We have had several family members & friends ask what we still need that we have not yet received so I spent some time updating our registries at Target, Kohls, & Babies R' Us. As far as clothes go, we do not need anything smaller than 6 months. If anyone wants to give us clothes, 6-9 months & up would be great. We pretty much only need whatever is left on the registries. I have removed everything that we have or have too much of & the things that we have realized that we really don't need. We also ordered her crib bedding this week & that should be arriving next week some time so I can finish setting up the crib. I am still working on putting all of her clothes away but had to order more hangers & they should also be here next week. My biggest challenge right now is figuring out how to black out her bedroom. I bought pink curtains to match the bedding & room decor & because they are such a light color & extremely thin, they do not block any light what so ever. I have some thermal black out panels that I have attached to the curtains but there are still some cracks that let sun light in. This probably wouldn't be such a problem if the sun didn't shine directly into her bedroom window in the morning & we seem to be having more sunny days than what we are used to since it it summer time. Plus, since her room is also the guest room & with everyone coming to visit after she is born, we wanted to make sure that the sun isn't shining into the room & waking people up at 5am.
Since it is June, we are at the point where we have more hours of daylight than darkness. The sun goes down & it gets "dark" at about 10:45ish pm right now. Once the sun is down, it is dark outside but the sky is still somewhat lit up, kind of like having a big, bright, full moon every night. The sun starts to rise again around 3am, so when I wake up at 4:30am to go to the bathroom (which is extremely annoying might I add), Brinleigh's room looks like someone has gone in & turned on the light, it is so bright in there.
As far as the pregnancy goes, I am now 33 weeks & getting bigger every day it feels like. We have our last childbirth education class & a bi-monthly check up on Monday. I can tell that the baby is getting bigger by the change in movements. I don't get kicked or punched as much since she doesn't have a lot of room to squirm around. I do feel her push her feet & hands against my belly though & it almost seems like she is trying to escape through my skin. I also feel her feet & hands glide across the outer part of my belly. The only way I can explain it is like if you were to press the pad of your finger or your knuckle against your arm or some body part & then slide it a few inches across your skin. The only difference is that the pushing is coming from the inside, not the outside, but I feel it both in my belly & outside of my belly if I have my hand or arm resting on my stomach. She is big enough now that it actually physically hurts to bend over & put on my shoes, socks, pants, etc. When Kolt comes home from work in the morning, he wakes me up to get ready for work. Before I get out of bed he talks to me & sometimes he talks to my belly & in the last few weeks the baby has actually started to respond to his voice. It's quite funny because she won't be moving & then after he starts talking for a little bit, I feel her "wake-up" & start moving around. When Kolt stops talking she will stop moving, but as soon as he starts again she moves again.
Here are a few pics from our baby shower.
