School Baby Shower

Today was my school baby shower. There is another teacher that's having a baby - in December. So, even though Baby Girl Davis isn't coming until April 1st, the ladies at school asked if it was okay to have our showers together. It was such a sweet shower. We got a precious outfit to get monogrammed (whenever Baby has a name), gift certificates, and money to buy Baby Girl lots of fun things! I already have her first Bama outfit on hold at the Lily Pad (and now I have a gift certificate)!

I knew my mom would be so proud of me if I got someone to take pictures (and I guess I have to be better about documenting if I'm going to be a mom:) And Baby's Daddy couldn't miss out on all of the first shower!

This is Mrs. Young - isn't she tiny? And she only has a few more weeks to go!

(We were supposed to have visitors at our school tomorrow, so today was supposed to be a planning/cleaning day. Therefore, we all wore t-shirts and tennis shoes. Otherwise, I promise I would've looked a little cuter for a baby shower! Just felt the need to share that!)

Making Room for Baby

Since we're moving our guest room to the finished part of our basement to make way for Baby, I decided that when I swapped summer clothes for winter clothes in our closets, I would organize the basement closet and clean out the closet in what will be Baby's room. So, for the past couple of weeks, I've worked on that little project. After 1,000 trips up and down the stairs, I have finally made some progress!
(There's a reason the floor of the closet isn't in this picture, but let's just be proud of the progress I've made so far!)
Baby Girl has already received gifts - her Nana gave her a Halloween bib for next year, the Lawrence's have gotten the sweet, precious little wardrobe started, and one of my sweet students brought me some of her baby clothes that she found at her house.
Next step - painting!! I told Dusty I would leave that alone until after football season (which we hope lasts 3 more weeks!).

20

How far along: 20 weeks
Net weight gain/loss: up 12 lbs.
Maternity clothes: Nothing but maternity pants! Still wearing most of my shirts, though.
Stretch marks: No (and let’s pray for none!!) Bought the Cocoa Butter lotion for stretch marks so we can try to keep this from happening!!
Belly button: innie
Sleep: Pretty good…I keep waking a little while before it’s time to get up and I can’t go back to sleep!
Baby movement: Yes! Loving it!
Food cravings: Still apple juice, I guess (And my mom-n-law got me a case of caffeine-free Dr. Pepper – YEA!! Thanks so much!)
Food aversions: No…
What I miss: Not missing anything this week
Looking forward to: Deciding on furniture and bedding
Best moment this week: Seeing Baby Girl on the ultrasound – and hearing the doc say that everything looks wonderful!
Milestones: Baby Girl D weighs 12 ounces and measured 20 weeks, 2 days last Wednesday. She’s starting to really practice swallowing. She's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in her bowels, and we'll see it in her first soiled diaper. (You probably didn’t really want to know that, but there’s not much going on this week!)

Halfway

We are halfway to meeting Baby Girl D!

We had a dr.'s appointment Wednesday. We got to see Baby Girl again -she was just as busy as ever. The lady confirmed that she IS girl (although she was a little shy about letting us see, and her daddy is OK with that!). Her measurements are right on track; her heartbeat was 162 and she weighs 12 ounces.

20 week belly shots (per request!)