Nearing the End!

It has been so fun to be pregnant alongside of several other pregnant friends. I have especially enjoyed talking to Elsie over the last 9 months because her due date is exactly one week before mine.. so we're always practically at the same point. Or we were until today! Elsie is at the hospital in labor this morning! She'll be having her little girl today - How exciting! And then I realize... woah, that would be like me going into labor next Friday! It's only 2 1/2 weeks early, so the babies are fine... but yikes! I'm pretty set on having this boy sometime in July... not June! But obviously these little ones can have ideas of their own! Who knows... but it definitely hits home to hear that she's going early! Especially when we were both at the exact same point of progression at our 36 week appointments... :) All I can do is wait and see...

It does make me feel even better about the fact that Senneca came over last night and the nursery is cleaned, organized and pretty much done... and other than buying some extra diaper cream for downstairs & children's Tylenol, I got her "mom-stamp-of-approval" that we have everything we need!

Counting Down...

Have you ever seen Design Remix on HGTV? It's where they basically redecorate a room in the house using items they already had from other rooms. Well... that concept is working quite well for our nursery! This weekend, Mike switched the brown curtains from the guest room with the bamboo panels we had in the nursery and it made such a huge difference! Now it's softer and browner... and they will help block the sunlight since the nursery gets full-sun all day long. Hopefully that'll help keep it cooler and darker so BabyW. can sleep! We are also using the bookshelf from the office and a funky blue light from the kitchen! Nothing like FREE decorating! Even so, another weekend has passed... and I still haven't reupholstered that glider!!! Just 6 weeks left! Yikes!

We did have a great weekend though... Saturday night we had our "End of an Era" party with a bunch of couples from church. Since our kid-free days are almost over, we wanted to have one last "adult" party at our place. Everyone brought over one of their favorite meals to share and we had some Margaritas, Daqueris, Pina Coladas (all baby-safe versions of course!) and had a great time. Then yesterday, Mike and I had a date-day together. We ate lunch at Watermans (where we had our Rehearsal Dinner), watched the airshow at the beach and then spent the afternoon at the Aquarium. We even had time to come home and relax a little (which for me meant a nap, and for Mike meant watching the Stanley Cup Finals!) It was a really fun way to spend the weekend, especially as the next two weeks are full of baby-stuff, and then we'll be halfway through June and BabyW. could arrive anytime! :)

Even better...

A girl's allowed to change her mind, right? Especially a pregnant one... :)

Last weekend we swapped out our two extra bedrooms. The downstairs guest room is now also doubling as an office, and upstairs is officially the nursery. That's not what I changed my mind about though... I changed my mind about painting! What I was surprised to find was that I actually kind of like the color that is already on the nursery walls! It may not be what I would pick if I was starting from scratch... but I really like the addition of teal to the brown, blue & white color scheme I had already started. It's really soothing... reminds me of the Caribbean! I think with some flowing white curtains it will be perfect! & so Mike is spared a weekend of painting! Yay!

Getting Antsy

I love to decorate. I've been brainstorming nursery ideas since long before we were even pregnant.... it's just my thing - I enjoy it! So here's the dilemma: since we are hoping to sell our condo... it doesn't make much sense to paint and decorate a room in our current home when we're hoping there's still a chance we could move before BabyW. arrives.

But...I still really want to! My logical side has been holding me back... but now that we're only like 10 weeks away from July, I'm really getting restless to setup his room. Our original plan was that if the house hadn't sold by June 1st, we'd decorate then... but that's not leaving much time! And we already have 2 weekends full in June. Hmmm... maybe I'll just get some paint samples this weekend. :) I really LOVE this idea for the walls... but maybe I'll just go simple, and forego the stripes since there's a hopeful possibility we won't be living here too long. But aren't the stripes great?! (sigh...) What do you think? Vote on the right.

Preparing for Baby W.

We were excited that our crib had arrived so quickly! So what if it was raining - again! Our friend Matt graciously came over with his pick-up truck and we went to pick the crib up from the store so Mike could put it together last night.
We were so happy with how it turned out... and it was relatively simple to assemble - basically just 6 parts plus the legs...it took less than an hour!
Here's a picture of the finished product plus all the bedding (that is apparently unsafe for infants and will have to be removed for a while - yeah, that makes sense!)
And one of Shelby testing it out! She's about 11 lbs. - hopefully several pounds more than BabyW. will be when he arrives, and she fit just fine! :)

It's Official...

Our house is now officially for sale. You can click here to see the ad on Craigslist, and feel free to pass it along to anyone who may be interested! We've already had several solicitations from realtors... but we're only looking for potential buyers. We'll keep it FSBO for now.

In other fun news... we finally picked out a crib and ordered it tonight, so here's a picture of Baby W.'s new bed - hopefully he'll like it as much as we do!