Best Mother-to-Be Day

I wasn't expecting to celebrate Mother's Day this year since, technically, Oliver's not born. The husband felt otherwise. He took me to Mark's on Thursday for dinner. Then on Sunday he surprised me with:

A Risom Rocker from Design Within Reach.

I know you are probably like, uh...ok. At this moment in my life, preparing for the baby is taking number 1 priority. Well, I need a rocker to feed and put the baby to sleep.

He surprised me oh so cleverly, too. I was in the kitchen preparing breakfast (which, btw, has now become a ritual). He was getting things out of his car. He comes in from the dining room and says to me, "Honey, look at all of these magazines you have". There was a stack of magazines I had not read, is what he was referring to. I said, "I know. I need to catch up". He then proceeds to rummage through the stack and tells me, "Oh and look this mail is for you".

I look at the envelope, addressed to me, and saw that it was from Design Within Reach. The night before, coincidentally, we had been looking at the website for rockers. I thought to myself that's weird, we were just looking at the site last night. I look at my name and noticed that the handwriting was familiar. I noticed there was no stamp. Finally a light bulb lit up. *Ding

It was his handwriting, full name and address. I informed him that it was his handwriting. Not looking at me he began to chuckle and told me to just open it. I did and found a sweet card with a picture of the rocker above and the color swatch of the rocker.

Needless to say, I was ecstatic. It was the exact rocker I told him I liked.

Then I realized the price of this rocker. I thought to myself, "Oh, shit. How am I to top this for Father's Day?"

Soon

I am ready to have my old body back.

That is all.

First Step

We, or rather the husband and sister and law, started priming Oliver's room. His room was previously painted with UT orange. It's the same color we wanted for the walls, but not the same shade.

So while they painted, I snapped pics:


So it begins

Sis-in-law decided to draw a picture of Oliver. I think I'll spell his name as "Oli" rather than "Ollie" for short.

A tiger head with Cooper's body.

The end product the next day. The room looks so different with white walls.

11 weeks to go. That does not seem very far from now. Time to kick into gear with the baby's room.

Let me leave you with a picture of my niece. We finally met over the weekend in Denver. It sucks that all my brothers and sisters live elsewhere. We can't be with the nephews or niece as often as we would like.

Continuation

Continuing from a previous blog, dated March 15, I'd like to add this:

An article I found at my doctor's office.

That is all.

Crystal Clear

So my liquid intake is limited. Very limited compared to before. I basically drink water, juice and no caffeinated soft drinks. I do, luckily, drink one cup of coffee every morning. After my 5mos of pregnancy I had to ask my doctor if I can drink coffee. I was given the go and go I went.

So that took up my one caffeinated drink per day.

Now, I don't drink enough water as is. I can go all morning without it. *So bad.

With being pregnant, water is your best friend. Whether you want it to be or not. When I don't drink enough , I get cramps on my belly. That's not fun. To make it more fun I have opened up my water options. With what you say? With.....



I have forgotten this existed. They come is so many flavors. It does make my required water intake a little better. You know what? It's low in sodium (less bloating), no calories (yay) and no caffiene (yay x 2). It's like my dream water.

I bought five flavors to see which one I like. When I brought it home, husband said people drank this when they try to lose weight. They would drink this in replacement of soda.

Interesting. I doubt people think I'm trying to lose weight.

Music Galore

It's nice to have a DJ Friend whose music I enjoy/love.

Thanks, Danny, for all 15,000 indie/retro songs

Fork

Went to the Bayou City Art Festival this year. It marks the second time in a row we've gone. This year was far better than last. Perhaps it was because we managed to find art/jewelry we liked and bought them.

We found two paintings, from an artist from Chicago, for Oliver's room. Once his room is complete, I will show the world. Right now all we seem to be doing is buying accessories. We have yet to paint and put the crib together.

Then I found a ring for myself. Really happy about my purchase. It's so hard finding fashion jewelry I like. I guess that's why my accessories stash is not so grand. I buy and buy, but only end up wearing a few. We got to a jewelry stand at the festival. They made rings, braclets, etc. out of silverware. How cool is that? So cool, I bought a fork ring. I was trying to find a spoon ring I liked ,to make a set, but they were boring. I've seen spoon rings before, though. Anyway, here is my recent purchase:

So basically, it's a fork wrapped around my finger.