Nursery Pictures

Please ignore the junk and the clutter. We have not hung anything on the walls yet and still need to find homes for certain things but it is coming together very nicely. Everything looks even better in person and I am so excited about how it is turning out. Dow keeps saying that this is the nicest furniture in the whole house, and I have to agree. Having a nursery in our house is making it all seem very real!

21 weeks

I have been a very bad blogger lately! I really don't know where the time has gone. I feel like we have been so busy and I have lots to report. Let's see, we spent all of last week in NC and it was just wonderful. My girlfriends threw me a surprise baby shower and boy was I surprised! I will see if I can get some pictures from my Mom or Grace to post. It was so lovely - gorgeous flowers, lots of great food from the Village Tavern (and some home made goods by Erica and her mom), decorations, a cake - the whole 9 yards. We got lots of cute little boy stuff and an aquarium swing that I really wanted. Oh, I completely forgot that I haven't even posted his name on here yet. We are going to name the baby after my grandfather who passed away about a year ago. He was such a special person to Dow and I (and pretty much anyone who knew him) and we really wanted to honor him as well as give our little boy a name to be proud of. His name will be William Linville Pizzitola and we are going to call him Liam. At the shower my grandmother gave me a framed picture of my grandfather when he was a little boy and it really meant a lot to me. I have the perfect spot picked out for it in the nursery. Which leads me to my next exciting tidbit... All of the nursery furniture has arrived! It looks so great. I am still waiting on the bedding and the valence (they should come on Monday) and I will post pictures as soon as I get it all set up. The furniture and the chair are even better than I could have hoped so I am so thrilled with how it is turning out. While in NC we also went to my brother's high school graduation in Alexandria, VA. The weather was so pretty and we had a great time in Old Town Alexandria. We got Liam his first smocked outfit (which I am obsessed with by the way) at this cute little boutique.
Let's see what else... Liam is moving around quite a bit these days and I can really feel it. I had been feeling slight kicks here and there before NC but right towards the end of the trip I really started feeling him kick a lot. Now I am feeling him at least several times a day. Dow even got to feel him kick the other night. It was really cool and makes it all seem so real. I am still feeling very good in general. My back has been hurting me a lot and I think it is just something I will have to deal with from here on out. Dow has been very sweet about giving me back rubs when I need them. Well I am off to play in the nursery a bit more. I will post pics and anything I forgot tomorrow.

It's a...

BOY!!!! It was amazing and we are both so thrilled. We are not ready to share the name just yet; we are still working on it. But hopefully very soon. They took lots of pictures and even some video today so I am going to post these as web albums rather than individual pictures. Look for the links below. One album is all still pictures, one is videos, and one is 3-D images. I personally think the 3-Ds are a little scary but lots of people have told me that. The ones you see online are usually much later in the pregnancy when the baby is fatter and not so skeletony. The videos are incredible. There is one that you can even see him opening his mouth and swallowing. There is no debating that he is all boy!!!!

18 week 2 day ultrasound pictures

3-D pics from 18 week ultrasound

18 week ultrasound videos

Baby Bedding Favorites

Baby Furniture

17 weeks

It has been a really great week. I ordered the first item for our nursery, a glider and ottoman. I am so excited about it! I have been eyeing these ever since I even started thinking about getting pregnant so it was exciting to finally be able to make that purchase. They went on sale and I just couldn't resist. I ordered it in a sage gingham print so it will work for either sex. If you click on the link and choose the "fabric ottoman" from the drop down window where it says "pick a product" it will show you a picture of it in the fabric I chose. It should arrive right before we leave for NC.
I have also been looking at lots of baby furniture and baby bedding and have pretty much narrowed it down to a boy and girl favorite. My boy favorite is called Treasure Island and I love the theme for obvious reasons. My girl favorite is called Beach Cottage and is along those same lines of an island theme. I think we will go ahead and order the furniture this weekend. There is one store in the greater Houston area that has it on display so I am hoping we can go look at it tomorrow just to make sure it looks as good in reality as it does online. I will post a picture of it. When we got home from work this evening we attempted to move this old couch in our study out to the curb but Dow just couldn't do it on his own. It is a sleeper sofa and it is really heavy. We are having all Dow's family over next Saturday to announce the sex of the baby and are hoping they will lend a hand. :) I am very anxious to get the future nursery cleared out so I can start nesting but it will take quite a bit of rearranging.
Let's see, what else is new... well I feel like I am really showing now. It's funny because rather than being mushy and flabby my stomach is now pretty hard. I think it is combination of the baby growing and my organs shifting upward. Things are getting a little tight in there. I can't even imagine what it will feel like at 9 months! I have been feeling some pain/ discomfort in my stomach that I think is just normal stretching. There is something called round ligament pain that I have been having when I sneeze or I get up too fast. It just feels like a shooting pain for a few seconds and then it goes away. I have not felt the baby move yet but it definitely feels like there is something in there. It feels a lot like I have just constantly eaten a huge meal. I also ordered a maternity bathing suit for summer this week and it is so cute. It makes me very excited for our trip to St. John in July.
I am counting down the minutes until our ultrasound next Friday! The way I look at it there are really only 4 days because the weekend doesn't count and will go by quickly. We are so excited! We finally came up with a boy name that we both really like; we have had the girl's name from the beginning. So when I do my post for next week hopefully I will be sharing!

16 weeks

I don't have much to report this week. I have been feeling very well in general; I just get tired pretty easily. Last night I fell asleep at 7pm. :) This past weekend we went to a little fair/ festival in La Porte (where Dow works) and that was fun. I had been craving a snow cone for sometime and was finally able to satisfy that urge. It was fun to look around and see all the people with their little ones and think about how this time next year we will have one of our own! I am so ready to find out what we are having! Only 2 more weeks now. After Maggie sent out her cute pictures of baby Jack, I spent the majoity of the day looking at smocked outfits online. It will be fun when I can actually order one! We have a guy coming out this weekend to give us an estimate about putting a covered patio on the back of our house. We think it will really make the backyard a more inviting place and it will give the dogs a covered place to be when they are outside. I have a feeling once the baby comes they will be spending a lot more time in the backyard than they are used to. We also have a date night planned to go out to dinner and see "Baby Mama." I'm excited!