Here was the 24 week belly picture that I haven't had a chance to post. I wasn't going to put on makeup just for this picture, so you get what you get. When I get a day off of makeup, I take it!
Here is Daddy putting the finishing touches on the dresser. It is a much better quality dresser than the first one we tried; I'm thinking we are going to be much happier with this one in the long run.
All done! It is just what I had in mind. :)
All I had to do was light a little fire under Daddy that we needed to get started thinking about some things for the nursery, and he was ready to go. I had one night where I hardly slept at all because I was starting to stress out about all of the things that needed to be done, and what seemed like so little time to do it since I work every other weekend (I know, I know I was maybe being a tad ridiculous. But I am a planner, and we are getting short on weekends with all the parties/showers/holidays coming up!) After that, he was the one pushing to get things figured out and start getting some thing settled. He was the one pushing to get back up to NFM to get the right dresser and to get the glider ordered since it takes 6-8 weeks to come in, and I appreciated that more than I can ever say. I'm fairly confident in saying that he has had just as much fun with all of this as I have. We have had so much fun doing all of these things together...time together, alone, that I will never take for granted.
This next picture is really just for me. A couple weeks ago, Daddy told me that he had brought home a toy from his parents' house from when he was little. He had a couple to pick from, and he said he had picked the spider because it was most like us - our spider is a story that goes way back with us.
Anyways, I didn't really think too much about it. A couple days ago I was in the nursery getting a pair of pants before work, and I saw something odd in the crib. I walked over and saw this:
I had NO idea what that thing was, or where it came from. As I was getting ready, it dawned on me that it was probably that toy that Daddy was talking about. There that thing sat in the very middle of Baby Girl's crib. Not on the wide open bookshelf, not in the closet where most of the other toys are...but in the very middle of the crib. I just had to laugh because that is just something that Daddy would do...It is probably something only I can appreciate. And now I can't bring myself to move it. I can just picture him walking in there and wanting to put it somewhere special, and that is right where he chose.
He has also told me a couple different times these past few months that there is a giant giraffe that he walks by everyday at the hospital gift shop that he wanted to buy for Little Miss. I have always liked giraffes, and Baby Girl does have a couple giraffe toys already so I just laughed it off for the most part. I haven't really thought much about that giant giraffe until the other day when he was unloading the dishwasher and out of the blue he asked "What are you going to do if someday you come home and there is a giant giraffe in the corner of her room?" I had really just been blowing it off every time he had mentioned it, but at that moment I realized that he was really serious about buying this giraffe and that he was feeling me out about it. I asked if he was really serious about buying it, and he said "Well, kinda. I know how much you like giraffes and I think I'm starting to like them now too." I didn't even ask how much that thing costs, because I'm pretty sure he doesn't know himself, or really care for that matter. So let's just say, I won't be surprised if one day I walk in the nursery to find it. A bit ridiculous, maybe? But so dang cute if you ask me. :)
