New Photos!

Tim repainted and hung these two shelves. Lots of little animals needed a place to go!

Curious George is slowly taking over. Apparently this was Tim's plan all along...
I do love the original watercolor print that we framed!

New glider we bought - very comfy! I know I'll be spending a lot of time in that chair!
The fabric on the back of the chair is for curtains that I'll make one of these days. It matches the wall color almost exactly with little white dots.
We've been collecting little animals from the craft store - put magnets on the back so we could put them on the closet door.


The color inspiration for the room :)


We love the safari animal prints from Tim's sisters, Sarah and Laura.



Week 27 day 6 (if you think I look miserable it's because I've been blowing my nose for 3 days straight)
Tim is currently in the process of repainting the dresser and the desk that will be used as a changing table. Curious George is making his way onto those two pieces also...I should have seen it coming!

Third Trimester!!!

Third Trimester is Here!!!

Well here's the quick updates:

- we've hung up shelves in the nursery, bought fabric for curtains (now just have to find time to make them) and framed a very cute picture of an original Curious George watercolor

- I'm not too thrilled about what my belly button looks like now. It's starting to be visible through clothing (so weird). I keep trying to push it back in but so far that's been unsuccessful...

- we said good-bye to our Christmas tree today...finally. It was still so nice and fresh looking it was hard to take it down but this far after Christmas it was really about time pack everything away till next year.

- Between my two schools I am one of six pregnant teachers/staff. One just had their baby on Tuesday! two more are due in the month then it's my turn!! Lots of new babies!!

I thought I'd take some pictures before posting this but we can't seem to find the camera, so pictures will have to wait for the time being.

Happy 2010 and Nursery Progress!

We had a nice quiet New Year's, just the two of us. Made a nice dinner, watched some of season 5 of The Office on DVD, watched the ball drop then headed to bed. 2010 sure is going to be a busy year for us!!

We've spent the last week working on the nursery! We finally picked colors we liked (inspired by a little framed keepsake from some of my friends - Trish and Jackie) and agreed to try taping out diamonds on the lower half of the wall. We think it turned out pretty nice!!

We spent one long evening taping the walls. It took quite a lot of tape and measuring!!



All taped and ready to paint!



Thought we'd do the week 24 picture in front of the soon-to-be-painted wall.



Top color is Butter and bottom color is Apple Blossom



We were so excited to take off the tape!!! We LOVE how it turned out!!



Tim found these Curious George wall stickers online so they of course had to go up right away! I think Tim wants this to be his room now :) Our baby will have no choice but to like Curious George! Tim's been reading Curious George stories to Baby already



Can't wait to finish putting shelves and other things up on the wall! More pictures to come as we continue adding to it! It's definitely become our favorite room in the house!

Yesterday we put up blinds and Tim changed the huge brown fan out for a small white one. It's very cute! He did a great job!



Getting the painting done seemed like that BIG step that needed to get done so we could really start preparing the nursery.

My second to last class of my Master's starts tomorrow and the next three and a half months are sure to be busy as I'm finishing up my National Board Certification work, taking childbirth classes, general getting ready for Baby, oh and teaching full time! I'm very fortunate to have a wonderful husband to help keep me sane and on track!

Happy 2010!!!!

Merry Christmas!!

Lots to update!

Christmas Eve - the short version.
I started having some abdominal cramping and after rest and drinking lots of water (advise from one of the midwives) and it wasn't getting better we went into the hospital to be checked. They did some tests and put a monitor on me to see what was going on. Apparently I was feeling contractions but luckily I wasn't having any other symptoms of pre-term labor. After drinking tons of water so they wouldn't have to put me on an IV and lots of prayers from family, they said we could go home! Prescription = drink TONS of water and rest a lot. 6 hours in the hospital wasn't exactly what we had planned on doing with our Christmas Eve but it was reassuring to know that everything was OK. Everyone was so wonderful there also!

We did hear that there were lots of Christmas babies born at the hospital when we were there!!

The next day we had Christmas at our house, went to Christmas Day mass (since we missed going to midnight mass) then drove to the McKay house to have Christmas again and an early dinner, then over to my parents house to have Christmas one more time and a late dinner. :) Despite all the driving around I had lots of time to rest. We stayed at my parents' that night so we could spend more time with both families the next day.

Since baby's been kicking even more than on Thanksgiving, everyone had a chance to feel it! After recently reading about what baby hiccups feel like, I've since realized that a lot of what I'm feeling is the result of hiccups and maybe not arms and legs flailing about as I've been invisionin!

We are very fortunate that our parents live so close together but it made us start thinking about how very different next Christmas will be with our Baby in tow!