Rivers Nursery

Here is a small tour of Rivers completed nursery, these pictures hardly do it justice, but I've never been good at taking pictures of interiors anyways. I started on his nursery soon after we found out we were pregnant and worked on it my entire pregnancy  like a mad women, I blame it on the hormones. 

I went back and forth on furniture, rugs, and accessories. I switched out two different rugs for weeks before actually deciding. I wanted pieces that would easily transition into his "big boy" room or if we were to have a girl next she could use the furniture as well in her nursery. The room started to get a lot smaller once we got the actual furniture in there, making it harder to add the pieces I wanted, like a bookshelf, but I like how clean and simple it turned out.

All the artwork is done by David, which makes my heart happy, because I know he will just treasure those pieces of art for all his life knowing they were made especially for him and have been in his room since he was born. 

It's much different that I originally planned those 9 months ago, but it's much more my style and couldn't be happier with it. 

 

and the whole thing is made perfect by this little boy!

Motherhood

Our baby will be one month old this week, 1 whole month! When did that happen? I feel like he just got here. I was joking with Dave the other day that it feels like April never actually happened and I would like it back please. This is mostly  because I spent 90% of the month inside trying to figure out how to take care of this new baby and doing the bare minimum, cause that's all I had time for, to take care of myself for a quick and speedy recovery. The days were just flying by, it would be 4 O'Clock and I would be like hmm where did the day go?

It's crazy how much your life can change in an instance, how quickly you can grow to love someone and all the worry and concern that comes with that. It's taken time to figure out how to add him into the mix, and we are no where close to figuring it out. I'm sure as soon as we do though he will be on to the next stage and challenging us again to make it work. That's the fun part though right?

Some days I fee like I've got it all figured out and then the night or the morning comes and I get a big ol' slap in the face reminded me that I don't. I'm learning to feel proud of the small moment victories rather than whole day victories. Him taking a nap in his crib is a victory even though he refuses to later that night, us walking to the store and back is a victory even if he had a total melt down when we got home. 

Motherhood, in my very short experience, has been everything I thought it would and everything I didn't. I know everyone told me I would be exhausted and it would be the hardest thing I've ever done but I didn't think it would be this hard. I also didn't think it would be this amazing either. How could I know how much I would be in awe of him or how much I would love him. I couldn't. I love him to the moon and back and I wouldn't trade this not even with all it's most difficult moments for anything.

Rivers Birth

 

While I think it's great so many people are willing to share their birth stories I do think it is something special and sacred to each Women so I will not be sharing mine here. I did however read a lot of birth stories before mine and I listened to a lot of different horrifying tales from friends and other pregnant ladies and up until the last 10 weeks of my pregnancy I was indeed horrified to give birth.

So I thought it would ease the mind of some of those who have heard some awful stories and let you know that giving birth was one of the most amazing things I have ever done. Giving birth was anything but awful, and after all the horrible stories I heard I wish someone would have told me how wonderful it was.

Was it painful? Yes! Was I nervous? Of course! But it was also much easier than I thought it was going to be. My nurses were amazing, seriously the most loving and patient Women I have ever met. The most common horror story were about the nurses so I was so nervous about getting someone awful, however that was not the case for me. Each and every nurse was wonderful!

Maybe I was just really blessed and for that I am grateful. I know some Women do have it really hard, and I am not saying that those stories I heard were not true or that those Women didn't have a hard birth, but for every awful story I wish I heard one good story, so here is mine.

And then there were three

Birthday in A Box

Living far away from your best friend can be rough especially when their birthday is today and you want so badly to be able to show up at their front door with a yummy cupcake and big balloons. Since I won't be able to spend the day with her as I would like I sent her the birthday party in a box instead, complete with cupcakes and candles, glitter nail polish for the big day, and of course balloons!

Would You Look At That

Dress: Target Maternity, Cardigan: Anthro (Old) Heels: H&M (old) Bracelet: J.Crew

I actually got ready and we took a picture of it! But really two months ago I decided I wasn't going to buy any more "maternity" clothes because I wanted to save up a good chunk of money to go post pregnancy shopping. Unfortunately my belly about doubled in size those during those two months and I was literally down to wearing the same 3 outfits. So Dave took me shopping and insisted I buy some clothes, along with the worlds greatest tinted moisturizer. (run don't walk to get some) (Sephora gives free samples)

Also even though this dress says maternity on the tag it's going to be a great post pregnancy dress as well, I'm wearing a small here and there isn't any of that funny ruching on the side so hopefully after baby comes it will just fall beautifully down my beautiful six pack....

Baby's Hospital bag

Not sure what to bring to the hospital for baby? Neither are we so here is a list of things we plan on taking but have no idea if we will actually need. I'm always getting mixed messages on what the hospital will or will not provide, so I'm probably overpacking for him and me ( post on that later) but better save than sorry.

1. A swaddle blanket To keep him nice and cozy and for swaddling him up for those first pictures.
2. Going home outfit. This I know for sure we will need. We bought this soon after we found out we were having a boy and it's been tucked away as his going home outfit ever since. Plus it's so tiny I'm afraid he will only fit it the one time at the hospital.
3. Baby wipes. No idea if we will need these. Maybe he will have a huge diaper situation on the way home we will need to take care. I'm not sure.
4. Face Wipes. Probably completely unecessary but we have them and they fit in the bag.
5. Baby Powder. Same story, fits so cute in the bag.
6. Extra Diapers. I hear they give you tons in the hospital, but I'm overprepared.
7. Extra onesies. I just don't know and would rather have clothes for my baby than none at all.

Diaper Bag

After looking for months at all the horrible options the baby industry provides for diaper bags, and then looking at regular purses we could make shift into a diaper bag we stumbled upon this Scout bag by Petunia Pickle Bottom at a swanky baby store in Salt Lake and fell in love. I love that it doesn't have baby giraffes all over it or an over the top girly pattern. AKA it's not screaming IM A DAIPER BAG LOOK AT ALL THE STUFF I'VE GOT CRAMMED IN ME. It's got all the secret pockets I think I'll ever need, and comes with matching wipe holder and changing pad. Obviously I haven't used it out in the real mommy world yet but I think we are going to love it.

So there you have it, everything he will need and not need at the hospital, I'll let you know how it goes!