Quinn's Room

I mentioned in my "update" post that B and I were living in North Carolina.  We moved when I was four months pregnant.  B got a job within our company doing risk assurance (think auditing with IT) which pays more and has a lot more opportunities.  I was supposed to start a client facing auditing position July 1, but after finding out we were pregnant, I opted to take a temporary work from home position with my department back in Tampa.  After maternity leave I will either be a) applying for a position with our company in NC or b) applying for a position with a private company.

Since getting to our new house, I've had the luxury of being able to start planning for and putting together Quinn's bedroom!  So I thought I'd share some pictures of what we have so far.

I put some of her newborn clothes in the crib to get a sense of the size she'll be when she makes her appearance.

Our basic premise for her room was no theme and nothing too babyish.  We based our choices off the red Nerdy Bears artwork I bought from an art show in Tampa.

Our other inspiration came from the elephant painting I did when I was 10, so basically our colors are red and green.  This also worked out because B and I had purchased some special gifts for each other that will match the red and green.  I have a stuffed green pig, from Angry Birds, that B bought me, and he has a stuffed I Heart Guts red plush heart...the organ, that I bought for him. as well as a green plush Kermit the Frog I got him.

We decided to keep a bed in here as well, since we only have  two bedrooms and want a place for guests to sleep when they come.  We'll most likely just put them in our room and sleep in here if that is the case.

Whoa, I forgot I had a blog!

It has been a long, long time since I posted and a lot has changed....most significantly, this is what I look like now:

22 weeks pregnant (5 1/2 months)

How did this happen?  Well, you know how...but the who is more interesting.  As I read back  through my posts, I could tell I was starting to talk about him more and more, or at least, think about him a lot more, and the "him" was "boy workout and running partner," who I first mentioned back in Oct. 2010.  Turns out he kept track of my whereabouts because he liked me!  We both started in the same hiring class back in June, and after hanging out within a group of friends, we quietly went on our first date for my birthday to go to dinner and rock climbing with some friends, and then we hung out afterwards by ourselves and really hit it off.  This was after I started getting frustrated because I liked him, and he liked me, but we weren't communicating that to each other in the right way. I remember when I KNEW he was the one for me.  We had been hanging out a lot and could talk about anything with each other.  Completely open, no shame, no embarrassment.  I was talking to him in the car one day and realized I had never felt this level of comfort and openness with anyone, and I knew that was it.  So after some initial misfires (he actually first asked me out sometime in October or November of 2010, I said no, I don't know why), we finally made it work by February 2011!  It is now almost May 2012 and we're starting a great adventure together in North Carolina, preparing for our very welcome, surprise little girl, Quinn Elinor.