29 weeks gone = 11 weeks to go

baby room with crib, glider, corner of changing table, curtains




29 week and 3 day belly






the monkey bathroom







monkey bathroom - we saw this bathroom stuff and thought it was so cute so decided to do the downstairs bathroom with it - and yes realizing that the baby really won't be using this bathroom for a couple of years (esp since there isn't a bathtub, unfortunately, in there), so really it was our grown up excuse for a cute bathroom! :)







shelving and baskets

baby room - changing table, crib

Jeremy painting

WE got the baby room done this weekend! Yay! I got to help out and my job was to paint the dots on which was fun. I am so happy with how it all turned out it feels so warm and relaxing in there I'm jsut excited to have the baby in there now and to make use of the room!! Jeremy did an awesome job with the paint and was so great about doing basically all of it on his own, since I had a hard time handling the smell of the paint. THanks to his classic college football recordings that he watched! :) Baby is continuing to grow - I think I'm hititng the phase of constant desire to eat!! I am starving all the time right now! I had to do the 3 hour glucose tolerance test last Monday because I didn't pass the first one, so I was very excited to find out that I passed this one! I have to watch my concentrated sweets intake, but everything else should be good, so I was grateful to hear that! well, time to get on with dinner and rest. I've been coming down with a sore throat, so I'm going to try and get some extra rest!

28 weeks = 3rd Trimester

Jeremy complained that there weren't any pictures of him on here, so here we go! HIm being amazing and helping out with household stuff!!

Baby room, the white boards laying there are the chair railing stuff that will go around the room later this week.

Baskets with liners that I made to match the room.

Baby belly - 28 weeks

Baby belly - 28 weeks - game day ready

28 weeks!! HArd to believe that I am now in my 3rd trimester and only 12 weeks away from meeting our new addition!

Well, I wanted to show y'all some of our progress from this weekend. We (as in Jeremy), got the baby room totally painted, and are now just waiting to get up the chair railing later this week. It was not our original plan for the room, but I think that I like it alot better than what we started with. :) I also worked on sewing the liners for my baskets, fixed/shortened the bumper pads (too long to go around our round crib), hemmed the bed skirt, etc. All the little things (and some big) that I keep looking at and thinking about getting done.

I had taken Fri off from work (I worked last Sunday instead, so it worked out well), which my mom and I spent the entire day mostly shopping. We had a lot of fun. I was able to find curtains for the baby room that I really liked and also some new maternity clothes, more fallish clothing. :) And just other errands that don't always seem to happen now that I actually have real weekends off (as weird as that is, I miss shopping on weekdays, because it is less crowded, and then I'm not missing out on time with Jeremy - who doesn't always love shopping with me).

NOt alot else going on - I was excited because this last week my mom and I purchased tickets to go down and visit my grandparents and family in Wyoming in February with the baby, so it was exciting to be making plans that included the baby! Now we are looking at tickets for Jeremy and I and baby to visit his family in Colorado in March. We have some companion tickets and miles that have to be purchased by a certain date, hence the planning so far out.

Well, Jeremy informed me that I am rambling and it is time to get to bed, so I will get these pictures up of our progress and hoepfully we will have the completed room on here later this week!

27 weeks - Last week of second trimester

Just a quick update - no pics this time (for real) I don't have any current ones taken, but will hopefully soon!

Baby Payne has been doing lots of moving and I've been definately feeling the baby hiccups recently, which is sort of a weird feeling but kindof fun!! I really have loved being pregnant. There is something so amazing about carrying and growing a baby that is absolutely amazing to me! Thankfully it has been helped by the fact that I haven't been too uncomfortable or sick, and am hoping that the next few months don't bring any of that on. I do understand that you get more uncomfortable towards the end, but I'm hoping that it isn't too bad! :) The only new thing I've been experiencing recently is the joys of heartburn. But I've been narrowing down the big culprits, and unfortunately that seems to be chocolate. However I've been having the biggest cravings for chocolate recently, good thing for TUMS!

IN the last week I think we've had our first "pregnancy midnight runs" for food. One wasn't horrible, but I really wanted to make this soup that basically is a combination of chicken noodle soup, cream of chicken soup, ro-tel tomatoes, corn and cheese. I had come home from swimming and that was the only thing I could think of to eat, so I got a hold of Jeremy and on his way home from class and convinced him to go to the store for me, it was about 10:00. Not a big deal, but decided it was my first time I had my mind set on something until I had it! A couple of nights later, the big issue was the heartburn and I had a hard time getting comfortable and Jeremy went out at midnight to get me some Tums, which was great of him!

I have been doing some prenatal swim classes. I am currently going twice a week, and it has been wonderful. There is a wonderful siwm place here with a couple of pools that are at 92 degrees and it is just a small class with streching and walking and some swimming in the pools, and it feels so amazing to be in the water and to strech some of my muscles.

This week and weekend we are working on the painting of the baby room so hopefully I will post some pictures once that is all done.

I also got to go see the Lion King production this weekend which was absolutely amazing!! The costumes and puppetry and music was all so much fun to take part in and I was so glad that I was able to go!

All right, well it's time to go to bed. Pictures to be posted hopefully by the end of this week!