The Baby's Room

What do you do when your husband goes out of town, you are 34 weeks pregnant and the baby's room needs to be painted? you call in the troops for help is what you do. I am VERY fortunate to have such a great family and friend to be able to help me paint the baby's room last weekend.

Before picture:



my troops consisted of my mother in law Donna, sister in law Amy, friend Katie and sister Nina. Megan was our entertainment for the afternoon. my thought on the whole color scheme was to go with pink. a nice pastel pink and after looking over samples with my friend from work and then going to Target to pick out the bedding, we were able to come up with a color that was going to match nicely. so saturday morning arrives and i get up at 8 to shower, get megan up at 8:30 to make our trek to Lowe's to get paint and then to Rainbow to get snacks. luckily we were able to get it all taken care of by the time everyone showed up at 10. i had prepped the room as well as i could considering that i had been banned by nick from climbing on ladders. nina continued putting the painters tape up where i could not reach and then we got to work. we had 3 people edging and 2 people rolling. it worked out really nicely the rountine we got in. after the first coat, i went and got another can of paint and some pizzas so we could take a break and refuel.

Amy



Donna




amy was on a mission and continued to start edging the last coat while the rest of us ate. donna had a couple of pieces of pizza and then joined amy on the second coat. in the mean time i was feeding megan and getting her ready to take a nap. not too easy to do when there is a lot to watch but i was able to get her to go to sleep anyway. by the time i got back in the room it was pretty much done. Amy and Donna were nice enough to clean the brushes and peel the tape off from around the room for me when all was said and done.

Here is the finished room:


Next task is to have another ultrasound on Friday to make sure the baby is growing properly and she has enough amniotic fluid around her. this is all because sugar keeps showing up in my urine even though the 3 hour glucose test showed i don't have gestational diabetes. i will be sure to share the ultrasound pictures with you as soon as i can.

Here's to not having to worry about the new baby's room anymore and having such WONDERFUL friends and family. i could not have done it without you!!