In Honor of Labor Day, He Labored

Adam has been very hard at work this weekend. He took off Thursday and Friday, so he's spent the last 5 days working on the two rooms upstairs, pretty much from 7 in the morning until 6 in the evening. It's made me feel a little bad for not really helping out, but in my defense I offered and was refused (he was afraid that I'd breathe in something that's bad for the baby or work too hard and hurt the baby or something along those lines). But he's made great progress! We're completely torn out now (he had ceilings, lath, and insulation to deal with) and he's also started on the rewiring.

Here he is, hard at work!


We didn't think that we had that much left to tear out, but clearly we were wrong. This is our second dumpster, filled to the brim:


It's not as big as the first one, but that's still a lot of stuff that had to be taken out. But now the rooms are looking great! Adam tells me there's still a lot of work to do before his dad and brother come in two weeks to help him put up the new drywall, but I'm impressed with how much he's gotten done.

Here's our room:


And here's Abby's room:


I've mostly spent the last few days trying to convince Abby that it's not as terrible as she thinks that Dad is upstairs working. She does a pretty good job, but she just doesn't understand why he's home and not playing with her. Frequent trips out of the house have helped a little! Today we went to the park, and she spent probably half an hour pushing her stroller around (Gingham was riding in the basket in the bottom) and bringing me rocks to look at.

I've also been able to start on a baby blanket for Astronaut. I had a little bit of drama getting the yarn - I ordered it online during an online only sale, and never got a confirmation email. When I called a few days later to see what was going on, they told me that my order hadn't been processed, but of course by then the sale was over. Not really that big of a deal, but I'm super emotional these days, so of course it felt like the end of the world. Luckily, I had called Adam crying earlier, so I didn't actually cry on the phone with the guy at Jo-Ann's, and he was very nice and very helpful and gave me the sale price and free shipping, so it all turned out all right. And even though they said it would take 5 - 10 business days to get my order, it actually came two days later, so I've been working on the first blanket in the evenings. I started with the girl blanket because the darker pink is my favorite of all the colors that I got, but the boy blanket will look the same, only with two shades of blue.



There isn't much to report on the Astronaut front. I'm pretty sure he's still breech, based on where I feel his kicks. According to Babycenter this week, he's about the size of a large mango, and my Your Pregnancy Week by Week book says he's the size of a small doll. So I'm really not sure how big that is. I guess those could be about the same size. But we go for the next prenatal appointment on Friday, so we should at least be able to hear his heartbeat and be reassured that everything's looking great!