Today is 31 weeks! Yeah :) Getting closer. On one hand 9 weeks seems like forever away, but if we think about it; today is the 25th and he's due on the 27th so that is only 2 months. Plus - if he is still measuring big, he might be born early. My doctor said there is no point in going to 40 weeks if the baby is over 8-9 pounds; it just makes for a more difficult delivery. So if he was born at 38 weeks, that would be mid-August....aaah! We are excited though :) We have been busy getting ready!
Justin's new bedroom is almost done! Thanks to Josh's drywalling skills, my husband painting, and me ordering the carpet install (I did the tough one :) ) we are almost there! We are getting new carpet in our house on Monday. The whole upstairs, the stairs and the toy room. So excited! We are just getting the in-stock stuff from Lowes. We decided not to get really expensive carpet with 2 dogs, a toddler and a newborn! We did however splurge and get the better padding with a water barrier. We have the new curtain rod up in J's room & the new ceiling fan. Now all we have to do is put in the closet organizer shelves, wait for carpet, hang the closet doors and put in the trim! Oh, and the furniture gets delivered next week too! We have a queen size matress/box springs already and Justin loves sleeping on the Aerobed because it's a queen size - so he's getting spoiled and getting a queen size bed. Plus it will be nice to have a "spare" room when we have company - Justin can sleep with us. Except when the baby is born...then you get to share a bed with him, mom :)
After we have his room put together we can touch up the walls in his old room and bring up the baby furniture! I am excited for that too - I think it's going to make it all seem more "real". Not that the basketball I'm carrying around isn't real, but you know what I mean! It will be nice to get all of the baby clothes, blankets, etc out too and figure out if there is anything we need. I highly doubt it though!!
Sorry; this is getting long but we have lots going on - or at least it seems like it to us!
Last night we had dinner at Beusters house. They are the family that we are doing the in home childcare with. Jim & Stacey are the parents, Lauren is Justin's friend from PALS and Lincoln is their baby who is 7 weeks old. Ericka and Stephanie (E&S), us and Beusters all sat down and hashed out the details for our new arrangement. I am glad to get this out of the way so we are all on the same page as far as compenstaion, vacation, logistics, etc. I am sure there will be a lot that comes up as we move forward as far as logistics and such, but it will work itself out. E&S are extremely easy going and flexible and we could not be more excited about this!!! We are starting July 6th! We were going to wait until August, but E&S wanted to start sooner so we of course were happy to oblige!
I might be nesting - or more accurately "purging" lately. We have too much stuff. Wwwwayyyyy too much stuff. It feels good to take stuff to goodwill and get it out of my house. I thought about a garage sale, but that's a lot of work and a lot of it goes to goodwill at the end anyways! Our goal is to get the basement cleaned out/organized enough to finish it - half of it....eventually! I have been having a pretty good year sales wise so we are hoping that maybe late fall or winter we can fly Papa here and hire him for a long weekend :) This morning I started going through our kitchen cupboards. It started with trying to empty one cupboard out to be "daycare" food. Me and Stacey are going to do monthly menus and it would be nice to have one cupboard that is the food we buy for the kids. Plus that will be easier on E&S to just have one place to look! It turned into getting rid of a lot of spices, old crap that expired a long time ago, cups we have not used since we moved them in, etc. It feels so good to not have crammed cupboards! Lower ones are next!
This weekend we bought a lawn sweeper - I love it! I hate when we use our rider and then have the grass clipping chunks all over the yard. The sweeper works great! It hooks up to the lawn tractor and gets a lot of the mulched grass. The only problem I had was trying to back the sweeper trailer up behind the shed to dump the grass. I can NOT reverse the mower with a trailer on it. I jack knifed it every single time. Finally I just got it as close as I could each time and then raked it behind the shed. Rob got home and did it with no problem. So guess what? That's his new job :)
Okay - that's enough for now! Most of you probably quit reading a while ago :) I will try to post pics of our new bathroom today. Try :)
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