Pregnancy Moments

I don't really care for ice cream too much, but I do love cookie dough ice cream! Mainly because I love raw cookie dough. (Which I know is terrible for me!) The bad part about being pregnant is you aren't supposed to eat raw cookie dough due to the raw eggs. I found a loophole! While at Marble Slab a few weeks ago I was telling the owner about my dilemma. He looked up their recipe for me and told me their cookie dough does not contain eggs!!! They don't cook the dough so they don't have any reason to put eggs in it. Unfortunately at that time I had already ordered my ice cream so I couldn't get cookie dough. But I remembered tonight! My wonderful husband made a special stop and we got some cookie dough ice cream to go. Now I will enjoy it by the fire :)
One more fun pregnancy moment. And it comes from the mouth of a 6 year old..."Mrs. Johns I can tell that your baby is growing!" They are so honest and cute.

The Baby Bump is here!

Well we are a little over 26 weeks today. My body is continuing to change! We thought at this point we should start taking head to waist pictures so you can see the bump in comparison to everything else. I am now "feeling" pregnant. My favorite quote about being pregnant so far was from a student to another teacher at school. She told the teacher "I don't know the nice way to say this but Mrs. Johns looks like she is going to have a baby now!" Poor thing was scared to call me fat..haha!

Baby Hudson is growing quite a bit! Most books say he is in between 1 1/2 and 2 pounds right now. I can feel him moving every day now. I am still waiting to be able to feel him from the outside of my stomach so others (especially Cody) can enjoy feeling him move too!

I think we have officially finished registering. I pretty sure I mentioned this before but it is so hard to imagine what we will need! I continue to worry thinking I hope I got it all. We are registered at Target, Babies R Us, and Ohh Baby! (inside Stacy Furniture). You can find all the links here.

Target: Click here You can search by mother or father using mine name or Cody's. Be sure to select the correct registry there are a few Tiffany Johns in Texas believe it or not.

Babies R Us: Click here You should select registrant and type Tiffany Johns. Our city is listed as McKinney, TX.

Go Cowboys!!!

This isn't completely Hudson related but Brian did point out that last weekend goes down as Hudson's first official Cowboy's game! So I figured I could post the pictures on here :) Brian, one of Cody's closest friends came in town from Chicago last weekend for Baylor's Homecoming. We all went to Waco together Saturday for all the Homecoming festivities. (I can't wait to take Hudson next year- We got a cute Baylor outfit for him to wear when the time comes) Then on Sunday Brian took us to the Cowboys game to watch the boys beat the Falcons. It was a great game! Here are some pictures of the new stadium.

Nursery underway!

Two posts in one week :) After we picked out the bedding this weekend we decided to go ahead and get started on preparing the nursery. The first step...painting! The thing we all know can make a room look so much better but we never want to jump up to do it. This is one of those times I'm kicking myself wishing I had a before picture!!! I have searched everywhere and none to be found. This room started out a pale lime green on top with white chair railing and a slightly darker pale lime green on bottom. Here is Cody in action! (This took all day Sunday!) We used a Ralph Lauren suede paint that takes a bit of a process.

And the finished piece!!! (Well, finished for now) We still have quite a bit to add to the room.

Baby Bedding...Take 2!

So apparently I choose baby bedding like I did my wedding dress. I had the "perfect" wedding dress picked out online. I knew it was "the one". When I went to see it in person I ended up picking out a completely different dress! I have already posted the bedding that I thought was "the one" but when we went out and about today we picked out a different one! Cody and I found it in the clearance section of the baby store so that made us want it even more. We are always looking for a good deal. For those of you who watch 18 kids and counting Cody said today he felt like the Duggars! They always say ask for a discount. Cody did and we got another $25 off. Here is a picture of the bedding we got today. We got the quilt, dust ruffle, sheet, bumper, laundry hamper, and mobile. They had more but we didn't want to over-do it with the theme. We are wanting to make his nursery a "vintage" transportation theme. So now that we have the basics we are on the lookout for any cool lamps, art, etc. that look like vintage transportation. I wish I knew someone that knew how to make model airplanes and such!

Other news...I also had a check-up appointment this past Thursday. Everything went very well. It was just a routine check-up they listened to the heartbeat and starting measuring my uterus. Next visit will be a little bit more they said. I will have a glucose test to check for gestational diabetes and I will get my RhoGAM shot. My blood is Rh negative so I will get a few extra shots between now and delivery.

That's about it for this week! I am off to get the candy ready for the trick-or-treaters tonight. I love seeing all the little kiddos in their costumes. I can't wait until next year when we have a little one to dress up :)

22 weeks

Sorry it has been a while since I have posted! It seems that the Johns' household has gotten very busy these last 2 weeks. There are no major updates. I am continuing to grow and that means Hudson is continuing to grow. I am still feeling his tiny movements daily, still mostly at night. Although today was a little different. I felt him moving more today than I have any other day!

We have officially made the nursery ready for conversion. Although we still have a LONG way to go! (It's a mess of piles right now, which I know is driving Cody crazy. I'm only a little OCD and it's bothering me so I can only imagine how he feels) We have a three bedroom house which use to consist of a master bedroom, guest bedroom, and Cody's office. We decided to make the guest bedroom the nursery because it has chair railing and doesn't face the front of the house. But that left us with a problem...no guests could stay! If you know me well you know I love having people over and I always want an open door for anyone to come and stay with us, especially now with an addition to our family. So Cody willingly gave up his "man cave" office. It was outfitted with manly furniture and plenty of deer mounts and deer hides. Now it has been converted into our new guest bedroom. We have a nice little nook in our master bedroom which has become Cody's new office place. It actually works very well and he has a window that looks onto our beautiful backyard! Now the challenge of decorating and preparing a nursery begins :)

A belly pic for all since it has been a while...

Little Movements

Friday night was the first night that I felt Hudson moving! I was very excited but also still questioning myself a little bit. As a first time mom I wondered am I really feeling him or does my stomach not like what I ate? I was pretty sure I felt him but not 100%. Then Saturday night I felt the same feeling at around the same time! Just in a little different spot. So now I am certain that I am feeling him move! It is a very cool and awesome experience. He was moving around a little bit again today. I can't wait until he gets even bigger and Cody can feel him move too.

I knew as soon as we figured out the sex we would try to start planning the nursery and other things. As you saw in the last post we already got a good start on our registry. After last Tuesday we also picked out Hudson's bedding to match his furniture. We found it online and you can see it here...Hudson's bedding. I can't wait to start getting his room put together.