The first thing that Dom and I did on Saturday was go to Big Brother school! I'll put that in another post though because it deserves it's own. :)
We started off Saturday at home by cleaning out the storage rooms. That wasn't even on our list of things to do! But we realized we can't move stuff out of Dom's new room if there isn't any place to put it. So Nick went off to Home Depot or Lowe's or somewhere and bought a TON of storage shelves. We set up the back storage room like a warehouse. It has rows and rows of shelves and we cleaned a TON of stuff out. If we hadn't used it in awhile, we threw it out.
The storage room in the back of the basement now has all kinds of stuff organized. From paint, to tools, to sleeping bags, to wrapping paper, to kitchen electronics, to who knows what else! It looks great.
It's hard to tell by this little picture from my phone, but it's organized and looking great. :)
After tackling this room, we organized the storage room under the stairs. We decided to make this storage room ALL BABY/KIDS stuff. So we will know where everything is. It's a much smaller room and works really well for this. We have extra diapers and wipes on the shelving, we have Dom's tool bench, we have the baby clothes and activity mats and extra toys all stored in this little room. This will make it easier to rotate toys with Dom too. We've been having all his toys out all the time and we need to stop that. He doesn't need all 500 something toys out at once. We can rotate them and keep them interesting all the time. We're starting with this now. :)
So all this looks really nice, right? Check out the picture of what the basement looked like WHILE doing this project:
Yeah...I was slightly freaking out...
But we got everything in the basement back to working order!
After all this work, we decided to go to the Home Show downtown. For those of you who don't know, the Home and Garden Show is at the Ed Jones Dome and America Center and has booths of things for your house. Such as electrical safety information from Kay Bee Electric! :) My mom was working at the Kay Bee Booth so we decided to check out some booths and visit my mom. There were a lot of cool things. One thing that I really want to do is get a closet organizer company to come to our house and give me advice/estimates on how to redo our closet. Our closet is huge but isn't very functional.
Anyway, not the point.
So we went to the home show. We saw our friend Chris there and visited with him for a bit, then we went to find the Kay Bee booth. Unfortunately for us (with a 2 year old) the booth was right next to a balloon garden (where it's a walk through garden made of balloon animals..very cool but Dom wanted ALL the balloons) and next to a Ferris Wheel. Fun for us...
Dom wanted everything. He thought the Home and Garden show was amazing. Mom and Nick decided to take Dom on the Ferris Wheel and while I was terrified for him, Dom loved it. He was a little nervous the first time around they said, but once Nick started saying, "Whee!", Dom fell in love.
Not the best picture from my phone again, but there they are!
After the Home Show we went home and crashed.
Sunday was STILL productive! We moved everything out of Dom's big boy room that we hadn't done the day before, and we moved the crib downstairs. We decided to get Dom used to the room first, before making him go into a big boy bed. So we moved the crib into his new room. Then we started working on A's room. We have the pack n play set up in her room, just for now, and we have all the 0-3 month clothes that we have in her dresser. FYI, this child will be wearing mainly blue, green and yellow...that's all the clothes we have except about 4 pink onesies! :) But that's ok. I'm sure she'll look great in blue. ;-)
I packed my hospital bag, got the diaper bag all packed up, and got Dommie's big brother present ready. We're having a present for him at the hospital so he gets something too and it's not just all about the baby. He's getting two new shirts (including on that says "BIG BRO"), a new Lego set, his Brother/Sister book, and a new puzzle. Hopefully these will all be pretty cool gifts and he'll enjoy them. I got out all the baby bottles and organized them. I'll start sterilizing them Wednesday and get them all ready for storage and use. I'm going to breastfeed but since I'll be going to school once a week still, I'll need to get pumping right away. Hopefully this doesn't confuse her too much and she still nurses for me. It will only be one bottle a week, so keep your fingers crossed this works out!
I think we are almost ready for this baby girl! If we get nothing else done, we have a place for her to sleep and clean clothes for her to wear. Oh and diapers to put her in. So I think we are getting there.
Just a few more weeks to go! :) I can't wait!
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