NESTING TIME!!!

According to everything I've read it's extremely common for women in the second and third trimesters to "nest". This was a new concept for me - but basically for those who don't know - nesting is this behavior of preparing, organizing, cleaning and getting things ready for the baby and her family. Just like a mamma bird gets her nest ready - so do pregnant women get their home ready.

This "nesting" hit me in my second trimester - during spring break! One morning, while Rob was at work this feeling came over me where I HAD to rearrange the living room and take down all the winter decorations. So, in a time period of like 3 hours I took down all our decorations, completely rearranged the living room (moving the couch from one side of the room to the other) and continued to obessively clean the entire room. It was an amazing feeling - it was like steriods!!!

The last couple of weeks this behavior has begun to creep up on me again. I have been washing bottles, boiling nipples/pacifiers, washing baby clothes, lining Jonah's dresser drawers, organizing closets and organizing the bathroom.

I think nesting has even hit Rob. There isn't a day I don't think where he is not doing something to prepare for Jonah's arrival. Today, after raquetball, he worked on Jonah's dresser drawers. (any reason to shop at Menards and use powertools) We're both so excited and we just want everything to be ready for when Jonah enter's our home. That way we can just sit back and devote our energy to him and not to our house.

We love just being in Jonah's room!

Rob working on Jonah's dresser drawers - there's nothing like
wood and power tools!!

Organizing our linen closet...

The bottles and pacifiers are all ready to go!!!

It's Sinking In...

On Friday while I was laying there on the table during the ultrasound, and I looked up at the monitor I couldn’t believe my eyes.  I was the very first person in the room to see it.  I said, “Uh…is that a scrotum?”  The ultrasound tech said, “Well….yep, that sure is”.  I look at Rob and he’s there desperately trying to see what we both were seeing – meanwhile having this silly smile on his face.  A rush of feelings and thoughts were going through my head… no, it can’t be – everyone thought it was a girl – my gut was right these past couple months…it is a boy.  Then – another wave swept over me… how wonderful – a little boy – he’s going to fit so perfectly in our lives – think of everything that we can share with him – Jonah, what a perfect name!!!

 

Later on while I was driving home from the radiology office I began to panic – what are we going to do with a little boy?  We’re more girl people!!!  However, as soon as that thought came into my head I remembered what I had been feeling since January …. That no matter what sex our child he/she had been given to us because they were meant for us.  I’m still a little nervous about raising a boy – but I’m really excited as well.  I can’t wait to see the world through his eyes and to grow with him.

 

We wanted a child to love and to share our lives with for so long.  Jonah has already brought us challenges and so many blessings.  I am head over in heels in love.

 

-Cat

 

Jonah!

Well, we finally found out. Whatsit is now officially Jonah Robert Hardenbergh. We had our 3rd ultrasound today and we got some footage of Jonah sucking his thumb! And obviously we found out he is a he!
(in case you can't make out the image: these videos are just of his head. He is facing right and putting his hand up to his mouth)





Hope you enjoyed the videos!