Weekend in Review

Another weekend down and another week closer to meeting baby Aspen! This weekend started off with a walk with Mom on Saturday morning. My sister met us at the park with one of my nephews and then we grabbed coffee and bagels afterwards. I still miss running, but hopefully this walking is helping progress my labor naturally. Although I did not exercise regularly with my last pregnancy, I did do some walking and often it was at this same park. We recreated a picture I took at 37 weeks pregnant with Everly since I hit 37 weeks pregnant with Aspen this weekend. I don't look too much different but I think I look like I am carrying more now (on the right).

 

 

 

After breakfast I headed home so that Justin could go to work. I had plans with my mom to go to Buy Buy Baby and get some baby items that I needed. It was actually a very successful trip. We used coupons for everything I bought. I got some replacement parts for my breast pump and Everly picked out a present to give to baby Aspen. We also picked up a bed rail for Everly because she has fallen out of her twin bed once. This morning she was sleeping right up against it so I guess it is doing it's job! Everly was hilarious. She was wearing two pairs of sunglasses in the car, getting cross-eyed playing with a string, and then in the store she insisted on pushing around a shopping cart and filling it with ridiculous items.

 



Holding Abigail

She wanted that tutu onesie because she had a "show"

After shopping we ate lunch at the splashpad. It is so fun to watch Everly run around and entertain herself. She was even spoiled with a giant cookie after lunch. I also was able to run into a store and pick up part of Everly's gift from Aspen. She has an Abigail Interactive Story Buddy and so we got her a tea set that goes with it and then I just need to get the tea party book as well. She has been very into Abigail lately and also anything tea party lately so I think she will love it.

 

 

On Sunday we got a lot of cleaning done at home and worked on some stuff for the nursery. I know it's the nesting occurring, but it really feels good to have a clean house! On Sunday evening we went to the splash pad again to have dinner and celebrate my brother-in-laws birthday. It ended up getting really windy and then started lighting as a monsoon storm rolled in so our trip was slightly shortened but Everly still had a lot of fun. I feel bad for people who dread Sunday nights because Monday is coming and they have to go back to work. I really don't feel that way and even less so when we have such a productive weekend like we did!

 

Nursery Updates...and nesting!

This past weekend we made a little progress in the nursery and a lot of progress in the baby preparations. As far as the nursery, Justin hung up the book shelves that we painted. I think they look great and we actually really needed a place for books in the nursery so they are very functional as well. Also, since they are spice racks from Ikea that we painted with leftover paint from the dresser...they were cheap too! We filled them with board books because we all know babies like to rip paper.

 

 

My sister and I also got started on a tassel garland that we are going to hang on the wall behind the crib. It is going to be time consuming but we got some trial and error testing out of the way so hopefully it doesn't take too much longer. Working with tissue paper is always a joy!

 

 

As far as nesting goes I got a couple more loads of laundry done. We got the diaper bag packed as well, but more importantly we got a lot of dishes done. Justin reorganized some of our kitchen cabinets to make room for baby bibs, baby bottles, and pumping supplies while I cleaned all of those items. I also found two boxes of milk freezing bags in one of the boxes with bottle stuff so that was exciting. We boiled some bottle nipples and pacifiers and just got really organized. When getting my pump out and ready I noticed that the one of the tubes had a crack and apparently I had just dealt with it by putting a piece of scotch tape over it. I decided I should probably look into getting new tubes and when I did I discovered that Medela will send you new tubes free! They had awesome customer service and the tubes are already in the mail on their way. They also recommended I replace some other parts and others were kind of gross so I am going to pick up a few things for that in the next couple of weeks. Next up we need to get our own bags packed for the hospital, as well as a bag for Everly who will stay with my mom/sister while we are at the hospital.



Weekend in Review

 

 

Justin had this past weekend off (it usually is every other weekend although he never works on Sundays) and it is always nice to have him home. We didn't have any big plans and it was a pretty nice weekend. On Saturday morning Justin went for a run before I went to the gym and then when I got back we all had eggs and toast for breakfast. It is so funny because all 3 of us eat our eggs differently. Everly has one egg scrambled with toast and jelly, I have two scrambled but I mix in tomato, bell pepper, and onion and top with a little cheese and tobasco and Justin had some kind of fried concoction on top of toast with cheese and hot sauce. We don't get to sit down together and eat breakfast during the week so it was nice to on Saturday. Later we went to lunch downtown to celebrate a friend's birthday. Everly is just at a really fun age and she constantly cracks us up. When we took the picture above at lunch she said we were squishing her, haha. On Saturday night I went to mass by myself because Everly was still napping and to be honest it was kind of nice. Sometimes it is hard to listen and focus during mass with a toddler and then I feel guilty after because I am Catholic. After church my sister and the boys came over for a night swim with lots of jumping in. Those kids are crazy. Saturday night we got a CRAZY monsoon storm that woke us up and my sister even lost power for a little. There was so much thunder and lightening!
 

 

Sunday morning we all slept in a little longer than normal. Also, I guess I must be nesting because we got a lot of cleaning/re-organizing done that day. We have a pretty large 2-car garage (at least compared to our last one) and we weren't fully utilizing it. It also kind of became a dumping ground during the move. Now it looks awesome and there is more room to get in and out of the car which will be extra nice once I have to carry a baby in a car seat in and out of the car. No real updates on the nursery, but in cleaning out the garage we moved more baby stuff upstairs and did set up the bassinet/mini pack'n'play next to my side of the bed in our room. Our new room is so much bigger which makes it a lot easier to have that in there and not be cramped. Saturday night we had a nice dinner at my sister's and played Cards Against Humanity for the first time. Oh man! That game is funny, and thankfully we did not invite my mom to play.