John's Birthday and Baby Registries
We celebrated John's 31st birthday, on March 15, with friends and family. John's mom and step dad came up to celebrate with us, and we went out to one of our new favorite restaurants, the "B Spot". It's owned by now-famous Iron Chef Michael Symon, who is originally from Cleveland. It was so delicious! Chuck made some final measurements while they were here for the changing table too. He is working hard on it and we can't wait to see how it turns out!
The B Spot has mostly burgers, which are SO GOOD! Since I've been pregnant I've really been craving meat, so I was happy to try it out! This is John's burger, the "Fat Doug", which we found out was voted one of the best burgers in the country or something! It's a burger patty, cole slaw, pastrami, swiss, and mustard. It's John's new favorite burger!
To top it all off we got a vanilla bean apple pie bacon milkshake to share...that's right, bacon. It was very...interesting. We were all glad that we shared it, and agreed that it would have been super delicious without the bacon. It was definately an interesting combination of flavors.
That night we celebrated with some friends with cake and ice cream...
John with 3 month old Abby Coy ;0) Such a cutie!
Here's the pics of the curtains I made for the nursery. We chose the colors (chocolate brown and a deep red) before we knew what we were having, then found the bedding set we really love (shown below) and the colors match perfectly! We also ordered the rocker/recliner, which should be in this coming week. It's so fun to see the nursery come together little by little.
We're not getting everything pictured in this set, mainly the bedding. We are planning on doing a tree on the wall behind the crib...excited to see how that turns out!
We did our registries this weekend, at Babies R Us and Target. It was a little overwhealming trying to decide what to put on them! We had a lot of fun though, and met some other young couples that are due about the same time as us, that were out registering too.
Here I am at 24 weeks! The baby is growing steadily, having gained about 4 ounces since last week. That puts her at just over a pound. She's almost a foot long (picture an ear of corn). Her brain is also growing quickly now, and her taste buds are continuing to develop. Her lungs are developing "branches" of the respiratory "tree" as well as cells that produce surfactant, a substance that will help her air sacs inflate once she hits the outside world. Her skin is still thin and translucent, but that will start to change soon.
