Progress Report

The nursery is painted! The crib is put together! The rickety old black bookcase is now a nice jade green! This was the week for projects, and they continue on. There are pictures to be hung, thrift stores and fabric stores to be scavenged (for frames, fabric for curtains, etc), crib mattresses to be bought, and so it continues.

Project evidence:

Testing the grays....

Two coats of primer and two coats of paint later....a nice soothing, light gray.

The crib! Note the cats' stuffed bunny underneath...

Battered black bookcase becomes...

Pretty green bookcase!

Ugly $2.50 Goodwill elephant....

Nice new elephant:

Check out the Baby Bjorn we picked up at Boomerang Children's Consignment for $30! J is all ready to wear baby around :).

Other than projects I've been barrelling through John Steinbeck's East of Eden, which J has had on his nightstand for approximately eight months with the intention of reading. He says that if he can "get through that, I can get through anything." Sort of like a confidence boosting read. To me that's like saying, "Oh, I'm just going to run this marathon and then I'll train for the 10k." So I moved the book to my side of the bed and have had trouble putting it down ever since. I read it aloud to baby when J's not home, I'd cried by page 32, I constantly rave about it to J (who then told me he was taking it back - I figure my finishing it first is the best way to motivate him to read it). I love Michael Crichton, but reading two M.C. books in a row and then switching to Steinbeck was a huge reminder of how powerful and heartbreakingly beautiful great literature can be...a healthy dose is needed every now and then.

Weekend Update

So the nursery still looks like this:

Because I was a bit busy looking at/floating in this all weekend:

And watching these dive for fish:



It's a hard life here in Florida. 

29 Weeks

I'm going to try and post more often; I know how frustrating it is when blogs aren't frequently updated. I will not make any promises though, because more frustrating than infrequent posting is promises that aren't kept. So I'll try.

In my defense, I was in Pompano off and on for a week with my wonderful Virginia and North Carolina family (and Miami and Naples family!) and then J was home and I really try to limit how much time I spend on the computer when he's here.

Today I (finally) finished priming the nursery/guest room in the hopes that this weekend we can (finally) get it painted and start arranging things (namely, put the crib together - exciting!). J made a little bit of progress organizing his boxes of misc. stuff, but as you will see in this picture there is still some work to be done there. Progress is being made, though, I promise! Get ready for picture overload:

View of nursery from the closets:

Nursery from the doorway:

 Nursery from the corner (hi, Lucy!):

Today (Thursday) also marks my 29th week of pregnancy. Because we are the worst prospective parents photojournalists ever this pregnancy has been woefully undocumented...but I'm hoping to change that now. It's never too late to start, right? Plus, I know when you have babies you're supposed to take tons of pictures of them so I need to get in the habit of seeing the world through that little black device. I truly believe that some people are born to document our lives through pictures and that some of us can forget that cameras exist, even when they're hanging from our wrist. Or maybe I've just been lucky enough to be related to/friends with the first kind of people so I've just gotten away with being photo lazy. That's probably it. Anyway, I give you 29 weeks:

Yes, I am huge. Yesterday I was writing a note and the baby actually kicked so hard he messed up my writing! Because of course the belly is now a tray table. Yikes.