Project Nursery: Almost Done!

Just need to put up a curtain rod and curtains, and move the dresser in there now...

Yay Painting is Done!

So this New Years Eve our friend Alex came over and helped Seth finally get the last of the bookshelves hauled downstairs from the ex-library turning nursery. And this week I went nuts getting it painted!






It's a very subtle light lavender-grey color. "Lilac Champaigne" I was going to go a shade darker, but the lady at the Home Depot made a mistake I decided to just go with it. I think it turned out pretty nice actually. We'll see how it looks when I pull off the tape tomorrow! Then I can actually put the crib that's been sitting in pieces in the living room together! And maybe drop by ikea and grab a rug and stick the rocking chair upstairs too. :)

Yay Camera!

So getting ready for William is kinda a big deal. Happily, one of the most fun components arrived today! I got me a camera ^^ Not a dinky get-a-new-one-in-two-years one but a really nice one I hope will last me a very long time and several children. We got the Canon SX40. It isn't a DSLR. I didn't want to have to spend that much and get expensive extra lenses as well. I'm not exactly a budding professional photographer here, but it does have a x35 superzoom and is pretty much the top of the line Canon point and shoot with a lot of nifty features I'll probably not use as much as I should. Other than the ones that automatically correct my natural deficiencies as an amateur photographer at least. Image stabilization... auto focusing... all that good stuff

But check it out! Here's a shot out our back door across the fence into the neighbor's yard (since ours is pretty much empty still and their is more interesting)...


and here's a zoom in of that truck from the exact same spot.

It's a Boy and his name is William!

As most of you know, we're having a boy! I finally got the scanner on my picture to work (yay!) and so have the ultrasound to share. Seth and I waited until finding out if he was going to be a boy or a girl to really think of names, but I was drawing a blank on girl names anyways. And the only one we could imagine naming him William. It wasn't one I'd ever thought of when imagining my children's names before, but it just fits him and feels right. He is William.

He's also getting into the Halloween spirit early apparently and going as Skeletor. ;)

Aaaand done

Don't mind the packaging mess.

The great shelf project

I feel very good about my weekend even if my hands were rubbed raw now, Seth, our friend Alex, and I made an Ikea run Friday afternoon and picked up a bunch of bookshelves! I've got four made so far and another two to go, there'll be another big one on the other side of the corner shelf and a medium one on the right end. Funny enough, of all the bookshelves we've bought and put together over the years since we've been married, Ikea's were the cheapest but also the best made.

Expecting! and Eye trouble

Well! As everyone knows, things have certainly been busy around here! Seth and I are expecting our first and I'm just into the second trimester now. The first one was rough. I was sick a ridiculous amount- and still get sick regularly, though it's dying down now thankfully. We're so excited and feel so blessed to finally be having a new little Pease in the family, I just about started crying when I got my first sonogram and seeing Seth's expression when we heard the heartbeat fluttering away is something I'll never forget.

There's a lot to do to get ready still! The small bedroom is going to be turned into our nursery and is still full of bookshelves and half unpacked and sorted books that haven't been dealt with since moving in since we didn't have the shelf space. (whoops, we have a lot of books. A lot.) BUT! Tomorrow we've got a friend who's bringing their Dad's big SUV up and we're hitting Ikea and buying a whole ton of bookshelves. Hopefully they'll hold all of our books and our existing shelves can go into the upstairs living room and hold pictures and things. If we need more shelf space for books then they're going to get relegated to the back bedroom.

In other news, you know how they always say not to fall asleep with your contacts in? I can now confirm it. Don't. Really really don't. Ever. Before now the only thing that's ever happened to me was getting dry eyes that were easily remedied by blinking a while or putting eye drops in. Monday night though, I was up late (my sleep schedule is all out of whack.) and fell asleep without taking them out since I realized I was out of solution and was just going to pick some up on Tuesday. By the time I woke up my eyes were severely irritated. By the time I went to go get new solution it was so bad that Seth had to drive because they'd become so photosensitive that sunlight was blinding and extremely painful. Wednesday morning I still couldn't look at a computer screen even with the brightness turned all the way down without feeling like it was attacking my brain with a knife and I hid in the basement with the shades drawn feeling like a vampire as I tried to rest my eyes as much as possible. Seth brought home some OTC anti-inflammatory eyedrops that were recommended on a medical website and they've helped a lot. This morning I can at least use the computer again and be in rooms with light, though direct sunlight still makes me tear up. And my eyes now just look severely bloodshot instead of bright red with white streaks in it! I'm hoping that tomorrow I'll be alright in direct sunlight and by Sunday I can ditch the glasses again. But yes. Never fall asleep with contacts in. It is not fun.