Baby Shower and her beautiful face!

I know I promised the next post would come sooner and it would be a Q&A with Axel, but I accidentally deleted the notes I took from that and I will have to bug Axel all over again.  Until then, I have a post that is going to be AWESOME!  This weekend was probably one of the best weekends so far!  Let’s start with Thursday.

Thursday, my family flew in from MA.  I haven’t seen my mom and my brother since December of last year so I was beyond giddy with excitement they were here.  My family and I have always been close so the past 5 years have been hard for all of us now that we live so far away from one another.  It’s great having them around and I am trying to plead my case as to why they should move back, but it’s hard when good old TX summer heat is fighting against me.  This entire ‘105 but feels like 122’ it just not ok. 

Friday was a busy day.  Lots of prep work for the baby shower happening and I think my feet were the size of a Christmas ham by the end of it.  I have a wonderful husband that was sweet enough to rub my legs and feet for a good hour right before bed.  Seriously the luckiest person to have him!  The highlight of that day was… my 4D ultrasound!!  We got to see our little girl and I can’t wait to tell you all about it!  Her heart rate was at 162.  She is currently measuring about a week and a half bigger than she ‘should’ be.  She weighs about 3lbs 14oz.  Calculating the fact that she could be gaining about half a pound a week from here on out, I am looking at a BIG baby. Oh man.  Can we get a baby treadmill installed in me asap please? Haha!  During the ultrasound she was the usual stubborn baby that she always is.  She had her foot and hand covering her face the majority of the time.  She showed us that she likes to suck on both her thumb and her toe.  (Not at the same time)  Oh! And she has a lot of hair!  Yes! We were able to see it on the ultrasound… that’s how much there is!  If you read my last post, you know that isn’t surprising. J  She has such fat little cheeks and long fingers.  She just melted our hearts.  Take a look at this cute little face that we were briefly able to capture.

 

Seeing her makes me more anxious to meet her and hold her and just snuggle her up!  But she still has 10 more weeks of baking to do so I need to be patient.  Plus, there is still lots of prep work before her arrival happens so she needs to stay put.

Saturday was baby shower day! I feel like I’ve been talking about it and planning it for so long and it finally happened!  It was great to mingle with friends and feel the love and support of those who came out to celebrate in one of the happiest times of our lives.  If you know me well, you know that I LOVE bees.  Because of that, it only made sense that the shower them was “Mommy to Bee”.  We rented a clubhouse in our neighborhood and decorated it with yellow, white and black.  Here are some of the cute decorations we had up.

We had a spread of food for a light lunch and lots of delicious sweets.  The best part about the sweets table was the cake!  Oh my goodness!  Cutest. Cake. EVER!  We used the same place that made our wedding cake and they once again did such an amazing job!  I pretty much gave them my theme and showed them different cakes/toppers I liked and told them to work their magic.  They most certainly did.  Here are some pictures of the cake and food items.

After eating, we all played a few games.  Two of the three games were the classic baby shower games.  The first one was to guess the size of my belly and the second was the one where you can’t say the word “baby” or cross your legs.  We should have added the words ‘cute’ and ‘awww’ to the list cause there was a lot of that.  The third game was tons of fun and made lots of people laugh.  Not sure if there is an official name for it but essentially you get two teams of two to go against each other.  Each team has to change a baby doll’s diaper.  The clothing must be removed, baby wiped, powdered and then re-dressed with the new diaper on.  The catch?  Each person may only use ONE hand!  Turns into quite the entertaining game with babies get flopped around everywhere.  The winning team actually mastered this in 35 seconds!  Crazy!  Guess I need to add them to the top of my babysitting list. Haha!  Here are some pics of me and the winners of the 3 games.

 

We ended the shower by opening gifts.  Though I was most interested in spending time with friends and family to celebrate, I felt so loved and grateful for all the thoughtful and useful gifts we got.  I am so lucky to know such wonderful people.

Now that the baby shower is over, we actually can get a list of the items little Aria still needs.   Let the shopping begin! 

The nursery is a work in progress.  The dresser situation is resolved… finally!!  Now we can get that moved to her room and start figuring out what goes where.  I am sure I will organize and re-organize that a few times.  Then the decorating can begin.  Woo hoo!  I am not the best at decorating, but with the help of the internet I may be able to pull off some ideas.  Or maybe a room of pinterest fails. Lol.  As I start getting things done in there I will be sure to post pics so you all feel a part of the nursery set up with us.

Upcoming things to look forward to read about in addition to the nursery set up are our adventures with a child birthing class and getting all the last items in order.