The restless waiting period...

Aside from a few rousing games of Monopoly and Checkers, there hasn't been much excitement around the Jones house the week after Christmas. We had a nice, quiet Christmas here with just us. Our families are waiting to come visit in January/February when baby J will be here.

Neither one of us had to work all week after Christmas so it has been a great time to rest and stock up on sleep. We've watched 3 movies in the theater (Young Adult, Girl w/ The Dragon Tattoo, and Sherlock Holmes.) Our DVR is empty, and we've had to resort to watching reruns of 'Las Vegas' and discovering new shows like 'Call of the Wildman' - featuring Turtle Man (a must-see if you haven't ever watched that show). He catches critters with his bare hands, has no teeth, and a passion for releasing varmints back into the wild. Embarrassingly we are also up-to-date on all episodes of the Kardashians. We realized that we've watched more TV in the past month than we have watched in the whole time since we have moved to Boulder! We're trying to pass the time and not go crazy waiting for this baby to come! He seems quite content to remain right where he is, for now, even though TODAY is my due date! Doesn't he know how to keep to a schedule?!!!

Bump Timeline 2011

Its really amazing to look back over the past 40 weeks and see how much baby and I have grown. The belly is a really stretchy thing. At 40 weeks along, I can't imagine getting ANY BIGGER, but depending on when Baby J decides to emerge, it could totally happen!  Here are some pictures through the pregnancy so that you can see the bump timeline from weeks 19 - 40.

 19 weeks - aww look, she just had a big lunch today:

Week 22 - 23, over Labor Day weekend the bump becomes more pronounced especially when sticking the belly out like this:

 Week 24 - September 17th weekend in Arizona for our Baby Moon, we took advantage of reserved parking spots and attempted some desert hiking (Note: I do not recommend going for a hike in the 100 degree Arizona desert when this pregnant!):

At 26 weeks, we went on a nice long hike up to Indian Peaks in Nederland to take some pictures of the changing leaves, and what a great background for a bump picture:

 27 weeks - No I didn't paint but I supervised. This isn't a great bump photo but wanted to show the "before" picture of the nursery:

28 weeks - the bump is definitely a bump:

Jumping ahead to 32 weeks, photo taken on 11/12/11 on Jesse's birthday:

34 weeks at Thanksgiving the bump is getting serious, I take every opportunity to sit down:

Week 38 - Feeling ready to POP!

 On the BRINK of 40 weeks - photo taken on New Years Eve 2011. This belly is out of control! When is this baby coming? We don't know! To kill some time, we went out to celebrate the end of 2011 and eat fried chicken and gather stares from concerned restaurant owners, who think I'm going to have my water break in one of their booths:

I hope you enjoyed the Baby Jones Bump Timeline 2011! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I will not have many more bump photos in 2012, would prefer to start posting photos of Baby J instead!! Plus I'm running out of clothing that still fits me...

Baby J's Nursery - RAWR!

Once we found out that we were having a boy, we began racking our brains thinking of cool little boy nursery themes. Jesse had several ideas that I don't think would have turned out as good as the one we eventually picked (ex: great World Wars, Ninjas, Star Wars). DINOSAURS was the winning theme, and once we decided that and the color scheme, it was pretty easy to decorate. It was a lot of work but I love how it turned out! Now all we need is a baby!

The changing table was a gift from Grandpa and Grandma Jones - it was exactly what the nursery needed! Grandpa Jay refinished an antique dresser and painted it and hauled it to Colorado from Illinois over Thanksgiving. Aunt April made the Missouri and Illinois signs, and my coworker Tammy reupholstered the cushions for the Dutailer glider (The Polished Nest on Etsy is her shop). All in all, I love how it turned out! Decorating has never been my strong suit but pregnancy brain was able to focus on decorating and for that I am grateful since I can't seem to focus on much else :)

Nesting! Nesting! Includes getting blog in gear!

"Renae, when are you going to make a blog for your pregnancy?" Is the question I keep getting asked. The pregnancy is flying by, and with only 11 weeks left I figured I better get started.

So this is my online form of nesting, getting this happy little blog established so I can post pictures and sweet nothings about baby boy Jones for the world to read and ooh and ahh... Plus everyone hates those over-sharing mommies on Facebook...

Jesse and I are needless to say VERY excited to welcome a little man to our family! And we are happy to be living in the lovely Boulder CO which will be a great place to have a little one. Baby J isn't the first grandchild, he will be joining a duo of cousins who are handsome little mischief-makers / fun-havers: Drake Jay Jones, age 1.5, and Brock Andrew Healy, age 6 months. I doubt that Baby J will EVER get into ANY trouble when hanging out with his cousins!

Here are my fascinating and thrilling PREGNANCY STATS, for those who don't have iPhones apps to tell you the fruit and vegetable sizes of my growing bundle of joy:

Due Date: January 2, 2012
Countdown: 11 weeks, 3 days.
Trimester: 3rd and final
Baby size: Small Cabbage (17 in, 2.9 lbs)
Weight gain: HA! Like I would ever post that online!
Current mood: Happy and carefree
Cravings: Chocolate milk

I'm working on the nursery and we are going with a dinosaur theme, colors are gray, lime green, and blue. I just got back from MO from a lovely weekend of baby showers and am able to start getting serious! I was inspired by some cool nursery blogs, links are below.

Here is the crib that I finally was able to put sheets on last night, thanks to all the lovely gifts I got from everyone it is starting to look like a real baby room!






And 15 minutes later after the last dinosaur was in place, a sneaky critter showed up and started trying to take over the crib as his own, and he even batted a stegosaurus loose from the mobile. BAD CAT!!





He is giving us the stink eye, when really it should be US giving HIM the stink eye. (Yes, we kicked him out immediately after taking this picture). Sigh, will have to work on this. Not acceptable, Ned!


Nursery inspirations:
Gray and Green nursery
Subliminal Messaging to Baby J sign
Modern Baby nursery




Lots more to do on the nursery, will post more pics as we get closer to finishing it up, but wanted to share the crib at least for now!