Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Nesting....

I think I'm on the nesting phase. We were very productive with working on Emma's room this weekend. We ordered her furniture (should be here in 7-14 days), her bedding came (which I LOVE...Yay, Pottery Barn Kids!), David cleaned out her room a lot & then I did quite a bit too.

Her stuff is all moved to one wall now, so we can see what we have left to do. She's got a lot of stuff for a person that isn't even here yet...

Yesterday I started taking stars & planets off her ceiling. The previous owners put them up for their kids, but the ceiling is really looking bad & needing to be painted. We decided we would remove the stars & planets, so we could paint. Plus then the ceiling wouldn't be such a pain for future owners (we may put our condo on the market sometime this year). Just word to the wise.... do not put stupid stars & planets on your ceiling, ever! They are a pain in the butt to take off! I've taken off parts of the ceiling because some of the putty holding them up had gotten too old & too hard. Some of the other putty is gooey & blue, so poor David will have to paint multiple coats on the ceiling! Ugh! Not to mention the fact that I'm 7 months pregnant & standing on a step ladder & scratching my knuckles on the textured ceiling...

So plan for today: take a shower, do laundry, work on taking off more stars, start organizing sections of the kitchen cabinets (see, nesting!)

I'll let you know how it goes! Hopefully with some pictures! yay!

Friday, January 11, 2008

Baby Bedding!

The baby bedding has finally arrived! This makes me super excited, as you can imagine. Now we need to pick out paint, order furniture, & clean out her room. Lots still to do, but at least we have the basic colors & theme now.

I had a drs appt this week & had to get a blood glucose test & complete blood screen. I passed the blood glucose with no problem (yay! no gestational diabetes! whew!), but my complete blood screen results freaked me out a little. From what I can tell, I may be anemic (low iron). The results were online, so I haven't spoken to the drs office yet. I figure if they were really worried, they'd call me. Otherwise, I'll just plan on talking to them about it at my next appt. Also, my white blood count was up a little, so I'm probably fighting something off, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just means I need to take it kind of easy (which overall, I have been!)

I got a summons for jury duty, which is kind of a bummer. It's February 4th, so I'll be 32 weeks pregnant. I'll look rather pregnant, so I assume I will not get picked for a jury. However, it will probably make for a pretty miserable day. Oh well, at least this will mean I won't get called again for awhile, so I guess that's good. Better to do it now than with a newborn.

I'll be 29 weeks pregnant tomorrow, so only 11 weeks until my due date. It's really coming up fast, we've got a lot of work to do! Showers will be starting the first week in February, so I know I'll be really busy!!

David has his guitar out & needs help getting it tuned. I'm about to go get out my violin & help him out a bit!

Thursday, January 3, 2008

It's a New Year!

Hope everyone had a super Christmas & New Years! We certainly did & as always, we were reminded how truly blessed we really are! We got to spend lots of time with family & friends, which is always wonderful. David was off Monday & Tuesday for Christmas, worked Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday after Christmas & then was off Monday & Tuesday for New Years, so I was sad for him to have to go back to work yesterday... I think he was a little sad too.

So now what? Well, seeing how Miss Emma is supposed to arrive on March 29th, give or take 2 weeks, we've got a lot to do! Her room hasn't really been started at all. However, we do have her travel system (her carseat, carseat base, & stroller) as well as her high chair, along with some clothes, toys, bibs, etc. So I guess the goal between now & B-Day is get her room ready!

We still have to clean out her room.... It isn't looking too good right now with boxes & other miscellaneous items taking over the room. These things need to be sorted out & a) thrown away, b) given away, or c) put away by finding a place for it in our house (unlikely) or put in the attic. In order for things to be put in the attic, the attic needs to be reorganized so there's room for everything. This means going through some boxes in the attic (what fun!) & condensing/throwing things out. Yuck! This will go into full swing very soon!!

Thankfully, we have decided on & ordered her bedding, so now her room has an official color theme. Here's the bedding from Pottery Barn Kids: http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/nb40/index.cfm?pkey=cbdgnbd%7Cb It's the pink version, not the purple. Another view of the quilt: http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/gb40/index.cfm?clg=5&cm%5Fsrc=CQS&pkey=k5%2C9839333 The second picture shows the quilt on a twin sized bed. Obviously, Emma's quilt will be crib size, but there isn't a good picture of it on the website. I ordered her bedding last night, so we should receive it in a week or two (the actual quilt is on backorder until January 9th). I also ordered 3 throw pillows because we are leaving a love seat in her room (it has a denim blue cover). The pillows will go on the couch & help tie everything in.

Next, we need to order her furniture. We picked some out at Babies R Us, so we need to go order it & have it delivered! Hopefully this will happen over the weekend/the first part of next week. That way, if it takes a little while to have it delivered, we'll still have plenty of time.

Her room will need to be painted. I decided I wanted to go with a pink & green theme, so since her bedding has a lot of pink, her walls will be green. Once the bedding arrives, we will pick a paint color. David loves to paint, so he'll take care of that!

Obviously there's a lot more to do: decorate her walls with pictures, shelves, etc, set everything up, wash all her clothes, etc. Oh yeah, and we're having a couple showers, so we'll have to figure all that out.

Sorry this is so long. I guess it was more for me than for you anyway. However, I will certainly update with pictures once the nursery is underway!