Nesting Habits Already?

Ryan and I had to go up to Ashland this week due to a death in his family. While we were there His mother gave us the baby clothes she found... i have to show you these!!!
Cleveland Indians Onesie with shorts and baseball cap! CONGRATS TO THE INDIANS BTW!

NEXT IS....UH HUH! OH...IO!

That's right OHIO STATE HOW CUTE IS THIS!? All we need now is CLEVELAND BROWNS and we'll be set in my husband's eyes at least! Believe me we'll be getting some I've found receiving blankets etc at Babies R' US.

SO coming home from Ashland all i want to do is rip up the carpet..start organizing...and cleaning...I want to get this place spotless (yes that will take 6 months) for baby! and all the visitors coming in and out of this SMALL place...

I also really want to get all the info I can about all the stuff we'll need. I'm surprised by how expensive things can be! wowsa! But with reading up in all the magazines about all the this stuff and how to "bond with your child" etc etc... i think i may have more questions than before...
Like for example...since babies have such poor eyesight when they are first born they use their sense of smell a lot. They can tell that you are mom b/c of your smell...they know your smell to the point of knowing how your breast milk smells! i can't breast feed, and since i didn't carry the baby will the baby not know my "smell"? humm... or even my voice...I guess i have a while to worry about that! but I'd really like to talk to some people who have been though the whole surrogacy thing...I'd like to ask them how all the different questions I have that only they can answer ya know!?

I have the nesting fever today... In a way i'm kind of panicking..so much to do...such a big responsibility...such little time... all in the mean time i'm figuring out how to provide best for this new addition but also how to get through school at a faster pace.. I'm kind of scared honestly...but we'll all be okay.. Thankfully i have my mother's spirit of "I'll do what I gotta do to get this challenge done.." this is what I've always wanted...a family...and though my plans have not gone quite as planned I'll make it work! Actually Ryan and I will make it work..thankfully it's not only me that has to do this!

Alright it's bed time!

Love Ya All! Thanks for checkin' in!

Just a little update

I was talking to Shannon on IM yesterday and asked if she saw a baby bump yet. She said not really except for in the mornings when she's laying down. She said that the baby seems to be all curled up and when she has to go to the bathroom and when she's laying down it looks like a baseball in her belly. Sticking Straight out...of course i've never seen anything like this especially since it's my baby I'm even more curious and we continued to have one of those "NUH UH".. "YES HUH!" conversations for a while. Till she said she'd send a picture. THOUGH SHE HASN'T SENT ME ONE YET i look forward to it! To see really what this looks like. Because at 13 weeks the baby isn't any bigger than a jumbo shrimp. HOW can it be as big as a baseball all curled up!? HUM.... I'm so curious i could scream!

13 weeks....this week my baby has his/her own fingerprints and his/her itsy bitsy organs are workin'! CRAZY!

Shannon and the family are comming up in January... i hope we can do an 3D ultrasound up in ashland with Ryan's mom! That would rock too! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE PICTURES! MORE PICS! CRAZY TIMES MAN!

Gotta go but I hope you liked our update! It's not nearly as exciting as an ultra sound picture but we'll get there!