The Last Two Days

Things have quickly fallen in to place. After all the waiting around the last two days have felt like a whirlwind. We finally closed on our house yesterday afternoon!

Before the real insanity began yesterday, Ruth and I spent time goofing around...and it turned into a fun photo shoot.





Once we closed on the house our amazing Realtor gave us our key and we went immediately to the house to begin the wall-paper demolition...and trash pick up and deep cleaning.

Somehow in three hours yesterday we were able to get all of this stuff including a disgusting range and vending machine full of pistachios moved out to the garage!


And not only that; we began tearing down wall paper (imagine navy blue plaid on the lower half of the wall topped by a border with ducks...it was ugly) AND we were able to clean the kitchen floor so that it was sanitary for Ruth to play on (imagine a giant kitty litter box that used to sit in the middle of the kitchen/dining room that was so full that the cat started using the floor instead of the box). Obviously, me being pregnant, Brad took care of the kitchen while I started preparing that hideola wall paper.

Today we spent 7 hours at the house working away. We continued to work on that stubborn wall paper and we got the carpet torn out!!!


I felt bad for the guy who came to do it, he was at least 60 years old. And with the amount of stains and nastiness that was in that carpet it had to have weighed a ton as he hefted it up the stairs from the basement and from the back of the house. Poor guy. I was able to clean up the walls, doors, counters and window frames in the kitchen and living room...which took a ton of scrubbing. I couldn't figure out how they had gotten brown streaky stains on the top of their doors. Brad changed the locks to the house and scrubbed the heck out of that wall paper. And Ruth even took a nap in one of the bedrooms in her pack-n-play!

We are all completely worn out. Tomorrow we hope to finish up the wall-paper removal, apply KILZ to the floors, and maybe paint the three upstairs bedrooms. But Brad has to do work at the office tomorrow and we have errands we have to run before we leave town on Saturday. We're going to Santa Fe so Brad can help run the hotel his company has down there after the current employees leave. Luckily, Ruth and I get to come along and hang out with the fam while we're there. We're expecting to be there for a month and it would have been really rough on us if we didn't all get to go. We'll be back the last week of April to finish up the work on our house and get moved in before we have to be out of our apartment. I'll also still have about 4 weeks left of pregnancy when we get back so everything should work out perfectly.

Updates

We may be closing on our house tomorrow. We may be going to Santa Fe for a month. We may have the wall-paper removed before we leave town.

Things we know for sure:
Today the doctor said that little man is not coming early, May 26th is still "the day."
Little man is in the 40th percentile for being nearly 31 weeks in-utero.
I gained no weight in the last 2 weeks!
Brad makes a very attractive Mickey Mouse.

We like Samoas better than Thin Mints.
Ruth can do all the actions to "Popcorn Popping."
Ruth can build ridiculously huge towers with her blocks.


My short hair cut is a million times better than long, stringy hair.
We are a happy family despite the anxiety waiting around to close on our house has created.
And finally, typing with one hand is no fun...but I've gotten pretty fast, as necessitated by Ruth's love for the computer...especially our blog!

Cutie Pie

Thanks Jennefer for all the great clothes, they are so adorable!!! I'm not going to have to buy Ruth any pants for years! She was super excited to look through the boxes and see all the new clothes too.

Pregnancy

So I was reading up on being 30 weeks pregnant. Some symptoms that are normal are being tired because of the lack of sleep: check. I'm waking up 2 times a night to pee now (except last night - I slept wonderfully last night). The other major thing going on is a return of hormonal changes which usually causes a swing in emotions: check. I'm not gonna lie, this last week while Brad was gone I had one REALLY horrible, awful, no-good, very bad day. Serious downer thoughts about pregnancy, myself, being a mommy, and even being married. It was rough. Luckily the next day Brad came home and since then I've gotten some more rest. The funny thing about this too is that it's not like I'm just facing pregnancy hormones that are making me emotionally insane...have I mentioned that we're moving soon?! So yeah, I'm dealing with 3 of the most stressful things people deal with at the same time: buying a house, moving and having a baby. Ha.

I love this picture because you can see the space between Ruth's two front teeth!

A Week Apart

This week I had a training in New Jersey. On the last night I decided that being 30 minutes away from New York left me with no excuse not to visit. So I checked out early and hit the town.

The downside was that I had to take my luggage everywhere I went. This limited my mobility and options a bit. I was on the phone with Katie nearly the whole time trying to feel like she was there with me. I have decided that I will get her there someday.

NUMBERS

I am 29 weeks pregnant. Yesterday the doctor told me I was measuring big. Consequently, in 2 weeks I'll be going in for my 3rd ultrasound to see if my due date is going to be moved up a couple weeks! This would be great, it also means that I'm not crazy for thinking lately that my original due date of May 26th should really have been May 15th...we'll see. Also at the doctor's my blood pressure was 104/70, my iron number was 124, I drank that nasty melted Otter Pop glucose mess in less than 5 minutes and waited around for 30 minutes after seeing the doctor to get my blood drawn.

Ruth is now (almost) 16 months old. She can run really fast now, which is pretty funny. She wears size 4 shoes, 18 month dresses, 9-12 month pants (she fits into 18 month pants but these have to be leggings), and size 3 diapers. She has become very good at pointing out babies everywhere we go, we'll see how she does when ours arrives in about 2 months.

Brad left yesterday at 3:10 to go to a corporate training in New Jersey. All 3 of us were pretty sad about that, we don't like being apart. Luckily it is only for 4 nights, he'll be back Friday at noon.

Also, we are suppose to close on our house on March 15th, that is in 6 days. But we are still waiting for the bathroom fixer upper guy to get in there and fix the bathroom. Once that is done we have to wait for the appraiser to go to the house for the 2nd time to approve the finished work. And THEN we can close on the house. Basically, there is no way that will all get done in the next 4 business days, so we're kissing that closing date goodbye. (The bank has already asked for an extended closing date of the 29th for this situation, so it could end up being anywhere between the 15th (in our dreams) and the 29th (I sure hope it's before then!).)

Pictures

Here are some pictures of the fun we've had together as a family recently:

Ruth praying, she is very observant and has started to ask to say prayers all the time:

Me being bored after church (check out the baby bump!):

The result of getting ready to move and Brad cleaning out the closet:

Brad and Ruth being goofy after church:

Ruth avoiding bedtime or playing mummy in the ottoman:

The result of trying to watch a movie (Hot Rod) while the child is still awake:

The culmination of having "long" hair for too long, two bad hair days in a row, owning a pair of scissors and not wanting to sit on the floor while Ruth took a bath: