Overwhelming Gratitude

I cannot believe that the baby shower was yesterday. We are so grateful to everyone that came. We are thankful to everyone that helped out with the shower in any way!

My Aunt Jenny basically threw the shower and my mom and Aunt Karen helped put it together too. I am so not a fan of getting up in front of everyone like that and have people stare at me while I open gifts from people. I am getting to the uncomfortable stage of the pregnancy where I feel like my skin cannot expand any further. I appreciate Greg getting up there with me and being just as embarassed as I was to sit there for a couple hours and do that!

It was wonderful to see everyone in one place. I wanted to just sit and visit with everyone all afternoon, but alas, I had to eat lunch and sit with Greg and open gifts!

We got so many wonderful things that I know we will need. Bathtub, sheets, blankets, a TON of books, clothes, diapers... If they make, we got it.

There is no way that we could have ever afforded to buy all of the necessities ourselves. We hope everyone had fun visiting and playing games and eating WONDERFUL food that my family all prepared. We are blessed to have all of you in our lives to celebrate the arrival of our little one.

Happiest Baby on the Block

Greg and I attended our first baby preparation type class yesterday. We weren't really sure what to expect, but it ended up being a lot of fun.

The class was called Happiest Baby on the Block. It basically covers the methods that Dr. Harvey Karp follows. We have no method or preference to follow, but are open to learning about different methods and then taking small things from each one.

Dr. Karp believes that babies, especially in their first few months of life, can experience "fourth trimester" issues. Babies can have a difficult time getting used to the huge amount of stimuli present in life outside of Mom's body. Their reaction to all of this is to cry and cry.

The Happiest Baby On The Block method formulated by Dr. Harvey Karp, addresses these issues by helping you learn how to effectively recreate the environment of the womb, outside of Mom's body. Once you have learned the steps, you will be able to alleviate some, if not all, of your baby's colic symptoms.

Now, they aren't saying that every baby has colic, but they are saying here are 5 methods and if your child fusses, try them... they should work.

There were only 4 couples total in the class which was nice. We all got to ask questions and no one made the class any longer than it had to be. I think Greg and I left there with a feeling of confidence that we will be able to handle being new parents!

Organic Garden

We finally got the babies room painted. I cannot say "Thank You" enough to my friend Angela, my sister, her friend Robert, and my friend Jenny and her little sister Rachelle.

Without you guys I would not have a beautiful baby's room awaiting wee little one's arrival.

We picked out the bedding a while ago and decided to go with a bright vibrant green color called organic garden that matched the sheets nicely.

I started out the day thinking I could handle it. I quickly found out that 6 months along pregnant women are not designed to paint walls from top to bottom. I could paint only the middle of the wall without hurting myself!

Angela basically did all the green paint that wasn't in the middle of the wall. My sister and Robert did a lot of the white, along with Jenny and Rachelle who did the closet doors. Again, I am so grateful to all of you for helping, and bebe thanks you too!