feeling pretty good

Had a good day today ... tried not to do too much.

Brought baby bath upstairs ... will need to wash it and put it into the change table.

Put baby teddy mat out on the line again today to enjoy the germ killing properties of sunlight and give it a good air out.

I washed it yesterday but it rained lightly just before I brought it in so I thought it needed an extra day of sunshine.

I will put out the bouncer cover tomorrow. It came off the line dry yesterday ... but after having some discussions with uni about the benefits of sun and air on our clothes and things ... I think another day of sunshine is a good idea.

I ironed a whole heap of size 00 and 0 clothes last night and have sorted them into boy and girl clothes.

The boy clothes will go into the baby's chest of drawers tonight.

Now I have the chest of drawers fully stocked with clean winter sheets and size 00000-0 baby clothes.

The baby's toy box is filled with the clean and ironed 00000-0 size girls clothing. I still have to iron the summer cot sheets, but once they are done I will put them into the toy box too, ready for use in spring and summer.

So once baby is born I will have easy access to a years worth of clothing and clean sheets.

I will leave the sorting of size 1-4 clothes for some time next year! There is not nearly as much in these sizes ... and most of it is girly stuff ... so since we think bump is a boy there probably isn't much point worrying about washing and ironing this clothing yet.

I bought a new cot mattress for the baby earlier in the week and that is sitting waiting in the cot.

I have also stocked up on some newborn size nappies and in the next few weeks will stock up on baby wipes.

Office progress and baby clothes

I have managed to put away a few more things from the office, and I cleared two drawers in the baby chest of drawers.

Uni is finishing the floor of the computer room downstairs now that he has painted all the walls and the stationery cupboard (which used to be his old wardrobe).

We aim to have the downstairs room ready for the computer and other office furniture by the end of the month (Feb).

In that time I will empty as much stuff out of the upstairs computer room and when it is completely empty (most things will go down to the new office) he will clean and paint the walls and then we will start filling it all with baby furniture and toys and the transformation to baby's room will be complete.

I sorted through all of kt's size 00000-00 clothes today and organized them into sizes and boy or girl colour piles.

The boy colours have been put into the two empty drawers in the baby chest of drawers and I will wash them and iron them again and fold them and sort them into summer/winter clothes in the coming weeks.

The girly coloured clothes I will keep until after the birth (just in case) then I will decide what to give away, what to keep as mementos for kt and space permitting whether to keep any clothes for my future nieces or nephews.

I may do this either soon after the birth, or wait until Mr bump grows out of each size of clothing so that there is a mix of both colours.

Seeing kt's 00000 size clothes astounded me as they are soooo very tiny. I still marvel that she was that small.

She was pretty surprised and delighted when I showed them to her!

Have had plenty of feel good hormones circulating around my body this afternoon and someone has been sticking either an elbow or a knee out the front of my belly to make his presence known!