Oh, Boy!

"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!" - Albert Einstein

The great thing about family is they're there for it all...  They see you at your worst (hello, 3rd Grade JL with your ratty perm and pre-braces buck teeth), offer love and support through your unimaginable, and then, thankfully, in the good times, celebrate your life highlights.  Last weekend, my aunt Marsha and cousins, Emily, Kelly, and Molly hosted a shower to celebrate one of the greatest life highlights yet - my baby boy!  

The cake alone was celebration enough.  Two pieces for me,
thank you very much.  :)

It was so incredibly sweet of them to have a party for me, and I had such an amazing time!  Huge thanks to friends who attended.  Tripp now has some super cute gear and a carseat (yay! it's now legal for us to bring him home).  

My niece, Hannah, is ready to meet her little
cousin!

From left: Emily, me, Molly, Kelly, and Marsha

I <3 my family.  Tripp and I are lucky ducks.

Sand, Sickness, & Sonograms

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always ourselves we find in the sea." - E.E. Cummings

I really, really, really love the beach.  The Gulf Coast is one of my very favorite places in the world.  So, when Davis told me several months ago that we would be going to Sandestin for him to work a pharmacy convention, I knew I liked his new job.  :)  


Last Tuesday, we made the trek to Florida.  I realized living in Meridian had its perks, since when we were there we were two and a half hours closer, but I digress.  Our great friends, Blair and Austin were there, too, so I knew I had a partner in crime in Blair for 6 hour beach days and dinner dates.  Not to mention Blair brought a cake, which she shared with me.  She really knows the way to a preggo's heart.

The chocolate icing is her grandmother's recipe.  Amazing.

Everything was going splendidly until Thursday...  That's when Davis woke up with the flu.  No one will nominate me for wife of the week, considering I just thought he ate something bad.  We ended up going to the ER that night, and he had a fever of 103.3.  Yup, 103.3.  So, our beach trip was not the relaxing, last vacation without a baby trip that I had envisioned, but that's life, right?  I did still manage to read a couple of books and get some sun on my ghastly legs.  Plus I got a TON of sympathetic looks on the beach as I waddled to and from my beach chair, and even one "Oh, bless her heart."  And, I did have Austin and Blair to hang out and eat meals with.  Davis woke up on Sunday (the day of our departure) all better.  I figured that was better than being sick on the drive home.  Plus he could do the driving!  My driving would have surely made him more nauseous.  :)


Flash forward to today.


Davis and I attended my 30 week appointment today and got to peek at our little fella.  He measured 2 weeks ahead...he is already 3 pounds, 14 ounces!  I haven't quite wrapped my head around the fact that we're going to have a baby in less than two months.  Crazy. His nursery is finally coming along.  I'll post pics when it's complete!

Little Fella's Profile

Anyway, that's what's been going on in our world.  Lesson of the week:  if my husband says he is deathly ill, take his word on it (just to be on the safe side).  

Rounding Third Base

"Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to be born or hatch."  - E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

We've made it to the third trimester!  Please forgive me for the baseball metaphor in the blog title.  Since we found out Baby Bond/Tripp is a boy, Davis and I have taken part in many discussions revolving around whether Tripp will be a righty, lefty, or switch hitter.  As you can imagine, I don't offer much insight either way.  

So anyway, we are in the home stretch!  We have less than three months until our little fella enters our world.  I'm waiting on that whole nesting thing to kick in because as of right now, I really have no desire to do anything but watch "Days of Our Lives" and eat baked goods.  My current baked good of choice is oatmeal cream pies, but I've thoroughly enjoyed donuts, vanilla Oreos, Nutter Butter bites, and cupcakes throughout my pregnancy, respectively.  Part of me can not wait till he is here and another part of me (the one who knows we have a ton left to do on our new house and nursery) wouldn't mind the last trimester moving a little more slowly than the second.  

All that really matters is he seems to be healthy and is growing.  His kicks are getting stronger and my belly is getting bigger (although the oatmeal cream pies could have a little something to do with that?).  I've received requests from friends for "belly pics," and I have been reluctant to post any because for whatever reason, I feel kind of silly taking pics of my belly.  Buuuuut, here ya go.  I'm large and in charge, and this summer is only going to get hotter.

I am COMPLETELY cheesed out by this, but there ya go.
28 weeks preggo

I'll end this post with some of my favorite baby boy things I have begun to collect.  Is there anything cuter than mini-human being clothes?  Maybe puppies and the mini-humans themselves, but this stuff is still rediculously cute!

Thanks Blair and Austin!  These are the cutest pants EVER.

Tripp will be ready for the beach in October.

Thanks (again) to Blair and Austin for these sweet slippers!

Thanks to Mann & Paige Mitchell for the UK piggy bank.
The UK vs. Ole Miss baby things scorecard currently looks like this:
UK 3 - Ole Miss 0.  Mommy likes.