33 Week 3D Sonogram

Little Lily Grace! 33 weeks along...Part of Casey's Christmas gift to me was a 3D/4D sonogram session! An amazing gift! So we decided to get it done the weekend of our baby shower since both sets of Casey's parents were able to come into town. My parents came too! It was a very special 20 minute preview of our little girl. The 1st picture actually shows her yawning! Then the 2nd pic shows her smiling. The 3rd pic she is frowning because the technician was trying to mess with my belly to get her to move her arm. She was not happy! In the 4th pic you can really see that she has some chubby cheeks! She is also rubbing her eyes. It is so amazing how cute she looks already and what she can already do in there! We also caught her sucking on her arm. So exciting! We can't wait to meet her in person now! God is so amazing to give us this little precious gift.

Work Baby Shower for Lily

On Friday, January 30th, my co-workers threw me a fabulous work baby shower for Lily! It was so fun! There was pink & black everywhere. They ordered a special cake & cupcakes from Stein's bakery in Dallas, made 4 diaper cakes that spelled out Lily's name, and even had special little pink party favors. Everything was so cute! I am so lucky to work with such thoughtful people! We also got some great gifts! Most of which, I'm sure Casey still doesn't know how they work. :)

Black & Pink or Brown & Pink - That is the question!

I can't tell you how long it took us to decide if we should do the nursery in black & pink or brown & pink. And when I say "we" I really mean me because Casey said he would actually go with either one! Basically every crib out there comes in "esspresso", but barely any actually come in black! We originally found a really beautiful modern sleigh crib we liked, but didn't come in black. Also, the "in" colors are brown/pink, but I don't like to be like everyone else. So we went in search of bedding and at this great little custom bedding place in Midland, we found a blk/pink/green set of fabrics that we LOVE! We found a black crib from JCP that we felt would really show off the bedding too! So that was a huge relief, just deciding on all of that! For the past month (or at least it feels like a month) I have been cleaning out/organizing our spare room to transform into the baby's room. Hopefully once we get the crib up it will really start to feel more like a baby room! Unfortunately Casey will not let me paint the walls since we are in an apartment, but I think we will have enough color to take care of all that! I'm getting very excited and cannot wait for the baby bedding to be finished!!!

What's in a name?

Who knew that picking a baby's name could be so hard! Trying to think of a name that isn't too long, too short, too annoying, too weird,too normal or worst of all one that kids won't make fun of is a very hard job! Needless to say I lost the battle...In my family the girl's middle names all start with "L" -- We have Lee, Lacole, Lynn, Lacey, Lexi, Laurelin. So it would only be fitting that our baby would have a middle name that started with an "L" to carry on the tradition. Casey and I both happened to love the name Lily, which would be perfect for the baby's middle name and no matter what her first name is we could call her by her middle name. But that's where Casey put his foot down and decided to share with me how TERRIBLE it was to grow up his whole life with the name he goes by to be his middle name (since he is Anthony Casey). And he got other people to tell me too! He said he would not do that do his daughter. So I gave us a deadline and that was December 1st. Her name will be LILY GRACE RANDOLPH....

Yes, this is our precious little baby girl!!! It's amazing how quickly you can become one of those proud parents! In this sonogram she is 7inches and 11 ounces...So sweet!!! What a perfect little profile! I have seen several sonograms, but I think this has got to be one of the best! And the second picture is so cute because she has her mouth open. Although Casey says she looks like she is about to bite someone...not our little angel! The 3rd picture is her girl part! It's crazy to think the last picture we saw of her she was only about the size of an m&m and now she is a real little baby!