It's This Week, Folks

This is how I have felt the last few weeks. Tired. Ready to be done.

But this week, though I am still tired, I feel a little more energetic. At least, I feel more motivated to get things done. Can you call it the nesting instinct even with a scheduled c-section? Because I think that is what I have. Thorough housecleaning, organizing, and spring decorating are the order of the week. Last week I devoted to finishing projects. So, if I can finish this week's list I will feel very prepared for the baby.

I have had the baby's bag ready for a few weeks. I prepared it the same day I unpacked all the baby clothes and organized them on the shelves. The nursery is rearrange for the last time, and as ready as it is going to get for the new baby. Nathaniel is still sleeping in the crib in there, but that won't be a problem because my babies never use the crib much when they are tiny anyway.

My bag is almost ready to go. I have figured out the books and stuff that I will take to the hospital, even though I don't ever get much reading done.

For the rest of the week it is just laundry, house cleaning and playing with the boys. Oh, and celebrating Jaired's mom's birthday.

Please keep us in your prayers, especially when you wake up on Friday morning.

The Baby's Birthday

Yesterday, I had a prenatal and got the baby's birthday set up. March 12. That's is as long as the baby behaves himself and waits patiently. If I start having contractions before that day we will have to have the c-section right away, to avoid any possible dangers to me or baby.

Otherwise, my pregnancy is going great. Everything is normal and the baby is growing like he should be.

Praying that this birth and newborn will be a lot less "eventful" then the last two.*

5 weeks. Oh, my.



*For those who don't know:
I had some small complications with Edmund's birth, but then he had to go back to the hospital twice before he was even two months old. First for severe jaundice, second for severe anemia.

Nathaniel was 7 weeks premature, born via emergency c-section, spent three weeks in the NICU, then had anemia at 6 months.

For people who don't ever go to the doctor we have spent a lot of time at the hospital because of our boys!

The Nursery

With the boys getting bigger and more active, and a new baby on the way, we decided it was time to separate the nursery from the playroom.

Our house has a small, sunny room at the end of the hallway that has, up until now, been our guest bedroom. I moved all the nursery furniture into that room and it fits perfectly.

The crib made up and ready for a tiny newborn. With Winnie-the-Pooh to keep watch.

I made these curtains for Edmund's nursery in Virginia Beach. This was my first attempt at curtain making and I did not make them the right width, so now, for the first time, I get to see them as they should be, nice and fully ruffled.

The Halls bought this antique cradle when Edmund was born, but since they didn't have much space to store it we get to use it here at our house. I will actually move it into my bedroom once the baby is born.

And the changing table all ready to go.

This room, like so many others in our house, is sparse on the decorations, but hopefully I will be able to find some nice wall hangings in the next few months.

The best thing about this room though is the many blessing s that it contains. All the furniture in here was given to us, as well as most of the baby necessities and all the infant clothing we have. Though we have moved and lost contact with some of these people we have a constant reminder of their love and friendship when we go into the nursery.

A New Kidney Bean

This is a picture of the ultrasound picture. I forgot to ask Jaired to scan the ultrasound pictures at work, but I wanted to show you all our new baby now, so didn't want to wait until tomorrow for him to do it!

This is the same picture as above, but I opened it in Paintbrush to mark the baby so you all would know what to look at. The bottom word on the left says "spine" and is referring to the white line.

I am 13 weeks and 5 days along. The Baby's due date is March 19. :)