Post Thanksgiving Update

I had an OB appointment last Tuesday and everything is looking great thus far.  We finally got to hear the heart beat.  Holly really enjoyed that part, she couldn't wait to get up on the examining table and reveal her tummy too.  She kept talking about "check-ups".  We went to my Mom's for Thanksgiving and both David's and my dishes were a hit.  Holly really enjoyed hanging out at a different house for the day and playing with her cousins.  My mom babysat Holly the following night while David and I went out for a date night.  Before we left the house Holiday commented on how her daddy was "dressed up" and had "new shoes" on.  We were both surprised that she said that, but it was pretty obvious that David was indeed dressed up.  Holly knows more than she lets on.  David has made a lot of progress on Holly's room over the last couple days.  The wall is built and the door is framed in.  The doors to cabinet are nearly complete.  The texturing of the walls has begun.  I think David has most of the stuff to finish except for paint, I need to pick out the color for Holly's room, it will most likely be some sort of pink.  Maybe by this coming weekend we'll be in a position to get Holly's bedroom furniture.

More progess and Thanksgiving preparations

So David has the framework for the closet/cabinet unit built.  Thus, he was able to build the section of wall that now contains the light switch so the electrical is 100% done and all the grunt work of borrowing under the house is 100% done. He's starting to frame in the door now, which is a pain since every existing element of our house is not square or level.  But once that's in, there won't be much wall left to build. After that is texturing the walls, putting doors on the cabinets, painting, rerouting the cable line and finally putting in furniture.  Holly and I were feeling a little sick yesterday so I stayed home with her.  She's feeling much better today so she's back at daycare today.  We're starting our Thanksgiving preparations, thawing the turkey and such.  I made meringue mushrooms for the first time yesterday and happily they turned out correctly.  They're to go with a yule log cake which will be another first attempt.  But I'll make the yule log tomorrow.  I'll bake the pumpkin pie tonight since that will take up less space in the refridgerator.

Remodeling Progress

David's been hard at work on Holly's new room.  He had last Friday off due to a daycare closure since it was Veteran's Day so he had an extra day this weekend to work on it.  The demolition is 100% done.  The heating/venting is 100% done, he was really happy that turned out exactly how he planned it since he's never done that kind of work before.  The electrical is 75% done, all that's left of that is once the wall has been built he can install the switch to the light fixture and connect to the power.  He still needs to reroute the cable line (yep, that's different from electrical).  Next he's building a drawer/closet unit and then he can build the wall around that unit to fit.  So David made a lot of progress this weekend, but it's all the stuff that you won't be able to see once it's finished.  So right now I'm doing lots of window shopping for a new bed and bedding mainly to watch for sales so we can pounce on it.  Holly's been doing really well with the potty at home, so that's good news.  For a while there she wasn't feeling like eating very much and now she's chowing down.  I swear she's gotten taller.  I haven't needed any preggie pops for nausea for over a week now.  But I'm at 14 weeks and 1 day now so the first trimester is pretty much over.  And if history repeats itself, that means I need to be as productive as possible during my 2nd trimester, because once the third trimester hits I'm going to slow way down and getting things done will become much more difficult.

New videos, new poll and new room

David has put more video on our Vimeo site, there's still more that he needs to put on.  He's working on it.  I see some of you have noticed the new baby poll.  In the beginning, I was thinking that it's a boy, now I'm starting to think it's a girl.  It's all a gut feeling, I really have no idea why.  I'll be exactly 20 weeks on Christmas Day so the gender determining ultrasound will happen just before then, and then we'll know.  David's been hard at work on Holly's room.  The biggest issue is the leftover electrical access boxes in there.  David is getting some help on rerouting and burying that stuff in the wall.  Most of the electrical in the main part of the house is more up to date, but there's been a lot of knob and tube remnants that any electrician would cringe at.  This weekend David is planning on going shopping for materials, he even put in an order for a door so it will be ready by the weekend.  If we're having a boy, I'll probably need to redecorate the nursery.  If we're having a girl, I won't need to change much at all.  But Holly's room comes first, David is roughly shooting for around Christmas time for Holly to get her new room.  That way she won't feel like she's getting kicked out of the nursery for the new baby.  She's getting to be such a big girl that it's probably time for a big girl bed anyway.

Lovely Weekend

We had a pretty good weekend.  I took Holly downtown on Saturday to give David some time to work in the attic.  She really liked sitting in the seat on the light rail like a big girl.  She mostly cooperated with getting in the stroller when I asked her too.  I give that an A-.  She at least held my hand without fuss.  I didn't like the new Old Navy Store downtown so we moved on to Barnes and Noble fairly quickly.  Stayed there for awhile playing with the trainset and reading a bunch of kids books.  We had lunch after that, Holly really enjoyed her Lunchables.  I went to Motherhood Maternity in the Westlake Mall after that and Holly did really well in there running around loose.  The same gal was working there the last time I needed maternity clothes.  She remembered me, my name and what I bought the last time I was there.  I like that one so much better than other ones in the area.  Southcenter is pushy and Northgate is simply sad.  After that we went home on the light rail.  We practiced our colors while eating M&M's on the light rail.  On Sunday we had our friends Nick and Gina over during Holly's naptime and taught them how to play Ticket to Ride.  They did well and everyone had a pretty good time.

Going's On

On Monday we took Holly to Southcenter mall to go trick-or-treating.  She did quite well until the gals at Gene Juarez scared her with their actually scary costumes, but by then most of the stores were out of candy anyway.  When someone is dressed as a banana it's not nearly as intimidating as a bloody zombie. It was pretty busy but tolerable.  All the little costumes were cute.  Holly's Minnie Mouse was popular with the little kids.  Every few minutes I'd hear, "Minnie Mouse!"  I found my maternity clothes and had a lot more than I thought I did.  I just need a couple pairs of yoga pants (because the cat popped holes in everything) and maybe one or two pairs of work pants and I'll be good till springtime.  I'm sooooo much more comfortable now wearing maternity clothes.  I probably needed to make the swap sooner.  I was thinking of taking Holly downtown tomorrow to give David some time to work on the house in peace without a two year old under foot.  We'll do some shopping, some browsing, maybe see Macy's Christmas display and some lunch.  Hopefully that works out.  I forgot to mention that the other day when Holly was coloring Vader walked into the room and Holly raised her voice to him, "No Vader!  My crayons!"  Sorry kitty, Holly's definitely in charge.