Baby Kicks and Belly Jiggles, Pt 2

Okay, after many attempts of trying to record this baby moving around in my tummy, I finally caught some movement on video.

You have to watch carefully. I think some it was lost from converting it from HD to Blogger. No belly jokes please!

And just for grins, here is Paige loving on the baby!

Baby Kicks and Belly Jiggles

I've been feeling our baby girl kick for awhile now. It starts off early in pregnancy where you feel the flutters, then the softest kicks, then you can feel them on the outside with your hand. Well this week I noticed that she can now make my whole stomach move at times. I was laying on the couch with my hand and arm across my belly and she kicked or at least flung herself wide open. I felt her on both sides of my stomach at the same time. I started watching my stomach and could tell where she was moving due to the movement of my stomach. Now when I'm still, she'll start moving around. Of course I watch her for a couple of minutes then I'll call Alan. However, once he shows up, she usually quits. He did get to see her move a little last night. Pretty cool! I'm going to try to catch it on video...well see. I tried today, but of course she'd stop as soon as I hit record!

Out with the Old

My favorite brother, Dusty, came over today to low ball me on my full size mattress that we no longer have room for due to the nursery. Dusty had been sleeping on an old couch as a bed, but he tossed it with his recent move and has been roughing it on the floor. Alan and I finally decided that there is just no where to keep this mattress at our house for the next several years, so we decided we'd give it Dusty. Mom offered to buy them from me for him, but since Mom bought them for me before I lived with Alan, I didn't think she needed to pay me to give them to Dusty.

You see Dusty always seems tight on money, so we usually give him our old furniture if he needs it, hence the free mattress. However, today I did get quite the kick out him! He hung around for a couple of hours waiting on lunch. While we were chit-chatting, he told me needed to swing by another friends house and pick up his TRAMPOLINE! Yes TRAMPOLINE! Not the little exercise ones, I talking the large ones you put in the backyard! I'm thinking he must have bought this thing cheap off of Craigs List...right? Nope he says he bought it new at Academy! Where are the priorities boy! He proceeded to tell me that he is still pretty good at back flips and can even add a twist into them! Boy was I low balled! By the way, he's 26 yrs old!

Anyway, Dusty got off with my most favorite and comfortable mattress. I'm so going to miss it. However, from now on we are going to have to do some bartering! Not to mention next time we go out to eat, I'm going to stiff him with the bill! After all, he is the one with a full time job!

Alan and Dusty strapping my nice mattress to the hood of his car.

Dusty thinking....SUCKER!

Dusty driving off with a steal!

Love you Dusty and may you have a peaceful sleep!

Nursery - Slowly Coming Together

Alan has been working hard on getting the nursery together. He painted, added a chair rail and crown molding. Yesterday our crib arrived, we cleaned the carpet and decided to put together the crib. Here are some shots of today's work! Alan working and me supervising!

He made me help!


Me being goofy, but Alan thought I was trying to get a surprise picture of him. Doesn't he realize it's about me sometimes too?

Hard at work.

Paige supervising and getting suspicious of what's going on.

Just about done!



When Mom was in town, she bought material for me to make a quilt, curtains and a dust ruffle with. It only took me two weeks to complete. Here they are in all their glory!

Me and my work!

Alan and his hard work!

We still have more furniture to work on for the room and we are waiting on the crib mattress to arrive. Thanks Mom! This is so much fun!