THANKS!

Pregnancy update: I am totally balancing my Yoplait yogurt on my stomach as I type this. :-D

Thanks so much to all the awesome Bartholomew women who threw Jessy and me such a great shower last weekend! I couldn't believe all the cute goodies we came home with. Special thank you to Gina, Betsy, and Katie who sent presents from afar. Gina, those outfits are so sweet! Betsy, I love the wrap you made. I wanted one of those anyways, but having a handmade one makes it super special. I have a soft spot for handmade gifts. :) Katie, that kit of your favorite Mommy tools is the cutest shower gift idea I have ever seen. I fully intend on copying you at the next shower I attend. Also, that fruit chewer was one the things I wanted the most!

I will post more belly pictures later this week, but I wanted to tell everyone how wonderful it feels to be loved by such a fantastic family. "I thank my God every time I remember you." (Phil 1:3)

Love, Emily

P.S. I was writing my official thank you notes today and remembered another person who sent a gift from Florida. Thanks for the great bib and cup set Molly! They are so cool! That was one of Josh's favorites from the day. You Florida girls are the best. :-D

Progress in the Nursery

On Saturday my lovely mother came over and helped me start to set up the nursery. In the last month or so our spare bedroom has gone from being a catch-all storage/library to being an completely empty, but spotlessly clean, nursery. Daddy picked up the crib we got from Susie in his new truck (yep, Doug Trantham is driving a truck. Look out.) on Friday night, and Mommy came over to help me put it together and start making stuff cute. Thought I would put up some pictures:


View from the hall





Cute crib. The crib was purchased for our friend Eric 12 years ago and was first put together in this house, since Susie and Larry were living here at the time. They had the good sense to save it and the generosity to offer it to us.
Lisa got this awesome crib set at a consignment event a few weeks ago. We love the colors. It has some of that green I keep being drawn to. The blanket, the decorative pillow and mobile have airplanes on them, in honor of Dad Bartholomew and Josh's secret fantasy of being a pilot.





Josh's Wardrobe. Scott and Lisa's house is so old it doesn't have any closets, so they have lots of wardrobe pieces in their house. Josh carved his name into this one as a kid, so he got to keep it. :-D We changed out the hardware to give it a little freshness. The closet is a neat storage place and his little onesies fit perfectly in the tiny drawers.


Rocking Chair from James. Mildred and James (Nana's sister and brother-in-law) gave me this chair that was my great-grandmothers when I went to college and I rocked my way through my bachelors degree. It is super comfy. Bring on the next phase of life!


Closet PACKED with awesome hand-me-downs. We hung up the smallest 0-3 outfits, and as you can see from her signature rubbermaid boxes, my mother has been here. Baby's clothes are smartly organized by size so I will be able to find the sizes I need and store the clothes he grows out of. Brilliant, right?





Papa made this cradle for me. This is actually in our room. It looks really sweet with the blanket that I made. We put the pooh-ka-lou we got at Disney World in there, waiting to meet the baby.

So, lots of progress, and some to go. We still really need curtains and some cute wall art, but it feels good to have the crib and closet set up.

Pregnancy update: I continue to feel good. School is proving to be more exhausting than last year. I have decided to blame that on the baby. He is kicking all the time, especially late at night and early in the morning. He has hiccups pretty regularly which is really fun for us. He usually throws little temper tantrums when he has them: there will be big thumps in rhythm (the hiccups) with lots of little nudges and squirms in between. I totally understand, baby. I hate the hiccups.

My darling aunts are throwing a shower for me this weekend during the girls' weekend out, along with Jessy. We are getting really excited about that, especially getting ready for baby Leila, who's due date is rapidly approaching. The sooner, the better, right Jess?

22 weeks

Baby bump continues to grow! We got to have another ultrasound and see our beautiful boy again. (They checked, he is definitely a boy:-D) We got to go again because during the first one he was resting against my spine and they couldn't see his spine. Our dads came with us this time, which was cool. He is still in the breech position (which explains all those kicks to my bladder). His spine is perfect though! The ultrasound seemed to have a lot more detail this time, I guess because he is bigger (around a pound. Such a heavyweight!) but the pictures they printed for us aren't great. There is a really cool shot of his hand where you can see all the fingers and thumb. His hands were both up around his face, which is how his dad sleeps too. His legs were also folded up in front of him, which you can see in the one thing we have that looks like a profile. It's not nearly as good as the last one though.


Little hand. :-D


Feet pressed together


The ultrasound tech said he looks "cozy". Looks uncomfortable to me.

Our nursery room is cleaned out, but empty except for the cradle and a few little knitted things. Our closet, however, is PACKED thanks to tons of awesome hand-me-downs! Thanks Jasmine, Jessy, Carrie, and Katie!

Registered!

We are registered! We went to Asheville today and spent for-ev-er at Babies R Us and Target looking at everything you could possibly need for a baby. Who knew this little guy would take so much gear? (I know, every mom that ever was, but hey, I'm new at this. :-D) The number of choices was mind boggling. We left literally out of breath from all the deciding. But now it is done and can be viewed online at the BabiesRUs website and the Target Website. Search for my name and we should come up. Remarkably, there are 26 other registries at Babies R Us that have the name Fleenor. As you browse, if you see anything particularly random or weird, bear in mind that Josh had control of the scanner. :-D

Super Sister

Sara is starting a new project with her Ukranian Eggs called Eggs for Eggs. I could write pages and pages about how awesome she and it are, but instead, I will direct you to her own blog: Eggs For Eggs

Life is Good Quest

So when we were on our honeymoon 3 years ago I saw this in a Life is Good store and loved it, but felt funny buying baby clothes 3 days after we got married. It has been in the back of my mind ever since, but I never ran across it again. When we found out about our little boy I started searching, and I can't even find it on the website. I thought I would put a picture of it up on the blog and see if anyone else out there has seen it. If you do, please please please call me, K? :-D

School Blog

I posted a link to my school blog in the list on the right. This blog is updated by my students every week. The latest entry was written by a 9 year old about his teacher being pregnant. :-D