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Nov. 16th, 2006 09:13 pmDiscomforts increase as I inch closer and closer to the big day. Lately I've been having a lot of bruised feeling pelvic pain (which I'm told by the midwives is normal) and just general difficulty getting and staying comfortable when sitting or laying down. Other than that, things are going great. At my last appointment (last Wednesday), they said everything is going so "textbook perfect" that there was no need for me to come in every week until delivery. Instead, they set up my last two appointments 10 days apart. I go back tomorrow and then not again until the 28th (that is, if I haven't delivered by then). We've gone through another growth spurt, I believe, as I've been extremely exhausted since Monday. I've gotten some good reading in though and finished up What to expect when you're expecting this evening. It may seem a bit late, but the book carries you through labor and delivery, breastfeeding and some postpartum care as well. We may get their other book, What to expect the first year as well. Seems it has some more information about breastfeeding and other things of that nature, probably much more in depth.
The MIS group at Vandy threw us a baby shower yesterday. It was really sweet of them, especially considering how many of them don't even know Chris. The crib construction is underway from what I've been told. We might be cutting it close, but then it wouldn't be a Moore's project if it weren't procrastinated until the last minute. We need to go ahead and get some bedding as well as a carseat so that we at least have the essentials should we be given an early surprise.
Despite moderate discomforts increasing, I'm still relatively active (or was, before this week's slump). In the last couple of weeks, we've worked on painting the dining room. The first weekend of work on it was pretty much all stripping wallpaper boarders (yes, two of them, one right on top of the other as we found out when we started peeling off the top layer), patching the wall from stripping off wallpaper boarders and repeated sanding/patching until all was smooth enough for a base coat of paint. From Friday night to Monday the week before last was just spackle/sand/spackle/sand/etc. We had a nice thin layer of drywall dust all over the first floor of the house. Finally, I think it was Monday or Tuesday night, I managed to get two coats of our base color on while Chris made dinner. The next day, I spent most of the day laying out a grid for harlequin diamonds and taping off the first set. I managed to get half of one wall's diamonds painted in the second color that night. Then the next day, (guess that was Wednesday morning, since it was the day of my last appointment and the day I met Brandy in Franklin for lunch), got the other half taped off and painted. Alas, I haven't done any more work to it since then. There are a few places where paint pulled off from the tape that need to be touched up, but other than that, they look fantastic. We've done a deep, though bright red below the chair rail and above, the diamonds in two shades of yellow-gold (the darker called Sunflower, the lighter, Butterfield). I'm debating whether to paint the chair rail itself a dark brown. I think it would add a touch of much needed sophistication from the white trim that's there now.
This weekend though, I'd like to take time to get the baby's room set up as much as we can. Chris put up a solar system mobile we got the other day. It's remote controlled and has a sun that lights up and the planets orbit around it on varying lengths of wire. It's not a baby mobile, but it's pretty freakin' cool. The motor is a little loud, but not too bad. It came with an audio CD that's supposed to have some neat information about it, but I haven't taken the time to listen to it yet. We've got various posters of satellite pictures of nebulae, planets and moons that we need to get framed and hung. There are also dragonflies on the back of the bedroom door to be painted over (probably with some moons, stars and a sun or something) and the closet doors need to be hung as well. Not to mention carpet scraps we need to do something constructive with (we had a lot of leftover carpet from the installation). We found a really neat lamp at Lowe's the other night. It's got a blue cylindrical shade on it with several constellations and a mode where it blinks from constellation to constellation, one where just the constellations are lit and then just a regular lamp. We keep trying to brighten up the room (there's no overhead light) but we keep winding up with just dim lamps so far. We picked up what we thought was a halogen floor lamp, but turned out to be incandescent. We're debating on whether to take it back and exchange it or not.
Well, I have more, but I'm being coaxed to bed.
The MIS group at Vandy threw us a baby shower yesterday. It was really sweet of them, especially considering how many of them don't even know Chris. The crib construction is underway from what I've been told. We might be cutting it close, but then it wouldn't be a Moore's project if it weren't procrastinated until the last minute. We need to go ahead and get some bedding as well as a carseat so that we at least have the essentials should we be given an early surprise.
Despite moderate discomforts increasing, I'm still relatively active (or was, before this week's slump). In the last couple of weeks, we've worked on painting the dining room. The first weekend of work on it was pretty much all stripping wallpaper boarders (yes, two of them, one right on top of the other as we found out when we started peeling off the top layer), patching the wall from stripping off wallpaper boarders and repeated sanding/patching until all was smooth enough for a base coat of paint. From Friday night to Monday the week before last was just spackle/sand/spackle/sand/etc. We had a nice thin layer of drywall dust all over the first floor of the house. Finally, I think it was Monday or Tuesday night, I managed to get two coats of our base color on while Chris made dinner. The next day, I spent most of the day laying out a grid for harlequin diamonds and taping off the first set. I managed to get half of one wall's diamonds painted in the second color that night. Then the next day, (guess that was Wednesday morning, since it was the day of my last appointment and the day I met Brandy in Franklin for lunch), got the other half taped off and painted. Alas, I haven't done any more work to it since then. There are a few places where paint pulled off from the tape that need to be touched up, but other than that, they look fantastic. We've done a deep, though bright red below the chair rail and above, the diamonds in two shades of yellow-gold (the darker called Sunflower, the lighter, Butterfield). I'm debating whether to paint the chair rail itself a dark brown. I think it would add a touch of much needed sophistication from the white trim that's there now.
This weekend though, I'd like to take time to get the baby's room set up as much as we can. Chris put up a solar system mobile we got the other day. It's remote controlled and has a sun that lights up and the planets orbit around it on varying lengths of wire. It's not a baby mobile, but it's pretty freakin' cool. The motor is a little loud, but not too bad. It came with an audio CD that's supposed to have some neat information about it, but I haven't taken the time to listen to it yet. We've got various posters of satellite pictures of nebulae, planets and moons that we need to get framed and hung. There are also dragonflies on the back of the bedroom door to be painted over (probably with some moons, stars and a sun or something) and the closet doors need to be hung as well. Not to mention carpet scraps we need to do something constructive with (we had a lot of leftover carpet from the installation). We found a really neat lamp at Lowe's the other night. It's got a blue cylindrical shade on it with several constellations and a mode where it blinks from constellation to constellation, one where just the constellations are lit and then just a regular lamp. We keep trying to brighten up the room (there's no overhead light) but we keep winding up with just dim lamps so far. We picked up what we thought was a halogen floor lamp, but turned out to be incandescent. We're debating on whether to take it back and exchange it or not.
Well, I have more, but I'm being coaxed to bed.
