Busy-ness

It seems like September has gone flying by. We have accomplished quite a bit but I feel like I have very little to show for it. I cannot believe we are into October next week. I looked at the calendar this week and I have less than 10 weeks to get everything accomplished before Lily's arrival....YIKES!!!! Granted we have really only had one weekend to work on the rooms. The first weekend was Joshua's birthday and we had family in our guest room. The next weekend we accomplished a ton! I got all of our furniture out, painted and got most of the wall paper border up. The wall paper border was a point of frustration here and there. The bedding I really liked for Lily's room is supposed to be available at Babies R Us and Lonestar Baby (another local store). This is according to the manufacturer's website. None of the local Babies R Us stores stock it and neither does Lonestar Baby! I could order it from Lonestar or I could order it from Amazon. Since Lonestar was about $45 more, I went with Amazon. They don't have all the accessories but I really didn't want all of them anyway. One thing I did order was the matching wall paper border. Nowhere on the website or the packaging did it say how much was on the roll. Not even when I had the roll in my hand!!!! It came out to about 10 yards but wasn't enough to do the whole room. I had to get on and order another roll and wait for it to come in. Of course it didn't show up until right before I left for a conference, so I didn't finish the room until this week. I have never wall papered before and it was a learning experience. I'm glad I started with just a border....I'm not a big fan of wall paper but the border was too cute to pass up. I seriously doubt I will do any bigger wall paper projects. I can't imagine all the tedium that goes into hanging full size pieces to cover a whole wall! Not my cup of tea!!

Now I just need to work on getting the nursery furniture out of Joshua's room so I can tape and repaint for him. He is very excited about his airplane room and can't wait for us to get started. Eric is out of town hunting this weekend so I guess the furniture moving will have to wait until he returns. I think Joshua will just have to sleep in a pink room for a little bit so we can get his room painted and wait for his new furniture to get here. In my mind, his room will look really cute when it's all finished. I just hope the actual product matches what I am visualizing.

Joshua seems to be blossoming in preschool. Every day he comes up with some new fact or figure that his little brain has absorbed. We were driving around town running errands the other day and we happened to pass by a flag pole with the flag up. All of a sudden from the back seat he declares "That's a flag Mommy. It stands for America and it's red, white and blue." Having never discussed the American flag with him, I was impressed. It is truly amazing how much they learn and retain at this age.

I'll hopefully have some more room pictures to post in a couple of weeks as we finish the kid's rooms. I meant to get a before pic of Lily's room but it didn't happen. Here's the paint and border I have so far. I have some super cute butterfly decals to put up but need to get the furniture in place before I can configure the arrangement.

Joshua's 3rd Birthday

I can't believe my baby boy is 3 years old! It seems like he was a tiny little thing just yesterday and now he's a little boy! He has grown and changed in so many ways this year. I love to see this transformation but I also want to cling to all the sweet moments of his babyhood. We started out on Friday with his first true big boy haircut. He's gotten haircuts since he was 14 months old but they have always been scissor cuts to mainly trim around the edges. His hair is pretty thick now and grows at a rapid pace. His last scissor cut was only 4 weeks ago and he was looking pretty shaggy. Mom bit the bullet so to speak and had them cut with clippers on the sides and shape up the top with scissors. It's amazing how much older that one little thing made him look. He's so tall that people already assume he's much older but now he really looks the part too!

Saturday we had his main party at Pump It Up. I must say I was impressed with this place! I had decided that I was too pregnant and tired to do a party at home this year and wanted someone else to clean up the mess. Joshua had so much fun with the bounce house we rented last year that I figured Pump It Up was a perfect fit...I was right! They take care of everything. You bring the cake, candles, lighter and balloons...they do the rest! There are two huge bounce rooms and the kids get 40 minutes in each and then a party room for cake, presents, etc... The kids had an absolute blast....some of the adults did too! I'm kinda bummed that I didn't get to jump but that is off my list since I had the placenta problems earlier in my pregnancy. It was fun to watch the kid's antics though and I got some great pictures of everyone.

Joshua's birthday fell on Labor Day this year so it was nice that the whole family got to spend the day together. For several months now, Joshua has been begging Eric to take him to a football game. Try explaining football season to a two year old...he couldn't figure out why didn't take him now! We got the perfect opportunity when we found out that there were several high school games being played on Labor Day at the new Cowboys Stadium. With the exorbitant prices for Cowboys tickets we figured this would be our only way to see the new stadium this season. The stadium is pretty neat but they have a lot of bugs to work out when it comes to traffic flow and moving people in and out. Joshua had a great time and that's all that matters.

My independent little man also started all out preschool this week. He's always gone to a daycare/preschool but since he's potty trained he was able to move up to the official preschool class at school. They have school supplies and everything. He loves it and I can already tell he's learning a ton. He is quite the little sponge!

This weekend will start the change over of rooms. We are getting rid of all our guest room furniture on Saturday and will start the painting process for Lily's room. Once it's painted we will temporarily move Joshua in there with the toddler bed so we can paint and redo his room. I'm hoping to get his room painted before his new furniture gets here but we'll see! Once we get his new stuff we'll move him back and return the toddler bed to crib form to complete the set up for Lily. Then starts the great clothes sorting. I have all of Joshua's stuff up in the attic in boxes by size. Now I get to sort through and find all the gender neutral stuff and figure out what to do with the boy stuff. I have a feeling Goodwill and the Battered Women's shelter will be getting several donations in the near future! So far Joshua has accepted all this change with ease...I only hope that trend continues as we get closer to December 2nd!