Furniture update

It appears that we have found the crib! Yesterday I drove all the way to Quail springs because the lady at Norman assured me they had 5 in stock. The rather surly teenage girl informed me there were none available. I asked her to go look for the dresser and she did manage to find that, just not the crib. Then, everywhere I called today assured me that Quail springs should have some in stock - the computer was showing them still.

Darrell called and spoke to a manager at Quail Springs who managed to find 3 of them hiding in the stock room. Huh. Go figure. Anyway, we've got one on hold and I'm picking it up tomorrow. Yay! We'll have the whole set.

Next we'll need to pick up the bedding set and start painting. I feel kind of energized just thinking about it.

I think if I was 'nesting' my house would be cleaner so I'm pretty sure that's not it. Not yet anyway. I'm just incredibly excited.

Ultrasound Pictures

Below is the picture that Darrell is most proud of. The view is looking directly at the butt. Two little folded up legs on either side, and right beneath the little arrow you'll see the little appendage. Yup, those are the goods.

This is my favorite. A little tiny hand with five perfect fingers. It's kind of hard to see where the rest of the baby is. I think he's kind of in the fetal position with the hand near his face, but I'm no expert. I just know that he's mine, and that little hand makes the fact even more real.

A perfect spine shot. Baby is face down, and his spine is the horizontal snake looking thing.

He's looking right at you in this picture. (If you imagine a skull it kind of helps.) Darrell says he looks like me here. LOL

This is the little butt, the white lines are his femurs (lower leg bones) so we can tell he has his legs folded up. (The better to kick mommy with...)

So, the verdict is that everything is good. As far as we can tell, Baby Bean has all the right parts and they're all put together correctly.

My weight at the appointment was 146, which I'm not totally happy with but it's not completely out of the normal range either. I need to watch my nutrition a little better in the coming weeks.

Furniture Fiasco

Like I wrote in my last post, we found a crib set that we love on sale at Target. It's a sleigh style crib with a cherry finish.

So far we've found the changing table and the dresser (which, ironically, I can't find pictures of online) but no crib in stock anywhere. We bought them anyway and are now haunting the target stores for the crib! Darrell has picked out the crib set, I think so we should be set to buy paint and start getting everything set up soon.

Ethan

There is so much I'd like to talk about, things have been swirling around in my head all weekend but unfortunately I haven't had much computer time. The weekend is going fabulously, and tomorrow we're heading home. I'll try to put up a little trip post later.

I wandered around a gift shop at Six Flags over Texas and found a little personalized sippy cup with "Ethan" on it. We've chosen the name Ethan Joseph for the newest little Hafer. Ethan because we like it, and Joseph after Darrell's uncle Joe. It's kind of amazing the change that's come over the whole baby thing now. We say "him" instead of it, and we even refer to my belly as Ethan. The girls are comfortable coming up and patting my stomach and 'talking' to Ethan. It's very cute.

I was never really sure what to think about they hype regarding ultrasounds and bonding but I definitely think that I've "bonded" with our little one this weekend more than anything so far. It's becoming more and more exciting to imagine meeting this little guy. Will he look like Darrell, or more like me? Blue eyes or green? Fair skin or dark? What will his personality and disposition be like.

It seems like I'm growing bigger daily. Darrell has noticed it too and said something to that effect tonight. That was after he took me to target and bought me two really cute shorts outfits and a pair of dress pants. It was a birthday present, and really the best ever. It's hard to explain how looking nice instead of frumpy and stretching out of clothes that don't fit makes my self esteem shoot up. It shouldn't be so, but girls are kind of hung up on how they look, and how I look greatly affects how I feel.

It's the best feeling ever to be spoiled by such a great man :)

Also at Target we found out that the crib we've been looking at is on sale for $50 less, and the matching changing table too. Today was the last day of the sale so we decided to buy it and attempt to drag it back to Oklahoma with the kids in the 4Runner. Thankfully the changing table was out of stock, and the nice lady gave us rain checks for BOTH pieces so we can still get the sale price when we get home. I'm so excited because it's the piece we wanted in the cherry finish. Darrell is busy picking out the bedding set/theme. I'm going to basically give it over to him as long as he picks something I like. Hehe.

Darrell wants to do some writing so I'll give this up, at least until tomorrow night.

:)

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In Maddy's excited words: "awwww, Daddy's miracle came true!"

Yes, people. It's a boy. I can't describe the thrill of joy that ran through me hearing the doctor say that and then Darrell's excited cheer.

It's way to late and I'm way too tired to post more. I'll try to get it more up tomorrow night from the hotel.

I am so happy!

roller coaster

Wow, my emotions are so intense right now. I wouldn't have imagined it like this.

I keep thinking about how I'll post my update if it is a boy, or if it's a girl. And then I let my mind wander to what that moment in the room is going to be like when the doctor says "it's a..."

Amazing how wrapped up I am in that little detail. I've been thinking about it quite a bit for weeks, but suddenly today it's ALL I can think about. I have such mixed emotions about the whole thing.

Right now, in my daydreams she keeps saying, "it's a boy!" and I'm picturing how overjoyed we'll all be. And then I think, what if it's not a boy? What if it's a girl? I'll still be ecstatic, but I'll be sad for Darrell. I won't want to overdo the excitement then... and how fair is that? We've built up the desire for a boy so much that when I call/message people to let them know I'm afraid someone is going to respond with "awww... I'm sorry." And right now the thought of that is just unbearable. How could we say that about such a miracle?

this is it....

Who remembers Hermie from the Saturday Morning kids radio programs?  I know my sisters know what I'm talking about.

 

Today is the day!  I just know it!!

 

I'm afraid the day is going to drag until I leave work at 3.  Also the appointment is at 3:45 and they're squeezing me in, so that means we'll probably be waiting.  I wouldn't be suprised if it was an hour or more.  Hopefully Darrell won't be late for his class! 

 

The bean appears to be a bit of a 'morning person.'  The past two days I've been out of bed at 5:20 and at work by 6:30.  I've noticed that both mornings he's been incredibly active.  I've been reading that by 21 weeks the baby is waking and sleeping on a schedule of sorts, so I'm beginning to think he's waking up earlier than me.  This would perfectly explain why I have rarely felt a great deal of movement after about 6 p.m.

 

On a somewhat related note, if baby is on a schedule, I wonder if anyone has ever tried monitoring that schedule while in the womb and then trying to mimick it after birth?  Seems like that would be a reasonable thing to do, though rarely convenient.  We all want to get the baby on a 'grown-up' schedule almost as soon as he comes out of the oven.

 

Just early morning musings.