a day in your life at 18 {exactly}

dear baby-b,

you are 18 weeks old... TODAY!

and wow... you are growing by leaps and bounds!

i think my belly popped out over night!

must be why i have felt nauseous again these past few days.

know what else?

your mama is a little under the weather today.

i woke up with a sinus infection.

so i am not quite myself.

i hope it's not affecting you, though.

you stay warm and healthy in there, okay?

i'll take the brunt of the bug,

and you just stay healthy and strong.

well, mama had to do her picture winter assignment today...

"all wrapped up" was the theme.

we had to find something original to shoot

involving a towel{s} or towel theme.

so i'm using this opportunity to once again,

give you a glimpse of the bigger home

that surrounds your little home {my tummy}.

today we won't stay in one room.

i'll show you the bathroom

and a little bit of the dining room, too.

there is even one of your mama

laying down in the living room... trying to rest up.

but first, i want you to know...

unless God has another plan,

your dad and i have decided to stay where we are after you are born.

we didn't know how we could swing it.

but, your very sacrificial papa decided he would willingly give up his man-cave

{or half of it, anyway}

to make a nursery for you to call your own!

i can't wait to get started on it!

i won't go into details now... that will come.

but just know, i'm going to make one lovely little space

for my precious one to sleep every night.

don't you worry.

as you can see, i started off in the bathroom.

seemed like a good place to start for a towel theme.

i won't go into too much detail now, because i still plan to post

about the bathroom in its entirety some time.

but i'll just give you a glimpse.

it's my favorite room.

and it seems to be the favorite room of all who visit, too.

it's very long and very bright... i love bathrooms with windows!

and the nice thing is that it gets the most light in the mornings.

other than also telling you it's filled with greens,

i won't give you much more detail yet.

but i can say, it has a lot of vintage charm...

not so much because i decorated it that way,

but because that is how the house came.

it's an older home,

and it still has all those great characteristics that a lot of older homes have.

well, the above photo collage is of my favorite towel

with my favorite eucalyptus spearmint lotion.

this is where i take a lot of relaxing baths.

and some day, you too will bathe there.

when i get around to doing the full bathroom post,

you'll see there are a lot of other interesting things in there, too.

{i'll give you a hint... a few of those things have wings!}

okay, now let's move to the living room.

mama was tired and did not want to work on her assignment.

so she decided to lay down after a nice warm, steam-filled shower

{that hopefully helped clear out the sinuses}, and then thought,

"i can just take a photo of myself with the tripod for my assignment."

your mama has green eyes like the towel on her head.

i often wonder if you'll get my green eye's or your dad's blue eyes.

i wonder ALL the time what you will look like.

i really can't wait to find out!

enough of the miserable me with a sinus infection...
{can you tell i was really dreading this assignment?
oh, well... might as well have some fun with it!}

okay, so here is another pic of your mama

{notice the belly... it's even bigger than the last time you saw it}.

this time, i'm in the dining room.

you might grow up looking at the framed album covers

and wonder why they hang on the wall...

just as i grew up looking at similar album covers.

i'll explain.

when i see vinyl albums like these

at garage sales or flea markets,

i always want to get them.

they have a certain look that brings me back to my childhood.

you see, my dad loved music,

and one of his favorite music genres was jazz.

he loved the old albums with the pretty 1960s models on the covers...

the kind whose models had that "come-hither" look on their face.

he would probably say,

"i got it for the music!"

but we all know he thought the covers were easy on the eyes, too.

anyway, i just get such a warm nostalgic feeling

when i see these covers,

because it takes me back to when i sat on the floor

by your grandfather's vast record collection,

never tiring of looking at them all,

while i listened to his beautiful jazz or classical music.

the best memories!

i hope we will create exactly the same kind for you.

i think we will.

both your dad and i LOVE music.

just last night,

we sat and listened to so many great songs.

{your dad was playing d.j.}
i'm guessing you heard the music!

well, back to the photo.

these are hanging in the dining room... in a little seating area i created.

i felt so unglamorous at 18 weeks pregnant

with my sinus infection

in my bath robe and towel

after my steam therapy shower.

so i thought it would be funny to get a whimsical self-portrait

of unglamorous me next to glamorous them!

here is what that corner looks like without your mama in it.

well, i think that's it for today.

i better go rest.

i'm going to hang out with your very happy father.

{he's in a great mood, because the bears won

and they will keep going in the playoffs!!}

you be good in there, okay?

know that i love you and absolutely can not wait

to meet you face to face one day.

until then, keep growing strong.

love,

your mama