Countdown Catch-up

When I was looking for a cute way to keep track of the bump progress I stumbled upon this Maternity Calendar inspiration by Miranda at One Little Minute and ran with it. I loved the idea but had NO energy to make a stencil and paint so I made my own slacker version. I found a similar T-shirt on Amazon, bought some flocked iron on numbers, and a roll of red duct tape from Michael's. I just eye-balled the layout and then broke out the iron. Each week I just add a little strip of duct tape to mark our progress.

Feeling like major poop

No real changes yet

Obviously trying to suck it in a little lot

First time seeing the little guy where he actually looked like a baby

Starting to feel a little better

Bump in its wee stages. Found out we're having a BOY!

I "popped"

Other people really started to notice the bump

Feeling like belly is doubling each night

Half-way there.

It's crazy to see how much my belly has grown in just a few short weeks. Here's hoping the next 20 weeks go by just as fast because I'm very impatiently waiting to have this little guy in our arms instead of stomach.

Playing house...

*Note: I am behind on house updates and just about everything else in life. Growing a human is TIRING! But, I'm trying to get caught up so keep checking back for updates!

**Sorry for the iPhone quality pics!

Our lot as of Memorial Day weekend....

They were grading our lot! Even without permits... it was nice to see some progress.

Smiling (even though we still didn't have permits)

After finding out that our permits were approved in late-June we were very anxious to get the party started. We met with the site manager to go over our site plan, review all of our finish choices again, and talk about time lines. It was a pretty uneventful affair but afterwards we stopped by a newly set up model home for our particular model. It was fun playing house for a few minutes, really feeling how big the space felt with furniture, and envisioning what we could/would do with the same space. Our house will look pretty different due to the finish choices we picked but the model house is still a good representation:

Living Room

Main entry/Foyer

Dining Room

Kitchen

Kitchen Eat-In Area

Lower Level

Family Room

Family Room

Office

Rec Room

Basement Bathroom

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 3

Upstairs Bathroom

Laundry

Master Bedroom

Master Bedroom

Master Bathroom

Our lot as of late June.

 

Life is about to get CUH-RAZY....

Since our last update about the house we have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting some more for permits.

We were starting to sweat bullets as we have other pressing deadlines that the house greatly effects. I know our builder had little control over the permit process but we needed a housing solution and couldn't afford to wait much longer. It got so bad that we told them if permits were not approved by July 1st we would have to walk away. Yeah, bad. But no sooner than the words were out of our mouth did our permits get APPROVED!

And for the best update of all, the reason we were sweating bullets, is this guy....

bowtie in utero.

We can't wait for this little squish to come. I know all moms say this but he is the cutest darn thing ever. At every ultrasound we've had he always has his hands up by his head or in his mouth at some point. He even had hiccups at this last ultrasound.

kicking away

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