Where ya been, Miss Sophie?

Well, I've been just a wee bit snowed under with my life at the moment. To whit: crazy thick-with-data anatomy class eating up most of Tues and Thurs and untold hours of studying, crazy rampant subbing on the other days in order to offset not working at all for the next five or six years, the requisite workouts and teaching at the Y and housework, and then the complete revamping of two bedrooms in our home and other preparations for our brand new gorgeous awesome family member.

Here's the fun output:

First up, we could hardly start painting for a new baby without taking care of the original one. We'd been promising Jack an updated room (he's just a WEE bit old for Koala Brothers) -- so we moved him into the spare room (he apparently thought he was gonna get to keep the computer that had been in there before. Nope!!) and got down to painting it his favorite color. Now the only trouble is, how to find the kid??

I just really love this room. It makes me smile.

Next, it was on to the new room. After this long out number by males, I went full-bore girly. It was a little hard to paint over the masterpiece that Jenn and I worked on together....but once I got into it, it just got funny. Look at those legs just dangling out!!


Then a little white on the bottom. Stay tuned to see why there's still a stripe of cartoon-character limbs.

It will eventually be a chair rail. We were going to go with beadboard, but given that time is advancing RAPIDLY, we figured we'd better go with somethign a little quicker. Mike got the rails painted this weekend, and they'll go up in a couple days when we can lift Josh's nail gun!
Tonight -- he's working on putting together the, gulp!!!, crib. You know, it's sorta difficult to stay in denial when there's a crib hanging out in the room across the hall. It's not like we haven't been waiting for ever and ever, and wishing and hoping and praying....but somehow is just seems really surreal that we are going to be (hopefully!!!) parents again. And of a girl!! Schweeeee!!!





Jack is doing his part to get ready for his baby sister. I walked into our room the other evening and saw he'd taken a moment to make sure she was properly armed!!