Saturday morning my brother-in-law and sister-in-law came over and painted the baby’s room with Dave.  I hung out with my niece and nephew playing tag, card games and eating lunch.  The transformation in the baby room is awesome!  That horrid mustard yellow color is all gone!  Now it is this very pale green color, very pretty.  And they did a great job painting too!

Now the big part of the baby room transformation is converting the room from an office where we stashed a whole lot of stuff into an office/baby room.  Saturday evening and most of Sunday we cleared out our desks and the big bookshelves of all our stuff.  Then we each decided what we absolutely had to have access to on a regular basis, that stuff we kept in the office and the rest went to the attic.  We still have some clean-up to tend too, but we made amazing headway.  We opened up floor space for a crib, dresser/changing table, and a chair.  One whole big shelf was also made available to house baby stuff.  Dave even cleared out half of his closet for the baby’s hanging clothes.

I feel like we’re coming along toward getting ready for baby.  My goal is to have the baby room settled by the middle-to-end of June.  That way I’ve got whatever time left in July to not worry about organizing baby items, it will be all set.

Dave and I are both concerned about the two cats taking over any of the baby’s stuff.  My sister-in-law gave me this great mosquito net like contraption for the crib which was made specifically to keep cats out, so I’m not worried about the crib.  But everything else has thus far been fair game for especially Bailey to climb into for a nap.  We had to hurry and fold up the stroller because the instant it came inside Bailey immediately climbed into the undercarriage basket for a nap.  He also managed to crawl inside the little sling carrier thingy “Snugli” (I think is what it is called).  Riley’s been less of a pest about sitting on everything, but if anything is left unattended I’m sure he’d be in it pretty quickly too.  I’m just going to have to be really fast about putting things away and covering cozy looking areas off from them.  It sure will be interesting with those two once the baby arrives.

Sunday my mother-in-law fell down.  Nothing broken, but she got some pretty bad soft tissue ouchies on her thigh that are going to cause her some pain for a while.  We went over to help them with whatever they needed and made sure they got dinner.  Hopefully, she heals quickly and isn’t in too much pain for long.