36 Weeks!

Wow! Has it really been that long since I last posted?! Time has flown by and life has been pretty busy around here lately.

Let's see....well, there was Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's in Times Square, our trip to KC for some wonderful baby showers and much needed time spent with family and friends, then on a mad search for a 2 bedroom apartment! We found one , got all the crazy information they require in NYC to apply for a lease and got it! We worked on painting our new bedroom last week and will move in this Tuesday and Wednesday. Now that we have our place I can focus on ordering and assembling our crib, getting all the last minute things put together for her nursery! And it might be a good idea to get a bag packed for the hospital considering I've been experiencing Braxton Hicks for the last few weeks! I told you life has been a bit crazy lately! Oh, and I forgot to mention I was fighting bronchitis for about two weeks in there too, always fun. :)

Besides the bronchitis I've been very very blessed to have such an easy pregnancy! I've not been nauseous at all, had plenty of energy, been able to work just like normal, and have had no problems with all the standing and walking that living in this city requires.

Our little girly is most definitely a mover and a shaker! She never stops wiggling all around. She especially loves when her Daddy gets home from work and she hears his voice. She goes nuts! And she always loves to feel him "hold" her. It's pretty overwhelming how much we both already love her so much and we haven't even gotten to meet her yet! Kyle is so excited to meet her, he keeps saying he wants her to just come now. I find that so so sweet, but I WOULD like to get a few more things checked off our To Do list before she makes her arrival. :)

Here's a few pictures of the belly!

These first two are from Thanksgiving:




This is from the first week of January:



These are from today, in week 36!



The countdown is officially on!

Xoxo Hannah

Little Miss Update

Well, our little miss is getting bigger and bigger! My Dad just told me the other day that if a human continues to grow at the rate it does in the womb, you'd be the size of a battleship by the time you were 1... Crazy! I'm now 22 weeks along (!) which means she is about 9 or 10 inches from head to foot and weighs a whole pound!!! It still blows me away that she'll weigh at least 6 times more than that by the time she enters this world!

She is definitely practicing her ballet or soccer or something, she kicks like crazy and it's so precious! Just the other night Kyle was complaining because he hadn't felt her in three days and then she kicked him HARD! She must've heard him...She's already a Daddy's girl, doing what she can to make him happy! Although in a few years it probably won't be kicking him that makes him happy. :)

I am showing much more now. I still have yet to have someone offer me their seat on the Subway (one of the things I'm most looking forward to while pregnant, not gonna lie) but maybe that will happen soon.

Now that we know we're having a girl I'm starting to think of what to do for the nursery. Things are a tad complicated being that we won't move until 3 weeks before I'm due and we have no idea where we'll be moving, so I'm not sure what the space will look like to start with. But I'd like to start getting ideas on concepts and key pieces that will hopefully work in any space. One thing is for certain, Kyle and I both do not care for really "baby" looking nurseries, so whatever we pick, it will just flow with the rest of our apartment, and have our same sense of style... Oh the possibilities! There also seem to be so many things that you "need" when you have a child, which I'm trying my best to really decipher what we actually WILL need and what we can do without. That's one of the perks about living in NYC is that there is limited space, so whatever you have, you better really need/use it! I like it that way though. We've never liked clutter so it's a great excuse for cutting back. And honestly...millions of people have had babies before all the "must have" items were ever invented! :)

That being said: If you had to pick your top three baby products that made life with baby so much better, what would they be? I'd LOVE to have any inside tips before we attempt to tackle the baby registering process!!! :)

I'll leave you with a few snapshots of my growing belly from this week!













Xoxo Hannah

A Few More Pics...

Here's a few more pictures from our wonderful day of baby gender reveal adventures...












Ps: Please don't look too close, I knew I should've put some makeup on that morning!

Xoxo Hannah

Wonderful Words

Source: thetinymonsters.blogspot.com via Kimberlee on Pinterest

I just told Kyle yesterday that our daughter will have the best example of what kind of man to marry because she will get to watch her Daddy be so amazing to her Mommy for her entire life...

What a Week!!!

This has been one eventful week! We had our 20 week sonogram and found out the sex of the baby!!!!! And to top off all the excitement, I felt the baby fluttering around for the first time this morning!!!!!

Soooooo....... We're having a GIRL!!!!!

Kyle's dad and stepmom happened to plan a visit over this weekend and it worked out perfectly that it was the same day we were having our sonogram. We went Monday to the hospital and got to watch our Little Miss for a good thirty minutes while the technician got all the little measurements of our perfect little one! Everything looks great and she (I'm still getting used to saying that instead of it!) is developing right on track! She's right at 10 ounces and about 6 1/2 inches long from head to booty! We got lots of great pics of her, however, she was being a bit stubborn and wouldn't let the tech get the right angles to measure her heart, so we get to go back next week and do another sonogram! :)

We wanted to find a more fun way to find out if we were having a girl or a boy, so we decided to have the tech right down what we were having and seal it in an envelope.
We then took it down to Babycakes, my favorite bakery which happens to also have the perfect name for this particular occasion, in a super fun silver BMW Kyle rented for a few hours to surprise me. He wanted to make every aspect of the day special and I thought it was so sweet, and a ton of fun to cruise around NYC in a fun car! We had the girl at the shop open the envelope and ice some cupcakes pink or blue, whichever fit the bill, and wrap them up so we wouldn't be tempted to peek! The girl at the shop was so excited to get to do this for us! It was pretty sweet how into it she got!




So cute how the girl at the shop wrote this on the cupcake box :)


We then cruised back home and set up the computer to Skype my parents in. I wanted to share the special moment with them too. (Thank God for technology!) Once we got it all set up, we counted to three and opened the lid, to find PINK cupcakes!!!!!! AHHH! A little girl!!!! We were both a bit shocked as EVERYONE thought we were having a boy! But oh so excited! It definitely makes it seem much more real for some reason, now that we know that we have a Little Miss on the way. And now to start planning the nursery and getting to register and SHOP!!!! :)

(Getting the computer all set up)



Now it's back on the name hunt. We had several names picked for a boy but only had one that we are liking for a girl. However, we aren't 100% about it... Hmmm, looks like we might be spending some time in Barnes and Noble's cafe, thumbing through some books!

It's so crazy to think we are halfway through our pregnancy now! Only 20 weeks to go and we will get to meet her!!!

Here's her precious little profile. Look at that little button nose!


Here's a full side body shot. Her little legs curled up are oh so cute!


And a little tiny foot! Ps: We counted, she has ten fingers and ten toes!


Thanks to Pops and Grandma Susan, she has a super cute little hippie outfit, already a trendy little gal :)



Then, this morning as I was laying on my tummy (for probably one of the last few times that I should) I could feel her wiggling all around! It was the first time I've felt her, and even though it wasn't an actual "kick" I could feel, it was definitely her! I think she was trying to tell me good morning. :)


Xoxo Hannah Williams

Belly Updates

Ok, I figured since I just got back from the gym and I'm wearing the good ol' green gym tank, I had better take pictures for week 19!

Here they are!





Roxy still isn't quite sure what is going on with her Mom, but she can definitely tell something is changing! She is always right next to me, or on top of me when she has the option. It's so cute!

This Monday we will find out if we are having a little Princess or a little Cowboy. I will let you know Monday night!

Xoxo Hannah

Belly Updates!

Ok, I realize it is fairly pathetic that my design blog has somehow seemed to morph into a pregnancy/baby blog, but what can I say, not much has been inspiring me lately on the design front due to the mental distractions I have going on as of late! So for all you design junkies, I sincerely apologize!

With that being said, I have a few new pictures to share! As I uploaded these a few minutes ago, I saw my belly pictures from the day after we found out, it's already a wee bit depressing how skinny I seemed compared to now! I will only continue to grow, but hopefully will be back to that thin tight belly soon after!

I feel like the difference between this week and last week is the most growth/change in one week so far! Kyle is so cute and every day can't get over how much the baby is growing, rubbing my belly and talking to our little one telling it how much he already loves it. It's amazing to me that already our little rascal can hear voices and even see some light change if I'm somewhere really bright! Speaking of 'it', we have 21 days left until we find out the babies sex!!!! I will post what we will be having as soon as we find out!

The ones in my trusty green workout tank are from today, 16 weeks and 3 days.





Had to sneak a little Roxy pic in there, snuggling with her Daddy. She is our first born, ya know!


And these are from last week, right at 15 weeks. I think the muffin in the background definitely attributed to the belly growth between 15 and 16 weeks! :)




Thankfully all my clothes are still fitting just fine, so even though the belly is starting to grow, especially in this last week, I haven't had to go buy anything yet. I'm hoping to get away with just a few pairs of maternity jeans, and not anything else maternity. I'd much rather sport some cute loose flowy sweaters and ponchos that are so in this season so I can wear them next winter too.

xoxo Hannah

Baby Progress

Today we went to the hospital for our 12 week (although by the time we made the appointment I was really 13 weeks) nuchal translucency test, aka downs syndrome test. I was a little nervous, I'm not going to lie. I've been praying since we found out we were expecting for a healthy baby. I'm happy to report the test went great and we got to see the little one for a long time! Our little baby is already a stubborn one! (Hm, where did it get that?) It refused to move around so the technician could get the correct measurements she needed. I rolled all around, coughed, we pressed on my belly but nothing could make the little one budge! It was just too comfy I guess :)


(Some of the pictures she took were 4D which was so cool to see!)




The only thing the little one kept doing was covering it's eyes with it's hands! It was sooo cute! It didn't like all the pushing and prodding we were doing! Hehe :)

(This is my favorite of all the pictures we got today! SO cute)




xoxo Hannah

Belly Updates

Ok, so there really isn't too much to show yet being as I've only gained a whopping two pounds, but I've had some people asking how much my belly has grown, so I thought I'd post a few snapshots!

I randomly ended up having the same shirt on today as I did when I took my first pictures, so maybe I should wear it in all of my belly shots from here on out! Although it really is not the cutest, it is my favorite workout top though :)

So this is on my birthday, July 1. The day after we found out we were expecting. (I was about 5 weeks along)







And this is today, at 12 weeks! (Ok, I just realized it sort of looks like Roxy has her head in my butt! Obviously she does not!)





How about you? If you have had a baby or are pregnant, when did you feel like you really started to show?

xoxo Hannah