Life goes on...

September 28th 2006 about 24 weeks
Only 3 1/2 more months! Miles is getting bigger and more noticable. He gets my attention regularly with kicks and jabs that can now be felt from the outside, which is fun for Keith. We have trained the doggies not to sleep on our bed anymore, which was easier than I anticipated. They now have a big bed that they can share, or another little one if they don’t feel like being close.


I have been swamped at work, which is exhausting. Keith has been a huge help, making dinner at night and helping with the house chores. I come home dead tired and fall asleep by 9pm.

I am so excited for the holidays! I think these next couple of months are going to fly by. I imagine I’ll do a lot of my shopping online over the next few months. Partially to try and spend wisely and partially because shopping all day wipes me out now, and I imagine as I get bigger and more uncomfortable, it’ll be even worse. This will be the last year for a while that I can go shoping without a monster stroller!

Jungle Mural finally complete!

September 12th 2006
So I finally finished the mural in the baby’s room. It took me a lot of research and fear overcoming then just doing it in basically one day. I drew it out in one night and then painted it on Sunday. I think it looks pretty good! But you be the judge of that as I have posted a bunch of pictures to go with this.


I had the doctor’s (OB) appointment this morning and heard little Miles heartbeat. He sounds good and strong. I felt him moving around today, his movements seem to be getting bolder and sometimes it feels like he is doing summersaults! But mostly it’s just little kickboxing moves. Jab-jab-uppercut!

I have been feeling pretty good. Tired, and still with the crazy dreams. I mean super scary, crazy, exhausting, can’t put that on a family blog dreams. I would love to sleep all the way through the night without waking and without dreams. But I guess that wont be happening any time soon!!

We found a crib!

September 5, 2006 Day 122 (20 weeks)
We have been getting the nursery together. We have a crib (thanks to Mom!) and a changing table now. It’s looking pretty cute. All we need to do now is the fun decorations stuff. I bought some letters that spell “Miles” for the wall and hope to have some sketches for the mural done soon. I think it’ll be really simple. I am going to paint each letter of his name a different animal print and hang them on the wall above the crib. The room is so small and is somewhat crammed with furniture, so I don’t want the wall to overpower the small space.

I feel Miles moving around every day now. Still small flutterings but he usually gets my attention every couple hours or at least once a day when I’m holding still.

I’ve been feeling pretty good. With the exception of being tired more easily and feeling bigger and bigger everyday, which I suppose is very normal. So all is well!