Can you say…..LUMPY? Because I think my chub bumps have definitely taken their own unique shape. I can only pray that as Sprout grows she’ll decide to push around my internal organs in a more uniformed fashion. As for now, the 1st trimester pregger-haunting symptoms have subsided…YAY!...and I have finally been able to eat food and am constantly hungry. As of the last baby doctor’s appointment I have gained less than 1 lbs since my first visit, which is totally on track per my weight gain recommendations. Let’s just hope the trend continues in a positive fashion.
100% of this weekend was spent cleaning out the house - mainly our master bedroom, the guest room to be turned in to the nursery, and my closet room downstairs that is now my closet/guest bedroom. Michael and I could not have accomplished everything that we did without Auntie Elizabeth and Uncle Rick. We feel SO much better being able to tackle big cleaning projects like these…so thank you guys for all of your help. And yes Rick, watching football all day with the occasional heavy lifting is very valuable help! With all of the excitement of moving in to a new house (May 2007), the hubby and I never really finished unpacking and my closet room became a storage area of unpacked boxes, suitcases and of course the oh-so-valuable empty boxes. Once upon a time I used to move at least once a year, and I quickly realized that it was much easier to move all of my stuff if I kept the original boxes that some fragile stuff came in. Ie, wine glass box with all of the Styrofoam wrappings. Turns out, once you buy a house you don’t really move as often and I finally was able to let go of tons of empty boxes. Have I mentioned that I loved getting rid of this stuff. Whew! Yay for nesting. It was a long hard weekend, but I found I had more energy since my house made me feel so good.
Also on the agenda this weekend was scoping out the next painting project and getting a couple of quotes from some professionals. Michael and I have painted several of the rooms in the house including the living room, kitchen and dining room, but unfortunately we haven’t been able to reach the 1980’s peachy-pink vaulted ceilings, and split-entry stairwell. So, let the pros do it is my way of thinking. We found an awesome guy who is scheduled to come out and paint Sprout’s room, hallways, closets, ceilings, and stairs. So hopefully after the first weekend in February our painting days are over and we can sit pretty in the house.
With all of the excitement of finding out Sprout was going to be a girl, Michael and I were finally able to pick out a bedding set/theme for the baby room and add some key items to our registry at Babys “R” Us. The bedding has different textures for Sprout to play with and is sage green, pink, white and lady bugs. Too freakin cute!
