The Espejos

This week, we are twenty-nine weeks prego: This means baby has a nine out of ten chance of survival if she is born now. She can now control her own breathing and body temperature, and she's really good at coughing and sucking.  We have a 4D Ultrasound this upcoming week, so we'll finally get to see what she looks like! We are both really excited for that.  I'm also curious to see how she's grown and get an better estimate of when she'll be born. Isaac and I decided not to do a nursery this time around, since Grace never even used her crib. Now that she has started sleeping in her toddler bed, we figured the new baby may do well in her own bed too if it was in our room. Grace's bed is near the window and there is a perfect amount of space for a crib on the other side of it. I told Isaac that if we could find another crib exactly like Grace's, I'd love to get one to put there.  I remember when we bought the rails to change Grace's from a crib ...

After weeks and weeks of waiting for the baby bedding, it finally arrived and we were able to start on the nursery!! The bedding came in on a Wednesday so the next day on our lunch break we went to Home Depot to check out some paint. We picked a color we really liked in Behr's Disney Collection. It was called "Shy Little Piglet" from the Pooh series. It matched the wall paper perfectly so we thought it would be a good idea to get two cans of it plus two cans of the same color with only 50% of the dye so it would be much lighter. Our idea was to put the wallpaper around the room right in the middle of the wall with the lighter color on top and the darker one on bottom. When we got home, I (of course) wanted to paint right away. Isaac had other plans (like playing his Xbox or watching a movie).  So when Friday night came I was ready to go. He still came up with a reason not to paint.  Saturday morning I was up bright and early and eager to get sta...

This past weekend, we went shopping for the nursery furniture.  We knew that we wanted dark wood and one that can be turned into a toddler bed and then a full size bed for future use.  After a couple of stores, we headed over to Babies R Us and picked out the perfect crib for Gracie :) We put together the crib and tall dresser, but the longer dresser won't come in for another week. Here's Isaac being goofy. He was obviously excited about getting the furniture put together! I had to read the instructions to make sure he didn't put it together the wrong way. The finished products!! A pic of the baby bump at 18 weeks. Hopefully, we'll have the baby bedding in the next few weeks and can finally pick out our paint colors and get the nursery finished up.  I can't wait to see it all come together. The day before this was my 18 week mark.  That means the baby is as long as a bell pepper and weighs 5 to 7 ounces. (We actually had an ultrasound Monday, and she weighs 8...

One of the hardest decisions I am currently facing is how to decorate the nursery.  Isaac and I have looked at tons of websites and hundreds of different themes but haven't been able to agree on one.  I want pink everywhere (obviously, because she's a little girl), and Isaac wants something more grown up and not too babyish.  We found one called Sugar Plum that we both liked, but there was one problem... it was purple .  I knew I had to find something pink for little Gracie. It seems like I have been googling 'baby bedding' every day for weeks.  Today, I finally found one that I absolutely love and guess what?  Isaac likes it too!!  It is called Petals by Lamb and Ivy. I'm not too crazy about the oval pictures on the wall, but I have to have everything else. How adorable is that little mobile? Seriously! I'm thinking that instead of the pictures, I can do her name on the wall like this: I can just buy little wooden letters at Jo...