I should have worn heels -- life at 5'3" - Nursery Painted

07:57 pm - Nursery Painted

Every time I leave the doctor's office now, I get that 80s song "Final Countdown" stuck in my head.  We are so in the final countdown.  We actually had a bit of a *gulp* moment today when they tested me for preclampsia (blood pressure related thing that would mean I'd probably be having some babies tonight instead of doing laundry).  But, thank goodness, my test results came back normal, so the kids get to stay in the "Easy Bake Oven" (as Ken calls me now) for a few more weeks.  They are healthy and active... Man, are they active!  And they're all squished and entwined in funny ways in there right now.  There's not a lot of room.  At last week's growth appointment, Elizabeth was weighing in at 4lbs 8oz and Rachel at 4lbs 10oz.  I think they are supposed to grow about 1/2 lb per week from here on out, so for all I know they could have topped 5lbs each by now.  That's a lot of baby in there! 

I gained a whopping 6lbs in the last week, and it's all in my feet.  They are so swollen, I don't even recognize them.  I think I got up one morning over the weekend and put on someone else's feet.  And I think they must have been circus folk or hobbits or something.  Because these are NOT my feet.  And they ow.  :(  I have grown out of my last pair of sandals and have had to buy a cheap pair of flip-flops a size bigger than I normally wear.  And even they feel tight.  But they tell me it's all part of the final push to D-day. 

In brighter news, we finally got the nursery painted.  Many, many, many thanks and praises to the wonderful WordWomen who trekked out to West-Scholes Manor on Saturday for a day of painting.  We turned the Watermelon Room into a room that I now feel happy to exist in.  The previous owners had a tween daughter whose room was painted in the color of a watermelon rind.  Then, where there would normally be trim, but there WASN'T, they painted bright pink - a shade somewhere between watermelon and pepto bismol.  Bleh.  Now, the room is a light shade of happy green.  And where there actually IS trim is painted in buttercup yellow.  Then we painted the dresser and bookshelf.  The outside parts we did in buttercup yellow and then the drawer fronts and inside shelves we alternated in the same green on the walls and pink lemonade.  It is such a cute room!  And when I say, "we," I really mean Julie, Sue, newroticgirl and debbiemumford.  I fetched food, tried not to inhale too many fumes and began sorting through Smaug's treasure pile.  Once I've put the room up the way I want it, I'll post pics.

And now, I fold laundry.  Baby laundry.  I've gone through and washed the bundles of baby clothes (not nearly all of it, but a good start).  And I'm trying to organize it into the dresser.  It's so weird to know that they are going to be here so soon.  I just hope we're ready... or as ready as we'll ever be.