5 Weeks and Counting...

As the restless night has already gotten the best of me, I've decided to blog. I not only have pregnancy (self diagnosed, mind you) induced insomnia, I have this nagging cough and slightly stuffy nose that I can't seem to kick!! So not only am I not sleeping but I'm sure I'm giving my unborn child 'shakin' baby syndrome'!!!! Seriously, I'm worried about it and a billion other things!!! Other than that....I don't really know that I have much to say, my lack of sleep and the lack of brain power pregnancy alone gives me, I'm at a loss for words. (wah, wah...poor me!!)

I could write about Drew and how stinkin' cute and fun he is...
I could write about .... that's just it....I can't think of a darn thing to write about! I know I have so much to do to be ready for this new little addition to our family and my mind seems to be racing these days with all the preparations that I still need to make. So, maybe, that's what I will write about this time. (I will write about Drew--I've got at least 3 stories to blog about but will do those later, promise! This will not be my only sleepless night, I assure you!)

Here is my list of BABY GIRL To Do's: (mind you some are done and some are not)
1. Order baby bedding- check
2. Pick paint colors- check
3. Buy paint colors
4. Paint room: baseboards, ceiling, doors, and walls
5. Find mini-chandelier and order (no luck so far on this endeavor...help??)
6. Set up crib
7. Rocker-clean and move
8. Side table with lamp
9. Shelf around room
10. Find "bring home" outfit- check (with a question mark)
11. Pick up carseat from Jill
12. Make cover for carseat
13. Make carseat canopy
14. Make nursing cover
15. IKEA closet shelf-check
16. IKEA baskets for shelf (4)
17. Get baby items loaned to Jenn
18.Find just the right "pink" sheets (2)-check
19. Find double stroller to fit carseat and Drew
20. Pink or white baby hangers
21. Garbage can for room
22. Start buying diapers (no NB size)
23. Make burp cloths
24. Have Sigh put together closet shelf
25. Have Sigh put together Drew's new dresser
26. New bottles-Check
27. Paint/decorate Name letters
28. Possibly return baby bedding and reorder another style!! :(
29. Pink binkies-check

So....that's it for now! Ha! Could my list be any longer?? I guess with all the time when I should be sleeping I could be checking more off my list...but I'm so tired!!!!

Oh and yes...some of you may be wondering how I could possibly only have 5 weeks left. Well, the truth is I have 8 but with being diabetic full term is 37 weeks. Which puts me at delivery around April 15th!!!! I have my OB appointment today (Friday) and will be scheduling an Amniocentesis and my c-section with hopes that I will go into labor on my own!! Found out I cannot be induced with a previous c-section due to higher chance of my previous incision rupturing! ahhhh, scary!

Baby Girl Names!

As most of you know or can tell by my blog...we are having a GIRL arrive sometime between April 15th-May 6th! We are so excited...but I want some help, or input, or suggestions, or ideas...whatever you want to call it!

We have a name picked out...some of you know this name...it's not a secret but I don't want to list it and persuade you in anyway, shape or form!! But the other night on our way home from my parent's house Silas was talking to Drew about his baby sister, ______, and it just struck me weird!! So then I started to question the first name we had chosen.

So anywho, I would love some fresh ideas.... I personally (I think Sigh is mostly on board, too) want to use my middle name which is Michelle as her middle name as well but are open to anything...so just keep that in mind.

IF I don't like your suggestions...don't worry, you'll never know it :) I just want some, like I said, FRESH ideas other than what we've come up with, what I've found in name books and online, or on the SSN website! If that leaves anything cute, fun, girly, traditional, modern, made-up, foreign...I don't know...but give it a whirl and at least humor me, right??