Let's Play CATCH UP!

Let's catch up a bit on this pregnancy, shall we?

I am now almost 21 weeks along, so that's about 5 months.  Finally over the horrible first trimester: that morning sickness and all day nausea was going to be the death of me! I still haven't felt her move distinctly; the movements I do feel, I can only guess is my baby girl. Yes, I said GIRL! We are so excited about her! We found out the sex a few days before I went to North Carolina for my shower!

I finally decided on her nursery decor =) Ladybugs! Once I get the nursery completed I will share pics, but for now, it's a work in progress.

The most exciting news of all though? As of yesterday, our sweet love bug has a name! Alexis Sophia Castiglione.  We will call her Lexi.  I am so happy that I finally have something to call her besides Peanut =) It's truly a relief, you don't even know!

Now last week was a busy one! (Actually more like 2 weeks ago).  Between finding out the sex of the baby, getting ready for my trip to North Carolina and MOVING, we were POOPED!  Yes, that's right, we finally moved out of that horrible s*** hole we were living in.  We are now living in Lake Helen, FL: population 1500 and it has a few churches, couple day cares, couple restaurants, a gas station, police station, Wells Fargo bank, fire station, American Legion, City Hall, and a park. Yup, that's about it. But I love it! It reminds me of back home.  The houses here are very old, and we are living in one of them, built in the 1940's.  It's charming and it has been well updated on the inside.  3 bedrooms, 1 bath (I know, ugh. Couldn't they have put at least a HALF bath in here =P) The master bedroom used to be the garage, so it's HUGE! My favorite feature of the house are the amazing front and backyards.  They are VERY spacious.  We have a cactus in the front yard with a few pretty hot pink buds on them and a ginormous magnolia tree in the back yard AND a shed! The driveway is shaped like a horseshoe so we no longer have to REVERSE out of our driveway (which is big plus for me =P)  And it wouldn't be complete without our little flower bed in front (which I need to start planting flowers in) It's nice to finally be able to spread out instead of being cramped into one small hotel-room size apartment.  It's also FANTASTIC that we have our own KITCHEN and laundry room. Heck, we even have a DINING room.  I know, the smallest things are awesome when you have to do without them for so long!

We have been greatly blessed.  His mother Cindy has been great: coming to help us set up the house, buying us small luxuries here and there: curtains, kitchen utensils, towels, microwave stand, hamper for the babies room etc. Plus, one of her friends sold her over probably $1500 (or more) worth of furniture for $700, which she gave to us! We got a brand new sofa, dining room table and chairs, toaster, microwave, lamp, bed set (including headboard and foot board, dresser and mattresses) Yes, it's been awesome.  And now, we have a little one to add to our home just in a few months.  We are going to be one little happy family and I couldn't be more excited!

It seems like yesterday I was thinking I would never be able to have children.  The day I found out I was pregnant with my little girl, I was probably the most happiest I had ever been.  Scared and nervous, of course.  But SO happy.  I was born to be a mommy and by God, I am going to be the best mommy the world has ever seen! You just watch and see =)