After the baby shower, I did Aria’s first load of laundry! I
am a little bit odd in the fact that I actually like doing laundry. I love pulling warm, fluffy and yummy
smelling clothes out of the dryer. My
promise to Christian when we got married was he would never have to worry about
laundry because it’s the only chore I enjoy.
When I decided to do Aria’s laundry, I was so excited! And then I realized just how many pieces of
clothing can fit in a load… my goodness!! I was folding onesie after onesie
forever. I still loved every minute of
it though. Once I was done with her
laundry, I sorted everything into sizes so I can see the big picture and also
know where we needed to stock up. I came
to find that she has plenty of 0-3 month items, some 3-6 months and lots of 6-9
months. After that age, we only have a
few. That is GREAT though!! Means for
the next while we are all set. Of course,
I am sure I will find cute things every now and again that I will just HAVE TO
get her, but I am so grateful we have one less thing to worry about for right
now.
Since we have her dresser and crib set up in her room (no
decorations or anything yet), I decided to go ahead and start getting the
clothes and blankets into place. I
probably re-did this a few times and I will most likely re-do it again. When I was getting ready to do this, I laid
out a blanket on the floor and set up my stacks and got to folding/rolling
up/hanging her clothes. Christian was
there and immediately asked what I was doing.
When I told him, he got all giddy with excitement and jumped right in to
help. A few minutes later, Axel came by
and asked what was happening. He also
got excited and jumped in to help! Does
Aria understand how much these 2 love her already? I mean… it’s just so sweet! Here are some of the pics.
Once we were done, I got them into her room and got to see
things start coming to life! Here are a
couple shots of her drawers and her closet.
Still some organizing to do in the closet but slowly I will figure out
how I want this to work. Unfortunately
we picked the room with the smallest closet for her. Oops.
As far as decorating her room… Well… I am a bit stuck. I don’t really know what the plan is or what
I want to do, but I do know I want to keep it simple and clean. Nothing flashy or magazine like. Just a functional, cute little girl room that
isn’t ALL pink. I am definitely adding
pink in there but I don’t want it to be over the top.
Alright so after the clothes were situated, it was time to
take a good look at what we have and figure out what we need… not want…
need. There was actually quite a few
things and when I realized that we needed to budget for what seemed like the
cost of another mortgage payment over the next few months, I almost passed out.
LOL! Baby stuff isn’t cheap. On the positive side, the items that we have
chosen are quality items that will last a while. Almost all of it can convert
into something that will grow with her and all of it is gender neutral so
if/when we have another baby, we will be able to re-use it. All of those factors helped me breathe a
little easier. First big ticket item we
went for… the stroller/car seat combo!
We found the only store that had it in stock and available was about an
hour away from us. We made it an
event! We drove to Webster, TX and got
the Chicco Bravo Travel System (with a 20% off coupon I might add!). All of us got super excited when we got it…
until we got to the car. It wouldn’t fit
in the trunk! We had a 20 second freak out moment where we didn’t know how to
solve this problem and then decided to try the back seat… Success! It fit!
Axel was a little cramped but he said “Anything for my little sister. That’s what big brothers do.”
We ended up being close to NASA space center so we made a
day of it and took an unplanned detour to have some family fun. It was great and I definitely won’t wait so
long to go back there. We even got to go
into space… take a look.
I love that we soon will have a new addition to the family
to build more memories with! With that
said, Aria update time!
I am 32 weeks along (really close to 33) and my Dr
appointments are every 2 weeks. Soon
they will be switching to weekly.
Getting so close!! She is kicking and moving a lot and gets hiccups at
least a couple times a day. My belly is
growing and when she kicks it now looks like a little alien is trying to pop
out of me. Her range should be up to
16.75 inches long and up to 3.8 pounds.
We know she was at the 3.8 pounds a couple weeks ago so I am sure she is
passed that point now. Christian and I
sing certain songs to her every day. She
will be very quiet in there and as soon as one of us starts singing to her, she
starts to wiggle. It’s way cute!
This weekend we are going to be taking Child Birth classes
and getting ready for school to start back up.
Both things I am looking forward to.
The class is a little scary though.
I took it before so I sort of know what to expect, but I feel like
taking it is going to make me freak out a little about the labor/delivery. Lucky for me I have a fantastic Dr and am
going to be at a hospital that makes me feel safe and surrounded by people who
I know will take good care of all of us.
Can’t wait to tell you guys about the class. Hopefully we get at least one good story out
of it. J
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