Blonde?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Elle is going to have super straight blonde hair and light eyes, what do you think?

Baby Chandelier? Of Course

We ordered the chandelier for the nursery today. (Isn't a chandelier as necessary as a diaper genie nowadays for a baby girl's nursery?) I'll post pictures once we get it installed. Here are some stock pictures of it:

Baby's stylish homecoming

When my brother and sister were born my dad rented a Rolls Royce and a driver to bring them home from the hospital. My grandmother is on the right side. This is one of my favorite pictures (don't you just love the driver's expression?). The picture was taken in front of our house Hawaii. I've thought about recreating this moment with our little one's homecoming, but seeing how the hospital is about one mile from our house that may be a bit overkill.

Nursery: Work in Progress

We have been working on nursery decor ever since we found out we are having a little girl. I've never been a "pink" person but I thought when else is pink decor more appropriate than for a baby? I've been to Home Depot about 4 times to pick up paint samples. Each time not being completely satisfied with the shade of pink I picked out.

This has been going on for about the past month. Things started to change when I came across Little Crown Interiors. They have some of the most adorable nursery designs. These are some of my favorites:

Love this sectional and the draping fabric

Monogram? Yes, please

So, after seeing this I really loved the wall paper and ordered some samples online. I now think we are set on this wallpaper:

In some of room designs they paint the other walls pink, but I think that's just too much pink for us. I color matched the silver/grey background of the wallpaper and I think we're going to paint the other three walls that color.

It doesn't photograph well but there is a square sample of the grey paint next to the wall paper.

We also picked out a few pieces from Baby Appleseed furniture in a antique white:

The furniture is back ordered until mid August. I'll post more pictures when things start coming together.

Growing...

This little one has definitely gone through a growth spurt the past month. I went from feeling like I ate a huge burrito to finally feeling pregnant.

17 Weeks

22 Weeks

20 Week Ultrasound.

We had our 20 week ultrasound a few weeks ago and everything looked great. Our ultrasound tech is the sweetest thing ever. Her daughter is actually my patient so when I walked in she says, "now you get to be my patient". We took a look at all of the anatomy and everything looks perfect.
Our AFP and triple screen came back negative which means there are no signs of any neural tube tube defects or down syndrome at this point. The tech did some 3D pictures for us too. It's still early to get a great 3D picture but she printed out what she got anyways.

Little face and clenched fist

Leg

Waving Hello

Gender Reveal Party

A few weeks late but I though I'd try to catch everyone up on what has been going on through out this pregnancy.

I've seen some really cute gender reveal parties online and I though it would be a really fun way to announce the baby's sex. Ryan was so excited he could not keep the initial pregnancy announcement a secret (he told our family within 24 hours of us finding out). I told him I wanted to have a gender reveal party so he had to keep the secret for at least a few hours. At 18 weeks we got a few family members together to announce our big news...

When I saw this cake online just thought it was so cute. Ours is from the Cucamonga Cakery, the same place that did our wedding cake.

I ordered everything in advance because I knew Ryan would be too exctied to keep the secret for that long. I ordered these adorable cake pops, 12 with pink champagne cake and 12 with white champagne cake dyed blue for the gender reveal.

Everyone gave their gender vote. Nearly 50/50. We handed out the right colored pops and everyone bit in at the same time.

A little blurry but It's a Girl!

We used our wedding cake cutter from my Grandmother. It still has the Canadian penny taped to it. It is tradition when you gift some one something sharp you attach a penny to it so the gift will not come back and harm you.

The cake was not part of the actual reveal but I just loved it.

Baby Elle at 18 weeks

Reveal Video:

Welcoming Baby Elle

Welcoming our newest addition to our family: Elle