Frivolous Nursery Post

This is a frivolous post with very little no info about Baby R. Though we've decided not to do much "decorating" in the nursery due to our short timeline in San Diego (potentially moving in Dec just 3.5 months after the Little's arrival!), I just can't help but look a tiny bit at some cute gender neutral ideas. I mean what woman doesn't want to go all out and decorate their first-born's room?! I was actually doing really well and hadn't looked at all until this week. I've done a little bit of sewing- some diapers, some swaddling blankets- and some knitting - a little beanie and a warm cotton blanket. All practical things that I need and can make way cheaper (and cuter!) than I can buy. (Sidenote- did you know they sell cotton muslin/gauze swaddling blankets for $40 for a set of 3? Uh, yeah. I bought enough fabric-in cute colors!- for 3 blankets and spent $11 and maybe 10 min per blanket finishing the edges. Anyway...) Tuesday, I stumbled across this adorable constellation-embroidered quilt project and just love it! Naturally, I immediately thought of the nursery, and since, I've just had outer space on my mind! Needless to say, the constellation quilt project is underway, and now I keep seeing more cute space-y things that make me want to break the rule a tiny bit and decorate a little!!

I think this pic is actually a table runner, but I'm improvising and making a larger quilt with a contrasting color binding- lime green, maybe?

And since I know you have nothing better to do than check out imaginary pictures of what I might do in Baby R's nursery here's just a few more pics of adorable things:

Solar system mobile that glows! [link]

And a crocheted version. Another project!

A paper one with a template to make it from Martha Stewart! [link]

Even though these pillows aren't necessarily "space-y" I just like all the colors and the geometric swirl!

I already have a few of these photo hanging wires/clips from Ikea, but have yet to decide what to put in them... Ideas below!

^^ These two are little watercolors of the phases of the moon! I just thought they'd be cute split up individually along the photo wire. ^^

Ok, that's all the time I'm wasting on nursery ideas for now. Back to Spring cleaning!

20 weeks and other news!

So actually, I'm already 21 weeks. Over HALFWAY there! This post is just a week late.
News from week 20:

Alex felt his first kick! I've been feeling the baby's movements for about a month+, but so far they're normally not strong enough on a regular basis to be felt from the outside. But one night, while we were eating dinner and watching The X-Files re-runs, they were strong enough that I thought he might be able to feel it- sure enough after a few short seconds and a little poke he felt two! Very exciting week for him! :)

Last Thursday we had our 20 week ultrasound that Alex was actually able to attend! Yay! Between being underway every other week for deployment work-ups and a busy BUSY work schedule filled with EOOW studying (big test!), he doesn't get to come to any of my normal appointments. Anyway, there's not really much to report from the appointment. The ultrasound tech just took about 60 pictures of the baby and all his/her parts to send to my midwife. Alex got to see all those pictures and close ups of the brain, heart, spine, feet, legs, arms, face, everything! I was behind the screen at that point, but at the end she did show me the baby's profile and a full side view of the little guy sitting with thumb in mouth and ankles crossed! It was really the cutest thing ever. Unfortunately, I don't have a full picture of it, but here's a few from the appointment (they're not very good because (a) they're just not very clear to begin with and (b) I currently don't know where all the parts to the scanner are amidst my spring cleaning so these are pictures taken of pictures... never a good combo):

Of course, my belly is a lot bigger than the 16 week picture that is up, so I will try to get Alex to take a new one soon!

That's all the news I have for now! Luckily, no news is good news- baby is healthy, VERY active (I regularly get kicks to the bladder), and only 19 weeks from making his/her debut!