getting so close!

our new little person will be here any day. i was 3cm dilated and 75% effaced on Friday and i have contractions all the time...just not settling into a pattern yet. i will often mention them to adam though and he assures me there is nothing like me telling him of another contraction to spur him on in finishing up our renovation project. we basically finished the bathroom to nursery project and we are so thankful! at least the major components are done! there are lots of odds and ends to do, but my nestingness will help us get some of that done. since yesterday afternoon i vacuumed, swept floors, cleaned bathrooms, moved furniture into nursery and arranged it, did 3 loads of laundry, reorganized marit and graham's closet, hung pictures...and other tasks i can't remember. so here you see the bathroom from before:

we tore the tub, toilet, and sink out (big thanks to my dad who did a lot of the demo on a recent visit!), repaired the wall and bead board, removed the extra wall, replaced the nasty linoleum with pergo, installed a fan, repainted.


the fabric birds were made by my sweet friend nicole (used to decorate for our parish shower) and the paper ones by my sister-in-law kelly. both are much more creative than i. the horse paintings my mom did when she was in art school and i have always loved them. all the furniture is from ikea and we already had all of it...marit's crib, chair i nursed the older two in etc.

at first we thought the green a little not babyish enough, but i must confess, i love colorful walls and i'm rather fond of the color now. the wardrobe is where the sink used to be (we decided to hold off on building a closet in here for now and reorganizing the kids closet freed up the wardrobe) and we hope to put a wall lamp in that hole where the sink light used to be.

this is our landing actually clearing out since it is no longer a holding place for furniture and lumber. we still have gazillions of tools to return to our neighbors, lots of cleaning and organizing to do up here. all those clothes in the baskets are boy and girl baby clothes waiting for our delivery so half can be put back in the attic


we are so excited to meet this little one soon! i love this anticipation stage...knowing it could be any day. pray for us as we help prepare marit and graham. marit particularly has been really emotional...maybe just sensing the impending change. graham is two and crazy and has no clue what is about to happen!