Gingerbread houses

Hayden really wanted to make gingerbread houses this year and since I'm ready for Christmas and haven't had the baby yet, we decided to buy everything we needed and make them tonight. (Giant's bulk section is great!) Connor had a lot of fun too, so I think we'll make this a tradition each year. It's fun to eat while your working too!

Some thoughts on end of pregnancy

I really can't complain how I feel. There are days when I am done by 5 pm. and Mike has to make dinner, but I think I'm still keeping up pretty well with my responsibilities during the day. I'm still sleeping okay at night, and I don't have trouble with heartburn because I am able to take Nexxium this time. I feel bigger with this one than I did with Connor, probably because I am able to eat desserts this time! I think this baby will be about 8-8 1/2 lbs.. I still don't have any strong feelings about the sex, I just think it's a boy because that's what we make! Mike and my mom think it's a girl. We have about 3 girl names and 5 or 6 boy names we like. (In case you're wondering what those names are, sorry, we don't disclose that until after the baby has a name!)Hopefully it won't take as long to decide this time. Usually by now I am very anxious to get the baby out of me, but this time I am enjoying the last few days I have to feel it inside of me, especially if this is going to be my last one. We've also been so busy getting the rooms ready that I haven't been sitting around just waiting. I'm working on a curtain for the nursery right now. Mike is finishing up his internship this week, so he wants me to hold out till the weekend. That's fine with me. I don't want him to be stressed, and I'll be so glad when he is done. His official graduation is next Weds., I'm not sure who is going to make it!

New Rooms for kids

We love our kids so much we worked our butts off to have rooms redone for them by the time the baby got here. The boys have a large room in the attic for sleep and play, and the baby has a cozy little nursery. The boys love their new room. We moved them in two weeks ago on Dec. 1st. They were running around screaming for hours! We are quite pleased with how it turned out as well. Of course, work is never done, we still have to replace the window, we're just waiting for a friend to come over and help Mike.

This next picture is of our red room before we turned it into the nursery. That room has been many things in the five years we've lived here-family room, computer room, boy's bedroom (temporarily for about 10 months), now the nursery. I was a little sad to see the red go, I still like it, it just wasn't very cutsie.

I'm done painting for a while!