Sugar Sugar

It seems that I have gotten to that phase in pregnancy again when I'm so thirsty. My drink of choice usually...juice. Hmmm perhaps I should go cold turkey now in hopes of getting most of that sugar out of my system before my glucose testing tomorrow!

Actually looking forward to having the hour to have to sit there and wait to do the test. Planning to bring some work along and write out all my hamper packing forms for work. Seems so funny to be on the same schedule as last time with Maëlle. I worked on these forms the last time I had the test with her.

Hoping for a good result back from the test :)

I'll save guzzling one of those Costco size cranberry juices all myself in one weekend, till after the test tomorrow. Managed to drink that much last pregnancy...and that was with mixing the juice with half water each time. Thirsty!

"It's very pink!"

Once we found out we were having a girl, it got me excited to plan the baby's room. I had a vision to involve birds somehow, but in doing some initial web searching for inspiration I couldn't quite find what I had envisioned in my mind. Then by chance I came upon a bed set being sold brand new through a woman on Craigslist. It was perfect and has become the inspiration for the new room.

The set is called 'Love Birds' and matches well with a large tree wall sticker I want to order online (no hand painting designs this time!). We took the bed set into the paint store and decided to go with painting 2 walls pink and 2 walls green to match the bedding.

Painting got underway on Sunday, and we now have 2 coats of pink on 2 walls. They look great, but as Doug keeps saying, "it's very pink, very pink"! We said the same thing about Maëlle's room too when the green when up, but now with furniture in it looks great. We're actually using the same green for the new baby's room. Pictures of the finished paint job coming soon!

Noreen Missed Her Calling

Way back in October I was downtown with friends on a 'girl's afternoon' when we were approached by a rough looking street woman (rough in that I didn't realize she was a woman until she told me her name!) at the light waiting to cross the street. She looked right at me and said, "I'm going to say that you are pregnant" which at the time was not obvious especially wearing a hoodie and puffy vest. I said "You're right, I am". What really got me was what she said next.

She said "I'm going to say you're 4 months along" (which was exactly correct) "And you're having a girl".

Little did everyone know around me, we had just had our 20 week detailed ultrasound and we had decided to find out the sex. This woman has missed her calling, a true fortune teller. We had just found out days prior that yes we are expecting another baby girl!

It was a difficult decision for me to find out this time, but I knew that Doug wanted to find out. We have just now started to tell more people. Gradually letting the cat out of the bag. Two little girls, sisters, so much fun...and pink!

The woman concluded before we crossed the street, "I'll go one step further and predict a name for her too, you should name her Noreen because that's my name, or go with your Mom's name."

Baby Noreen....um don't think it will make the short list, sorry!