October

Fall is here! October is here! This is the first time in probably almost 10 years that I don't have any Halloween decorations up yet. Having a baby makes it hard to do anything, especially find time to decorate my house the way I want to. Since Jason and I have the weekends off together now, I might be able to do it here soon.

Lenore is almost 12 weeks old. My how the time flies. I know I said that in my last semi-lengthy post, but it's crazy how fast she grows. Sometimes I look at her and she looks like a little girl instead of a baby to me. Slow down, time!

I'm looking forward to enjoying the fall festivities with my little family. Jason and I really want to take Lenore to a pumpkin patch. She may be a bit young, but so what. We're also still trying to decide what we're going to be for Halloween. We had it figured out, but then Jason came up with another cute idea so, we're on the fence. Lenore probably has about 15 Halloween outfits (onesies, etc.) and I'm looking forward to being able to have her wear one almost every day in October. Now that it's getting colder, I'm enjoying getting to bundle her up more.

I'm going to try and start updating more often again. Being back at work during the week and then spending time with the family during the weekend doesn't leave me with a ton of opportunities for posting. Poor excuse, I know.

I just realized that I never posted any of Lenore's newborn photos on the blog. I'll do that tonight. I really want to get some 3 month photos taken of her soon. I should probably get on that before I blink and she's 6 months old [insert HUGE sigh here].

12 Weeks and Nicknames

We made it! We are 12 weeks today. I feel like the time has both flown and slowly creeped (crept?) by at the same time. Let the weekly belly photos begin! Monday we have our 12 week ultrasound and I can't wait to see our little baby. Last week he/she was the size of a fig and this week he/she is the size of a lime. Pretty crazy. Since it was the size of a fig last week, I started affectionately calling the baby "the figlet", which brings me to the topic of nicknames.

Our baby already has a wide range of quirky little names that we call him/her. Since we don't know the sex yet, we just come up with random things. We call it Baber, The Pod (my nickname has always been Bean since I was little - so my parents coined the baby "The Bean Pod"), Baby Bear, and Little Foot. I wonder if any of them will stick after we get to meet this little one in person. I'll probably be retiring the figlet since he/she has outgrown the size of a fig. 

I think that we'll be announcing our pregnancy (making it FB official and public knowledge) on Monday evening after I have an updated ultrasound photo. There are so many cute ways of announcing pregnancy (thanks a lot, Pinterest) so, I've been back and forth recently on what exactly I want to do. I think I've decided on my favorite idea though. =] That also means I won't have to be anonymous here anymore and I'll be able to share my blog with others as well. Wa-hoo!