The Size of a Cauliflower

Baby Girl is the size of a Cauliflower and she is cooking along at 25 weeks. Yup, I said it, 25 weeks........ that means only 15 more to go. Since my last post, I have been for a regular check up. Remember I was sick, at this appointment the Doctor confirmed I had flu and essentially sent me home to rest. I am just now starting to feel normal again, although I think it might be a few more days before this cough disappears.

In the meantime, we have made an attempt at starting to get the house ready for a baby. It really shouldn't take a lot, BUT and its a big BUT. We live in a 1000 square foot house, with not a lot of storage space. Its teeny tiny! Anyway - our small three bedroom home, that we share with our two massive dogs (not really - but for the size of the house), it getting transformed. Actually - its been getting transformed for what feels like forever. As much as I love to makeover spaces and house - Jesse probably despises it. He seems to like to start a project, but never really finish one. Anyway, back to the issue at hand! We have a baby coming, she needs some space. You wouldn't think she would really need a lot of space, but after figuring out what we need (or rather she needs), it had become evident that this baby needs a whole house just for herself! So we started on clearing our our office space. So sad, because I really enjoyed that space. Its small, but cosy and over the past month as baby items have come in, we have been storing them in the office (now nursery). This means the office must now share a room with the guest bedroom................ ugh!!! I hate clutter. So we now have a desk, bookshelf, huge misplaced bed that Jesse's dad gave him (that might end up going back to Indiana) and everything else that has no place in what was our lovely guest bedroom.

Here are some before shots of the office (nursery)................... its not cleared out yet, but once it is I will post more. I will take good ones, these are just taken with my iphone and patched together using diptic.

 So the nesting is starting to kick in. We have finished our registries (oh my what an experience that was), and we are now looking at buying some nursery furniture (mainly a crib and a dresser). I am pretty indecisive right now, and we are still paying off what we spent on fertility testing when we thought we were going to have to do IVF. But seeing as we are at 25 weeks, I figured we needed to get a wriggle on and at least get the basics, i.e. a crib and a dresser. I just can't seem to decide though, here is what I have been looking at so far, they are all supposed to be 3 in 1 or 4 in 1 designs. So they should convert to a toddler bed, day bed and full bed. To me, that sounds like they will last along time, but I guess time will only tell. Feel free to give us your opinion on the style crib that you like............. oh and the color. I keep changing my mind between Espresso and the clean White look.
 
Tonight we start our childbirth class. The resources up here are VERY limited and they will only offer the class if so many sign up to do it............. and it was either start now for a 4 week class on a Tuesday or wait till May. Hmmmm - guess we have to go now then, and hope that more people signed up (we haven't had any confirmation or anything). I will let you know how that goes :). In the meantime, check out these cribs and share your opinion.