Baby #2 - 30 Weeks

In some ways 30 weeks feels like we are almost done and will be meeting our baby boy any day - I don't know why, I guess it's just that hitting the 30 mark makes it seem so much closer. However, I'm relieved that we are actually a good 10 weeks away because we still have a lot of preparations before our newest family member arrives. I've been feeling really nest-y lately, but it's been focused on other rooms in the house rather than the nursery. I've felt like I have to get those other rooms the way I want them before I can start working on the baby's room. We got a new toddler bed and gorgeous chair for Lydia's room, finally collected the perfect combination of items for the living room and hung them (it finally looks put together after a year and a half of living here), and bought curtains and rugs for the kitchen. All of these things have needed done for a while, but it's taken my nesting energy to finally push us to get them finished. Also, we had to rearrange some furniture upstairs - moving dressers around from room to room and such- and I felt like I couldn't start the nursery until I had the extra dressers out of there so I could really start organizing. I'm so excited though, because now that we've gotten some other things out of the way we are finally starting to make some headway in the nursery. We bought navy blue curtains, navy striped fabric for the bassinet, and some bold navy striped sheets for the crib. I've had a hard time nailing down my vision (not that we will be doing anything extravagant - but I do want things to look nice and put together in there), but with those navy design staples - I'm really excited to get in and start organizing and start adding some more things on the walls and such. It's going to be darling - but good thing I still have ten weeks to work on it! 

Name wise we don't really have anything that we love yet. We have a few names on our list that are starting to grow on us a little bit. (Last time I mentioned this, I had an overwhelming response in support for the name Logan - however, I'm feeling crazy about the name picking thing and I'm worried that if we name him Logan it will reduce his desire to attend Utah State, and that would be so sad!) Our list currently consists of: Austin, Jared, Owen, Oliver, Henry, and possibly Curtis. One of those names might start growing on us, or we may find another name that isn't on the list yet, it's totally up in the air. (Note: Our real favorite names are Oliver and Henry - but they are SO popular, which is the reason that Jackson got nixed from the list. It's hard to know how to balance "too popular" with "we just really like them", so they are staying on the list for now.)

I've been so tired lately. I don't remember feeling this way until I got a little further into my third trimester last time. But I. am. exhausted. It's not a mental exhaustion as much as I just physically am tired and have to push myself to do pretty much anything. We've still tried to hit up the swimming pool a couple times a week because Lydia loves it and it feels so nice, but we've almost completely stopped going to the museum/the farm/the park. I just can't keep up with Lydia and I'm ready to leave a half hour after we get there. At my 28 week appointment, they said that I was a little low on my iron which could explain some of the tiredness (but I'm almost always on the low side when it comes to iron count - even when I'm not pregnant - and I was only slightly under their "just fine" distinction). I've been trying to eat more iron rich foods (pineapple juice anyone?) so hopefully that helps a little. 

Ten weeks seems so close, but when I think back to ten weeks ago we were at our 20 week appointment being told that they were seeing some abnormalities on the ultrasound. That seems like forever ago. (In some ways it doesn't even feel real, because everyone pretty much ignores the fact that it even happened after our follow up ultrasound with Maternal Fetal Medicine. We've decided not to worry about it, because even if something does come up after baby boy is born it won't change how much we love him and we'll deal with it as it comes.) So much has changed in the last ten weeks, and I'm sure that even more will change over the next ten weeks as we prepare for this sweet baby boy to come home to us.