Making Room for Finley!

Slowly but surely Finley's room has come together.  It took me a long time to get started on it.  We were less than 12 weeks away from her arrival before I made the first purchase.  Soooo, the room looked like this for a long time...

A storage room after our move with paint samples painted on the walls.

But once we got started and it all came together rather quickly.
Come on in...

My creative sister, Camille, made the monogrammed door hanging.

 The view from the door.

The monogram painting on the floor is again by my sister Camille.  It will eventually make it to the wall above the toy bin and rocking chair, but we are waiting on one more picture to be framed this week.

Crib:  Pottery Barn Kids
Bedding/ Changing pad cover:  Rosenberry Rooms
Rocking Chair:  Cracker Barrel
Glider/Ottoman:  Best Chairs via USA Baby
Mirror:  An antique from Finley's Great-Great Grandmother Tollison
Dresser:  Flea Market Bargain
Shelves:  IKEA
Chandelier:  Thrift store antique find by JaJa (my mom)
(She bought it before she ever knew we were having a girl.)
Personalized cross stitch:  Mrs. Daley Perry
Lace trash can:  Bed, Bath and Beyond
FINLEY door sign:  Mrs. Jessica Robinson

We are still a few things, but they will be finished in time.  We love her room already and can't wait for her to arrive and get to enjoy it herself.  Only 3 days left!

Baby: Weeks 34-37

Wow I am quite behind.  And this post won't even catch me fully up, but here is a post nonetheless (side note:  what random english professor decided you could shove 3 words together without spaces to make 1 word...why not just keep it at 3 words.  No one was tweeting or texting with character limits back then??)

Week 34 or 35...Sadly I can't remember what week this photo was taken.

Finley weighed in at 6 lbs at Week 35 according to her ultrasound.  Babies gain about a half pound a week right now, so we probably won't have a little baby.  (However, ultrasound weighing is give or take 11-14 ounces or practically 1 lb.  so who really knows.)

Week 36.  Welcome to the 9th month of pregnancy.

"Wow" is right.  My belly has become very prominent.

Week 37

There isn't much about the 9th month of pregnancy that is more fun than the rest other than the fact that you daily get closer to meeting your bundle of joy.  AND at the end of week 37 I finished working!  It feels so good to be able to rest a little bit before our baby girl gets here and takes up all my "me time" for a while.

I will try to get up a week 38 picture before she arrives, but considering we are under 5 days until her big debut I make no promises.  The doctors are going to be weighing Finley again this week before her arrival so I guess we will see how accurate her ultrasound testing really is.

Happy almost birthday Finley!

Cute as a Button: The Shower of the Year

Cute As A Button.

The theme of the baby shower for our sweet baby girl.  Now if you have never been at a shower thrown by my friends, then you have missed out.  When I say theme, I mean it touched every aspect of the shower in the cutest way.  Finley, Brandon & I were so very lucky to be the recipients a few weeks ago.

The "Finley" name sign made to match the decor.

Along with some baby pictures.

The sign in table.

Where you were asked to guess the date, arrival time, and size on a button and place it on the calendar.

Adorable.

Brandon's sweet family came down to be apart of our special day.

The babies loved the shower as well.  So cute to see them playing together.

As you can see we were very blessed!

Oh my.  Look at all those little girl things.

We were so lucky to be apart of such a wonderful shower.  Finley is one lucky girl!

Baby Weeks 31-33

Who knew the third trimester was so busy?  I suppose it is just preparation for the chaos that is parenting, but it has put a continued damper on my blogging skills.  I hope to one day recover those skills.  I really love blogging.  One day folks, I'll blog about things you care about again, but for whatever reason my "nesting" has been very minimal and has not included any do it yourself projects.  Bummer for you.  Oh well.  Back to the baby.

Finley has really grown big!

Finley has been less than participatory at times during her bi-weekly testing.  She loves to sleep through the test.  At one of her test at 32 weeks, she had to be buzzed with this little handheld noisemaker to get her to move enough to pass the test.  I hope she continues her deep sleeping after birth...pipe dreams I know.

It may take an experienced ultrasound viewer to see her little face in the picture below.  She is lying on her side with her face to the right.  You can see the outline of her eyes and nose.  She has an arm over her little mouth.

 The classic profile picture.  Getting harder to get by the session as she sinks lower and probably just gets tired of having her picture taken.

 33 Weeks.

Thanks to my sweet friend, Cherry, for letting me borrow some of her maternity clothes.  At this point, leggings and a baggy shirt are my favorite outfit.  However, I only have one of those outfits.  Forgive me if I wear it 50x in the next month.

At 33 weeks, Finley is a growing girl.  She weighed in at a approximately 4 lbs 9 oz.  Around the 50th percentile.  It sounds small, but she is gaining about a half pound a week right now, so that make her a pretty average baby even though she is coming early.  

Please note that yes I am getting big.  No fooling anybody these days.  My patients are starting to comment more.  Most of the time its "Finley is really growing!"  Thanks patient.  I agree she is.  That is sweet of you to notice.  However, it gets more comical, when I get "Man you are getting big!" or "You look awfully big for her only weighing 4 1/2 lbs."  Thanks, every pregnant woman loves hearing things like that.

Sweet baby girl looking pretty creepy.  

At 33 1/2 weeks, the specialist office was pretty quiet so the sweet ultrasound tech turned on the 3D for a minute and we got this beauty.

Pretty cute even with her little smashed nose!

Hopefully I will update again before she arrives, but I make no promises.  Our schedule is getting more booked for September by the day and our sweet baby girl should be here in approximately 4 weeks.  Our OB is shooting for the first week in October!