Jessica Writes

This will be a busy weekend. The crib set is in, so we gotta go pick it up. We will be cleaning out the future nursery and moving things to the shed. But, Chris and his mom have to clean out the shed first — so a trip to the dump is in order.

Oh yeah, I think we have a least two foxes living under the shed. Chris saw them in the backyard last night when he was grilling. So weird, we live in the city!

Also in is the bedding, which is just as cute in person, and the four doggie prints from Etsy. I need to go pick up four silver frames for the prints so we can hang them soon.

We decided to paint the room a light blue, which will match the bedding and be a nice contrast to the orange chair. Not sure if we’ll get to that this weekend.

But it’s exciting, and preparing Baby Ennis’ own space sure makes it even more real!

Chris has really been feeling my pain lately — literally. Looks like he has begun to feel some sympathy pains — bad back pain in the same area I had been having it and he has also put on some weight since I got pregnant.

It’s not funny, especially when we are fighting over the heating pad.

My dog, Simone, is a very affectionate lap dog. She has always been her momma’s girl, but the more pregnant I get, the more attached she has become. She must be with me always. I can’t so much as go to the ladies’ room without her following me in there and watching me with those little soft brown eyes. I cannot imagine why me doing my business is of critical need of her attendance, but it is apparently. Anything I do, she is there. And she usually wants to be in my lap or at least touching me at all times. She has begun to rest her head on my bump (which is becoming a handy shelf for various items these days) a lot.

Everyone keeps asking me if they think Simone is going to adjust to the new baby ok. I just hope that she will be as obsessed with the baby as she is with us.

I am waving to my relatives that I hear are reading the blog! How cool! I would love to hear your pregnancy stories, advice, baby gear recommendations, etc., so leave me a comment, won’t you?

I think we are going to buy four prints of this pup, who looks a lot like our Simone, and have them change out the background colors to match the nursery bedding. I think it will look really cute and can grow with our son… What do you think?

The print is from the Esty Store Studio1212.

Here are the colors again:

I have had a really weird week. I had virtually no pain issues or funky symptoms while I was on vacation, but Monday morning back at work was not good.

My co-worker found me in the floor where I had laid down because I suddenly felt dizzy and light-headed after getting really hot, uncomfortable and dry-heaving while sitting at my desk. I take it was an alarming sight, because Carole, who is also a nurse and is not one to get phased by things, took off to administration to have them “stand by.” We were soon joined by two of the top nurses at the hospital and lovely Mr. Kendrick, our front desk greeter extraordinare who commandeered a wheelchair and got me down the Pediatric Emergency Department in no time.

There I was met with what seemed like a dozen nurses who checked all my vitals - normal - and they even wheeled in a little ultrasound machine to see if Baby Ennis was allright. There he was, heart beating just fine and moving around. I felt very silly being in the ED for children!

No clue what set me off. And then it happened again on Tuesday morning, so Chris took me to my OB to see what the heck was going on. That bloodwork came out normal too. Just going to chalk it up to crazy pregnancy symptoms…

Carole suggested I eat something before I get out of bed each morning and that seems to have helped, or my symptoms have mysteriously vanished.

No worries, they were replaced yesterday by a new symptom. The only way I can explain the pain is it feels like either I have been riding a jumpy horse for a realllllllllly long time or it feels like a day after a donkey kicked me square in the crotch. I think the technical term for it is round ligament pain, but I think my descriptions are more colorful, don’t you?

Anyway, the back and hip pain I have had before seems to be improving. I think I just have one session left with the physical therapist. Then I am going to try prenatal yoga, and if I am brave, maybe prenatal water aerobics. I just know the other mommies to be will be all cute and cellulite free, so I don’t know if I can handle the latter. Let’s just say when I got on the scale on Tuesday, I was not to happy to see my weight. Yeah, yeah, eating for two, I am supposed to gain weight, whatever. I still don’t like seeing those numbers increase SO much.

Chocolate and vanilla twist, please.

I got this idea from Blueprint magazine, and its made of embroidery/basket hoops and heavy colored paper. I think it would be cute, and we could match it to the bedding colors exactly. We would probably hang it from the ceiling over the crib. And, it should be very inexpensive to make!

I have been obsessing over the Skip Hop Mod Dots crib set for weeks, so I finally ordered it online this morning, along with the matching lamp. I am so excited!

On our way home from the beach, we stopped in Atlanta and went to Ikea. Check out the cute and very comfortable chair we got for the nursery! I am super excited about it, too! (And yes, I did get it in orange. I love it!)

Here is the footstool that matches! Whee!

Although I need to be cleaning the house, I think I have convinced Chris to go to Babies R Us to look at the crib and dresser that I decided we must get! It is the Baby Cache Tampa Lifetime Crib I blogged about earlier. Here is the dresser that matches it:

At Ikea, we picked up a few other accessories for the room:

It started raining at the beach today so me and mom went outlet shopping for a bit. We went into Baby Gap, Carter’s and Old Navy and found some really cute baby boy clothes that were on sale. Mom bought everything - thanks mom!

This is very similar to the onesie we got at Carter’s except the one we got doesn’t have stripes. I just loooooooooove that there is a puppy on the butt!

I am sort of on a puppy/doggie kick these days and am thinking of making or buying four cute pop art looking prints of a dog (preferably Simone!) in different colors that match the bedding - very Andy Warhol-ish. Chris thinks this means I want a dog theme in the nursery, but I just want to do something cute and dogs are my style, and I think it would look cool! I don’t think that means we will have a theme, does it?