these are the days of endless dreaming

i'm helping plan

one of the rooms

at our church's fall festival.

it's pretty crazy involved...

they really go all out

for this thing.

it makes me excited

to have my own kid(s?)

to take to a carnival

someday.

speaking of kids,

we made our first

baby purchase this weekend.

we bought a crib!

i had no idea how

complicated cribs could be!

i thought i knew which one i wanted

till we got to the store

and the lady started telling me

how "this one is a 9-in-1 crib!

it turns into 18 different kinds of beds

and eventually becomes a queen size bed!"

and plus they all come in

4 or 5 different shades of wood.

and it was quite overwhelming.

it's realllly hard for me to make

purchasing decisions anyway

without adding in 43 more options...

i mean, it's a baby bed!

i won't bore you with details,

but after an hour and a half

we made it out of the store

with the mother of all cribs.

and by that i mean,

brown and sturdy,

and has a matching

changing table.

plus after some successful

craigslist-ing on my part,

we ended up saving almost $200!

we are totally excited to

convert my office into a nursery

over the christmas break.

i finally chose fabrics to make

the bedding, it is going to be

so cute! i'll show you some

pictures as that goes along.

i also drew up the mural

i'm going to paint on the

wall behind the crib.

i'm pretty excited.

sawyer is going to love his room!

i think cassie,

my sister in law,

is going to go with me

sometime soon to do our

baby registries!

she is due 3 weeks after me

with their 2nd baby, also a boy!

3 boys in 2 years,

whew! my mom is going to be

so tired ;)

we met with and hired

our doula also this week.

she is awesome!

and i'm totally excited

that she's going to help

us make our baby's

grand entrance amazing.

i'm just really excited!

(i'm sure you couldn't tell)

well i think cate is up

from her nap.

so i'll be going.

happy last week of

october!

(can you believe it?!)

what a week

things have been

a little

crazy.

i got a job,

just for the rest

of this year.

being a nanny.

it's been in the

works for a while

and it's all turned

out nicely!

my sister

came to visit,

(taken from my phone)

which was

wonderful.

lots of

family time.

(everyone hanging out at my brother and sis-in-law's house)

lots of rain.

lots of those

tiny snails that

somehow

keep getting in my

back door.

(yuck)

our U2 concert

turned into a

trip to the emergency room.

it was terrifying,

and harrowing,

and the #1 scariest

event of my life.

however,

everything and everyone

(baby and i)

is OK.

i have for you

at last a

"baby bump"

picture that has

been requested

so you can all see

how huge we're getting:

22 weeks along!

i'll leave you

with this quote

from ann kiemel.

(if you haven't read her books,

you should.

right now)

"I love the word impossible

because my God believes in adventure,

and extraordinary mountains,

and He dares to believe in a world

crawling with terrible situations.

He promises to be bigger

than any impossibility

because He is love...

and love always finds a way through,

in time.

love isn't scared.

it builds bridges instead of walls.

it never gives up.

it always hangs on.

it waits with stubborn hope,

strong hope,

sometimes even years".

the name game

my husband is  named

after his grandfather,

as is his father. 

so when we discovered

we are going to have

a son, the question

of course, was

do we name him

Robert Stephen  the 4th

or not?

the only thing about

keeping it going

is what we would call him.

because Rob goes by Rob,

and his dad goes by Steve,

so that's pretty much all the options...

Then we remembered that

his gradfather's middle name wasn't 

stephen, it was just 

the middle initial S.

So really, we could come up with

a new name that starts with S 

and call him that!

that would still count

 as Robert S. the 4th.

so that's what we did.

so ladies and gentlemen,

our son's name is:

Robert Sawyer.

we'll cal him sawyer,

and i guess so will you!

on a different

but just as exciting note,

we both felt him move

yesterday for the

first time!

it was so crazy, i had

just been telling my mom 

yesterday morning we

hadn't felt him move at all

and i didn't know if that

was normal or not

at 21 weeks...

and then last night we were 

sitting on the couch, 

watching tv and

all of a sudden,

he just started kicking around!

i grabbed rob's hand and 

put it on my stomach and 

he said oh my gosh!!

it was very exciting,

and also very weird.

i still can't believe it,

but i also cannot wait!

i went to a consignment shop

called kid 2 kid,

you can get tons of 

great hardly used stuff

for next to nothing!

i was just going to look,

but then of course,

i just can't get over how 

tiny they are!

well, i promise

that not every post

will be about the baby,

but lately, 

other than throwing up,

it's what's going on!

so there you have it :)