It's a Date!

I can't believe time is flying by so fast. We have planned a day for the baby shower. It's going to be on May 29th so mark your calendar. Next week we start our baby classes. The first one is child birthing class. Then we won't have any more classes till May. It's almost April, and that means only 3 more months till Katelyn's here. I can't believe it. Time to get started on that nursery. I feel like such a slacker. April also means we get to go visit Steve, Monica, Tiff, Chandler, and Caleb. Yay!! And... It also means Billy and I will have been married 10 years!! OMG. Crazy. We'll have the best anniversary present ever (3 months late).

Katelyn Brie and the Registry

So, I think we have decided on a middle name for Katelyn. She will be Katelyn Brie Atkins. Mom and Dad came to visit this past weekend. Mom bought Katelyn her first doll and of course some pink clothes. It made me kinda weepy. I guess it makes it more real when other people are planning for her arrival too.

Now that we know we are having a girl, we wasted no time registering at Babies R Us. We spent a good 2 confusing hours there. Haha. It was a little overwhelming. We just have no clue about all this baby stuff, but we are learning along the way. Some of it we are going to have to add later after we figure out what we are doing. LOL. Anyway, we had fun, and we can't wait till July!

Katelyn's Reveal

I finally scanned in the sonogram pictures from yesterday... Click on it to make it bigger.

Today Gesty Gets A New Name!

So today we finally had cooperation. I am 21 weeks and 1 day. We had our 2nd sex check ultrasound today, and found out right off the bat that IT'S A GIRL!!!! We could not be any more excited. So of course we had to go buy something girly today. It's a cute little purple bunny outfit.

We have had her name picked out for about 7 years now. I have always thought that I would have a girl first, although I swayed back and forth during my pregnancy. Her name will be Katelyn. Her middle name is yet to be determined.

Time is flying

I cannot believe that we are half way done with the pregnancy. Karen has been amazing the entire time. I could probably do a better job of bringing her breakfast in bed :)

I have read a lot about pregnancy so far but nothing can prepare you for the feeling of seeing your child for the first time on a sonogram. I am usually not brought to tears over stuff but that will really get you. I cannot wait to hold the little one for the first time. Lately I have had dreams that it is a little girl. Hopefully we will find out next week.

Anyway, I just wanted to contribute a little to the blog. Hopefully we will know what we are having next week and can start really getting stuff ready. While it feels real it will feel more real when we can start calling Gesty by his/her real name.

20 Weeks

Today I am 20 weeks. I can't believe that I am halfway through my pregnancy. It's going by so fast which is a good thing. I am ready to meet Gesty. But before Gesty arrives, we have a lot to do. Hopefully Gesty will cooperate next week when we try again to see who is my belly so that we can start planning the nursery.

Billy took me to buy Gesty a neutral outfit the other day for Valentine's which I thought was really sweet. We had no clue what we were doing LOL. I had to call Erin K. to figure out how all these sizes worked. We have so much to learn. We learned from Erin that babies over 7.5 lbs. probably won't fit in a newborn sized outfit. So just in case we have a 8+ lb. baby we went with 0-3 mos. It will be interesting when we try to do our registry. Erin, expect to be on-call that day... haha.

Dogs in the Snow

The dogs had way too much fun this morning in the snow. Every time we would bring the dogs inside to warm up, Nibbler cried to go back outside and play some more. They both love the snow, and of course we had fun too.