9 months down

9 months down and we are:

• Preemptively catching up on our sleep. (well some of us more than others):

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• Panicking ok this is clearly  more me than G. He is remaining strangely, uncharacteristically calm


• Watching my stomach flip around as Gus moves and grooves


• Browsing online and in stores for the perfect adorable nursery items.  We aren't going overboard but man do I want to have a cute room all ready for Gus-so far we have a crib, my Mum is re purposing an old dresser for a change table and we have a hand me down glider....just need the cute decor stuff now


• Preparing Brooklyn for her role as a less spazzy big sister.  This is a job and a half with that crazy dog.


• Spending time together in the hammock, laughing, dreaming and swatting mosquitos


• Marveling at my ever expanding belly. Each day I wake up and it seems larger (aaand I still have three months of growth to go!)


• Putting our maternity leave budget into place. Eye opening to say the least


• Craving Ice cream like its my job.  Too bad (or too good) that Kawartha Dairy is just down the street from us.....


• Nesting. Plus side is our house is finally starting to be more organized. Just in time for an infant sized bomb to hit it.

8 months down

8 months down and we are:

• Slowly working our way through our to do list (I think because I told G we could look at getting a new TV when it was done...I have never seen him this motivated!)


• Worrying about our sick pup...thankfully she seems to be on the mend, but wooo what a scare the other night


• Nesting (ok this is pretty much just me, but G is dealing with the fallout...lucky guy)


• Organizing our living space as much as possible. This may fall under "nesting" but we are really working to find a place for everything and remember when done with said thing to put it back in that place


• Preparing for our labour and delivery course next weekend.  G is working on being mentally prepared to watch a birth and learn "all the gross stuff" that will be happening.  Poor guy is in for quite a shock


• Waiting for Gus' kicks and moves to be felt from the outside.  I LOVE that I am feeling the starts of kicks and moves, but I cant wait for G and others to be able to feel from the outside


• Expanding around the middle (mostly just me)  this also leads to:


• Realizing  that this is actually happening


• Spending some time outdoors...loving the summer weather that is coming (finally)

7 months down

7 months down and we are:

• Preparing to launch a full scale attack on the outside of our house


• Remembering why it is a good idea to rake up ALL the leaves in the fall (our lawn has a few squishy piles left from the fall)


• Enjoying our time just the two of us, after having one of our friends living with us for 2 months


• Choosing paint colours for the downstairs bathroom (one small project we decided to undertake)


• Researching strollers, play pens, breast pumps and the like.  Garret is over the moon with excitement. Obviously.


• Craving: popsicles, oranges, cheese, avocados and burgers


• Gathering supplies for the mother of all spring cleaning sessions


• Realizing that naming a human being is 500 times harder than naming our dog


• Hopeful that spring really is just around the corner


• Making a billion lists of things to do, to buy, to make before the fall

6 months down

6 months down and we are:

• Pregnant weeeeeee!!!


• Panicking  (just a wee bit see above)


• Nesting (making room for another person and all their associated items in our small house!)


• Reading baby name books and realizing how hard it is to name a baby


• Realizing our tastes in baby names are way different


• Planning what home related projects are reasonable to attempt in the next 6 months


• Praying for spring to come soon so we can spend more time outside


• Having fun finding ways to tell people about the babe


• Documenting the growth of my (so far still wee) belly


• Enjoying these last few months of being a family of 2
  


• Budgeting ways to survive on decreased income come Oct---any and all suggestions are welcome people who have survived mat leaves!


• Marveling in the wonder of it all

5 months down

5 months down and we are:

• Praying for the end of winter


• Finally  hanging new dining room lights


• Hitting the sack really early...Feb is a tiring month


• Celebrating Garret's 29th birthday (CAN'T wait til he is in his 30s too)


• Bundling up to take family style walks with the dog


• Preparing early for spring cleaning


• Living weekend to weekend lately


• Also Celebrating my Mother in law's big birthday (yesterday!)


• Shoveling unending piles of snow


• Excited for the gender reveal of my friends twins--two boys yay!


• Continuing to enjoy puppy parenthood


• Planning spring projects


• Attempting to live under our new budget. boo

4 months down

4 months down and we are:

• Marathoning 24


• Eating our words after bragging about Brooklyn being house trained


• Organizing our upstairs! Closet is nearly finished and I am loving all the storage space options we have!!!


• Making Christmas presents for next year--nerd alert--this is totally something I am doing not so much G


• Cuddling for warmth cause our house is FREEZING


• Training Brooklyn to stop peeing in the house *still


• Learning how to be good puppy parents *still


• Planning Garret's annual birthday bonanza


• Laughing  at the weirdo positions we keep finding B sleeping in


• Surprising my brother for his 30th birthday


• Discovering how to use our digital SLR better and loving it

3 months down

3 months down and we are:

• Watching Sons of Anarchy and still loving in!


• Anticipating going to see The Hobbit


• Organizing our basement..I now have a craft nook...pics to follow


• Wrapping Christmas presents...finished shopping on Monday yay


• Loving receiving Christmas cards addressed to 'The Walsh Family'


• Training Brooklyn to stop peeing in the house


• Learning how to be good puppy parents


• Planning for some family style naps over Christmas


• Thinking about New Year Resolutions (I love the promise of a new year and a new start!)


• Counting down the sleeps til Christmas


• Listing the crafting I plan to get done over the break


• Slowing down to enjoy this time, right now, that we have together

Coming up on the To Do list

We have a mega to do list which I'm not going to get into tonight. But one of the things near the top for me is lighting. We inherited some really ugly wall sconces with this house. Now that we are finally getting around to painting and getting our living room in order I really want to get our lighting a little more funky. Harrison is on the case and hunting for something eclectic we can replace these with:

Weekend Plans

Recently I decided that G and I are terrible when it comes to "to-do lists". We seem to have home improvement ADD, and even though we have a clearly laid out list, we always end up working on something else.   However, I do take such satisfaction from successfully crossing things off a list, so I think I will make one for this weekend anyway

*Finish those stupid storm doors that we started in July (herein lies the ADD....we have started working on these twice, but I think because it is just such an annoying terrible job we kept putting it off. Now it's nearly winter and time to get those done!)

*Organize our clothes..summer stuff gets banished to bins in the basement and winter stuff rejoins us.  The downside of having a small space is even smaller closet space (I am sure I have commented on this before!) so organization is the only way to go

*Rake the gigantic pile of leaves that have fallen on the yard.  Trees are our best friends in the summer months, however in the fall they are proving to be more of a pain in the butt

*Weather strip the doors

*Clean the windows and window frames (the new pretty blinds deserve better!)

And likely a million other small jobs...let's see how many we actually can tackle

Sense of Satisfaction

Ok, ok, ok.....there was a lesson I learned while I was in school and I really think I need to apply it to everyday life as well. It goes like this: however long you think a task will take to complete, times it by 2 then add 30 minutes. The things I think I will get done tend to vary from the things that do get done simply due to time constraints...and that pesky sleep habit I have. We managed to get a bunch of stuff done this weekend, but not quite all the things I was hoping to. Since we are both DREADING finishing those doors we keep putting them off and soon it shall be December. Instead we cut the lawn, grocery shopped, cleaned bathrooms, replaced mailbox, updated our house number with some spray paint, hung mirror in downstairs bathroom, filmed part 1 of our engagement video, prepped Kitchen wall for painting, went for dinner with some awesome ladies on Fri and attempted to freezer shop. Oh and we also had a hot date at Boston Pizza. Not bad for a weekend! We learned something too- you can't just go out and buy a chest freezer...nooooo. You must pick one out, wait around for ages (see pic of Garret from Sunday) only to have them tell you it's out of stock. So then you drive all over Barrie to hear people tell you the same thing. Urgh!!! Finally found one but we can't pick it up til thursday--which was problematic as we were to get a big meat delivery Monday. Thankfully we were able to push that back a week! This also taught a valuable lesson about procrastination...as we nearly had 6 months of meat with no where to put it--bad news!
I'll leave you with a before and after.... Or you could call it the 20 min porch tweak.






Clearly we have a way to go on this porch re do!!!