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Yesterday was my baby shower, and it was awesome!  My bestie, Jenni; sister, Darci;, & sister-in-law, Mallory did an awesome job.  Thank you so much!  It was "A Very Hungry Caterpillar" theme.  Mallory made & sent out cute invites, Darci had cupcakes & a cake made in the shape of the caterpillar (pics to follow) & Jenni made these awesome lanterns using circles cut out from the pages of the book that we can hang in the baby's room.  Everything looked great.  A lot of good friends & family came and we ended up with so much great stuff for the baby--clothes, blankets, bath stuff, diapers, baby monitor, bouncy seat, rock and play sleeper, tummy time boppy, cover for his changing pad, supplies for making baby food, decor for his room, etc... I feel so blessed!  Thank you so much to everyone who made it, I had a lot of fun!  Ooh almost forgot about the "candy bar" with candy I've been craving, and there were no cheesy baby shower games :) Just some fun ones--like trying not to say "baby" the entire time.  I may have been the first one out on that one.  Anyway, I feel a bit more prepared for the baby now.  Still not ready for his debut, though.

The decorations Jenni made are hanging, (I'll have to take a better picture), & the caterpillar cake is on the left (I will  also have to get a better picture of this, sorry!)

 Meanwhile, our kitchen is getting closer & closer to being finished!  All that's left are the final touches--trim, counter top  back splash, & the bench.  In fact, I was even able to start putting some things away this morning.  It's really hard trying to figure out where to put everything, though.  So I decided to procrastinate.  That's why I'm blogging.  So far I have the pantry set up, but I had a bit of a conundrum... spices & canned goods--pantry or lazy susan?  I think I decided to put spices/baking stuff on the lazy susan & canned goods in the pantry.  I just don't know about everything else, though.  Very tough decisions.

AND most important... the baby's room is also getting close to being done.  Kind of.  Chadd's dad, Todd, has been coming over & painting for us, & it is looking awesome.  After we bought our second gallon of green paint, I think we finally got the right color.  Green is hard to pick out.  We also painted the trim white, and I do believe that was a wise decision on my part (Chadd was opposed at first).  The trim looks really nice.  In a week we are having new windows put in his room as well.  The closet is semi-organized.  I've organized & hung all of his clothes, and even already put away everything from the shower.  We are still waiting on his dresser to arrive to be able to but clothes away in it (that's a whole other fiasco-- we were shipped the wrong crib & dresser, so we had to ship them back, then we were only shipped the correct crib, but no dresser.  Now they are supposedly shipping the right dresser.  We'll see).  For the most part, it's coming together.

It looks really bright here, but it's a really nice green.  Still needs another coat of paint.  And doesn't the trim look nice?

I suppose you'd like to know how the baby is doing?  I had a check-up this week & everything looks great. And in case you'd like to know, he's moving as I type.  In fact, he moves a lot these days.  Everything I feel is in my upper stomach, close to my ribs.  I'm not going to get excited & think that he's not breech anymore, though, because last time I thought that & it turned out he was still breech and had his feet & hands up by his head, which is why I felt movement by my ribs.  He still has time move, I'm just impatient & really don't want to end up having c-section.  Also, if he could move so he's not pressing on my sciatic nerve, that would be fantastic.  It honestly feels like there's an alien in my body.  Last night I went to dinner with my family & they were all able to see & feel him move, & feel hiccups.  Pretty cool.  I can feel where certain body parts are, too.  Everyone keeps asking me if I'm ready to have him out of my belly, and the answer is no, not quite.  I just don't feel like I'm prepared yet.  Maybe once his room is complete I'll feel ready, I don't know...I guess I'm just having a lot of anxiety about it at this point.
And I almost forgot, I started back with the preschoolers last week.  They are a very fun group, and are really curious about the baby.  Several of them like to touch my belly every day.  They don't understand how exactly the baby got in my belly.  They asked me if I ate it.  I guess that would be the logical explanation, lol.