We are more than halfway through this pregnancy. whew. I am cautiously getting excited, up til this point I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop...I kept waiting for someone to jump out and yell "Surprise! April Fool's! No baby for you!"
Finding out the gender this weekend helped :) In case you haven't heard yet, its a girl!!
Not finding out right away helped me to feel more connected with this baby too, because I realized that I KNEW she was a girl.
Geoff and I are very excited to have a girl. I can't wait to spoil a girl as much as I spoiled my boy. I am a little more reserved about raising a girl, it feels more overwhelming than raising a boy. I can't wait to see Eli and Daddy moon over her. Eli has wanted a sister since the moment he found out we were pregnant. He was been adamant its a girl. The last week or so he's wavered, but I think that is more because people assume he must want a brother, so they have been asking him "do you want a brother? You want a boy baby, right?" etc. Needless to say, he's very excited for his sister. We are getting read to paint and set up the nursery, I realized today I am almost 22 weeks (over halfway) and we have nothing done! haha.
Luckily, we don't need a lot. The following list is more a thought-process for me...not a request for anyone to do anything.
In my estimation we need:
24 prefolds
an ikea crib
dresser or changing table
and, of course, baby clothes :)
I think we are going to go with the Chicco Nextfit carseat. My friend Dani is the owner of an amazing cloth diaper store in Colorado Springs, and its one of her favorite carseats for littles. I trust the woman's judgement on these sorts of things! :)
and that's about it!
We are going to paint HER room tiffany blue, and do white furniture and either coral or yellow accents. I can't wait.
