GIRL!!!

19 weeks

We are having a girl!  She's in my belly this very second.  Now we are at about 20 weeks and I can feel her moving around even more!  Secretly (or not so secretly), we were kind of hoping for a girl...  Is that bad?  Maybe it's because I didn't have any sisters growing up?  Or maybe it's because girls are more fun to shop for? Either way, it just is so exciting now to start to planning for life with this Larsen girl.  I had to go to work right after we got the ultrasound, and let me just say that that probably wasn't the best idea.  I was pretty distracted.  Fortunately, I didn't have to stay at work long.

That evening, Sterling and I went and got the blessing dress that we saw a few weeks ago at BabyGap to celebrate.

blessing dress

The day before, Sterling got me this really great diaper bag for Valentine's Day.  It has a little changing pad and bottle carrier thing and everything.  It's "legit." 

 I know, that's not your typical Valentine's Day gift, but he totally surprised me and I love it.  It actually can pass as I purse and I've been using it already, 'cause why not?  For date night we bought her a book called, Bedtime for Mommy. 

 It's my new favorite.  The illustrations are great.  This little girl puts her mom to bed by helping her lay out her work clothes for the next day and reading her "Anna Karenina" before she turns out the lights.  Kind of awesome.  


I realize that this is a very worldly post about things that we have bought.  As a disclaimer, these are the ONLY baby things we have (besides a pack of onesies).  I don't want people out there thinking that we are crazy.  (Well, I guess you can think that if you want...)  Anyway, what I am trying to say is that we can't wait to be parents and are so grateful that we have the opportunity to raise this little girl.  Thankfully, we know that God is going to help us out!  In my next post, I will go deeper into the psyche of the expectant mother...  


Sterling is at his ceramics class tonight.  I miss him.  Blogging is the way I cope :)  

New Development (in my belly!)

8 weeks

10 weeks

12 weeks

Oh!  It has been way too long since I have blogged.  Now seems like a great time to start up again.  We are going to have a baby!  And it's going to be born July 11th--give or take, I'm sure.  It's happening and we are so, so excited.  Tomorrow we find out the gender and we probably won't be able to sleep tonight.  Right now the baby is still kind of an abstract idea, but I imagine seeing it during the ultrasound tomorrow will make things a little more real!  I am 19 weeks along right now and have been feeling little flutterings in my belly since about 16 weeks.  What an incredible sensation!  Sterling and I were talking about last night how the baby is at the point where he/she can hear.  Sterling was so excited, so guess what we did last night?  Yes, we read to the baby.  We were just going to read just one children's book, but we ended up reading three as we ate our late night snack of peanut butter and honey sandwiches :)  Romantic, huh?  It was actually.

Sterling and I have been joking that once we know the gender the floodgates of consumerism are going to burst open.  Up to this point, we have been less tempted to buy baby stuff because we don't know whether it is a boy or girl.  I mean, we bought white onesies at BabyGap one day, but that is all.  It helps that we know that we are moving to Australia in October, so we can't really get into the crib/dresser/nursery thing.  That will save us a lot of money right now.  We are going to be there for 6 months, but we will be in a fully furnished place, so we'll just take our little pack-n-play and go and worry about the nursery thing when we actually get a place with 2 rooms.  Right now our little one bedroom doesn't really have much room.  It'll do for the 3 months before we go to Australia.