No more fever, no more nuks

Well, no nuks outside the crib that is. I'm still not quite ready to get ready of them entirely. Maybe I'll decide that I'm brave enough to do that this week, but I'm not promising anything. Nevertheless, I have decided that I am brave enough to remove all nuks from the diaper bag and living room (excluding the soothies which he doesn't suck on but does sometimes use to chew on for teething). Ev's fever has left us but he is still quite whiney. And that can be attributed to....two new teeth! They're not entirely in, but they are very very close. One has definitely cut through the gums and then he wiggles too much for me to see the other (proof that the fever is gone - that boy can wiggle better than any professional wiggler).
Brian, Ev, and I just got back from a garage sale extravaganza where we picked up two dressers, a bike rack, a cat toy, two books, a pushing popper toy (you know the one), two shirts for Ev, a hand saw, a necklace (made of wood so Ev can bite it!), and some fabulous yarn! We are still lacking a winter coat and/or snowsuit for Ev, so I'm still on the hunt but probably won't make Brian go with me again. I'm excited because Christy and I are going to have our very own (very large) garage sale in two weeks....speaking of which, I need to rustle up some stuff for that.
Well, Brian's back from borrowing the truck so I must go!

Changing Table [31w1d]

We found a changing table! Yay! We went to a garage sale on Saturday morning and found this ancient changing table (that is still very sturdy and adorable) for $25. Seeing as the changing table that would match our crib retails for about $250, we figured this was a nice deal. It doesn't match the crib at all, but oh well. We'll have a hodge podge of furniture in there. Once I get stuff a little more organized, I'll take some pictures of the room.
We also went to Target and picked up some necessary baby stuff (maybe not necessary, but stuff I've been wanting to buy): some soothie pacifiers, newborn size diapers, wipes, bedtime baby bath, and a curtain rod to hang a valence we found at a garage sale a while back.

We had a dr. appt on Friday. We waited for about an hour in the lobby before going in for a five minute appointment. How fun for us. Nothing new, nothing exciting. The new hospital opens in three weeks, so I am psyched about that. No way would I be happy to deliver in the icky old hospital.

This weekend, Bri and I watched the documentary, "The Business of Being Born." It was produced by Ricki Lake and it is all about home births and midwives. Very cool flick. Although I was already a very crunchy granola person when it came to my opinions about childbirth, I think this movie may have shown Brian why I have those opinions. We're also getting into some reading about natural childbirth (Bri's actually ahead of me and stole my borrowed copy of "Husband Coached Childbirth" before I could read it!) I'm waiting for another book to be available at the library, "Ina May's Guide to Childbirth." For those who haven't heard my rantings and ravings, this does not mean that I want to go out into the woods and have a baby in the river. We're not even talking about a home birth here (not this time at least!). Right now our main focus is just to try and avoid any interventions - things like pitocin, epidurals, other IV pain meds, and definitely C-sections. We'll see how things go. I am definitely not going to refuse some pain assistance if things get to be too much, but I would really love to be able to avoid all that artificial yuckiness. I'm really glad that Brian sees my side of the whole deal and he is supporting me 110%. He even commented last night that we might agree about this issue more than anything we've ever agreed on before!

Brian has also now taken to using baking analogies when referring to the growth of Snowp. I believe at this point, he is "done rising and ready to go into the oven to become nicely toasted and golden brown." The bread comparison doesn't quite work for me because I'm pretty sure loaves of bread don't have pointy elbows and knees, and stinking strong arms and legs to beat me up from the inside out. He has found his favorite place to kick me (my right side) and boy is that the strangest sensation ever! Snowp and I also volunteered at our first triathlon yesterday. We got people registered, helped out elsewhere, and then drove the sag wagon behind the bikes. Fun fun. At least we got to listen to Beatles-o-rama on the classic hits radio station for the whole drive.

Well, that's all for now seeing as I'm at work.....and obviously not working.

Some garage sale finds [26w]

This weekend, there wasn't a triathlon and we weren't out of town. That means, we went garage saling! We picked up some more baby clothes, a window valence, a sheet and mattress pad, and.........a video camera! Yes my friends, we found a used video camera at a garage sale. Original retail price (4 years ago when it came out): $800! Today's special deal for Beth and Brian (and snowpea!): $20! That's 97.5% off! What a steal! Oh, and what's that Bob? Sorry friends, but we just ran out! Yeah...it was awesome. Now we had to buy a DVD burner drive, a firewire port, and some mini dv tapes, but after that, we should be ready to go.

I never did get on last week to post a belly pic, and we never even got around to taking one. But today, we decided to go floating (swimming for pregnant people) at our lovely apartment pool. This was only my second time in our pool, and the first time this year. For some reason, we just never make it down there when it's hot out. It was a lovely time floating around and there were only two other girls there. It didn't even feel like I had a uterus! Ha. Anyway, before we headed down, I said, "hey, I already have my belly hanging out, let's take a picture," so we did. Here it is:
This Friday, we're off to Minnesota for the baby shower (YAY!) and then to Wisconsin to see long-lost family (January was a long time ago). I'm not so sure about sitting in a car for that long, but it will be worth it.

We found a crib! [23w]

More garage sale success this weekend! We drove by a couple of garage sales in Laf yesterday (so worthless!) and then gave up and went to Sam's Club to get a membership. We figure we'll save enough in diapers alone to pay for the membership! We did some shopping and then decided we would check out some of the West Laf sales that mentioned baby items even though it was after 10am by then. So we dropped off groceries and went exploring. The first one we stopped at had a crib, but.... it was at least 10 years old, you had to use two hands to put the front down, and the woman had at one point spray painted it and it was chipping in some places. They only wanted $50, but I just couldn't do it. They also had an awesome changing table/dresser for $25 that had already sold. Drat! So we went on to another. It was way out of town in a fancy little subdiv. As we walked up the driveway, the woman says "I still have the crib and dresser if you want to see them!" We say, "actually yes!" She said she saw my "little belly" and thought we might be looking for the crib. Well, it was much better than any crib we've seen garage sale shopping. Most cribs have been 10 years old and I am just not comfortable with that age on a crib. This crib was three years old, obviously in beautiful condition, and the little girl never slept in it once she figured out how to get into her parents' room. :) They also had the toddler bed kit and the full bed kit to change the crib into a bed once snowpea gets bigger. She wanted $45o for the crib with kits, armoire, and dresser. Brian asked if she would be willing to split them up and sell just the crib since we live in an apartment and don't have much room. She said she guessed but she would still want $200 for the crib since it would no longer be a full set. After talking about it, I decided that the crib, two conversion kits, AND a sealy mattress was worth the $200, so we gave her $50 and promised to be back with the rest within the hour. We disassembled it, brought it home, and it's almost all put together now. We are missing two screws for the crib (it was set up as the toddler bed, so we didn't make sure we had all the hardware for the crib) so we need to find replacements for those before it is completely ready. Here's a picture of the crib model (we got it in white, don't have the pull out drawer) so you can see what it will look like. The front does not come down because the curved front is supposed to make it easy enough to lean over and take baby in and Also, those mean old missionaries visited us and convinced us to go to church today, so we took my belly pic for 23 weeks while I was dressed up. Snowpea heard the "din of babies" (Brian's words) during church and decided to join in by jumping all around. Also, whenever I stop singing, he jumps around, so with three hymns, he was having a little dance party in there. My ankles were starting to get sore from sitting with them straight on the ground though. Anyway! We have to go check on Brian's test at the lab again, so that is all for now.

Oops! Forgot this last picture. We are (Brian is) slowly learning about all the places we cannot put snowpea, for storage or otherwise. Here's the latest: (Yeah, that's a rubbermaid bucket...)