We finally textured the wall, and painted the last walls in the kitchen, just in time for family and friends to come over after Alice's baby blessing. I think that my mom and I stayed up until 3 am or something ridiculously late. Alice is a very needy baby, that is, she knows when she is not in Mommy's arms, so I held her while I painted. When I got tired of holding her I strapped her on in my mei tai. Here is the final wall:
Now that she is 2 months old, I am writing this, but life has been a little hectic. Alice Liberty Wilson was born May 20th, 2010 at 5:57 pm. She weighted 8lbs 4oz and was 20 inches long. She was born at home into our arms and has not had to be away from us for a minute.
With my due/guess date fast approaching, I reflect on this pregnancy.
This pregnancy has past so quickly. The first trimester, we didn't want to tell anyone our news. It dragged on and on. I got the swine flu really bad at 10 weeks and didn't know how the baby would fair. When I was over that, and we still found a heart beat, I felt much better.
For a long time I didn't know who my care provider would be. We knew that we wanted a homebirth, but not what midwife we would use. We have since found a wonderful midwife who we are extremely happy with. We are so excited to have her at our birth.
It seems like I have caught every bug out there this pregnancy. My immune system must have been weakened significantly by the flu at the beginning of my pregnancy. I have had cold after cold and really bad allergies, and then I think that I got 5th disease too. Miserable!!!
With about 2 weeks remaining, I hope that the baby and I can stay healthy. My birth supplies have been ready for weeks, and now the house is just waiting for the finishing touches to make sure that it is a clean environment for our birth. Is it ever going to be perfect? No, of course not. We do live here, and I have 2 little mess makers already. Some days it is really hard to keep up with them.
Ah well, we will see when this sweet little baby decides to make her entrance. We wait with open arms and hearts.
I am writing this late at night, while I wait for grout to dry in the kitchen. I have to do it when the kids are asleep, since its messy and especially because Leah would have to come investigate what I am doing.
Since my last post about the bathroom remodel, we have all but finished the girls bathroom, including putting Tinkerbell on the wall. As you can see it needs a few finishing touches like new fixtures and window trim and the ceiling painted, but it is functional. HURRAY for 2 working bathrooms and a working shower. Considering we ripped out the only working shower in February 2009, we are excited to have it.
We have put in all the new kitchen cabinets. We did half at a time. We did the first half back in June. Then the second half of the kitchen in November of 2009. Talk about spacing our projects out. Mac keeps on apologizing for taking so long on fixing up our house. I just tell him that we knew what we were getting ourselves into when we bought the house and we have come a long way. Sometimes it really drains me to have construction mess, but it is really getting better. After living with it for 2 1/2 years I am kinda used to it. Besides, the main living area is mostly done now. So the mess has migrated.
Tomorrow when I have finished sealing the tile, I will post a pic of our close to complete kitchen.
The next project is the master bathroom. We are planning to change the layout and include a walk-in closet, and install our new deep soaking tub. Mac has a time limit on this one, because I plan to use the tub when we have our next baby in mid to late May.
Our family loves to spend time together. Becca is a stay at home mom to Hailey, Leah, Alice and Grace. Mac is outnumbered with females in the house including a female dog, despite recently acquiring a male dog. The only other male in the family is the cat, Giggi. Mac is very glad to have another male in the house, not that he needs it. Although we have only girl children, we like to do things that Daddy likes to do, like off-roading and shooting. Our lives are very busy now with 4 girls and their various activities.
As you can see it needs a few finishing touches like new fixtures and window trim and the ceiling painted, but it is functional. HURRAY for 2 working bathrooms and a working shower. Considering we ripped out the only working shower in February 2009, we are excited to have it.
Talk about spacing our projects out. Mac keeps on apologizing for taking so long on fixing up our house. I just tell him that we knew what we were getting ourselves into when we bought the house and we have come a long way. Sometimes it really drains me to have construction mess, but it is really getting better. After living with it for 2 1/2 years I am kinda used to it. Besides, the main living area is mostly done now. So the mess has migrated.
