Projects, Projects and More Projects

I'm definitely in my third tri-mester. The "nesting" effect has kicked in and I can't seem to find enough things to do around the house. I'm driving poor Kevin crazy. Hopefully, I'll start finding projects that are less costly and that were already on the list! We replaced all of the upstairs carpet and the carpet on the stairs last week and wow - it made a huge difference. I'm glad we didn't spend too much though, because once it's in we really couldn't tell the difference between $25 a square yard vs. $35 a square yard. The upstairs seems so much nicer now and I actually smile when I am up there. Kevin loves the new color and I like it a lot and it's growing on me. I may love it one of these days too. But what I do love is our new wrought balusters that we had installed today. An early Valentine's Day gift to each other. They are fabulous and I'm so glad we decided to move forward with this project too.

View of our stairs with the white, wood spindles.

View of our stairs with the new wrought iron baulsters

When we had the carpet installed, I had the installers move Joshua's crib into the baby's room. Joshua is officially in the big boy bed now. And now that the crib is in the baby's room, I started working on the nursery. We have a lot more work to do, but the window panels are up now and that makes the room really come together. I can't wait until we hang up the nautical themed "wallies" and put up the shelves to hold the rest of the nautical themed itmes (all of the same stuff from Joshua's nursery). It's going to be perfect and the baby is going to love it. Joshua is enjoying his "big boy" room and we're going to get him a book shelf and some shelves for the wall too. Kevin is trying to talk me into letting him hang posters... I'm not quite there yet. Maybe in another year or two.

Our friends Max and Jenn are having their baby on Monday, 2/12 - whew! I can't believe it. We hope that Jenn has a good and pain free labor and delivery and that baby Caleb is healthy when he arrives. Best of luck - you're going to need it - ha ha! (for those of you who don't know them they will have 2 kids under the age of 2 as of Monday - their daughter Kate is 16 mos).