Babies in Hats

My mom recently had a good chuckle when her phone buzzed at 4am and it was an email of one of my blog updates--she thought--"Oh Kelly must not be able to sleep and is blogging"  I assured her I was not blogging at 4am and that there was a delay in the time that I post the blog and when it is automatically emailed out to those that subscribe.  But today, on a day where I actually could sleep in since Chloe is spending the night at Grandma's House, I find myself blogging at 5:50am.  I've actually been up since 4:30am and about 1/2 an hour ago decided to get up and do what everyone else does when they can't sleep--cruise the web. 

I have been thinking about our baby's first photo shoot--I know there will be one in the hospital and then we will most likely do a full photo shoot when the baby is about 2 weeks old or so.  I just love these little hats so much--the trouble is picking which one to order.





Love the little monkey and this one below in baby boy Kron's nursery colors.



I think I might like this set the best.



Any grandma's out there want to take a stab at crocheting or kniting a cute hat for your grandson???--hint hint. 

Green is the New Pink!

We tried to buy most of our baby stuff in gender neutral themes or tones, but it is hard to have a little girl and not have some pink things.  One of those things was the cradle bumper.  I thought I would use my handy dandy sewing machine and try to cover the bumper for cheaper than buying a new one in "boy" colors. 

Before:  Too girly for our little man to rest his head.

After:  Green and Great--just a perfect first bed for our baby boy.

I just basically made a long pillowcase for the bumper. The hard part was actually making all the ties--I had to make 24 of them. 

Now onto the next baby project--I'm going to make a bulletin board using some of Ami's old baseball cards. 

Making Room for Baby

The baby's room is coming together bit by bit.  We got the crib put together and now you can see the bedding we chose.  I decided not to do too much of a theme for the bedding and instead am keeping it simple with stripes.  I'm still keeping with the color scheme of navy blue, green, and brown and think this crib bumper compliments the room really well.

We decided to get the crib built so that when Jon and Nicole visited, their son Noah would have his own room to sleep in, so we still need to raise the mattress back up to the infant level, but the cradle is ready and so is the swing.  Chloe loves to give her doggies a ride in the swing--I have a cute video of her doing this and will try to post it on her blog.

On the other side of the room is the dresser, it doesn't look as red in person--I think it is the flash that makes it look this way in the picture--but the furniture is more of an espresso color than a cherry.  This dresser will have a hutch with shelves that hopefully will be built this upcoming weekend.

Next step--what to do with the walls?  

D Day Announced

 

Last week when I went to the doctor, they said that they would go ahead and schedule me for the c-section that will bring this little man into the world.  I decided to just go the easy route.  We experienced the whole--wake up in labor during the middle of the night thing with Chloe and I don't feel the need to do it again.  I went through labor and it is really not something I was looking forward to a second time.  So since I had a c-section before, I had the choice to try my chances with a natural birth or schedule it. And schedule it we did.  We will drop Chloe off at school on the morning of Friday, March 25th and head to the hospital (luckily, Chloe's school and the hospital are only about 5 minutes apart) and have a baby. 

March 25th seems like a great day. 

Here is a list of famous people who share our baby boy's birthday:

Sarah Jessica Parker

 

Elton John 

Aretha Franklin

Howard Cosell

Peek a Boo, I See You!

We welcomed the third trimester with a sneak peak of our little man.  It is hard to believe that in about 11 weeks he will be joining the world.  In some ways I feel so ready and in others, I don't think we will ever be ready.  I think most of our uncertainty revolves around how Chloe will be.  I look forward to a little baby who doesn't run away from you when you try to change a diaper.  

At 29 weeks, our little guy weighs approx. 2/12 pounds and is around the size of a butternut squash.  His muscles and lungs are continuing to mature, and his head is growing bigger to make room for his developing brain. He looks just about perfect in these pictures, but he still has some growing to do.

Just look at those kissable lips!

Here he is holding on to the umbilical cord.

We double checked--definately a boy!

10 fingers and 10 little toes.

Here's a foot.

I'm not sure if I'll have any more ultrasounds.  I had a bunch at the end with Chloe since I was measuring so small, but I feel as if this baby is a giant.  Can't wait to snuggle with him!

The Name Game

Why is choosing a baby name so difficult?  I know there are some people out there who know the name of their baby right away--and four or five months into the pregnancy already have all the bedding monogrammed and everthing.  Ami and I find it a little more difficult and will most likely not have a name for our little baby boy until he is born and we have a chance to see his cute little face.  In the meantime we have established some ground rules for the names and we have had many suggestions from our friends. 

Rule # 1:  The name must be more than one syllabal.  Since we have a one syllabal last name, we don't like the way two short names sound together, i.e. Zach Kron,  Joe Kron, Bob Kron, Zane Kron, Tom Kron, Jack Kron

Rule #2:  The name cannot be shortened into a nickname that only has one syllabal.  It's not that we are against nicknames or anything--we really like Zachary, but don't like the way Zach Kron sounds and more than likely at some point the name will get shortened.

Rule #3:  The name cannot end with the letter N.  We don't like the way the 2 N's sound at the end of a first name and then end of our last name.  This eliminates all the Brandons, Aidens, Haydens out there. 

Those are the main rules--we have some others such as we don't like the way the long O sounds with our last name, something like Joseph Kron is out.  We also don't want an odd spelling or really unique bizarre name.  We want it to be easily pronounced and spelled correctly. 

So here is what has been suggested by our friends so far that fit within our "Rules" and a few that don't.

Trevor
Jared
Garrett
Sawyer
Hawthorne
Elliot
Beckett
Harper
Finnegan
Cabot
Caleb
Holden
Carter
Reddin
Marcus
Collin
Raymond
Blake
Byron
Kipling
Fenton
Marlowe
Miles
Heathcliff
Linton
Lockwood
Atticus

Our friend Marissa even had her high school students suggest names for us.  They came up with:

Bennett
Davis
Grady
Quincy
Tanner
Kyler
Moses
Maddox
Preston
Wyatt
Eli
Elijah
Jacquizz
Hunter
Carlos
Maurice
Spencer
Xavier
Liam
Ali
Jeremy
Lebron
Levi
Waldo
Alfonso
Israel
Emmett
Cory
Tucker
Alister
Alex
Brady
Brody
Parker
Andrew
Patrick
Felix
Isaiah
Mitchel
Joey

Hmmm.....I wonder what we will choose.

All I Want for Christmas is a Clean Room

Creating room for the baby has involved more that just picking out a color scheme and theme for the nursery.  We've had to completly relocate our office.  We took time off work to purchase a new desk for our loft and go through all the papers and stuff we had shoved in our office.  Our office is now out in the open and we cannot just shut a door so that people do not see it.  We have gotten rid of so much stuff and are having a garage sale on Saturday to try and sell the rest.  But progress has been made and we now have a baby's room in the making.

Before:

Daddy bringing the new furniture up the stairs.

The blinds need to be replaced, but this is the color sceem of the room--Navy blue, kind of an olive green, and dark brown (or espresso).

All of the stuff on the walls still needs to come down, but you can see the furniture fits.  

 

Now the fun part begins!