Random

Twitter is officially releasing me from guilt over my seeming inability to blog as often as other busy moms to toddlers/babies. It's like having a notepad to jot down random thoughts and stuff Pea says as they happen, without having to stress over sentence structure and grammar. LOVE it.

The kids' bathroom upstairs (good lord, did I just say "kids"?!!!) is now officially the first room in my house to be a color outside the blue/green/white spectrum. Well, almost. I've decided that at 32 weeks pregnant I probably shouldn't be climbing onto the counter to paint above the mirror and lights. Jeffrey? (Even though I know we've agreed that painting is my domain...) Jeremy? (You get dinner as trade. Three dinners if you want to help with the master bath too...) I'll post photos later. I just have to say that I love, love, LOVE the Martha Stewart colors for Lowe's. this one is the same color as my living room--I only wish the rest of the room looked this luscious and crisp, though I'd rather not be constantly scrubbing hand prints off entire walls at this point in my life. I have enough repetition in my life as it is. Perhaps one day when my house is no longer full of little voices and small, toddling people I can do something like this to try and fill the void.

My lovely friend Kelly had her baby Monday night. Liam Stewart. Cute, no? Weighed 9 lbs, too, bless her heart! I'm hoping to meet him shortly--can't wait to get my sticky little fingers on some baby goodness. My friend Sharla is next, in a little over a month. I'm hosting her shower next week, which has been another good motivator (besides my own impending birth) for getting some last-minute painting and organizing done. Nothing like having a bunch of people you don't know show up at your house for a few hours. Which reminds me--I need to move those two pictures in the living room to somewhere they actually belong...

I think I found the perfect color for our master bedroom, and I'm 95% certain of the bathroom color. I was originally going to wait till after the baby came to tackle our space but now I'm thinking all these library books I keep ordering could conceivably wait till I'm up all hours nursing, whereas painting really shouldn't be done while baby-wearing (contrary to popular opinion, sure). So I just might have a crazy next few weeks, ending in an almost completely painted house. The only rooms left would be Adeleine's room, which I don't intend to paint until she shows up and I have a chance to get to know her a bit (I did this with Pea, too, and it was really fun to pick a color that fit her personality, not just my decorating taste or "girl stuff"), and the music room, which would require moving a piano, a marimba, a drum set, a big bookcase, and other assorted music paraphernalia. NOT happening. Oh, I guess there's also the stairwell and upstairs hall. Just might pay someone else, you know?

I finally have all of Pea's old clothes in Rubbermaids, sorted and labeled by size, and all of the 0-6 months stuff washed and ready to go. We now have a car seat, too, and I think I'm a tiny bit in love with it and all of it's brilliantly designed features (ours is a different color than they show, not that it matters). We gave Pea's away, along with the matching stroller, something like 3 weeks before we found out we were pregnant again--so funny, but it was meant to be. I'm hoping this baby will take to a sling much better than Pea did (violent screaming), as it will be much easier to carry her that way while I'm also chasing a very busy small person up and down stairs.

Busy weekend starts now.