Getting Ready for Baby...

If I was being completely honest my lack of blogging wouldn't be solely due to getting ready for baby, but since I am pregnant I get to use this excuse for everything right now! I am now 26 weeks pregnant and feeling every bit of it. It is sooooo different being pregnant and chasing a toddler. Most days I am so exhausted by bed time that I fall asleep before my head even hits the pillow:) One thing I have noticed is that I wake up most days with the motivation to get stuff done and if I act on it then I can accomplish a lot and then crash all afternoon. One of the projects that I wanted to tackle well before the baby arrives was painting the bedroom that Jonathan and Reagan will be sharing. When we moved into our house almost 3 years ago all the walls were white. I was sick of white walls so I painted, and painted, and painted. When I got around to the bedroom that was at the time Adrian and Luke's I had a creative moment of "brilliance" and used the blue from the kitchen and yellow from one of the bathrooms to paint the walls...perfect in my mind...in reality...not so much. At the point of realizing the painting disaster I was so done with painting! However, the boys thought it looked cool (what do boys know?) so I left it knowing I would regret that decision and need to paint it again. When I was pregnant with Jonathan I wanted to paint that room and Andrew wisely knew that I was doing too much already with working full-time and advised that I wait. I waited knowing I would get to it. Well, when we first found out we were expecting again I jumped at the chance to paint! It took me a while to settle my mind for sure on what I wanted to do, but about a month ago I did it! I moved all the stuff out of the room (except the beds) and my friend Candi came over and helped my paint. With Jonathan's nap and good old "Nemo" we were able to complete all the painting without the help of my lovable toddler! I didn't take a true before picture of the mess, but here are some with most of the stuff out:

Jonathan had a lot of stress when I put all the books in a box and took them out of the room--I think he thought I was taking them away from him. Funny kid. He then sat in the hallway and must have looked over every single one.

After we painted and rearranged furniture we lowered the loft bed and I got some new bedding. Eventually Jonathan will use this bed, why buy a toddler bed when this one will work perfectly? And here are the after pics (ignore the flecks...don't know what that was from):

Ahhh, so much better. Jonathan loves playing in his room even more now although I still find myself gathering up armfuls of his toys on a daily basis from the rest of the house too!

In addition to getting the bedroom ready I went through 4 totes of baby clothes to get out the stuff I could use for a baby girl and sorted out some things to give to my friend who is having a boy next month and sadly I found a few things that needed to just get thrown away.

My next project is to potty-train Jonathan. He already will use the potty chair if I take him to it so I just need to get him to the point where he will go on his own. I am really excited and I think he will do well with it since he already understands the concept. Fingers crossed that he can do this;) (And also that I will not lose what little of my sanity that I have left!)

Jonathan turns 18 months old next week so I am almost able to leave him in nursery!!! That will make my life a whole lot easier since I am physically struggling with chasing him around the church and he loves going in there to play. It is hard for me to believe that this big boy used to be so small...when I hold up a newborn onesie it makes me a little sad, but soon I will get to hold my little girl and then it will be all better!