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@Beebug: @Mrs Hazelnut: @Mae: @Glitter: @cookie_dough: Thanks so much for the welcome and the add to the list!

@Mamasig: It's definitely already an adjustment... I haven't even changed my name yet! But he is SO excited and I know he's going to be an amazing father. It is really special to see that, so even though it has been an overwhelming few months for us, it's had it's upside too.

I thought I'd share our "current" nursery for DS. It's now in boxes since we're moving this weekend but I took these before I really packed much. Only big thing changed is we used to have a normal size rug.

@skipra: So cute! I love the colours, and the gorgeous wood floors!!!

@cookie_dough: Yes on movement again, figures right? Wednesday night I had my hand on my belly for a solid half hour of movement! It was so good I almost asked DH to feel too, but figured I would lose the feeling, so opted to wait, ha!

So my university roommate went facebook public today, and told me last night she is preggo! She is due June 13! We haven't talked a ton lately so it was great to reconnect last night and hard not to tell her that we are preggo, too! Soon....just other people I want to tell first still!

And the biggest "news" in our house last night was DH wanting to Team Green-it. He might actually have pleaded such a good case that I might be totally on board. He just said that LO#1 we found out because she was our first and we were excited, and that the specialness of #2 can be not finding out. He said really early days sleepers/onesies are all he or she would wear, they aren't in their nursery right away anyways so I can have time to jazz it up once she/he is here and that it could be fun to wait. Going to mull that over a bit! That came from me asking him that if we found out on the 19th girl or boy could he/we keep it a secret until the 25th and reveal to parents then and he said why don't we not find out? So it just kinda went from there.

TGIF!

@Glitter: we are team green! I think there were a few others? But maybe I'm wrong!!!

@Beebug: Go team green! yayyyyyyyyy! You can do it that's awesome that you've been feeling movement again. Although it's making me more nervous that I'm not! hahaha. Perhaps I will make an effort to lie on the couch for a while this evening and see if I can feel anything.

I feel flutters often at work. I sit at my desk for a minimum of 8 hours per day. The office is so quiet you can hear a pin drop, and the only things moving are my fingers. I sometimes feel it at night too when we're lying down and it is still.

@Beebug: well my response would be simple. "we've narrowed it down to two options! Boy or Girl!" *smile and walk away*

We are team green too! It is our first so DH and I figure we can find out for the next baby and prepare the older sibling for what's coming. I hope I can stay strong during my anatomy scan in January!

@Beebug: It totally is fun! It drives people nuts as well...which is kind of fun if you enjoy driving people nuts hahaha. For the most part my family was really on board with us being TG. My dad didnt' want us to tell him what it was even if we did find out...he wanted to be surprised whether we knew or not!

@Beebug: @cookie_dough: @Mrs Hazelnut: Yay for team green! I loved being team green last time! I kind of wish we had done it again this time but the ultrasound tech at the hospital kind of let it slip and we didn't even mention anything about finding out! Make sure you let them know at your appointment that you absolutely do not want to know, before they even take out the wand thing.

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! Is it ok if I vent for a minute? I know I've mentioned before that things are not great with the IL's but I'm totally pissed now. First of all they never even asked us what we were doing for Thanksgiving, they just decided to go to SIL's and we weren't invited. I was kind of upset that they had no interest in spending a holiday with their only grandchild but whatever. I tried to just ignore it but I guess that was just them starting to show how little they care.... When I had to go to the ER last weekend, DH called and asked if MIL could come out to watch DS (we haven't seen her since DS's bday in early September so it's not like we ask a lot of her). She said that she could go later in the day because she was having out of town company. Then she called and said never mind, she wasn't going to come but she'd come the next morning to help me while DH was at work (never showed up, never called me at all). My parents are out of town so they were not able to help out or they would've been there immediately - even if it was DH that was sick, not me. On Thanksgiving MIL called and said she would come out today to help with DS so we could finish packing and moving some stuff. Nope...never even called! I'm so totally pissed! DH doesn't want to talk about it but is clearly upset. WTH is wrong with my in-laws??? When all the crap went down with SIL, MIL clearly chose sides when she should never have even gotten involved. I can't imagine my parents ever treating me or my sisters with such indifference even if we were arguing. It really sucks

@skipra: LOVE it!

So here's the part where I admit that after two days of feasting, my Thanksgiving belly makes me look 6 months pregnant! If only it were all baby...

@skipra: So brutal that your MIL is acting like that. I have nothing useful to offer as I don't speak with mine and perpetually bitter with her, lol. I also don't get how parents can treat their children differently.

@Mae: It's crazy, but I really think we are going to do it!

@HayleyJane: I would loveeeeee another turkey dins, I don't know why we don't just do another Thanksgiving dinner around the US one to prevent the envy, lol.

@tarabonno: Also interested to see when a girl will be announced!

Went to a 1st bday party today in our old neighbourhood. It was a lot of fun! Ended up telling my two girlfriends/old neighbours we are preggo! The Bday babies Mom had fam there too including her sister who is due May 13th with her third! So there was lots of baby excitement and she and I chatted he differences in each pregnancy!

DD napping, DH away. He and I ended up outside for 3 hours last night until 11:30 or so getting our Christmas lights up, so glad it's done! DH is afraid of heights and we thought he would be alright as we have a bungalow now, but he was doing the clips and lights one-handed and it was going to take us years. He eventually caved and let me get up there to actually make progress, lol.

@Mae: excited for you!! Bet you're counting down the hours and minutes. Drink something sweet before you go so baby can get a sugar rush and move those limbs out of the way lol! I heard that helps.

@Mamasig: Oh my god just the most important game of the year!! I was convinced attending home games while pregnant last time was going to put me in premature labor, but nothing bad happened and my son who was in utero at the time is the hugest 1 year old Saints fan I know.