Getting the nursery ready for our little angel!!!

Well we are counting down the days till out little angel comes. One of the most exciting times of this pregnancy has been setting up the nursery. Since this is our first child – J and I have started from scratch with shopping for baby supplies. For both of us – we like to analyze all items and read reviews before making any large purchase or any purchases at all. The crib was our first item purchased. I looked at a lot of different cribs and read many, many reviews of what people liked or disliked about them. It is amazing the different types of cribs that are available – but the trend does seem to lean towards these convertible style cribs. These items grow with the child – starting off as the baby crib, and then changing into a toddler bed, daybed, and finally a full-size bed. The only pain that I can foresee about this style of crib is keeping track of the hardware for all the different conversions over the years.

I think the most fun, though, was decorating the room. Starting with a blank, white room to deciding to paint something neutral since we did not know we were going to have a girl or a boy. We had the joys of deciding of what color palette to go with. Even though we did not know whether we were having a girl or a boy, we knew we would always stay far away from the color pink. I think that some parents can go overboard on using that color for painting a girl's room. Pink on pink can be a touch too much – and difficult to find things as well. Since we chose cherry finish on the furniture – we decided to go with purple and green colors for the walls. Then we allowed our creativity to come into play with decorating on the walls or maybe painting on the walls later:)

Overall, it has been fun readying the room for our daughter's arrival. Stocking the changing table with burp cloths and wipes for now since we haven't bought the diapers yet. Dealing with the small details, such as arranging stuffed animals around the room, hanging the most adorable clothes in the closet, putting the swings and the stroller together and so on. Now, comes the hardest part – the waiting. Waiting for the big day when we get to show our daughter her new room. I hope that she likes all the work that went into it – at least you will know if she doesn't cry much in her room since she wont really tell us whether she likes it or not. The only way to find out is if she is happy in her room and sleeps thru the nite:)

Ok, we finally picked a pediatrician!

One thing we had left to do before our little one enters the world was to choose a new pediatrician. Your doctor and all the pregnancy and baby books give you a detailed method on how to choose a doctor to care for your newborn. You should interview about 4-5 doctors, asking about their hours, what privileges they have at the hospital, how do they deal with colic - before choosing one that you feel comfortable handling your precious child. We interviewed 2 so far which one was recommended to us by my obstetrician and the other one by my sister in law’s friend and my obstetrician. We were never open to having a male pediatrician until this one was referred to us by two people and wanted to give it a try.

Today was the day we did our second interview with the male pediatrician we probably will go with. We liked most of the answers he gave us for our questions and was happy to see all the advance technology system the office uses. I have always believed that younger doctors are better so they can relate to us better and they don’t just assume things before they do any kind of tests when your child is sick. Now all we have to do is sit back and wait for our little girl to be born...

60 DAYS TO GO...

I can't believe we only have 60 days to go before our daughter is born... we have a parenting conference we will be going to this coming weekend that was given to us by J's brother and his wife K, we are looking forward to that. I am sure it will be different and we will be trained on various topics related to parenting. It starts on Friday night with an evening of entertainment with comedian Tim Hawkins. Teaching sessions and breakout courses are scheduled throughout the day on Saturday. It is held at the Marriott....Breakfast is included at the hotel and will have lunch voucher at different restaurants in the area. I think it is a really cool idea and I am glad they got it for us as our baby gift!

J and I are counting down the quiet weekends we have together till the little one comes. We just opened up our gifts from the shower and put things away and still have more to do. I am so glad I did my shower ahead of time that way, we have plenty of time between now and delivering. All we have been doing lately, or at least try to do is relax as much as we can and go to the movies since that's the only fun thing to do for pregnant woman:)