16w1d: Daddy's Girl or Mama's Boy?

Today was our MUCH AWAITED appointment where we hoped to find out the gender of our little "Pebbles"... We saw LOTS of this:

NO PICTURES PLEASE!!

Yum, yum yum... My Thumb

THUMBSUCKING ROCKS!!!

I SAID NO PICTURES!

Finally they were able to get a peek at the goods.. Our little "Pebbles"

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WE ARE SOOO EXCITED!!!!

15w5d: Playroom Reveal And Baby #2 Prep Time

So now that we have basically finished the playroom, it's time to focus on baby #2's nursery!!  But BEFORE I skip ahead to that, let me give you guys the big reveal!!! My husband is nothing short of amazing! In FIFTEEN DAYS he took our back porch from this:

Backporch Pre Renovation

(Let me say there is NOTHING wrong with the porch in the before, except we NEVER used it and felt it would be MUCH BETTER suited as a playroom for Greyson and his little brother or little sister.) 

TO THIS!

Wall Unit #1

Wall Unit #2

The cushions repurposed couch cushions from IKEA! The 3yds of material will be turned in to covers

HE LOVES IT!

Next up is getting the nursery in order, once we find out the gender on Tuesday (PLEASE cooperate "PEBBLES"!!!) I have clothes for BOTH genders (TONS of boy stuff obviously!) but definitely not enough if it's a girl. But once we know then I can take out the opposite sex items and focus on the correct items. I have an idea of what I want to do decor wise but again, I need the gender to make a final decision. It's still going to be gender neutral like we did with  Greyson, BUT since we opted to keep the Pooh theme, I am going to personalize it more, so I really need to know!

Today was also BUMP PIC day! Head on over and check out our progress!

So that's about it for now. Will update Tuesday when I know the gender results (IF baby cooperates!!!) 

Until then... Mwah!!!

14w4d: Nursery, Gender and Playroom Building

This post is gonna be crammed full of stuff! Mostly just small updates to catch up on what's been going on since last week. 

So the nursery is underway. We are sticking with the Pooh theme, but just adding to it. I will be doing a picture post once we get more organized in there, it was started with twins in mind, so we've taken a step back and now we are re-evaluating what we want and where.. Bittersweet.. In the end it's going to be PERFECT for Pebbles!

Gender: Count it with me y'all 11 MORE DAYS until we know! I put up a poll to your right, give a guess, let's see who is right!! That's all I have to say about that (C'mon time move faster!!!)

Playroom building: OMG... This room is coming out SO AMAZING!!!! I don't know who's gonna love this room more, Greyson or US!!! Walls are up, just need mudding and then paint! Carpet is coming in 7-14 days (special order)


SIL: Christy has been having a few cravings here and there, she's trying to balance her cravings with eating healthy too. She's taking great care of Pebbles!! Check out the BUMP PICS here!


Here is the progress on the playroom:

BEFORE renovation!

                                                           

Insulation is IN!

Electrical work DONE!

Outside stucco board IN! (has to be painted still along with entire outside of house so probably a few weeks!)

Before stucco board was installed!

Pre insulation and drywall!

Good sized playroom, right?!

 

Hubby finishing up drywall by the door

ALL DONE with Drywall!

I APPROVE!

Does this window look level to you?!

13w4d: Facebook Official

We pulled the "trigger" today and went "Facebook Official" it's always scary for me! I decided to make a cute video of our journey this time for our announcement. If you wanna see it go to our Facebook Announcement 
and check it out! Here are some pictures from our photo shoot that my amazing photographer friend Karmen over at KvanD Photography
did for us! (She does all our pictures, she is AMAZING!) So here is the shoot (we did this before we knew we lost Baby B. I am SO GLAD I will always have these to remember this happy day)

This is AFTER we found out about baby B. This is in our official Announcement

In other news, hubby is hard at work converting our back porch/sunroom/FL room in to a PLAYROOM for Greyson and his little brother or sister! We talked about it and he thought it was going to be too expensive and definitely not in our budget, with this surrogacy journey in full speed ahead mode. Well after our loss of baby B, he re-evaluated and decided we would make it work. He's doing it himself with the help of a couple good friends who are throwing in some labor (an electrician and a contractor!) in exchange for him helping them on future projects. So this room is costing us MUCH LESS than we anticipated! Here is what it looked like before:

And this is what it looks like NOW!:

This is only Phase I but it's coming along amazingly!!! Still have to do moisture barrier and stucco on the outside then insulation and drywall on the inside before I am set loose on paint, then finally carpeting! Should be a few more weeks until it's completed, maybe a month to 6 weeks. I will definitely show you guys the finished product!

In other OTHER news, 14 more days until gender sonogram!!