36 Weeks - More Gardening and Nursery Painting!

This past week we made some good progress on the backyard! Ernie came by and installed drip irrigation throughout the whole backyard and I planted some newbie plants! We're trying two varieties of grape on the new lattice - Summer Royal Seedless and a Red Flame Seedless. I just got tiny plants (you can just see them in the pic against the fence), they'll take a while to get big and probably at least a few years to bear, but they look cute already :) Also planted some salvia and small groundcover under the Indian Hawthorne.

In baby news, I feel ginormous! Baby seems to have settled into one side, and all day I feel kicks on the right hand side - sometimes it shakes my whole belly! I will definitely miss the sensation after the birth, it feels rad to have something alive inside of you that you created.

Neddie has been A#1-double-extra-super-awesome husband these past few weeks (I mean even more than usual of course). Right now he's painting the baby's room and gorgeous pale yellow. It looks so light and bright in there, I just love it. We'll take some pics once he's done and we do a little sprucing up.

Oh - we also attended our final baby class this past week - Infant CPR! It was super cool! What a useful skill to have, it made us both feel better knowing we could do something - anything - in case of an emergency. We also learned some basics on choking and child CPR. Really glad we had a chance to take that one, just in case.

I've been trying to take it easy, too, but it's hard - I still feel like we have so much to do. But I guess that feeling will never really go away. I did get our carseat which was a big priority on the to-do list, so that felt good. I went with the Graco SnugRide - as well as the stroller attachment thingie so you just pop the carseat into the stroller frame which seems super logical and easier. We got the Mickey design, trying not to "commercialize" baby too much... but I don't mind it with Mickey!
Over these last few weeks I think I'll be concentrating on prepping some food to freeze for after we bring baby home, plus some light house stuff. But really, I think we're in pretty good shape. Just hoping baby doesn't decide to arrive early - I'm enjoying these last few days with Neddie, soaking up the "just me and him" vibe. :)