Second Trimester!

A couple of weeks ago we entered the second trimester of our pregnancy!  This is exciting news for many reasons, one of which includes the fact that the risk of miscarriage drops dramatically and we are in line for a safe and healthy baby.  With the second trimester has come something new, something that I had forgotten existed.  It's this little thing called.... wait for it... energy.  Now, I am by no means bouncing off the walls, but I have had this unquenchable desire to clean and to decorate and to cook!  I thought that all of this nesting stuff happened later in pregnancy, but it seems to be here now.

On Black Friday this year we bought a crib even though we were really early in our pregnancy, because Target had a special deal where if you purchased the crib you got the matching changing table for free.  Of course, I'm not one to pass up a deal like that, so we made the purchase!  However, I have been letting the crib sit in the box for the past month, intentionally not opening it because I KNEW that I would get baby nursery fever and start wanting to decorate.   Well, this week it happened.  I bought the bedding that I wanted from Babies R' Us and yesterday Nathan and I put the crib together.  Originally my idea was to go with a blue and brown theme, and while that will still be present somewhat, we also don't know whether we are having a boy or a girl yet, and I would hate to go overboard with the blue and brown if we are having a girl.  So we picked something a little more neutral, a Noah's ark theme.  It still has the blue and the brown going on, and as I get further into decorating there will be more blue and brown touches here and there, but the overall idea is focused on Noah's Ark.

I love our crib because it is a convertible one, which means that it turns into a toddler bed and eventually into a full size bed.  The color is perfect with the bedding that we got.  I'll have to post an updated picture eventually that shows more of the nursery.  It's a very small room, though perfect for a baby, so it's going to take some work to make final arrangements.  The bumper pads have little animals on them.  After I took this picture I turned the front one around so that you could see the animals from the outside.  They were much too cute to hide inside the crib.

We won't find out what we are having until February and the suspense is killing me!  I want to know so bad!  Nathan and I both think that we are having a boy, but then again, there's really no telling, and in all honesty we would both be really happy no matter how everything turns out.  Having a baby is such a gift from God.  It's hard to believe how far we have come already, although we still have a long way to go.  The pregnancy process (morning sickness aside) has been a really cool and fun experience.  I can't wait to have baby showers and all of the fun things that come with pregnancy.   We are going to start working on a registry soon.  Most likely we will register at Target and at Babies R' Us.  Our only problem with finding out what we are having is that we don't want all pink gifts if it's a girl, or all blue gifts if it's a boy.  I hate the idea that girls have to be dressed in all pink.  Granted, I love pink.  But if I have a daughter I don't want to treat her like an oversized pepto bismol bottle.

My only real complaint about pregnancy so far is having to take those prenatal vitamins. They are seriously the most ginormous disgusting pills in the world, and you have to go through it every single day.  I am glad that they make things like that to help keep you and the baby healthy during pregnancy.  But my goodness, with all the technology in the world it seems like they could do SOMETHING to make those things less disgusting!

Anyway, I am looking forward to more decorating and more preparations, and most of all meeting our baby! It's becoming more and more real every day :)