The last installment of the pre-baby blog:
September 15th, 2009
I am now a little over 7 months and a week (29 weeks) now and have been starting to finally feel like I'm getting big! It's harder to toss and turn in bed and wearing more of the same clothes over and over. It's been too dang hot to wear much anyway! I used to shun A/Cs and drafts like the devil but now they are my God-sent saving grace. Who knew a having a baby inside could heat you up like a furnace?
The biggest changes over the last month or so, besides growing ever so bigger, is the frequency and strength of the kicks, rolls and pushes the baby makes inside me. It's become a several-days-a-week ritual where Gabe and I will settle into bed to watch a DVD and proceed to lay hands on my belly and feel the baby's every move. It is awe-inspiring to say the least and bonds us to the child to no end. The baby, I noticed, is definitely responding to Daddy's voice! Gabe will be gone for several hours while I'm at home and the baby's not moving much....then in walks Gabe, talking, hugging and kissing me, and the baby kicks with joy!
I can hardly believe our little one will be here in about 2 1/2 months. It still seems like a little ways away but also a very looming upcoming event. I'm excited because after daily searches for over a month on www.craigslist.org in San Diego, Orange, AND Los Angeles counties, we finally found the exact crib, dresser and hutch set by Pali we've been looking for. So tomorrow my Mom and I will be going to pick it up.....we can hopefully start putting the nursery together then.
That brings me to an update on our floors. Ok, yeah, it's been taking us WAAAAAY longer than we thought it would (like I said even a month ago), but the good news is that the floors are finished, the walls are painted, the baseboards are in, and now all we need to do is caulk the baseboards and sand/paint the door jambs and windows. It doesn't help that I can't do most of the work due to my size, difficulty of some of the tasks, and protection of my health and the baby's. But it's coming together and Gabe and I are smitten with the new look of our home so far. And I'm smitten with Gabe's handiwork!
I had so much fun putting together Elijah's nursery before he was born. Since we didn't know the sex of the baby, the theme/colors had to be neutral. We went with a 50's mint green color for the wall paint color, which is one of my favorites. My cousin had introduced us to Pali, an Italian company that makes cribs and other baby furniture. We were sold on the quality and design of this brand and of the particular style and color she had. Since it was from a few years ago, we looked on craigslist.org and found the exact crib and dresser/hutch set we were looking for, and for literally $2-3000 less than the retail price!
