26 week belly

As you can see we're steady growing! She's started kicking so hard I think her foot might come through my stomach. I have a doctor's appointment this Thursday and will have my glucose test that morning before my appt with Dr. Harper. We all know what happened last time I had to have blood drawn, so hopefully I can be a big girl and not faint!!! It's my sister's 30th birthday that day so my present to her is making her go with me and NOT take any pictures this time! Speaking of birthday's, Nick's is Friday and he'll be 30 too! My baby's growing up! I started getting that dark line down my belly a week or so ago and it's not too pretty. No stretch marks yet but i've still got 13 more weeks to go! My wonderful mother-in-law and her good friend Debbie Long bought Madalyn's bed and it'll be in tomorrow. I can't wait!!! As soon as we get it put together I'm going to post pictures of it.

She has a name!!!

MADALYN ROSE HOWARD

Nick and I finally found a name we love!!! We've been looking ever since we found out we were having a girl. After compiling a list of maybe names we narrowed it down to one. We decided to use Rose for her middle name after my great-grandmother, and Madalyn was just a name we both liked. I feel better now that I can call her by name and not "her or she"!

23 wk belly

We're steadily growing! I'm around 15 pounds weight gain now but still getting my 2 or more miles in everyday on the treadmill and watching (for the most part) what I'm eating. Nick and I still can't decide on a name but as soon as we do I'll let everyone know! We're going to his mom's this weekend because he has a continuing education class near by and She and I are going shopping for a crib! I'm so excited!!! She's still on my bladder and doesn't seem to be getting off of it any time soon. She was kicking so much the other day that I thought I was going to be sick! It's still hard to feel her from the outside but I have a few times. She's so low that her kicks are kicking straight down and not out so it's making it hard for anyone else to feel her move.

Her going home outfit my mom bought

My mom was in New Orleans and found a shop that had these little dresses. The lace is from 1972 and was hand made by a lady who is no longer living. The store my mom bought this from was able to purchase some of this hand stitched lace and paired it with linen from Italy. These pictures don't do the dress justice, it's absolutely beautiful. Nick and I will bring her home in it and she'll have some pictures made in it and then I'm going to have it framed and hang it in her room so she can have it when she gets older.

This is the front view of the dress.

Close up of the lace around the neck area on the front.

Front bottom of dress

Full back view of dress


Back of dress, it splits open with a button or two holding it shut at the top


Sorry this one is sideways! I wanted to show the detail of the lace going down the back of the dress.

Matching bloomers (back view)

She's already getting spoiled!

Here are her first two pairs of shoes along with the back of her swimsuit. It has cute little ruffles on the booty! I love ruffles!
This is her extra large passy clip with a rhinestone in the center and some little tiny hair barrettes. The barrettes have zebra stripes on them. It's kind of hard to see that in this picture.

she's going to be so cute in this!

This just one of her dresses and her swimsuit for next year.

A onesie with a pink bear on it and another dress for next summer.

This is going to be her 4th of July outfit next year.

This is her 2 piece swimsuit for next year. I have the bottoms up under the top but it is 2 pieces.

21 week belly

Sorry i'm so late getting this up. I'll post a recent picture later today.