Here I am at getting home from my six month/24 weeks doctors visit. I'm not sure if you can tell (lol) but over my 4 christmas's with all our families my belly has finally arrived! I must say it has been exciting for people to notice that I am actually pregnant!

Last weekend we brought in the new year painting Kora's room a "dusty yellow," and I was able to find paint that was toxic/odor free, so I wouldn't hurt the baby. I was way excited because I truly thought I was going to cry painting her room, maybe it was my first mom-instict because I felt like there was nothing else in the world I would rather be doing.

Here is Steven painting the trim in the garage. The neighbor that helped me do the fabric, her husband helped steven hang the trim. " Neal and Laurie Brown for those of you that know who I am talking about. They are great friends and we are so lucky to have them as neighbors.

Here is room finally finished. If you look at the top you can see both the ceiling trim and inside that is the wedding cake ceiling trim. So beautiful, it turned out perfectly!!

My neighbor, Laurie and I finished the curtains or Kora's room.

This view shows the beading a lot better. Let me just tell you that these curtains weren't the easiest thing to make. Laurie will probably laugh at me for saying this but the knots on top and attaching the beading on a curved path was the worst, but it's even harder to try and explain what we did. LOL Needless to say, I personally will have to practice some more before I can make these curtains on my own. The rest of the bedding is coming along very nicely, hopefully I will get to work on it this weekend, during the week, my body does good to come home and cook dinner after work.

The glider we ordered came in and it is in Espresso and Cream colored cushions. The rest of the baby's stuff will be in Espresso as well, it's a really dark brown. It should be in by next week, we are hoping, we ordered a convertable crib that goes from a crib-to a toddler day bed- to a full size bed, a armour, and a dresser that is wide so I can use the top as a changing table.

My mom would be so impressed, I found some sturdy organizers that I placed in the closet for all her goodies, such as: hats, blankets, bows, socks/shoes, and books. I used the same scrapbook paper I used on her letters for her name and added some cute buttons.

These cute outfits were from my mom, she sent me a sweet care package with these, socks, a blanket, photo album, and basket organizer. I loved it all, but nothing is sweeter than baby girl clothes. It's so fun to imagine her in them and what she will look like. We go to the doctor again Feb. 2nd to get a 3D sonogram and we can't wait!!!

Kora's Room

Here is a picture of Kora's room. I finally managed to get it all clean in there and now we are ready to decorate. Tomorrow we will spend the first day of the new year painting her room a soft yellow color to blend in with the bedding. We will also be putting up trim to match what is already in there. Her ceiling is a wedding cake ceiling, so we have to put trim inside there too. We can't wait. We also ordered our bedding from Kidspace and it will be in very soon!!

Here is the fabric I bought for her bedding. My fantastic neighbor and I are going to sew her stuff togther this weekend using these colors. It's hard to imagine until it's all done. But...I will try to help you visualize. (From Left to Right) The soft yellow with dots is going to be the backing of the quilt. The orange, green, polka dots, and floral will be the squares to make up her quilt. The multi-color stripes are for the ruffle of the quilt. Then we will use the orange again for the bumber, the green for the bedding skirt, and the floral with beads attached for the curtains. Once it's put on the bed and up I will take more pictures to show you. I spent awhile searching for the fabrics I wanted, so I am truly most satisfied with what I found.

These letters will go on the wall and I am thinking of buying some old antique frames (8x10) and spray painting them some cordinating color and placing the letters inside the frames. I used scrapbook paper, ribbon, buttons, and flower stick-on's to add to the letters. I had so much fun cordinating them to the bedding fabric as well.

This is little miss Kora's first dress. My sister-in-law bought it for her at Christmas. I can't wait to see her in it!!

I obviously didn't turn the light on in her closet or in her room or these pictures would be brighter. These are her 1st pair of shoes/socks from my friends Deborah and Amy. Deborah also got her a matching hat for the light pink/brown shoes. The ones on the left were from Amy, a girl I work with and they are actually socks that just look like little mary janes. lol Kora will be so fasionable when she gets here. As you can tell, I am getting more excited with each passing day and so is Steven.... he just is so pumped about all this girl stuff, he truly wanted a sweet girl to love on and be loved by.