HAPPY HALF WAY!!!

We are officially 20 weeks pregnant today! It has gone by fast and I know that our sweet baby boy will be here before we know it...

Johan's family just left on Sunday to go back to Denmark. We had a great time with them. His mom and aunt always inspire me to be creative and crafty. And so while they were here I decided to be brave and attempt my biggest sewing project yet - making a crib bumper for the baby. (I know that bumbers are not recommended due to SIDS risks, so I will just use it for looks...) It turned out way better than I thought it would and was not nearly as hard to make as I had anticiapted - thanks to Johan's Moster (Aunt) Bitte and her amazing coaching skills.

20 Weeks...Happy Half Way

I re-covered an old bumper that was given to us.



We might be a little early on having the crib up,
but I couldn't wait to see what the bumper would look like.



Johan's big "gender reveal scam" on my mom

It's a BOY!

This past week was a big one! We had Johan's parents and aunt and uncle visiting from Denmark. Thanksgiving. Johan's 30th Birthday. And our first ultrasound!

We are happy to say that we have a sweet, active, little boy coming in April. He appeared to be healthy and strong - his spine, heart and brain are all developing as they should. We feel so blessed to have been able to share this past week with so much family around us. Both our moms and Johan's aunt were able to come to the ultrasound and we were able to reveal the gender of our baby boy with both families present. We are so happy to say that our Danish made baby will be able to carry on the (Hansen) Carl family name...

What a handsome boy!

We got to see his tongue.

It's a BOY!

Johan's little soccer player, Kelly's little swimmer...

Thanks to "Far"/Johan and his insistence on me eating wheat germ,
and flax seed every morning, this baby has a fantasic looking spine!

Nesting on a Budget

 The past two weeks we have been preparing for Johan's family to come from Denmark, by cleaning the house, and putting up Christmas decorations. But we have still found time to "nest" for the baby. I had been wanting to find a dresser that would be able to double as a changing table. I had been looking at garage sales and second hand stores for the past few weeks, but had found nothing.

Last weekend we went to an estate sale and found a dresser that would work...but it was included as a stand to a saw and it was sold. The people who bought the saw came to pick it up while we were there and I thought: "Maybe they don't want the dresser." So I asked them and score for baby - they did not want it...and ended up giving it to me for free!

We then went to the paint store to buy paint to re-paint the baby's dresser (and my grandmother's dresser for our room that my aunt just gave us.) We have found out that paint store often have "whoops" paint - paint that they mis-tinted or someone returned. We ended up finding a gallon of red paint for $3 and a quart of light green/gray for $2.



17 Weeks





18 Weeks





 

Baby's dresser before



Baby's finished dresser

Grandma's old dresser

Grandma's re-finished dresser



Since we found out that we were pregant I have wanted to buy a onesie for the baby that says "made in Denmark" - since the baby was made there (TMI? - Sorry!) I had found some online for $20 but since I am a little cheap thrifty. I decided I could make one. After researching how to best make one - I decided to try a freezer paper stencil. I bought fabric paint for $1.77, a onesie at a garage sale for 10 cents and freezer paper for $2.25. And BAM! After less than 30 minutes I had a designer onesie for the baby! Best part is that I saved over $15 and now have the supplies to make personalized onesies for our baby and our friends'!