week 16

avocado baby!

average size: 4.6 inches, 3.5oz.

what's going on with baby: "Watch what you say... tiny bones forming in baby's ears mean the little one can now pick up your voice. Eyebrows, lashes and hair are starting to fill in, and taste buds are forming. And, if you're interested, an ultrasound might be able to determine gender."

and here is my bump so far!

i've pretty much just been continuing on painting the nursery. everything in the room part is done, i'm just working on all the stars in the crib nook part now. it's taking a long time! there are thousands of stars in there!!! i really hope to have it done by next monday's post though, so i can show the whole nursery :) 

also! we've been saving as much money as we can, wherever we can, but we spent some of the money we got from xmas on this lil guy!

A DISHWASHER!!!!!!!! wow. i guess it's sort of sad to get that excited over a dishwasher, but our house that we're renting didn't have one, and washing every single plate, fork, knife, spoon, bowl, etc etc etc all the time was starting to take a toll on my back. plus after a while, i'm not sure how close i'd even be able to get to the sink to wash things with my bump getting bigger! so, we decided to get a portable dishwasher, and it is the BEST THING EVER. 

for those who don't know, our house was literally built in 1832. yeah. it's REALLY old. second house built in rootstown old. old enough to actually be on the official rootstown sweater old hahaha...

there it is! upper left! 

so it doesn't have a whole lotta' updates in it. i mean...check out this stove we have from the 40's/50's:

lets just zoom in a bit on the controls for it...

yeah. i would say not child-safe at all. i think it's actually pretty much a toy in their eyes hahaha...the push-button controls read, "HI, 2, 3, LO, WM, OFF" and that's it. that's all the control you have for cooking on the stove haha...so we wanted a little update in the dishwasher department because i know my lower back is only going to get worse as my belly gets bigger, and we're SO happy with it. it cleans perfectly, and holds about 8 place settings. it's wonderful :) 

so that was the big excitement for this week! probably WAY more exciting for me than you, but i wanted to share it! hopefully next week there will be photos of the nursery!