5.19.2007

and she loves to hear me sing...

She's probably the only one who loves to hear me sing, but as long as she likes it, I'll do it! Well, the other night I got home from a very busy and stressful day at work and decided to just lay down on the couch for a while. As I'm laying there I decided that it would be nice if little Baby Girl Amen would wake up and entertain me so that I could actually enjoy it. (It seems like I'll notice her moving and kicking a lot during the day at work when I can't really enjoy it as much as when I'm at home.) So, I started poking and prodding at my tummy trying to get her to wake up. I was talking to her, trying to coax her to become alert. Nothing was working. She was as still as still could be. I decided that I'd try singing to her to see if that would wake her up. I started off with Itsy Bitsy Spider...nothing. I moved on to the ABCs...nothing. Next I tried Row Row Row Your Boat...nothing. I was about to give up when I thought of one of my favorite kid songs that Grandpa "Pete" taught me. I don't know if it has a real name, but I call it the Bakery Shop Song. Well, I started singing it and sure enough, Baby Girl Amen likes the song, too. She started kicking and moving through the whole song. It was a lot of fun to sing to her when I knew that she was listening and could actually hear me! Here are the lyrics to the Bakery Shop song...

Well, I walked downtown and I walked around the block
I walked right in to the bakery shop
I pulled three doughnuts right out of the grease
and handed the lady a five cent piece.


Well, she looked at the nickel and she looked at me
She said that nickel's no good to me
It's got a hole in the middle and it goes straight through
Said I to the lady, so's your doughnuts, too!

Anyways, sorry that I didn't post anything new last week. I've said it many times before, but I've been swamped at work. This coming week is the last week at school with kids, so I'm very excited! Then after Memorial Day I go back for 3 teacher work days to end out my school year! June 1st is officially my first day of summer vacation! YIPPEEE!! I can't wait! I have my next doctor's appointment the following week, but I doubt I'll learn anything new. I know that Baby Girl Amen is growing and getting stronger. I feel healthy and I'm trying to stay that way. I've made the appointment for a 3-D ultrasound for July 2nd, too, so that will tell us how things are looking as the summer progresses. For Mother's Day I invited Baby Girl Amen's grandmas to join me at her 3-D ultrasound. It should be pretty cool and I'll even get a CD with all of the pictures from the ultrasound, so I'll be able to share them all with you afterwards! Here's a copy of the invitation that the grandmas got for Mother's Day...


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Well, I posted this blog on Saturday the 19th, but today, Sunday, I made a big purchase that I needed to share with everyone. I ordered the nursery furniture today! I really like it and it should go well with the bedding I picked out. I'm so excited to get the room ready and see it all put together!! Here are pictures of what I bought. The picture of the crib is actually what it will look like when it's converted into a toddler bed. They don't have a picture of what it looks like with the railing on in the honey pine finish that I ordered.




5.07.2007

yikes...the 3rd trimester is here...

I'm officially in my 3rd trimester! Can you believe it? I know I can't! Where did the 2nd trimester go??? I had another doctor appointment today, so mark off my 6 month visit. They tested for gestational diabetes and anemia...I have neither and all else looks healthy. I got to hear her heartbeat again and the doctor says she sounds like a good baby.

Baby Girl Amen is awake a lot more now. I used to only feel her a couple times a day, but now I'm feeling her more often. And when I feel her now, it's very noticeable. I was laying on the couch last night and started to feel her wake up, so I lifted up my shirt to watch my tummy. After about 5 minutes I was laughing out loud at how crazy she was being. It's the coolest and weirdest thing to look down and see something moving, kicking, punching from the inside of my belly! She was pretty active for about a full 20 minutes, which was the longest she'd been playful up to that point. I LOVE it all! I LOVE being pregnant with this little girl!

I keep coming across pictures of Josh and I from the past couple of years. It's so much fun, but so hard to look at them all. They make me smile and cry all at the same time. My love for Josh is so strong it's hard to even imagine that we've been apart for a little over 5 months already. I still feel like he should be coming home any time now. I miss him so much. Usually when Baby Girl Amen starts kicking I talk to Josh as if he was still here and ask him "if he felt that too." It sounds silly, but he's the only one I have to share it with and the only one I really want to share it with. I know he's just as excited about every kick as I am, so I'll keep talking to him because I feel like he's here with me through it all.

5.01.2007

some cute baby clothes...

Since I haven't had much exciting news, I figured I'd post some pictures of some of the cute clothes I've either purchased or been given recently.

This is most likely the outfit that Baby Girl Amen will be coming home in...along with Husker booties and a cute Husker headband. (I made a promise to Josh a long time ago...)


These are some gowns that Jenon & Chris gave me. The one on the left says, "Love" and the one on the right says, "Thank Heaven for Little Girls."


This is an outfit that Jenon got for me...supposedly her bf picked it out.


This is an outfit that someone Chris knows bought for Baby Girl Amen.


I bought this one...I love it...you should see the back...it has a ruffle butt! :)


I also bought this one. It says, "Daddy's Little Lovebug."


I bought this little hoodie outfit. I don't know why the picture turned out so green-looking.


Guilty again. I bought this one as well.


Okay, all me again. This one says, "Princess" inside the little white heart.


So, there's some of the cute clothes Baby Girl Amen has gotten so far. There's so much cute stuff out there!!

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