I'm fully within the nesting phase right now. I'm having Jav rearrange furniture in the whole house, not just kid rooms. I've decided you need to live in a house at least three or four years before you should buy any new furniture. Some of our early big and bulky purchases just don't work in our rather small family area, due to some strange quirks in our house. One is the angled fireplace. It's pretty to look at, but it cuts off an entire chunk of the room and really limits our space. Another is the floor being at a slightly different level halfway across the living room (which used to be two rooms until previous owners decided to take the wall out). The result of these two things is that we're having to try out different arrangements of the furniture to see if anything works best.
I've got several other projects going right now. I'm trying to clean out closets, drawers and cabinets to make room for baby stuff. I had 7 bags of clothes and other stuff that I gave away with the first sweep, and I'll have another 6 or so for this coming Friday. I'm also working on trying to catch up and straighten up our pictures. We had saved some to one website, and the rest to another. So now I've got them all in one place, and all backed up to an external drive. I still need to catch up on copying the last-year ones from the computer to both places now. THEN I need to figure out which ones we've printed out and which ones never got printed. THEN I want to start putting them in albums, in our hallway gallery, and into a makeshift scrap/baby book for Gabriel. All before the next one arrives. Good luck with all that.
Gabriel's birthday is fast approaching, though, so the month of September I'll stop doing all of this and concentrate on getting the house and yard ready for his birthday party. This is always a great excuse to do some Fall cleaning. I want to clean the windows, inside and out, clean blinds and cabinets and baseboards and ceiling fans, hose off the front and back porch, and wipe down all of our wood furniture with lemon oil. Since I am moving slower than normal, this will take me the entire six Mother's Day Out days I'll have until his party.
His theme this year is dinosaurs, but the only things I'm really incorporating that into are the centerpiece for the cake, the actual cake and a pinata. We're working on his gifts, and finally decided to chock up the money for a swing set this year. His Godparents are going in on it with us, and (God bless 'em) have agreed to come and help Jav put it together. He's going to be so excited!!!
Mother's Day Out starts back up on September 8th, and I think I have all my ducks in a row ready for it. I got my immunization update signed by his doctor, and we'll go "meet" his teacher on September 2nd. The assistant teacher from his class last year will be his main teacher this year - yay! He absolutely loved Ms. Amy, so I know he's going to be fine.
So I'm trying to do all of this, plus walk Molly three mornings a week and do my pregnancy yoga fat-burning DVD three times a week. And do you know that the nurse practitioner at my OB/GYN had the nerve to suggest I might want to try 7 days of exercise to slow down my weight gain? Is she nuts?
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