Tuesday, April 20, 2010
27 weeks!
27 weeks today! Time is flying by!
Big congratulations going out to my friend Kristen in Alabama who gave birth to a nearly 8 pound baby boy yesterday! Hank is adorable and Kristen is amazing! I'm so proud of the whole family!!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Onesies!
I picked up these onesies from a local company. Each is designed by a local Seattle artist. The best part? These were on sale for $5 each! They're so cute and the packaging was so thoughtful, I feel bad I paid so little!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Beautiful weekend, less back pain! Oh, and the ridiculous daycare situation in this city.
Ever since yoga ended, my back pain has lessened significantly. I hate to think yoga was the cause because I'm pretty sure it's supposed to work the opposite way. I ran on the treadmill 4 times this week and once outside and no back pain! Hmmmm.
Several months ago I joined two different listservs for mothers in the Seattle area. One of the listservs is extremely active with dozens of new messages everyday. The messages range from items for sale to parenting advice to compiles of commonly used services (babysitters, nannies, cleaners, etc.). Already the community has proven invaluable. I learned of a new home daycare center a few block from our house on the listserv. I'd never seen it advertised or mentioned anywhere else. We plan to take a tour tomorrow and get on their waitlist. (We ran by today to check-out the neighborhood and the house.)
We're currently on about 7 daycare waitlists with no guarantee that there will be any availability for us in January 2011 (one year out from when we got on these lists!). Daycare in this city costs anywhere from $1500/mo on the low end to $2000/mo on the high end. At this point, we've invested about $200+ getting on these waitlists and it's really frustrating that no one will commit to us. A couple of months ago, we started considering the possibility of a nanny share. Earlier this week, I posted a message to one of the listservs asking if there are other families in the area interested in a nanny share. I've received a few responses, which is a great sign. It means that even if we don't have the situation figured out by the time Tray arrives, there are definitely other families in our situation! And now I have them on my radar and I'm on theirs!
Another recent benefit of the listserv: I scored a bag of around 8 parenting/newborn care books for free! Most of them had never even been cracked open and several were already on our to-buy list! I love free stuff. We've given away enough free stuff in the last several years that it felt good when the karma came back around.
We had a lovely sunny weekend. It wasn't all that warm, but boy that sun felt good. Now it's chocolate chip cookie time. And tacos for dinner. A perfect ending to a really nice weekend!
Several months ago I joined two different listservs for mothers in the Seattle area. One of the listservs is extremely active with dozens of new messages everyday. The messages range from items for sale to parenting advice to compiles of commonly used services (babysitters, nannies, cleaners, etc.). Already the community has proven invaluable. I learned of a new home daycare center a few block from our house on the listserv. I'd never seen it advertised or mentioned anywhere else. We plan to take a tour tomorrow and get on their waitlist. (We ran by today to check-out the neighborhood and the house.)
We're currently on about 7 daycare waitlists with no guarantee that there will be any availability for us in January 2011 (one year out from when we got on these lists!). Daycare in this city costs anywhere from $1500/mo on the low end to $2000/mo on the high end. At this point, we've invested about $200+ getting on these waitlists and it's really frustrating that no one will commit to us. A couple of months ago, we started considering the possibility of a nanny share. Earlier this week, I posted a message to one of the listservs asking if there are other families in the area interested in a nanny share. I've received a few responses, which is a great sign. It means that even if we don't have the situation figured out by the time Tray arrives, there are definitely other families in our situation! And now I have them on my radar and I'm on theirs!
Another recent benefit of the listserv: I scored a bag of around 8 parenting/newborn care books for free! Most of them had never even been cracked open and several were already on our to-buy list! I love free stuff. We've given away enough free stuff in the last several years that it felt good when the karma came back around.
We had a lovely sunny weekend. It wasn't all that warm, but boy that sun felt good. Now it's chocolate chip cookie time. And tacos for dinner. A perfect ending to a really nice weekend!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Nursery Details
Even though we still don't have a crib mattress, a changing pad, or a carseat, hardly any baby clothes and no diapers, I continue to add little details to the nursery! Not to say we haven't made progress in those other areas, we just haven't actually pulled the trigger to buy anything yet! In due time!
I finally figured out a solution for the window in Tray's room. Once again, I can thank Ikea for offering an affordable solution! Last Monday I bought and installed a new curtain rod, solar blinds and white curtains, all for less than $60. We may need to line the curtains in a blackout fabric this summer but we're going to wait and see how it goes. Here's a shot of the after (sorry it's so dark):
A couple of weeks ago, Tray received his/her first books courtesy of my friend Kristen. Kristen is also pregnant (about 39 weeks right now, actually). Kristen and Andrew live in Alabama with their dog, Wilbur. K&A were recently given several cat-themed books at a shower and rather than risk ending up in the doghouse by bringing these books home, they regifted to us! Yay! We're trying to figure out the best way to put Tray's books on display in the nursery. I've been contemplating making rain gutter bookshelves but have yet to work up the energy to buy the supplies and try it out. For now the books are acting as a prop for our new peace lily, which, by the way, is a natural air cleaner:
The latest addition to the nursery is a series of postcards from an amazingly talented illustrator of childhood themes and scenes that I mounted on book binding paper and framed. Here's a close-up of two of the postcards:
I finally figured out a solution for the window in Tray's room. Once again, I can thank Ikea for offering an affordable solution! Last Monday I bought and installed a new curtain rod, solar blinds and white curtains, all for less than $60. We may need to line the curtains in a blackout fabric this summer but we're going to wait and see how it goes. Here's a shot of the after (sorry it's so dark):
A couple of weeks ago, Tray received his/her first books courtesy of my friend Kristen. Kristen is also pregnant (about 39 weeks right now, actually). Kristen and Andrew live in Alabama with their dog, Wilbur. K&A were recently given several cat-themed books at a shower and rather than risk ending up in the doghouse by bringing these books home, they regifted to us! Yay! We're trying to figure out the best way to put Tray's books on display in the nursery. I've been contemplating making rain gutter bookshelves but have yet to work up the energy to buy the supplies and try it out. For now the books are acting as a prop for our new peace lily, which, by the way, is a natural air cleaner:
(The Pikes Place Market book was a gift from our neighbor, Ter, who knows the author.)
The latest addition to the nursery is a series of postcards from an amazingly talented illustrator of childhood themes and scenes that I mounted on book binding paper and framed. Here's a close-up of two of the postcards:
The script beneath the elephants says "I love my Mom" in French. The script beneath the giraffes says "I love my Dad" in French. She has so many illustrations that we love but we're going to wait until we find out if Tray is a boy or a girl before we buy anymore!
On a different note, last week was the last class in our yoga series. We both really enjoyed learning the basics of ashtanga yoga and hope to begin attending a drop-in class at least once a week. Matt was the star of the class! It pays to have upper body strength in yoga! There were a lot of positions I wasn't able to get into due to my growing belly, and my balance is nearly non-existent at times. Still, learning the 8 limbs of yoga and the proper breathing technique was really cool. During one of our last classes, we decided to buy a little something to remember our introduction to yoga and this time:
Hopefully Tray isn't a big one! We really want this to fit! :)
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