Last night would have been a good night to blog, as I lie awake in bed thinking about this little guy growing inside of me and my head just starts to spin, what is he going to look like or who is he going to look like, is he going to have lots of hair or no hair at all. Is he going to be a good baby or am I going to have a fussy one on my hands, (I'm hoping for a good baby) but all these emotions are starting to build up and I can't even begin to describe how I'm feeling. I'm super excited, don't get me wrong, but it seems like we've waited so long for this to happen and in one short month, if not sooner he'll be here.
So as I lie awake last night, I start making a list in my head of what I need to do and all the questions about the birth and what to take to the hospital and when to start packing. Everything I am reading they are telling me to have my bags packed and ready to go at 35 weeks - HELLO THAT'S TOMORROW! and I don't have a bag packed or anything. And my questions about that are:
- Do I pack one big bag?
- Or do I pack three separate bags? One for me, one for Tom and One for the baby (could I use my new diaper bag for him)?
- What do I pack? I'm starting a list and my sis-in-law gave me a good blog to refer to for this so I'm making my list.
Other things on my mind are my maternity leave and once I have this baby I have to call to tell them how I delivered and what day I delivered on, this will probably not be on my top priority but it's something I have to do so my maternity leave starts. It's just all so confusing but I know it will all fall into place once the delivery is over and I have my baby in my arms.
The one thing on my mind of course is the baby's room, I really want to get this done before he arrives because I don't know how I will be once the baby is here. I'm sure I'll be very overwhelmed and I know I'll have lots of help but I would really like our house organized before Cooper arrives. With that said here's a list of what needs to be done:
- First and foremost the basement needs to be finished, I knew it would come down to this but they are making progress, the plumbing was installed yesterday so they can start working on the bathroom.
- Figure out who's moving to the basement. This I'm staying out of!
- Move whoever is moving to the basement and clean, clean, clean that room. I'm still thinking Micayla is going to just let Brandon downstairs but I still think she should get it, again I'm staying out of it. If Brandon moves downstairs, which would give me a great excuse to totally clean Brandon's room and paint it then Micayla would move into his room.
- That frees up Micayla's room which is going to now be Cooper's room.
- Paint the baby's room (still deciding on color)
- Clean the carpets! Both rooms and living and dining room as well. We want clean carpets for little baby to crawl around on. Not that he'll be crawling anytime soon but I'm sure we'll be down on the floor with him.
- Bring furniture in the baby's room and set up crib. Both dressers are in our living room area waiting for a place to call home.
- Organize the closet!
- Clean all of the baby's clothes, bedding and anything else that will be touching him. Then organize the closet.
- Decorate the room.
- Hopefully the glider I ordered a couple of weeks ago is in, figure out where to put that.
- Get Coops changing table all ready to go and drawers organized.
- Install car seat! Yes this should be at the top of my list!
- Set up anything that needs to be put together, such as the baby swing..
- Unpack all our goodies from the shower, I can't wait for Saturday!
- Purchase anything we need that we did not get from the shower.
So as the days and weeks pass by I'm hoping to be able to cross a lot of things off this list and get everything ready for baby Cooper to arrive!
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