Welcome to the third trimester

We are now at 28 weeks Margaux and I.

28 weeks

*side note- I seriously need to get my point and shoot camera fixed!

Her room is coming together really well. In fact, if I'm ever able to get through the mess that is still lingering from the hardwood floor job to my sewing machine, I can get some of the final touches in place. It is taking me forever to get all that put back, because I'm weeding through and saying goodbye to a lot of things in the process.

We had a check up last week and we are doing well, Margaux and I. I warned my doctor that Margaux would probably kick her little heart rate monitor when she pushed on my belly with it. She did. She has gotten where she will nudge back if you push on my belly. If she's awake that is.

My sugar test was a little high, so this Thursday I go for the glucose tolerance test. I'm not thrilled about it, but my doctor thinks it will more than likely come back negative for gestational diabetes. My sugar level was only slightly past the cut off.

This past weekend I got out all the little outfits we've bought and that have been handed down. Girl is totally set with clothes. She has a few newborn outfits and lots of 0-3 and 3-6 month onesies. And many people have told me that pants aren't really necessary for summer babies. Just on the occasional chilly evening. But she does have pants. She also has about a dozen sleep sacks. . Like I said, she's got a lot. Of course I've bought a few things, because they were just too cute to leave without. And a friend who has two daughters, one with a July birthday and one that will be a year old in June, totally hooked us up (and I really appreciate it).

6-9 mth winter clothes ready to space bag

Matt is about to burst with anticipation. He is currently reading "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" to Margaux at bedtime so she can get familiar with his voice. He's really sweet. My mother gave me a large book with the whole collection of stories and the wonderful illustrations. Time really is moving right along. It won't be just Matt and I for much longer.

It's hard not to catch

Margaux fever is spreading around our house as well as our friends and family. It's hard not to come down with a case of it. My best friend from High School has it and blessed us with a box of the cutest things EVER! Here are some of the cute little things that her and her Husband picked out for our little girl.

Thank you Monica and Jay! She's going to look so cute in all of it!

developments

Well, I'm now a little over 26 weeks pregnant and we have less than 100 days until baby Margaux's due date. As you can see the belly is getting bigger and bigger by the day now. When I lay down I can see my belly jump when she punches or kicks and I can also see it protrude and morph shape as she presses against it from the inside. The second picture is taken on the same day, but after I got dressed for work. I thought it would be good to have one with my face in the picture. Its funny how different outfits make the belly look different.
You can also tell we have started working on her room. I love it. very clean and calm. we have a hodgepodge of furniture and none of it matches, but I don't care at all. A friend gave me the crib and I love it. I also have the dresser from my room when I was little, a dresser that is being changed into a changing table, and a cabinet that is being modified into an armoire type thing. I'll post pictures when I'm closer to being finished. But I've made a promise to myself that I'm not going to start on any more baby projects till I get the house back in order from the hardwood floor project. Otherwise, I'll start 10 new projects and not have one done.

I registered for baby stuff last week. I wasn't sure I was even going to register for anything, but people told me I should. Most of my friends know more about what items are good to have than I do. So I mostly registered for necessities, diapers, bottles, pacifiers and nursing related items. Oh, and some extra crib sheets (I've been told you'll want extras) but some how I managed to scan a pot holder while I was looking for a friends wedding gift on the same trip. Funny, I kept trying to purposely scan desitin and saline, but it wouldn't let me. Now target won't let me sign on online and take it off. So if anyone looks up my registry, sorry about the random pot holder. I'm sure its beautiful and great, I have no idea what it looks like.

No more nasty carpet

Thanks to the hard work of my family we now have hardwood floors in our house. Nice, clean, new hardwood. No more smelly, nasty, dingy carpet.

My Dad is one of the hardest working people I've ever met in my life. I'm serious... the man is an insane machine. He takes few brakes and pounds away. He is amazing. With his guidance, Matt, my mom, my father-in-law and even I (yes, I handed wood and ran the saw, even though my mother kept griping at me for even bending/squatting down. In my mind, if I ever quit, I won't be able to do it anymore.) We were able to put down a little under 700 sq foot of bamboo hardwood flooring in our house and it looks wonderful. It looks so good, Matt and I don't want to put our crap back in there.

We did run into issues. We were surprised to find that our subflooring had rotted to the point it was unsafe and had to be replaced. In fact, my parents dachshund fell through it once it was exposed from under the carpet. The actual support beams under one of the doors had even rotted out. But all got fixed and looks great.
*side note- if you buy a door from a salvage place, check it over really well. We saved over $100.00 on the new door, but the handle was cut out in the wrong place, and now I'm worried about leprechauns having too easy of an access point to our house:)

I realized after we got started I had not taken any before shots of the project, but here is our TV room before and after.

Before

After