Today marks...19 weeks of pregnancy! 19 months of Eden's life! (19 is our lucky number and it is absolutely hysterical to me that these dates fall in line today.)
We've also been in our home for 4 weeks today. I can't believe it's already been a month! Time has flown and it's been extremely busy. I hate how poorly I have documented this exciting new life event! I am continuing to accept that blogging just has to take a back seat during busy seasons of my life.
We chose to paint the interior walls of the house ourselves rather than have our builder do it (it came with a basic white color) so that we could have more creative control. The quest for the "perfect gray" was quite the task, I tell you! We finally found a color that we fell in love with after coating our walls 3 other times with color that just did not work. This house has a lot of natural lighting and the gray colors we picked turned a blue-ish color at different times in the day. We finally landed on "Graphite" by Restoration Hardware, matched at Lowe's using Valspar.
Eden is growing like a weed and is starting to talk a lot. I can have a full conversation with her where she understands everything I am saying and although it's a lot of mumbling, I fully am aware that she is "getting" what we are talking about. She also loves to kiss my belly and understands that mommy has a baby in her belly-- even though I am sure she will be quite shocked when that baby comes out in real life! ;) She waves to everything all the time, and when she stumbles upon something for the first time she often greets it with a "Hello!" and then a wave. She continues to be an amazing sleeper-- about 12-13 hours a night and a 3 hour nap in the afternoon. She is very aware of her personal space and goes through phases where she does not do well interacting with other kids and does not like to have them touching her. We have had to kick the discipline up a notch with being consistent and following through ("no" means "no," etc.). She is generally a very easy kid and we are so thankful to be her parents.
We are one week shy of finding out the gender of this sweet little babe that is growing inside of me! My pregnancy with Eden consisted of a lot of fears about miscarriage; and this pregnancy has consisted of a lot of fears about the baby's health (probably because I feel like I am taking a lot less care of myself). But overall, I have found that the 2nd pregnancy is so much easier in a lot of ways-- you know what to expect and you've been through the whole rodeo before, so you are kind of gifted with more confidence. I have felt since day one that this baby was a boy, but watch me be wrong! Either way, we will be extremely excited. I feel the baby move daily and occasionally get a good kick. This one is a lot more active than Eden was, and I have found that the movements seem stronger a lot earlier on. It's funny how every pregnancy is different; I often chuckle that that is probably God's way of preparing me for a completely different child than what I have now!
Life is good and we feel so blessed right now and always. I'm hoping to return to blogging more consistently now that we are a little bit more moved in! I'm headed to Dallas at the end of the month for HopeSpoken-- really can't wait to be refreshed for a few days with some awesome Christian women and hope to return with a whole new sense of renewal!
