Catch-up Posts

I was just looking back over the entries and realized there are a few things I have missed in the past couple of months.

First week 25 picture never got posted.

Mommy Mobile

Back in October we decided that that little Subaru wasn't going to cut it once that baby arrives so we started car shopping. I love my Subaru's so we quickly settled on another used Subaru. We did some test drives and decided that the Tribeca was the only model that had the space we were hoping for. We got lucky and found a Blue 2008 for a great price through a broker.

Thanksgiving

We headed to Fort Collins for Thanksgiving this year and got together with my family. My Aunt and Uncle and her two boys all live in Fort Collins now which is so exciting! I have never

had so much family so close! PIME had been kicking like crazy early in the week but could not be convinced to give anyone a good kick at Thanksgiving.

Jesse did such a great job and got the house decorated the weekend after Thanksgiving. It looks great and I have really enjoyed coming home to a beautifully lit house for the past month.

We put the tree up the following week and got it decorated at the beginning of December. The dogs posed perfectly while we were decorating so I got great pictures of both of them for the Christmas card.

Car Seat

I have decided a March baby is perfect timing since I am just getting motivated to buy stuff and there have been so many great Christmas sales! A few weeks ago I got a coupon for 20% off the car seat I had already decided that I wanted to purchase. Unfortunately it was a one day sale but Jesse is such a good sport he went to Babies R Us with me after the gym that night . . . thus we became the proud owners of a car seat!

I have enjoyed trying out all the new baby gear on two of my childhood baby dolls Joe (small newborn size) and Sally (~6 month old size). Sally is modeling the car seat below.

Weeks 26 and 27 and Furniture

Two weekends ago we got to go spend the weekend in Winter Park for a friend's wedding. We also got to celebrate Jesse's birthday while up there. We had a great time and it was so beautiful. Both strange and fun to spend time by a ski resort and not ski - it is still so beautiful up there and much more relaxing without the skiing part :) No good 26 week belly shot since were were out of town all weekend.

Week 27

I can't believe how quickly the time has gone so far - I started my third trimester Saturday! I still feel pretty good but can see I am going to be pretty huge soon! PIME is crazy active now and goes through periods of 10 to 30 minutes just moving and kicking and stretching like crazy! So fun and so strange! I keep laughing that poor PIME got the studio condo.

We had a very fun but busy weekend this past weekend -

I actually managed to get Christmas cards done and they are going in the mail today - yea!

We also got to pick up our crib and dresser (we ordered them last weekend but the dresser had

to come from the warehouse). They are a nice cherry colored wood (Jesse's choice). Normally (ie not pregnant Emily) we would have been able to get them inside on our own but we were smart this time and we got our neighbor to help Jesse carry them both into the house (they were over 100 pounds each and I would not have been very helpful at this point). Jesse got the crib all assembled while I broke down the boxes and

made a giant recycling pile :)

A friend came over later in the day Saturday and we picked out paint samples and bought the tiny cans so you can actually see the color on the wall - I have never done that before but it is pretty fun (you can that a little bit in the dresser picture). I am very excited to get the color(s) picked and get the room painted.

Jesse has been so great getting stuff assembled and even helping pick paint colors :) I am so blessed to have him! I feel such a relief to have some stuff now (we have a car seat too) and am so excited to start getting the room set up.