We Have A Name

Paul and I have known for a while that we wanted Baby Gerrety's first name to be Lula but we were having the hardest time coming up with a middle name. 

We decided on the name Lula while my mom was working on ancestry.com while my parents were in town for a visit.  It's actually my great great great grandmother's name on my dad's side - which makes really special.  As soon as we heard it we just knew that this amazing little baby had to be Lula, but the middle name was a lot more tricky than we were expecting.  We wanted something that was original but not too crazy and we wanted it to flow well with Lula - - - so after many hours of throwing around names, asking family what they thought, waking up in the middle of the night with another new name, scanning the baby name books, we finally came up with the perfect name: Lula Emile Gerrety, we do realize that her initials will be LEG but the doctor told us that at a mere 25 weeks she already has really long and skinny legs so we think it fits perfectly :)

We're so excited to meet our sweet, dancing machine of a baby, Lula Emile Gerrety!!!

Nursery Update

This past weekend my family came to town to help work on the nursery as well as a few other things that needed to be done around the house.  Paul has had to work like crazy since our vacation so it was perfect timing since my nesting is starting to kick in full force and as much as Paul has wanted to help he just can't fit it all in.  Here we are in action:

The room will be an owl theme with lots of pinks and blues (if you can't tell from the pics).  There's still quite a bit of work to be done to Lula's nursery but it's definitely much closer to being complete thanks to my amazing family!

Pregnancy Update

Paul and I have been really horrible about taking monthly pictures of my ever growing baby belly.  I had the best intentions when we first got pregnant thinking that I would take a picture the same time every month to keep as a memory of our precious baby girl growing in my belly.  Well, I haven't taken a picture since the first month we knew we were pregnant and now that I'm in my 6th month it's pretty silly to start now.  To go even further, I've been terrible at taking any kind of pictures at all while I've been pregnant - which is pretty bad for someone who is known for taking way too many pictures.  I've forgotten my camera at birthday parties, cookouts, most of our vacation, a family reunion, 4th of July, and the list goes on and on. 

I'm making a promise to myself that I will do a better job of capturing our special moments on film so that I don't miss out on looking back at all of the great things that have happened while I was pregnant.

Here's one of the only pictures I have so far of myself with my baby belly:

This was taken about 2 weeks ago and it doesn't really show my belly in all it's 6 month pregnant glory - when I look in the mirror it definitely looks 10 times bigger than that.  I also look really exhausted which I can thankfully blame on pregnancy :)

Anywho, Happy Wednesday!!!