The best Webb Site in the World
It has been one week since Piper Lapointe Webb came into this world. It has been a fun/stressful/exciting/exhausting first 7 days. I hope we will post more about her birth and this first week as new parents later, but for now here is a link to pictures from the week and a few of my favorites.
18 days.
We made the first steps to preparing the nursery today. We cleared out a lot of things from both rooms, rearranged the computer setup, and ultimately moved the guest bedroom furniture into the office. It is now a multifunctional room where people can sleep or work. I really like it. I thought it would be really cramped, but I think we got rid of/moved so much stuff that it worked out great. Thanks to Jeremy Baker for helping Chad move all the furniture!
Unfortunately, I didn’t have any before pictures, but here is the new guest bedroom/office.
And here is the new nursery! (So far, of course)
We made our first “real” baby purchase today. We bought an infant car seat, the Graco SnugRide 35 from Babies R Us. The two main reasons we bought it were the fact that it was on sale and had great reviews. We spent some time tonight playing with it and I put it in Jennie’s car.
I think I may try to document all the stuff we actually buy just to see what the final cost is before she arrives. I do love playing with spreadsheets to track our money.
Today we had some of the family over to reveal the gender of baby Webb. It was a good time full of overeating and fun. Thank you all for taking the time to come and celebrate with us!
If you haven’t yet heard the news, Chad and I are expecting our first child in November. We are very excited, and hopefully, that means more posts. We knew our families would be excited too, so we decided to surprise them and capture their reactions on video.
NOTE: You may need to turn up the volume on the ones taken with my phone (Jill, Travis, & Jessie)
We planned to tell all of Chad’s family together, but Ashley, Brock, and Brody came by earlier in the week and I had accidentally left out our camera and a sign that said 10 weeks. I knew Brock saw it, so we went ahead and told them.
A few weeks before we planned to tell my family, Travis (my brother-in-law) texted Chad and asked if he would be interested in going with the other guys to the Bengals/Raiders game. Travis and Brendan (other BIL) love the Bengals and my dad loves the Raiders. The game is on November 25… my due date! Chad told him that he would talk it over with me and let him know. That is how the idea of the game tickets came about. We told my parents, Jill, and Travis that we had already gotten tickets for that day. Unfortunately we couldn’t get them together all at the same time.
I knew I wouldn’t be able to tell Jessie in person, so I wanted to tell her before everyone else. I tried to FaceTime with her Wednesday (the day I went to the doctor), texted her and tried to FaceTime twice on Thursday, and then tried to FaceTime again Friday right after we told my mom and dad. She finally called me back Friday night at about midnight after I had already gotten ready for bed. I thought for sure she had to suspect it, but she had no clue… even after telling her.
Jerry’s birthday had been earlier in the week, so on Saturday, Peggy had the whole family over. Chad and I had made a cake that said “We’re having a baby” and kept it covered and in the garage until after we had eaten. He brought it out as we sang happy birthday. Jerry thought I was taking a picture, so perhaps he was more focused on posing than actually reading the cake.
We are so happy to share this time with everyone!