coming soon

despite what the ticker says on the side.... i'm actually 5 days overdue. buckwheat is stubborn and cozy and is still on the inside. we go into the doctor at 9 tomorrow night to start the eviction process, and we'll hopefully have our baby boy sometime monday. we'll update as soon as we can. pray for us this weekend, that we get everything done at home that we want to, tie up our loose ends, and sleep GOOD this last weekend before the baby. pray also for a safe and healthy delivery.
we can't wait to meet our baby boy!!

completed monkey paradise

I was able to finish the baby's room this weekend, finally. I'm so glad to be done and have the room ready for him to be living in it. I think we just need to pack the hospital bag and get the car seats installed and we'll be fully ready for his arrival :) Can't believe my due date is 22 days away...... this 9 months really flew by, and we are beyond ready to have an outside baby!!!

Also, i'm not sure why these are all so little.....I even changed the setting to large and they were still tiny :( ENJOY

Here is the view from the door

(sorry these pictures are a little blurry, the camera is being stupid!)

changing table/dresser my mom and i put together. i want to make some labels for the baskets, but we need to fully decide what will be in each one, once we are "using" the table :)

floppy, the garage sale find of the summer. (one of his ears is floppy...thus the name :)

DIY mobile above the changing table

view of the crib. I can't quite decide how I feel about the lanterns above the crib, we'll see what hubby says when he gets home tonight :)

closer pic of the crib, and the DIY verse above

corner shelves

end table with the lamp and toy box underneath..... i'm sure this box will be outgrown soon!

close up of DIY blocks. i might put his name on this too, haven't decided yet.

ready to rock...and rock....and rock :)

(the two canvases on the wall were painted by Auntie Con)

DIY clock, customized hand and footprint frames, framed picture drawn by cousin Chloe

DIY monkey sign

exploding closet :)

DIY hooks behind the door, DIY canvas painted by Aunt Con (his name will go in the center, once he arrives), build-a-monkey and frame that says "my little monkey"

bookcase with his ever expanding collection of stories :)

peek-a-boo

refurbished end table before.......

.........and after.

perfect size for a few story books, some burp rags, a bottle of water for mom or dad.....

20 inches so far

and it's still snowing. ::fingers crossed:: i'll be home from work early again today and i can post pictures. i just can't believe the rate at which the snow is STILL coming down....it's been snowing for over 24 hours. gotta love colorado.....in october.....

EDIT: here are some photos. 5:00 and still lightly snowing....

from our back porch.

poor scarecrow :(

my wonderful hubs clearing off my car riding on the way to work (hubs brought me the last two days!)

won one of these, but the code expires at the end of the year. i wanted to put buckwheat's pictures in it, but i'm not sure i'll have enough time, energy and remember-y to get it done before it expires. any one have any ideas for what i could do? the two ideas i was thinking of was either a family book (pictures of the family so that he can learn them from far away) or an animal book, maybe animals to go with the alphabet?
i need some ideas!!!! HELP please!

good thing

over the past couple weeks i've been super busy. not in a frantic, pulled-in-a-million-directions kind of busy, but just busy with things that i want to get done around the house. (none of which include cleaning yet....that'll come soon i hope!) it's a good thing to be wrapping things up, getting things done and finishing projects. here's a sampling of the stuff i've accomplished lately:

i made a memory game for the baby. i know, it's a few years premature, but i found these great stickers at HobLob, finally ordered some wood tiles and got them all put together. can't wait to play it with him! :)

baked baked and baked some more. a batch of lemony cream cheese cookies...

snickerdoodles in the oven...

a pan of blonde brownies (quality control got to them!) and a few loaves of banana bread...

9 loaves of banana bread (8 in the freezer) and 6 loaves of pumpkin bread. and, i'm sorry, but i'm being selfish with them. they are all in the freezer, awaiting this winter when we have guests...ready made breakfasts. and i'm not really sorry about not sharing.....i share pretty much everything else i make. i'm allowed to be a little selfish right now!!

....piles and piles of baby clothes....

all washed up and ready to go...smelling all...baby-ish...

and a batch of homemade pesto. we sampled some the other night, it's pretty dang delicious if i may say so myself.

so that's just a peek of what has been going on in our house lately...mostly in the kitchen :) a few more baby projects, including refinishing a great end table i found at a thrift store today (pictures to come!) and some more cooking i want to get done before he arrives.....in 6 weeks. i really love this nesting....i just hope it includes cleaning one of these days :)

WICKED friday

tonight is finally the night...... we get to go see the musical Wicked tonight. we bought tickets forever ago, i think in april as soon as they went on sale. i'm so excited i can hardly stand it. i wish it was 8:00 already so that we could just see it. we are going with a girl from work and her daughter...it'll be a great time!! i don't think Mat know's what's in store for him..... he does love musicals though, but i'm not sure he knows that the book is SciFi.....we'll see how it goes. Regardless it'll be a great night. I think this may be our last "date night" before the baby....at least our last BIG EVENT before he comes. hopefully we'll have another one or two dates....depending on when he makes his appearance.

on the baby front, nothing new to report. we finished class 2 of 3 in our childbirth series, it was VERY interesting. i'm hoping to post a longer story about it this weekend. it was so interesting, gave me a lot to think about in regards to pain meds and labor. more on that to come. other than that, he's good. doctor appointment on the 6th, everything looks fine. he's pressing hard on my sides, running out of room, but he's still movin' and a groovin' in there.

46ish days left.

i should have started these sooner.....

How far along? 32 Weeks

Total weight gain/loss: I think I've gained about 30 lbs..... not happy about that, but it's all for the little Buckwheat

Maternity clothes? Yupper. The pants are so much more comfortable....now the trick is finding long enough shirts and not stretching out my not-maternity things!

Stretch marks? not yet ::knocking on wood with fingers crossed::

Sleep: lately, pretty good ::knocking on wood with fingers crossed::

Best moment this week: feeling him have hiccups. so sweet. and starting our child birth class....hee hee hee hooooooooo

Movement: slowing down from earlier.... less kicking and punching and more fighting for room and stretching out

Food cravings: jello, mexican, crunchy things

Gender: boy

Labor Signs: i think i've had some braxton hicks, but nothing else

Belly Button in or out? in, but definitely getting less shallow, i doubt it will ever be a full fledged outie.

What I am looking forward to: having an [outside] baby!!!!!

Milestones: starting child birth class, getting closer to finishing the nursery, buying a stroller....these aren't really milestones, but they are big things that we worked on this week...