had fun buying gifts for her and helping to plan her party.
My mom bought me a couple baby outfits while she and my grandmother were out birthday shopping for Ashlynn. She bought me one girl outfit and one boy outfit. I was excited to get our first baby gifts, it really made things seem very real and exciting.