It's Coming Along

Here's Josh happily priming the walls and me putting the finishing touches on the trim on the bottom so I wouldn't have to stretch or stand on the step ladder.

Snow Day!

Josh is making good use of our first snow day working on the nursery. He's got the walls all primed and ready for the first coats of color. Pictures will be coming soon..if he lets me take them!

Full Name!

We have her full name now! It was so strange because Josh came home and said he knew what her middle name was, told me, and it was the same one I had thought of earlier in the day. So...her name will be

Juliette Renee Long

Registry

Thanks to Andrea and Kelley for coming up yesterday and helping me register for the baby. I would have been totally lost without you guys! We spent two hours in Babys R Us with the gun! I held back on buying a lot of pink, but that will come later.

So we are now registered at: Babys R Us, Burlington, and with the magazine One Step Ahead. All three lists can be viewed online.

And the winner is....

We have a name! Josh thought about it and likes the name Juliette, so her name will be
Juliette ____ Long. No middle name yet. We went around in circles for a few hours, but came back to our original name.

It's a Girl!

We got the biggest shock ever when the technician said that the baby was a little girl! Everyone had been positive it was a boy!

Here's her profile and you can see the nose, lips, and hand to the side, even the rib cage.

Here she is just hanging out, with her legs all curled up and waving her hand.

Nursery

We are slowly getting the nursery ready...very slowly. We picked out the paint-me, moved everything to the middle of the room and washed down the walls-Josh. The colors are a spa green and a bay blue for the baseboards and accent wall to put the lithographs we have from Finding Nemo. Here's what the them looks like- It's called Oceana. Thanks Mom for finding it!

Gender Date

We will know officially whether or not we can start calling the baby Jackson ( we don't have a girl's name at all) on January 15th.

It's nice to be back home in Va where it's not quite as bone chillingly cold as in Pa. Monday is going to be a shock to the system to get up with the alarm clock and head in to work. We don't have any big breaks until April's Spring Break.