Baby bump pictures

For some reason folks keep asking me to show some pictures of the "baby bump". =) 
Up until about 16-18 weeks I didn't really think it looked like a baby bump... so had been avoiding these. But I think it's starting to look like a real bump now (and Matt assures me it does... because he is smart...).

17 weeks 

19 weeks


22 weeks

24 weeks... Happy Halloween!

New York trip

I have been wanting to do a trip to New York City for a long time now, and for whatever reason we just never got around to it. I think we always found other vacations to go on like Thailand and Egypt... and thought NY would always be an easy place to go later and so we put it off. Well now that there is a baby on the way, I really wanted to do NY now with just Matt and I and see the sights before we have a little one. So this summer I finally planned it and the first week of October we headed off for 4 days in the big apple.

We crammed in a lot during our mainly 3 days there (we got in pretty late the first day and just walked around a bit by our hotel in Midtown) including...

Day 1: Times Square, Rockefellar Center, Central Park, the MOMA museum, the broadway show Chicago.

Day 2: The lower east side for brunch, The New Art Museum in Soho, walked around in Soho for some shopping and cupcakes at the cutest little bakery we found, then we ended up in the Chelsea area and walked along Highline Park which was super cool! (this park is raised up and was built over old train tracks and goes through the city), and finally the Chelsea Market and dinner.

Day 3: Ground Zero, The Financial district, hung out at the park where people get on the ferry for the Statue of Liberty and Staten island (we didn't actually take the ferry over though)... and then back home!

Here are just a few pictures:

Times Square 

The view from the top of Rockefellar Center

Central Park

The New Art Museum



Shades of Grey

Now that we know we are having a little girl... we decided on a theme for the nursery, and it's time to get started working on it! Whether it was a boy or girl, I've known for a while that I wanted the main colors in the nursery to be grey & white.

We already have white molding throughout our house, and white french doors which lead into the nursery. The baby furniture will also be all white which I've already purchased. So I convinced Matt we should paint the walls grey. I don't want them to be too dark though, it still has to be a happy room, so we are looking for just the right shade of light/medium grey. I then saw the cutest wall decals on etsy.com.... that look like white birch trees to put on the walls. 

So we are thinking we will do this, and then add accent colors to the room of yellow (I'm sure this little gal will also have plenty of things in pink... but for the purpose of looking at lamps/wall paintings/pillows and other accents...we will go with shades of yellow). 

Here is the first take at a few shades of grey I painted on the walls with some samples from Home Depot. I think the one of the right turned out too blue-ish, and the one of the left is too dark. The one in the middle might be just right though. =) 

Here is also an example picture of what we are going to try and do after we buy the wall decals, and put these up on the longest wall in the nursery.  You can order the decal with different colors, but I love the white of the trees already, and for the little birds we will go with Yellow! 

(stole this picture from the Etsy site - but giving credit below with the url in case anyone else wants to check out this guy's awesome decals)

http://www.etsy.com/listing/64873620/the-original-tree-wall-decal-wall