Why Yes - It HAS been a While

 Picture taken 10/10

 Picture taken 10/23

 Picture taken today (10/30)

So apparently I have not posted in a while, and I recently was chastised by my parents for not sharing any recent pictures. As you can see above, that isn't because pictures haven't been taken! I just never posted them. My excuse is that I didn't have anything else to add; or you can chalk it up to laziness - whatever works.

I am still doing really well over all. Sleep is getting increasingly difficult, mostly due to an old ski injury that Trip refuses to acknowledge still affects me (deep tissue bruise from a few years ago?). I've had sporadic difficulty with heartburn, including a few occasions where water itself seemed evil. But those have all been temporary episodes.

Since people keep asking about progress with the nursery I will let you in on a little secret - we have done practically nothing! We have bought the crib and changing table, and otherwise the room has become storage for other baby items. My goal is to have the furniture out and the nursery painted by mid-January (hopefully sooner). With the holidays we are quickly running out of available weekends and Trip already has a long list of projects to get done in order to empty the nursery closet. I may be asking for some help from family and friends one weekend! Of course, step one is picking a color.

In order to feel accomplished in something, I must mention that we did finish our registries recently. Trip and I first went to the store the day of our anatomy scan, then I did a LOT of online research/additions, then yesterday Katie, Reva and I finished up with a final round in store. I have to go back to Buy Buy Baby to fix a few things, but otherwise am finished.

Next week is our birthing class at the hospital. Should be interesting! All day Saturday, including a movie we've been warned about multiple times over :-) May be a little early, but with Trip's work schedule combined with other commitments, we decided to get it taken care of. Okay, I guess that is all for now. I will try to be better about at least posting pictures more frequently.