Settling in

The crib is here and things are starting to get more real! This whole experience is going by much too quickly for me, already in the third trimester. We set up the baby's crib this weekend and it nestles right into our room like I'd hoped. It's bigger than I expected though! I'm amazed that a tiny baby needs a four and a half long foot bed, I could practically sleep in it. The Jenny Lind model we picked is darling, I am loving the vintagey feel of it and the spare, minimal design feels light enough not to overtake its space. Good decision number one! Parenthood is so easy!

Daddy Brett being all handy.

Family portrait

I swear I helped a little!

 Tonight we are waiting for baby's cousin to arrive! We can't wait to meet you, Baby Norton!

Gertie's a fan of the crib.

Baby Smith goes to scott's

Brett and I love antiquing. It's really one of our favorite ways to spend a Saturday or even better, pick up a souvenir when we travel. Our condo is filled to capacity with our finds, so much so that I'm having a little trouble defining my decorating style lately! Time to start editing the collection. Anyway, when I was about 16 weeks pregnant, we realized that we'd only have a couple chances to get to Scott Antique Market between then and August. Seems crazy, but since it only comes to Atlanta once a month + Brett's insane travel schedule...

Daddy-to-be practicing his diapering skillz

We set out to find a dresser for the baby and maybe a couple of décor items. The dresser was fairly easy, we found a piece that fit my criteria: right size and height for a changing station, in good shape, not too pricey, and something classic we'd always like and could fit into other rooms of a future house without obviously being a baby piece. Aside from that, it was tough! Without knowing the baby's gender yet, we couldn't commit to much, and I'm still thinking about the French school chart we passed up. Zut! Still so much fun and Brett was a great sport when it dawned on us that we should have driven the truck (duh) and he had to drive home and back with Gertie in tow to accompany us and the new dresser home.

My First Mother's Day

Mother's Day was last weekend and I was amazed at how much emotion I already felt and I'm barely a mother yet. 

favorite Mother's Day card from mama-to-be Katie

It is not really the Hallmark holiday I thought it was at all, but I guess that is something you don't realize until you experience it personally. Just a sweet day of reflection on the baby, how blessed and lucky I am to have a healthy pregnancy and to be married to the wonderful man who is making me a mother! It was kind of perfect timing as I am finally starting to feel some consistent movement from the baby. It's still so surreal to think that it is actually me celebrating a holiday for mothers, that I'm the noticeably pregnant woman in the room and of course that we are about three months from meeting the baby. 

This first post would not be complete without a Gertie story and she inserted herself into our first Mother's Day memories in an eventful way. Let's just say we cut our Mad Men screening short to tend to a less pleasant, much smellier element of dog ownership. Luckily it left us laughing (and gagging) and feeling like any baby diaper would be a breeze in comparison.