About 35 weeks now and things are starting to get done…
Last week I got the diapers out and placed them in the bathroom, all ready for the new baby… Seeing the small sized bummis covers and prefolds makes thing seem so much more real… in a few weeks we will have a new baby here, in my arms wearing those diapers!
Two weeks ago I found a new dresser for the boys at the “Recyclo-Centre” (Local donation centre that resells things and provides jobs)… I thought it looked not bad amidst all the clutter of all the other dressers etc, and we were really needing more place for the boys clothes so I bought it for 40$…
When it got to the house last week I realized that I found a great piece of furniture made from solid cherry and made in Canada and is worth a lot more used than I paid. Though I already had a great dresser in my room for my clothes, I decided to trade and use it for myself, which actually turns out well because my old dresser had 9 equal sized drawers while the new one has 6 thin and 3 long which fits all of our needs better. It also means that I now have a mirror in my room which is another nice thing.
The mirror should be in the middle but that would have blocked the window, but I find that putting it to the side worked out great…
So this weekend we switched the dressers and then placed the boys clothes and my own… Placing the boys clothes in their new dresser also liberated the dresser for the baby and we brought that in my room, which fits better than I would have thought it would.
Now to get all the baby clothes out, cleaned (in the washer as I type) and placed in the drawers… again, something that will make it feel so much more real..
My mom also came over on Sunday and gave us a hand in the house. Cleaning the bathroom, dusting and cleaning a few of the walls, the floors etc… It helped us get the upstairs cleaned while we worked more downstairs…
Another big thing we did was to take down the vertical blinds in the living room (which I have always hated!) and put up curtains… I wish I would have done so a long time ago, the blinds were ugly, always looked dirty and didn’t work well… and I already had everything I needed, the rod, the curtains (though I had to fix them to fit), I just needed to do it.. (nesting is good for that).. the curtains transform the space completely and it makes this house feel just a bit more like a home…
My living room now makes me smile a bit more when I see it… It lightens the whole place up…
Slowly but surely things are getting done in preparation… I still have a bit to do but knowing that I now have clothes and diapers and the carseat is not too far out of reach, I feel a lot better now…
Today I also received my new potty bowl… ready to EC… and so much smaller than I though it would be!
My next big (little) detail is to find or buy a new adaptor for the hose to fill up the birthing pool… after I do that I will feel really ready to give birth and welcome the new little one.. it’s all coming together now…
I agree, the living room does look better now with the curtains. I do recall the vertical blinds from our last visit to your home, when Khena was not even walking yet…
Looks like the home is in the home stretch for welcoming your new baby!
Nesting is great for getting things done, isn’t it? =) Sounds like you have been getting so much done. As a side note, the two blues in your room look exactly the same as the blues we used in Meredith’s room. I’m not sure why I noticed that but it jumped out at me for some reason.