More updates and progess

Tomorrow marks 35/35, 35 weeks pregnant with 35 days to go!  Audrey is almost here and I am *not* ready.  For one, work has been crazy which it isn't normally in the summer so that's stressing me out.  I don't feel prepared to leave work at all.  And I've been so tired and lazy at night I get almost nothing accomplished.  But I have gotten some things done.  We hung the mobile, which I love love love, I washed and hung all her newborn clothes, hung sorted and put away/hung 3+ months clothes, wrote most of the thank you cards, made and froze a soup and some chicken enchiladas, scheduled a prenatal massage (I've had the gift cert since Mothers Day!), put together and aired out the stroller and car seat.  Here is a pic of the mobile, which is bird cut outs in 3 different shades of yellow.

Chris is home Thursdays so I get him to help me with a bunch of stuff on that day, but it's definitely tough to motivate myself the rest of the week.  My OB appts have been going well and uneventful which is great and I'm up 6.5 lbs overall, 2 lbs in the last week alone.  I think I'll probably end up around the 10-15 lb mark which is great, I'm glad I'm not starving her after all!

My major goal for this weekend is to get my car cleaned out, vacuumed and the car seat base installed and inspected.  I also have to get my regular car inspection, since I'm 3 months overdue on that! Oops!

And here is the best shower gift! My friend painted a kid sized table and chair set.  It is adorable!! And the birds she painted match the wall decal exactly!  Plus she put her name on the back of each chair.

 

And here is her adorable closet so far

Weekend Update

I had a semi-productive holiday weekend.  My big baby goal was to prep my prefolds, which I finally finished last night!  It wasn't hard just time consuming.  I did a cold wash with a tiny bit of Charlie's soap then dried them, then 2 hot washes with 1/2 scoop soap, then dry again, then 2 more hot washes with 1/2 scoop soap, then dry again.  I tested them absorbency and the water soaked right in, didn't ball up and roll off like it before so I *think* I did it right.

I also continued the never ending lamp search!  I found a great lamp with a bright pink base that matches the color of the birds on the wall but the shade was a cork material and it just didn't work.  Then I found another lamp with  a bright pink base that was a little smaller, which was good and it had a white shade with pink polka dots.  Perfect in theory not so much in the room.  Grrr.  The problem is that its going against the wall with the decal so I don't want it to detract from that.  It might be worth it to buy a plain white shade but I want to find one in a store instead of online, which isn't as easy as it should be.

Thanks to Target I now have some cheap underwear and a pair of comfy pants to wear after we get home from the hospital.  Oh and 2 nursing bras that are actually the right size!  Novel idea, lol.  

Next weekend is my mom's shower, I'm so excited!  After that I can wash and put away all the clothes and things and see what I still need to get.

We're getting scary close at this point, I'll be full term in 5 weeks!