Little things

Not much has been happening around here over the weekend. My brother was home and so we went over to my family's house a couple of times. Last week we took the loveseat out of the office and gave it to my brother. So yesterday Matt moved the entertainment center out of the nursery and moved it into the office. It looks good in there and soon we'll have to find a smaller TV to go in there so that it can be a game station for Matt's Nintendo and stuff. Haha, I never thought we'd be a 2 TV house, but it will be nice to have a separate TV for when Matt has his friends over. I usually read on the couch in the living room, but I don't like doing that when it's full of guys playing video games.

We're talking about nursery plans. I'm pretty sure we'll just leave the walls the light tan color instead of painting. For awhile I thought about putting a chair rail up and then maybe painting underneath another color, but now I think we'll use that money to put shelves in the closet instead. I want some nicer wood shelves that fit perfectly. Too bad my brother won't be home over the summer, I'd hire him to build them if I could. We're also planning on buying a dresser. We're thinking about buying the dresser that matches the crib now. It's reduced in price. It only has 2 drawers, but we don't have room for a wider dresser and I want it to be short so it can be used as a changing table as well. Matt wants them to match and I'm willing to pay more in order to skip all of the shopping around we'd have to do to find another that matches.

I've started doing stretches every day along with some light exercises. I'm also starting to lift hand weights again. I'm using lighter weights than I was since I've gone so long without doing any lifting and I'm lifting at a lower intensity (mainly because it doesn't require as much laying on my back). I didn't ask the midwife for her approval, but I'm taking it easy and so far, so good. If I ever feel uncomfortable I'll stop. I don't really know what to do as far as cardio. I walk whenever I can, but I don't know if I can do my aerobics DVDs. I'll have to look in my pregnancy book to see if there's anything they recommend besides walking, swimming, and stationary biking (it seems like that's all I ever see in recommended exercises for pregnant women!). If I had a membership to the Y I'd be all set, but oh well. I'm just now feeling energetic enough to exercise. I wish it would last, but I'm sure when I get really big I won't want to be doing all of this!

Serenity is fascinated by the clock in Evan's room. We ordered one off of Ebay that was made in the Lil Dino theme that we're using. You can't see in the picture, but it's personalized with Evan's name! The ticking is loud and every time Serenity goes in the room she stares at it. Right now the clock is above the glider and the other day she climbed up the back of the glider, jumped onto the top of Matt's guitar case, and then started batting at the second hand of the clock. lol Needless to say we moved the guitar case so she won't be doing this anymore (leave it to her to find another way though).