Nesting?

2 things I've been super disappointed about with my pregnancies - (1) where is the weird craving? I've never craved a weird food. Like 1 thing that I just had to eat everyday. It would be 'fun' to actually be like, "Oh, man I need to have 4 pickles a day!" (2) That so-called boost of energy they call "nesting." I look around and just get overwhelmed. I make a to-do list and never do it...well maybe I do get around to checking off some to-do boxes but it's 5 weeks after I've written them down.

I get babycenter.com pregnancy updates. For those of you who don't know about it, you can sign up with your e-mail address, give them your due date, and you receive a weekly e-mail counting your week and telling you all about the development of your baby during that week, what size your baby is (in comparison to a certain food, weird), and then all sorts of other intersting memos.

This one caught my attention:
"Four Household Chores to Avoid during Pregnancy"
My first thought - Hmmm....what can I get out of doing and pass along to my husband? heehee.
According to the article, here are the 4 chores to avoid:
Here are four household chores to avoid during pregnancy:

1. Moving Furniture
2. Change your cat's litter box
3. Using Ant or Roach Spray
4. Hold off of Refinishing Furniture

Really? That is the list? Talk about a bunch of no-brainers. And a TOTAL let-down...I already do NONE of the above. What about cleaning toilets, scrubbing floors, doing dishes, and picking up toys? Those things really are NOT easy to do right now but they're not on the list so I guess I have to keep doing them. Booooo.

Speaking of picking up toys - Paige's latest:
Mommy: "Paige, before you get your snack you need to pick up your puzzle that you dumped out all over the floor right there."
Paige: "Ummm, how about Momma do it? I too little."

In the next conversation:
Mommy: "Paige, Mommy needs you to please throw you garbage in the garbage can."
Paige: "No, just Momma do it, my tummy too big."

And in another conversation:
Mommy: "Paige, please put your boots and coat on, it is really cold outside."
Paige: "I too fat."

I swear, I don't use the tummy too big/ fat excuse very often! In fact, only when I tell her that I can't pick her up and carry her anymore. She sure does catch on fast!

Paige's Bedroom

Paige's room was thrown together when we moved here a year ago...until recently she didn't even have a bedspread, just sheets and piles of blankets. And her room was decorated, kind of, but there was no design whatsoever. I had something in mind, and nothing in the stores or online quite matched up to my vision. So...I decided to make the stuff, only I didn't have time nor talent so....I delegated most of the tasks to the people most skillfully able to complete them. My dad built the dollhouse bookshelf and the white picket fence headboard. My mom made the bedspread with this fabulous array of fabric I ordered and she helped me construct the curtain. Basically ALL that I did was tell them what I wanted it to look like and bought the gerber daisies and glued them on the curtain, and stuck them behind the 'fence.' Oh and then I reorganized the room a little, but of course all of the heavy lifting and moving was done by Jesse. So you see, it was a total group effort. I'm totally happy with how it turned out, which is amazing acutally...and Paige loves it and loves to talk about who made what; and the changing table that had been serving as a bookshelf is now ready for baby #2! The only thing I would change if I could would be to not have the bed so close to the window, the curtain and the headboard are kind of busy next to each other, but this is the best arrangement we have with the space available. Before I post these pictures I have to say that my quick photo snaps do not serve justice to how the room turned out but you'll get a good idea I think.







What is it about a nice crisply made bed that makes a kid just HAVE to jump on it and rumple it all up? Oh well, again, you get the idea.
The big brown body pillow along the wall is kind of wierd, but it covers up a big cord that is plugged into the wall right there for our internet; the cord runs along the bottom of the floor, under the door, and around the corner to where I am sitting right now at my 'desk.' That's the way it is in above-the-shop-apartment living. But we're cozy and it all works just fine for now :)