Baby's Room

Baby has the same bedding as Ellie. And the blue wall matches great! (Ellie had a blue wall too, for the first year) Very neutral!
Ellie has begun a collection of friends for the baby already.
This room is not done yet. We still have some organizing and decorating to do, but at least Matt got it painted. The rest shouldn't take too long. And, there will be much more room once the cradle is out of there. The daybed is staying for the time being, so we have 2 extra beds for people to sleep in. Ellie really wants to make it a Baby Einstein room. That would be fine, except I can't find a single picture for the wall that will work!

Ellie's Room

Well, I am unexpectedly home with a sick kid today, so I am uploading the first house pictures. These are of Ellie's room, which is the first room to be considered done.

Ellie's big girl roomShe wanted a Tinkerbell room.

Her window seat that Nana made
She has one more picture to go in that blank space on the wall, just not framed yet.
Her bathroom connects with the baby's room. We'll get that painted eventually.

A Few Random Pictures

Ellie and I are getting ready for a meeting this afternoon. I'm working on my agenda, and she is working on hers :)

She got to get cotton candy at Sesame Street Live, which was HUGE because we never buy anything at those shows. (Good lord, we can hardly afford to go to the shows anymore. $10 just to park!)
Making Daddy's Birthday Cake with her new apron from Grandma for valentines day.
Ellie decorated the cake all by herself. She did a pretty good job. Mommy only helped a bit with the frosting. She picked out the Spiderman theme for him all by herself. There was no compromising on this matter.

We are going to the perinatologist again this morning, so should have more pics of the baby soon.

Baby Mady

I know it's a bit crooked, but the scanner is misbehaving today. This is baby's second of many ultrasounds. I am high risk, so I'll go to my doctor and the perinatologist every other week until about 30 weeks or so, then I'm there at least twice a week, if not more. So, I have exactly 9 weeks of freedom until that begins. This is gonna cost me a fortune in leapster games to get Ellie through this :)

Baby is perfectly healthy. We are not planning to find out the sex, but you know, 4-6 more ultrasounds to go, so we'll see how that works for us. We have no names at all picked out. We just haven't found anything we love. Ellie has decided it will be Jordan or Avery. Daddy and I are not planning on it.

Sewing

Ellie got a sewing machine from Nana and Papa for christmas. This is the first time she has been able to use it, since we had to get some house cleaned up first. She has been sewing nonstop for about a day now. You can see her messy art shelf in the background. She loves her art, so we have practically every item imaginable.

Matt's sister is getting married this fall. They asked Ellie to be one of the flower girls. If you remember, she was a flower girl in a wedding when she turned 2. She told Holly, that no, she could not be in her wedding. "I already got married to Grant (the ring bearer in the last wedding), I can't be your flower girl. I already got married!" I had to explain to her that she could be a flower girl in this wedding and still be married to Grant. She thinks that'll work OK, "But is Auntie Holly gonna take me to pick out a pretty white, sparkly princess flower girl dress?" I leave that to you and Auntie Holly, sweetie. Just send the bill to Daddy.

Finally!

We have internet! So, now I will clean the house and get those pictures up! In the meantime, Ellie will continue to do what she always does: pick on the poor dog.

We're here!

We haven't fell off the earth, we just have no internet! Hopefully sometime next week we'll get it and I can finally download pics of the house. Ellie is in love with her new house. I can't post at work since the site is blocked (to post but not to read, crazy people!) And I will email all my friends as soon as I can! For now I am resorting to Matt's computer with wireless access, when he isn't using it for work (which is rare) So more very soon!!