22w1d - Nursery in progress

What an amazing feeling. After waiting so long to even be able to decorate a nursery, we have finally started. Last weekend was paint and assembling the crib (minus a mattress). It's hard to truly see the color in the pictures, but the wall color matches perfectly to the light peach color in the bedding.

The first picture is taken with the flash on - and the second with the ceiling light and what daylight was left at about 5pm. Once we get the mattress in there that will pull even more of the peach look vs pink as the crib sheet is solid peach.

This week I also pulled out my baby quilt project that I started before the holidays. This is my first attempt at any sort of quilt, so it's been interesting. I got all the blocks sewn together to form rows, now I just need to get the rows sewn together in sections to make the top. We'll see how long it takes me to finish. I was on a good roll yesterday and did 10 of the 11 rows. It should hopefully go quickly once I get to it. Oh yeah, and it will go really well with the Isabella stroller too!

Here's what it looked like laid out on our bed.

And since this post has a bunch of pictures, how about a new belly shot. This was taken today. I feel like this shirt isn't gonna make it much longer, it's already getting really short. Oh well, hopefully we'll be getting into some warmer weather here soon so I can dig into that pile of short sleeve tops my mom gave me.

I still have over a week before my next appointment. It's nice to not be running all the time, but sometimes 4 weeks seems like so long between appointments. I'm still not feeling a whole lot of movement, just an occasional brush against my inside. Certainly nothing that would be classified as a "kick". Every night before bed daddy gets in a little bonding time and rubs my cocoa butter massage lotion on my belly. One night as he was rubbing the outside, I could definitely feel something rubbing back from the inside.

What's happening with baby: Weeks 21-24 (Month 5): Papaya 10.5 to 11.8 in, 12.7 to 20.8 oz

Watch what you say -- baby is now able to hear outside noise from down in the womb. Studies show that baby finds gentle music and your own voice most soothing. Nipples are starting to sprout, and that little face is fully formed. And, baby's starting to settle into sleep cycles, snoozing about 12 to 14 hours a day. It shouldn't be hard to figure out when -- just pay attention to those kicks as they start and stop.