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.
We went on a walk the other day, because the weather was so nice. Leah wanted to ride in the stoller, of course.
Hailey insisted on pushing Leah in the stroller. We didn't get too far. Just to the end of our street and back. Both girls had so much fun.
Hailey loves to baby out cat, Giggi. He doesn't always appreciate how "loving " she is. She puts him in a basket and carries him around the house. Today she was carrying him around in a box.
Leah pulled out one of my Mei Tai's, an asian style soft baby carrier. She wanted to wear her baby. How cute. She carried her baby on her front and then on her back. She doesn't have much patience to keep her baby in the carrier for long though. Leah at 3 and a half years old, and 35 lbs, still likes to be worn in a baby carrier. I can wear her for short times on my back. The other day I wore her for a walk and a meeting at the Rigby City council for about 1 hour. I was still fairly comfortable after that. I guess that my body has gradually gotten used to her weight.
Mac and I are going to St. Louis soon for a TEAM Monavie function, and I complained about mouse poop (yuck) under the bathroom cabinet. So I started Mac on remodeling the bathroom before his mom gets here to stay with our kids. He gutted the entire bathroom, replaced floor joists and got the sub-floor and hardi-board down but that is as far as he got. I am afraid that I caused a lot of stress for him.
We also have a whole bedroom full of boxed kitchen cabinets. We were hoping to get them in before his mom gets here too, but we will have one day before we have to leave for St. Louis when he gets back.
What did I start!!!! At least our kitchen has the existing cabinets and sink and appliances. It's very funtional.
Well I have to go put my house in order to prepare for our trip.
Since we moved into our house in Rigby, we have been slowly but surely fixing it up. It all started the night that we closed on the house, Mac and a couple friends ripped all the carpet out, because of the stench of dog urine.
Since then we have torn out paneling, replaced rotted sub floor, replaced the coat closet with a bigger one, and much more.
In October we started on the kitchen floor and got ready to tile around the dining room and the kitchen. We pulled up the old gross vinyl rollout flooring and layed hardibacker board.
Leah even helped by giving Daddy screws and blowing him kisses. She wanted to be just like Daddy with knee pads and everything.
In November we layed the tile but hit a snag when we couldn't decide where to go next because we don't have our new cabinets yet. We will have a little different layout in the kitchen which makes everything more complicated.
Now that it is February we are so excited to get close to the end of our kitchen projects. We will be getting new cabinets!!!!
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.
In October we started on the kitchen floor and got ready to tile around the dining room and the kitchen. We pulled up the old gross vinyl rollout flooring and layed hardibacker board.
