Making plans!

Well, it’s been five days since we received our news and I still haven’t come down from my cloud yet! I’m trying not to get ahead of myself because I know we are still in a sensitive period but there are so many things that I just want to start doing and planning right now. I’m already trying to figure out where everything in the office is going to go when it gets converted to a nursery. I’ve put together a list of household projects that we need to get done before the baby comes – new living room furniture, new roof, empty all of my shoes and clothes out of the office/nursery closet and find somewhere to put it, etc. We’ve gotten a couple of baby things as gifts already – of course my parents gave us “I love Grandma” and “I love Grandpa” bibs and our friends gave us the book “Hush Little Baby” and some booties for good luck! I had to clear out a drawer in the dresser in what will be the nursery to start storing all of the baby’s stuff! Knowing my mother, it won’t take long to accumulate!!

So yesterday I had to go to Finley for a blood draw to get my HCG level checked. HCG is basically just the pregnancy hormone. I got the results back yesterday afternoon and my level had increased from 255 on Thursday to 1718 Monday so that was really good. They want them to at least double every 48 hours so mine have done even better than that! They also must be quite confident with my progress because they don’t feel the need to see me again until my ultrasound on the 15th. Very good news!!

Well, I started my maternity clothes fund this weekend! Just because you’re pregnant doesn’t mean you can’t be fashionable, right? I was getting dressed for work this morning and put on a pair of heels and wondered to myself if I will wear heels when I’m like six months pregnant or more. I seriously think that I will. I mean, ask me again in six months and we’ll see but I want to be a stylish pregnant chick! I want to wear clothes that accentuate my bump, not hide it! I wish I could afford to get all of my maternity clothes at A Pea in the Pod where all the pregnant celebs shop. Or too bad I can’t hire Rachel Zoe to be my stylist and pick me out all kinds of fabulous bump-wear. Bananas! A girl can dream anyway. At least I am going to the Mall of America in a few months with my mom and my sister so I think it’s safe to say there will be more of a maternity selection there than there is in Dubuque. And while they may not be Rachel Zoe, they do each have a pretty great fashion sense! Hopefully I can keep squeezing into my normal clothes until then!