There is some MOVING AND SHAKIN' going on!

Easton has totally consumed our lives and we love it! It is Easton this and Easton that! On March 9th we headed to the baby doctor for a check up. Easton is doing wonderful with a heart beat in the 150s, mommy has gained another 8 pounds putting me at 214, and daddy is keeping up with mommy these days! For those of you who are keeping track I have gained exactly 20 pounds since my first doctor's visit at 8 weeks. The doctor said she was not a bit worried about the fluid they found in Easton's left kidney at our 20 week sonogram appointment and that is was probably gone by now. She did say that we needed to schedule another sonogram so we could get a good profile picture of little Ms. Easton. So on April 6 we will go in for round three of photos for Easton. Since the appointment is at 1:30 pm my mom is going to go to this sonogram and I am so excited for her to see her granddaughter!

On March 11 at exactly 22 weeks Easton became a mover and shaker! I think she has daddy's dancing skills! Around 8:30 pm while watching Grey's Anatomy and laying on the couch I felt this crazy rumble in my belly. When a fart didn't follow I figured it was Ms. Easton moving. I shot up and excitingly told Josh "I swear to God, I think I just felt Easton kick!" He came over right away and put his had on my belly and of course she didn't move. He went back over to his "man" chair and we finished watching Greys. After Greys he turned it to the Texas basketball game and I told him to come over here and put his hand on my belly while he watched the game. So I placed his hand on the spot where I had felt her move the most and not a minute later she gave daddy one heck of a kick! The strongest one I felt so far. He turned and looked at me with astonishment, excitement, and the hugest smile! The look on his face was truly priceless and I will never forget the love and amazement that I saw in his eyes as he felt his little girl kick. Every since that night Easton has not stopped dancing around in my belly. Prior to all this movement, I just finished off a bowl of vanilla ice cream topped with hot fudge and homemade brownies! I think she loved the ice cream and wanted to let us know!

Last Saturday, March 13 was a day completely dedicated to Easton. The only goal Josh had for me was to pick out baby bedding. My goals on the other hand were to register at Babies R US and Target, find a crib and changing table, and of course baby bedding. First stop of the day, Babies R US. We spent TWO and HALF hours in that store registering! Of course when you walk in there are aisles and aisles of baby stuff! I must say when the lady handed us the scanning gun we didn't know where the hell to start. Even with three different registry "must have" lists, it was just too much. So our plan of attack.... start at the first aisle on the right side and work our way down every aisle until we made it around the store. Along the way we looked at everything and scanned the items we thought we may need. One jumbo size box of diapers, a "My Mom is hotter than your Mom" bib and a "My first Royals Tee" pink shirt later, we left Babies R US registered, exhausted and starving! Side note: There are certain items that my husband got carried away with so please disregard the 5 packages of nursing pads that he scanned. He got a little out of control with the gun! After some very yummy Mexican food we headed to Target on 155th and 69 hwy. It sucked! We were in and out of there in 45 minutes. There baby section was small so we just registered for some basics. As we were walking out of Target I realized we didn't' register for a diaper bag. So I told Josh we had to go back to Babies R Us and register for one. So began the big diaper bag debate. I wanted cute, girly, and pink. Josh wanted something HE could carry around. He picked up ones that looked like ugly brief cases, dang bowling bags, or were back packs. I had to remind him that I too would be carrying this thing. After all my cute pink ones were shot down, Josh saw one shoved way in the back that matched our stroller/carrier. We scanned it and bolted! The final stop of the day... NFM of course. There we purchased our baby bedding ( I will post pictures of it later once we finish the room) and ended up buying a crib. I had not planned on spending so much on a crib, it just wasn't that big of a deal to me, but after searching forever, Josh and I found one we both liked. So with much reservation I gave into buying the $570.00 crib. Yes you read that right, $570 for a crib that does not include the mattress or the rails to convert it into a full size bed! Like Josh says "This is the only bed I am buying her while she is living with me". I of course LOVE the changing table/dresser that goes with the crib, however there is NO WAY in hell I was spending $800 on that. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. So I told Josh that we would order the changing table I liked at Babies R Us. It is tall (this was a huge issue for me), has places for baskets below, white, and simple. Best of all it is only $240.00 and I don't really think Easton will care what her little butt gets changed on as long as she gets changed.

Now we have to focus on paint colors and getting the nursery together! And here are some colors we are currently working with...






21 Weeks


Easton's coming home outfit.... Like I said if it was a girl she will be wearing pink, bows, and ruffles!


I leave you with pictures of our Babies R Us purchase....

Baby Furniture Outing and My Pillow Husband!

I am just going to throw this out there.... peeing in my panties... not fun! The most recent prego symptom. If I laugh hard, sneeze, or don't go right when I feel the urge, boy do I pay with some dribble! Dear God, please let my bladder return to normal once Easton is born. We continue to have the nightly pillow battle in our queen size bed. This is so not sexual so get your minds out of the gutter! ;) The pillow battle involves me strategically placing three pillows so I can sleep comfortably. One between my legs, one for my head, and one for my belly/boobs. Poor Josh must sleep around all three and has sacrificed bed space for my pillows. Oh, and once they are positioned he dare not move them! I honestly do rip his head off! Thank you real life husband for allowing my pillow husband to join us every night in bed so I can sleep comfortably!

So this past Sunday was a very eventful day for us. We ventured out in search of baby furniture. Wait... I better give you some more details. I had originally ordered some very cute bedding from Babies R Us only to be disappointed when I got it. It wasn't what I was expecting so I returned. So not only are we in search for baby furniture, but we are also back on the hunt for baby bedding. Oh, and if I don't make up my mind soon, I do believe our little girl will be growing up in a pink John Deere Room. The afternoon began at USA Baby. Holy crap they have a lot of furniture, mobiles, bedding, letters, borders, strollers, car seats and so much more crammed into that store. I am sure we looked like a couple rookies in awww! We cruised up and down the aisle only to leave empty handed and hungry. After a cheese hamburger and chocolate milk shake we headed to Nebraska Furniture Mart. Land of Furniture opportunity! After strolling through the baby section once we went back through it and picked out our favorites. While standing in front of one of the cribs we liked our conversations went something like this:
Me: Josh do you like this one?
Josh: Yes, ummm... I like that other one too.
Me: Well which one do you want to buy?
At this point we must had overwhelmed rookies written all over our face, because an older couple began laughing at us and our inability to a make a decision on a crib. We left NFM with the new Easton Corbin and Jason Alden CD and no crib. We completely underestimated the while baby furniture buying process. This coming weekend our goal is to 1. find, buy, and stick to baby bedding 2. register for baby items at Target and Babies R Us and 3. decide on baby furniture. Wish us luck....

So we stopped by Books A Million Sunday so I could pick up nursing books. While checking those out I found book called "Life Lessons on Raising a Girl" I opened it up and read a couple of pages and got all teary eyed. Josh came back over from the children books section and I showed him the book. We got it and he ended up reading half of it that night. It isn't like a novel. It has one to two liners on each page about raising a girl. Josh read them to me all the way home and when we got home. He even folded the corners of the ones he liked! Some made us laugh, some made me tear up, and some made us think about Easton as a teenager. It was one of our great Mommy and Daddy moments that I love.

This past Sunday evening I had one of THOSE moments! You know the ones you say to yourself Awww... Shit.... All I could think was Josh and I really don't know what we are in for with this baby! What brought this about you wonder.... I was reading one of my two breastfeeding books and just read the part where the baby will need to nurse every two to three hours. Hello moment! Oh, and the hours do no start when you finish feeding, but when you START feeding! Holy shit we may end up divorced! Every two to three hours... I need sleep! Josh needs sleep! We can get pretty nasty when we don't have our sleep. To some of you this may sound ditsy that this is such a shocker to me, but seriously I don't have any kids so how the heck would I know this tid bit of information? Don't get me wrong I knew Easton would have to eat, but I guess I just didn't realize how often it was. Have I mentioned we have NEVER had a newborn?! So if you come and visit us, call, or text and I seem to bite your head off or be kinda snippy, moody, or whiny, please forgive me. Oh, and if Josh seems to be a jerk, just let it roll off your shoulders because we will (like many parents) be running on very few hours of sleep! So that was my Holy Crap moment where I officially realized Easton would forever change our lives! Oh, and I am currently accepting any tips or advice from those Mom's out there that have nursed.



I am going to leave you with some of Josh's favorite lines from his father to daughter book:

• Let her sleep on your chest when she's a baby. This is when the world begins to make sense.


• Tell her to believe in true love, just not in junior high.


• Show her how to throw a right cross. That will stop any boy from picking on her.

And his all time favorite: Dance with her always. She'll never be too young or too old.