March 31, 2021
Hi! Busy days these days. I wanted to cross off so many things before April, and I have but not as much as I’d liked to, but that’s ok. And now we have added more to the to-do list and they are big ones.
I have a doctors appointment this afternoon. From now on I have to see my doctor every week. Iiiiihhhh, only a few weeks left now! I feel absolutely fine which I am grateful for. I did notice yesterday though that the bump felt and looked a bit different when I was sitting down, and then in the afternoon I looked in the mirror and saw that the belly seems to have dropped a bit and baby is hanging out all in the front now. Getting ready I guess:)
So this weekend we had as you know our Baby Shower. That was one busy day. The whole day before the shower, Jim blew up balloons and I put them together to create a little arch. He also went to party city to fill 6 balloons with helium. These guys should be fired! First they popped a balloon but was at least nice enough to open a new package and blew up 6. But once J got out of the store another one popped cause they had clearly overfilled them. 5 balloons made it home, we set them up and it all looked really cute. The next morning, the helium balloons were sleeping on the floor. Wtf?! So I had to tape them up against the wall which didn’t look that great but whatever.
At 9am on Saturday, J went to pick up the cake. He sent me a picture of the cake while he was there and I wasn’t too happy about it, I wanted more daisies, but the baker was so nice and added more, they even gave us a box of extra flowers to add on our own. The cake turned out amazing! And the cake topper was just too adorable! I hope I can save it forever somehow (if you have any tips on how, please comment). The chocolate fudge filling tastes amazing. I’m not much for cake or cupcakes but with fudge filling like this, I love it.
Jim brought coffees and biscottis home from the bakery. We got to enjoy it for about an hour and then I realized I had to start to get ready cause my long hair takes forever to dry haha. At 11:45 we were finally ready to take the cake out of fridge and place the topper. Of course I wanted to take some pictures of it and then take some pictures of the baby shower decorations and of myself in it. No idea how we managed to get all that done in fifteen minutes but at noon we sat down and were ready for the first call:)
After three hours of talking to loved ones we were so hungry, so J ordered pizza from Riccos. For dessert we of course had cake. Then we completely crashed on the couch in front of March Madness (college basketball). What a busy day.
April birth flower is Daisies and May birth flower is Lily of the Valley, my two favorite flowers and Lilliput will be born during one of these months:)
We have been eating a lot of cake but we still have some left haha
The next morning, J went to pick up breakfast at Donut Delight. I need to eat fish ones a week for babys sake so I often get a tuna bagel on weekends (unless I’ve had salmon during the week). And then we started packing! Yes, you read that right, packing. We don’t know if we will be owners of the house or not but regardless of that, we don’t want to renew the lease here, we want to move south this summer, so, we started packing. I’ve been telling J this for months and I think he finally realized it’s a good idea to start before baby comes:)
We emptied the bookcase we had behind the couch and part of the other bookcase we have in the living room. J put the big bookcase for sale on facebook market and two hours later, someone came to pick it up. And these people apparently needs a lot of furniture so they want to buy the three white smaller bookcases we have as well, so I have started to empty them this week, hopefully they get picked up tomorrow.
So now we are kinda living in boxes. We went from preparing the apartment for a life with a baby to complete madness and boxes and stuff everywhere. I re-organized the bedroom/WIC (again!) yesterday and washed more baby stuff (gifts we’ve received). I will try to do as much as I can in the apartment this week. J went to Home Depot yesterday and got more moving boxes. He’s also off work on Friday which is helpful.
We will probably not have time for video games or puzzles ones the baby is here, so it all ended up in boxes.
So did most of our books.
After a hard days work, I enjoyed a non-alcoholic IPA
We were also too tired to cook so we ordered McDonalds for dinner.
Before my last pregnancy (2019) I had not eaten a Big Mac in many years, but that was a craving during that first trimester and I like it during this pregnancy as well:)
We packed the Nintendo games that we had under the TV,
and that became the new space for all the baby books