After weeks and weeks or cleaning, de-cluttering, re-organizing and spending crazy amounts of money to get this place organized and ready - we finally have a living room we love and a corner for brother baby in our bedroom.
Of course the theme that we picked for his part of the room is being discontinued, which means we are having a hard time finding stuff we wanted - but it's ok - at the end of the day it's really not a big deal.
We set up his pack and play which has a super nifty "napping" station and a changing table on it. We got some itty bitty little diapers and wipes and washed all his clothes and I'm even getting ready to pack some clothes to bring to the hospital for him in my overnight bag.
Since I have NO idea what size he is.. it's hard to tell if he will fit in newborn clothes or 0-3 - so hopefully our ultrasound next week will give us a clue!
As for Katie - she is starting to test us. Which, I know developmentally, is what she needs to be doing - but it's really irritating when your pregnant and uncomfortable and have a short fuse.
She isn't anywhere near poorly behaved like I have seen some kids at her age, but she pics certain things that we tell her not to do and she does it....
Like sticking her hand in her cereal bowl to play with the milk and running all over the house at night when we tell her it's too late to run because they can hear her downstairs and it's rude.
Running is all she wants to do now. I feel bad we don't live in a single family because then we could let her run to her hearts content - but we try hard to keep it to a minimum at night which is unfortunate because that is when she wants to run the most.
She is also starting to pick up habits from other kids that she won't stop - like making funny noises and doing things with her mouth that result in spitting.... this bugs the hell out of me and she knows it - so she does it at mealtime, which is always stressful enough as it is just trying to get her to focus to eat.
So... we have had to start giving her time outs and try to take things away from her as punishment. So far, she thinks time outs are fun - so it's lose lose. bummer.
But this is what I usually feel like by 4:00 on most days lately between my hormones, exhaustion, largeness and Katie testing me all day on everything and telling me just how much stuff she "doesn't want" to do.
As for me, I have a docs appointment on tuesday and dave and katie both come with me this time. We are in the home stretch and I have to say I am ready to have this baby already. I miss having the ability to stand up without effort and sleep comfortably and chase after Katie without feeling sore and achy. I'm tired all the time and ready for us to be a foursome so that we can stop talking about brother baby already and actually have him here!
It's a 3 day weekend for us - so hopefully tomorrow we can do some fun crafts, take some stuff we need out of the attic and relax as it will be one of our last relaxing, quiet weekends for awhile!
Happy Saturday!
Of course the theme that we picked for his part of the room is being discontinued, which means we are having a hard time finding stuff we wanted - but it's ok - at the end of the day it's really not a big deal.
We set up his pack and play which has a super nifty "napping" station and a changing table on it. We got some itty bitty little diapers and wipes and washed all his clothes and I'm even getting ready to pack some clothes to bring to the hospital for him in my overnight bag.
Since I have NO idea what size he is.. it's hard to tell if he will fit in newborn clothes or 0-3 - so hopefully our ultrasound next week will give us a clue!
As for Katie - she is starting to test us. Which, I know developmentally, is what she needs to be doing - but it's really irritating when your pregnant and uncomfortable and have a short fuse.
She isn't anywhere near poorly behaved like I have seen some kids at her age, but she pics certain things that we tell her not to do and she does it....
Like sticking her hand in her cereal bowl to play with the milk and running all over the house at night when we tell her it's too late to run because they can hear her downstairs and it's rude.
Running is all she wants to do now. I feel bad we don't live in a single family because then we could let her run to her hearts content - but we try hard to keep it to a minimum at night which is unfortunate because that is when she wants to run the most.
She is also starting to pick up habits from other kids that she won't stop - like making funny noises and doing things with her mouth that result in spitting.... this bugs the hell out of me and she knows it - so she does it at mealtime, which is always stressful enough as it is just trying to get her to focus to eat.
So... we have had to start giving her time outs and try to take things away from her as punishment. So far, she thinks time outs are fun - so it's lose lose. bummer.
But this is what I usually feel like by 4:00 on most days lately between my hormones, exhaustion, largeness and Katie testing me all day on everything and telling me just how much stuff she "doesn't want" to do.
As for me, I have a docs appointment on tuesday and dave and katie both come with me this time. We are in the home stretch and I have to say I am ready to have this baby already. I miss having the ability to stand up without effort and sleep comfortably and chase after Katie without feeling sore and achy. I'm tired all the time and ready for us to be a foursome so that we can stop talking about brother baby already and actually have him here!
It's a 3 day weekend for us - so hopefully tomorrow we can do some fun crafts, take some stuff we need out of the attic and relax as it will be one of our last relaxing, quiet weekends for awhile!
Happy Saturday!
1 comment:
i love this post and the pic of katie. i am feeling pretty big, pregnant, and cranky at this point too! can't believe we are SO close!
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