Nope, no baby. Please don’t call Jeremy and ask him about it – he’s fielding phone calls while working and it’s adding to his stress. Feel free to call/e-mail me if you want to, since I have more time on my hands. However, in the words of Jeremy, “we promise to let you know when the baby is born. Really.” We probably won’t call people when I go into labor but we practically have that “We have a new baby” email written (or at least we have the draft saved with all of the addresses) and we have a list of people we’re going to call. We have some time on our hands, so this is something we can do in advance.
Yesterday we had a nice afternoon of yard work. Those of you who have seen our ‘yard’ are probably smirking about this, but I assure you that after months of neglect even our little postage stamp-sized backyard can get pretty gnarly. J did a bunch of weeding, pulled out a dead palm plant, and replaced it with a new plant (Thanks Leah!). He also cleaned out our little planter and , ahem, ‘gave the iris a haircut.’ It was taking over and now thanks to J and his use of our kitchen shears it is most definitely not. I really should be more specific when I give him permission to cut back plants. I got a bunch of flowers in the pots on our deck and it looks very pretty back there now.
Here are some pictures of our nursery/office. Our big plan was to just put the crib and changing table in the existing office/guest room, but then we acquired a swing and a bouncy chair. Besides that, the room just looked cramped and not very cute with all of the furniture stuffed in there. So J and I both decided that while we didn’t want to go nuts with the nursery (at least not in this house) we did want something that would be at least a little bit cute.
So here is our attempt at a cute, but not very theme-y or decorated nursery. I don’t think it’s to bad considering we did it mostly on the cheap with hand-me-down or craigslist stuff (except for the wonderful gifts that we’ve been given – thank you family and friends for making sure that our baby has at least some nice things!).
The crib, courtesy of my parents. On the left you see the camera bag and our hospital bag – all packed and ready to go. The pictures behind the crib were needlepointed by Aunt Terri. I wasn’t planning on putting them in the nursery, but the blue and yellow matched so well and they look great there.
Another view of the crib. The blanket on the truck was made by my cousin Tracy and the lamp is one that JP and I had as kids. A note about the color: yes, the room is blue. No, it isn’t a subliminal message that we’re expecting a boy. We could be, or we could not, regardless of the color of the room. When we bought the house the room was Mountain Dew yellow (not even kidding), so Mom and I painted this room about 3 years. I happened to choose blue because, well, I like blue. That’s also why the bouncy chair is blue. I heard good things about this particular bouncy chair and it only came in blue and pink (don’t even get me started on how I feel about baby stuff only coming in blue and pink…grrrr…). I like blue better than pink so I registered for the blue one. (Yes, I know that some people actually re-paint their baby’s rooms. J and I still have it in our heads that we’re going to be moving before this kid is very old so I’d rather just wait until we have a new room and paint it the pretty yellow with white trim that I want).
The swing and the changing station. I might replace those curtains this week with something bright and yellow or red. To the left is the messy desk/office part of the room. The picture over the changing table is JP’s old Curious George picture. 
My favorite part of the room – Gramma’s quilt on the crib. 
The changing table and closet. We got the bins at Target and are using them to hold diapers, burp rags, and various other baby supplies.
It’s not quite the nursery of my dreams, but there’s some very cute things in it and I hope to not use it to long. For the first few weeks/months the baby will be in the bassinet in our room anyway. The most important part, to me, is the new carpet. The old carpet was yucky and this new carpet is thick and plush and I feel comfortable playing with the baby on it in the future.