The weekend of many pictures

and yet I'm not including a single one on this post :o)

Dad and Melanie are heading back east after an awesome visit. Went out to eat Friday night, had adventures at the farmer's market in the pouring rain, and cooked rainbow trout for the first time Saturday night., In between all the excitement Dad tried his best to indulge my request for a picture of Max and belly. 100 shots later (including a GREAT picture of Max rolling his eyes - I'm not kidding), I think we got one good one. I'll post it when I get a copy.

This evening we did a maternity session with the photographer we're going to use for newborn shots. I was a little apprehensive since we hadn't met in person before but she was wonderful and stayed for well over an hour taking lots of shots of me, Alex, and belly. She's promised to post a couple tonight on her facebook page (search facebook for KaitlinSheran Photography), and then I'll get full digital rights once she's done processing the rest so many more shots to come.

Hard to believe that we'll see her again for newborn shots in about a month!

It's getting closer...

Things have started to happen lately that have made me stop and think WOW this baby is coming soon. For example, this I just meet with payroll at work and talked about FLMA leave. Apparently my hording of vacation/sick leave is going to serve me well - I'll actually be getting a paycheck for some of my time off! Not a full paycheck mind you, but better then doing the 7 weeks that short term disability doesn't cover unpaid :o) Who knew it was possible to be so excited for an event that you don't really know when it will occur...

Let there be furniture...

...and bad photography.  Have you ever noticed how hard it is to take pictures of the inside of a room?

Anyway, we got the baby furniture put together! Now in what used to be our office we have a glider and a crib:

And a dresser/changing table.

The nursery's starting to come together which has triggered some serious nesting instinct. I'm not sure why I made Alex wash the baby clothes before the clothing that we'll actually wear this week, but it seemed important at the time. Time to go fold....

Photo updates

It's been a little crazy around here with work stuff, but 33 weeks in we have managed to make some progress preparing for September.

See, we have a fully assembled crib:

And a not so fully assembled changing table:

(okay maybe that's less impressive). We also bought our first couple of cloth diapers:

Yes, I know the diaper above is hardly the gender neutral colors that I told everyone I was sticking too, but look how cute it is! It's hard to imagine that our baby will ever be big enough to fit into it, but then again looking down, maybe not :o)

Still kickin'

I know it's been a while - we'll shoot for some new pictures later this weekend but rest assured that we're still kicking over here in Madison (especially baby girl Provan). We had a wonderful weekend in door co. last weekend and a very busy week here, where it was all together too hot (sounds like the rest of the country is experiencing the same thing).
I had my 32 week appointment yesterday and everything still looks great! Health wise I'm on track, and baby's heart rate and measurements look good. Alex got to come to this appointment so it was fun for him to get to hear baby's heartbeat :o) Doc says that right now she's positioned head down and curled around with her feet on my right side - definitely explains all the kicking going on over there!

31 week bump (and the beginning of birthday week)

Our plan right now is to head up north for a long weekend next weekend to celebrate my birthday. While Sturgeon bay has a lot of wonderful things, fine dinning is not one of them :o) So Alex took me out last night for my birthday dinner.  It was a wonderful start to the birthday week, beginning with the prettiest flowers I've seen in a long time:

and was a great excuse to get dressed up:

Let the record show that to date Debra's bridesmaid dress (above) is the only bridesmaids dress I own that I've worn repeatedly. Nice work Debra :o)

30 week bump

...is starting to get impressive if I do say so myself :o)

I still get people who are amazed that I'm as far along as I am, but at least no one is surprised at the fact that I'm pregnant anymore.

Physically I'm feeling really good, mentally I'm all over the board. Poor Alex had to deal with everything from sobbing for no reason to manic cleaning to happy go lucky this weekend. He's been a really good sport :o)  Let's hope that things even out this week.

Baby's been moving like crazy recently - we're starting to be able to see her from the outside. No elbows or feet yet, but definite movement. She's getting bigger!

P.S. Megan (pictured below) had a beautiful baby boy yesterday. Both Mom and baby are doing great!