May Baby Bump!

Guys, we are so close! It's a little bit hard to go back and post these pictures of the baby bump changes through May when I'm so focused on the month of June and Barrett's impending arrival! 

5/1/15 -- 31 weeks 4 days (Emerald Isle trip!)
5/2/15 -- 31 weeks 5 days (EI trip -- maternity tankini woohoo!)
5/4/15 -- 32 weeks
5/5/15 -- 32 weeks 1 day

I started the month of May in Emerald Isle where I got to visit for a few glorious days -- and I got to try out my maternity tankini! I also tried out the whole dig-a-hole-in-the-sand-so-you-can-lie-on-your-stomach trick, and that was surprisingly awesome. Worth going all the way to the beach. I seriously fell asleep immediately after lying down on the towel over the hole in the sand. 

During May, we've also managed to mostly finish up the nursery -- I'll post the in-progress pictures soon. 

5/6/15 -- 32 weeks 2 days
5/7/15 -- 32 weeks 3 days
5/8/15 -- 32 weeks 4 days (kayaking around the neighborhood lakes)
5/9/15 -- 32 weeks 5 days (Baby Shower #3 -- work friends!)

 And I got maternity pictures taken, and I love them! I'm not usually comfortable in front of the camera (having a mirror for selfies helps -- then I can see if I'm making a weird face or showing any double chin or things like that), AND the day that we chose for pictures was about 90 degrees in the evening and at least 100% humidity. So, my bangs instantly stuck to my forehead and the rest of my nicely straightened hair curled up in weird places. All that to say that I was afraid I would look a) very sweaty and/or b) uncomfortable from being afraid that I looked sweaty in all of the pictures. 

But Alex Tenser did an awesome job, and I love the way the pictures turned out. I'll post some pictures/link to her blog when the pictures are up. 

5/11/15 -- 33 weeks
5/13/15 -- 33 weeks 2 days
5/17/15 -- 33 weeks 6 days
5/19/15 -- 34 weeks 1 day (maternity photo shoot day!)

I've still been feeling pretty well, and it's still been a blessedly smooth pregnancy. I have welcomed more heartburn (fingers crossed for some hair on baby's head!) and a major increase in Braxton Hicks. Baby B has hiccups almost every day now, and he's moving around quite a bit even though he's running out of room in there. 

5/21/15 -- 34 weeks 3 days
5/23/15 -- 34 weeks 5 days
5/24/15 -- 34 weeks 6 days
5/26/15 -- 35 weeks 1 day
5/27/15 -- 35 weeks 2 days

Baby Bear will be here within a month!! His due date is this month, but we'll see if he listens and comes on time. I am SO excited to meet him and hold him in my arms and touch his tiny little nose and fingers and toes and ears and ohmygosh! Hurry up, baby Barrett! We love you so much already!

Craft Room in Progress

My beloved craft room is going to be a shared space now. Not that I didn't share it before -- everyone was always welcome! (Seriously, come do crafts with me!) But now it's going to function as another guest room since we will need the second guest room to become a nursery. 

Freshly painted and with everything shoved against the walls -- it's practically clean!

That was the plan all along, we just knew it would take some creative rearranging to make the space functional as both a bedroom and a craft room. So, in order to get a feel for the available space and where the various pieces of furniture would fit best, I measured the room and drew the layout to scale on some graph paper. Then I cut out to-scale shapes to correspond to each of the pieces of furniture that we would need to accommodate in that room. 

This way we were able to get a good feel for how the furniture layout would work. 

So professional and technical -- like everything we do. 

Richard wanted to go ahead and paint the walls while we were already going to be rearranging all of the furniture. So I picked one of the fourteen choices from the dining room, and we went with Behr Sage Tint. He painted the whole room in an afternoon, and I absolutely love it. There's so much light in that room, and that pale green just looks so good. 

Pre-paint and with lots of baby stuff spread out around the room -- we had to test out assembling the pack n play. 

Everything crammed into the middle of the room in preparation for painting

With the new, subtle paint color that I love!

So with freshly painted walls, Richard moved the guest room furniture to the craft room and set it up in two functional spaces. 

Oh yeah, and the finished window seats!

We have the bed in one area with plans to add a dresser that will double as a bedside table. And the rest of the room has the craft shelves and the futon still in usable areas. We also chose a spot for the TV that would be viewable both from the bed and futon which was a tiny bit tricky since the bed and futon are on opposite walls. Lastly, we have a space against the wall that leads into the hallway that will be my office area when we get around to it. 

There are still quite a few things to move around and get settled, but it's definitely on it's way to being a fully functional guest room AND craft room!