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Anna has already seen her first movie-theater movie: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. It was a bit scarier than I expected, but Carrie says she enjoyed it, even with the scary parts.
And then at my six-week checkup, I discovered that Anna weighs 11 pounds. (Granted, that was fully clothed and with an impending diaper blowout, plus I was holding her and subtracted my weight from the total, so it might not have been 100% accurate.) No wonder some of her 0-3 month clothes are already starting to seem snug!
Nana and Poppy arrived today, and we took the girls out to dinner at Friday's. Anna slept the whole time (yay for eating an entire hot meal!) and Carrie thoroughly enjoyed her chocolate caramel ice cream sundae.
And when we left, we saw this amazing double rainbow - the pictures don't do it justice at all! Oh, and from where we were standing, the pot of gold was definitely on our front step at home...someone must have moved it before we got there. ;)
I took both girls to the farmer's market and the library this afternoon. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, but I am pretty tired. I decided to wear Anna instead of snap her seat into a stroller, and for a baby who weighs little more than a bag of flour she sure gets heavy after a while! Also, I think I might have sold at least two Hotslings based on the number of comments I got from people who loved my pouch and wanted to know where I got it.
Technically I'm not supposed to drive until Saturday, but this was literally five minutes down the hill from our house, and if I had to spend one more minute in the house I was going to go insane!
Any time from today on is considered full-term for this baby, so we've been trying to get the big things done enough to feel ready. Big things like: digging the infant carseat out of the basement...check, doing some baby laundry...maybe tomorrow, packing the bag for the hospital...uh, yeah, better do that soon... And, of course, trying to get the baby's room to a point where it's not completely under construction anymore. Denis got the painting done this weekend, and he and my youngest brother got the furniture mostly sorted out. Carrie has a "new" (my old) dresser in her room (with a mirror!), and the changing table/dresser is all set to be filled in the baby's room. Once we get the closet organizer in, the window treatments up, and assemble the crib, the room will be as done as it needs to be for now. I'm not assembling the crib until everything else is done, though, because I went into labor with Carrie the night we put her crib up, so I'm feeling a little superstitious about that...of course, by the end of this predicted hot and humid week, I might just be begging to get that crib ready...
Oh, and happy birthday, Lisa - sorry I couldn't go strawberry picking with you today!
With the gradual rise of my blood pressure, I've been getting to do weekly blood work (fun!), non-stress tests (actually, those are pretty relaxing), and yesterday I even got to have another ultrasound, just to make sure everything was still looking good. Of course, I wanted to be sure baby was fine, but I also asked the tech if she'd be willing to just double-check for me that there is still a baby sister in there. Although it would be a pain to have to repaint the pink wall in the baby's room, my bigger concern was that Carrie has been talking about her new baby sister for four months now, and I'd been getting more and more worried that we'd wind up with a surprise in the delivery room and come home with a baby brother instead. (How exactly would I be able to explain that?!?)
But, she is definitely still a girl. No doubt in the tech's mind, so that's one less thing for me to worry about. Oh, and she looks perfect in all other ways as well, so now we just get to play the waiting game while she decides what her birthday will be! And possibly try a little harder to pick a name...
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have a pink and yellow room. (Let's just hope the ultrasound technician was right about this baby being a girl!) There's still quite a bit of trim painting to do, a closet organizer and shades to install, and a lot of furniture moving that has to happen, but I'm actually starting to believe that the room might possibly be usable before the baby arrives! (Four or so weeks to go...)
Bonus points if Carrie's "big girl" room is completely set up too. I found the neatest idea for rain gutter bookshelves which will solve a lot of problems for us - most of which involve the insane number of books the kid has already, all of which are too tall to stand up on her tiny bookcase. Plus, it's cheaper than even the cheapest flimsy particle board bookcase you can buy right now. So even when we need to replace it in a few years - I can't imagine that she'll still be reading the sort of books we'd put in these shelves by the end of elementary school - it won't have been such a huge investment that we'll regret it.
If we ever move, I'm going to make it a condition of our purchase that there be absolutely no wallpaper on any wall in the entire house we buy. Because, seriously? Wallpaper that's been applied to bare drywall? I'm getting pretty sick of it. We've dealt with it in at least three rooms so far, the baby's room is the fourth, and I'm sure the whole upstairs hallway - which we eventually need to redo because the seams are starting to curl - is the same way.
At this point, we just have to make the glue as flat as possible (it was heavily textured wallpaper) by steaming and scraping off what we can and then sanding off the rest, and then we're going to use a good primer and hope for the best. (And by "we" I mean Denis, because I've been forbidden to help with the steaming/scraping.)
The problem is, we've spent our three day weekend just getting to the point where we know what we're doing and the one long wall is mostly scraped off. We'll have to re-rent the steamer next weekend to do the two short walls. So priming and painting are going to happen...when? I don't think I can or should try to do this while I'm home alone with Carrie. We can't work on it in the evenings after Carrie goes to bed because it's right next to her room. I work on Saturdays, so that leaves Sundays. There are only *at most* 8 Sundays left before this baby comes. Let's see...at least one to finish steaming, scraping, patching and sanding, one to prime, one for both coats of the three yellow walls, one for both coats of the one pink wall, two for both coats of white for the trim and closet...that's 6. That's just the painting - no closet organizer, ceiling light installation, furniture moving, clothing sorting or anything else.
OK, I'm definitely starting to panic here...does anyone know any good handymen/house painters in the area who can come during the week and get this done in a few days instead of several weeks?!?
No spoilers here, don't worry!
The movie last night was GREAT! Both of us really enjoyed it, even the whole seeing it in the theater experience (despite the fact that between tickets, popcorn - half of which I managed to spill - and bottled water we spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $35!)
It really was a fitting sequel to the other three movies, and I can't wait for it to come out on DVD so I can watch it again. (Yes, dear, that's a hint for a Christmas gift...)
OK, I've now been sick for over a week. I'm really tired of being sick. Mostly, I'm tired of coughing, as I've pulled every muscle in my left side. Being sick while this pregnant really, truly sucks. Carrie got it too, but really only seemed to be sick for a couple of days, and her cough is nearly gone.
I don't know whether I've been bitten by a spring cleaning bug or if nesting can possibly start so early (this baby still has 14 weeks to grow before she makes her entrance!) but I've been on a cleaning binge for the past two days...
Only my house is still a mess.
Because I can't bring myself to do things like, say, clear off the kitchen counters and pick up all the toys. No, instead I have to empty all the expired stuff out of the fridge and sweep the garage floor. Um. Well, I suppose it's warm enough to have a picnic in the garage...?
