Another weekend gone...

With James working 2 jobs now (both Monday thru Friday), our weekends are filled with to do list items and trying to get some sleep. I'm so thankful to have a husband dedicated to our family who would take a second job to help support us though! Grace and I are blessed :-)

We did get some reorganizing done...and some shopping done. We finally got a mattress for Grace's crib. I was waiting for a good coupon or sale and a good coupon came along which wasn't good until this weekend. I'm not sure why crib mattresses have such a weird price range. Either they are cheap or pricey---not really an in between set. We had previously purchased a somewhat inexpensive one that had good reviews, but it was too small for our crib (even though it claimed to be standard crib size) so we had to return it. So, we finally got to put our crib bedding on! It makes the room look so much more complete :-) The bedding, I also had a coupon for and we made a trip to babies r us to get the one from our registry. Then when we were walking to the back of the store to the bedding section, we walked by a clearance section--and there was my bedding! They were selling the one they had on display. So I opened the package and went through all of the pieces--all accounted for, no stains or damage... So, between the clearance price and my coupon, I got quite the good deal.

The room is coming along...

I know that babies are a lot of work, but the prep work is crazy! I feel like we've been working on her stuff forever. Trying to figure out what we need now...what to pack up until later.... where to keep things (what floor of the house makes most sense for things).... it's never ending.

I can say that we finally do have everything up on the walls! Woo hoo! We finally finished the decals up this weekend. They were a little trickier than we thought because the walls are slightly textured in her room. Putting up these bird cages were so hard because of the textured walls. The decals pull off as you are trying to apply them because they aren't sticking flatly...and all of these thin pieces...it made for a long hard job. But I love how they look!

So we have the cherry blossom branch, the bird cages...and multiple birds around the room. We hope she will not have a fear of birds. Because after all of that work--they aren't coming down!

I am 31 weeks 3 days now...I can't believe we just have like 7.5 weeks to go!! I am going to talk to my doctor this week as to when it would make sense for me to stop working. The actual work part isn't bad--I'm at my desk the majority of the day, but the commute is getting difficult and sleep is increasingly difficult so I am so tired all day. Then starting next week I will have to go in for heart monitoring on Grace twice a week (nst--non stress test). That will add to my commuting significantly as I will be busing to another ob's office to do that.

Hopefully Grace's room will be completely done soon and I'll post some pics of the complete finished product!

The Nursery

We've started to prepare the room for our Grace. This is the fun part of being pregnant...and much more exciting than worrying about all of the things that may go wrong.

We are painting the room 2 shades of blue. There is a very high chair rail going around the room...below the rail will be a darker blue and above will be a lighter blue. We are going to go with a sky/nature theme with the main focus being birds and branches. I'm ordering the following 2 wall decals. I just need to decide on color. I'm thinking of doing dark brown and white.

Both of these sets come with more birds than our pictures...so I'll have some bird decals to place around the room too. They are both from http://www.dalidecals.com/ . They have so many neat decals, I may just do my whole house in them :-)

Those decals will obviously be on the top half of the room...and the bottom half will be more meadow-ish. The bedding set we registers for from Babies R Us is called bunny meadow...below is a photo of the blanket.

So, I think our room colors are brown, green,and pink on a blue background... I'm as curious as anyone on how this will all come together :-)