I am now in my third trimester at 28 weeks, and am feeling great, minus the fact that my doctor made me cut back on sweets since my glucose test, which got totally botched up by the GLH, came back with a borderline bad result. Even though she is telling me to watch my weight gain, I am kinda thankful she is because I always said I didn't want to be one who gains a ton of weight during pregnancy. I have actually lost a couple of pounds since I started cutting back, so hopefully the baby won't be too large and the doc will be pleased.
Since I have posted this yet, we are having a boy and his name will be Dean Cecil Sullivan. We just both liked the name Dean when we were talking names, and it stuck in our heads. My sweet papaw, mom's dad, has the name Cecil and we wanted to name our little guy after him. As a plus he will share his daddy's initials.
Since the time is winding down, I have been getting more into the nursery decoration process. While I was gone to Boston for training for my new job, my mom, sister, and husband painted the nursery for me. I am so grateful that I didn't have to do that. I went with Gray Matters by Sherwin Williams because I want all my accessories and fabrics to bring the color into the room. In this pick is my old gumball machine. I thought it was the perfect thing in here since it was vintage and had the bright color.
I have bought and received a few vintage toys for the room. The blocks where my first purchase for Dean, which came with the other two wooden toys, and my mom bought her first gift to Dean being the tin spin toy.
We have gotten three jenny lind baby beds, two from my mom-in-law, and one from an abandoned storage unit when my sis was pregnant. With three we were able to come up with enough parts to make a bed. Now we just have to buy the mattress. This is a pic before I paint it and minus the springs.
I have also ordered fabric samples for the bedding, so I can go ahead pick that out for my mom to get started. My mom is graciously going to make the crib bedding, and I have purchased a couple of quilt and sham sets for the twin bed in the room. I bought two because I wasn't sure if the red or green would go better and they were on sale for $27 at target. I couldn't pass up the bargain. I will return one once I decided. These are the quilts I bought.
My awesome hubby also took down the old dingy blinds and bought new vinyl faux wood blinds like we have in the living room without me even asking. I got to see his frustrations putting them up though. Drilling into the woodwork is a pain. Here he is hard at work.
I will try to get better at updating my blog now that lots of things are a changing. So until next time...
