... And Baby Makes Three!: 22 Weeks, Paint is all done!

So we had 2 very productive weekends and Arturo managed to get ALL of the painting in the baby's room done, and put up the chair rail. it looks FANTASTIC! Everyone I show pictures to cannot say enough about how wonderful the room turned out! Now I get to do my thing and go crazy decorating with all the accessories! All I can say is there will be lots of purple and butterflies in there when I am all done! Yesterday while at Target I picked up a mattress for the crib and a thicker pad for the changing table. It is so crazy to think a baby will be sleeping on that mattress in a few months!

Arturo is getting more and more excited about the baby coming, he goes on and on about how he cannot wait to meet her and see what she looks like. He plans to take 2 weeks of paternity leave to be with me and the baby after she is born. I am really looking forward to having some good quality family time for the three of us to really bond and get the hang of things around the house. :-)

I have been trying to get more creative in the kitchen these days. My Mom pointed out a great recipe booklet for me to pick up at the grocery store by Taste of Home, the feature this month was "Fall Freezer Meals". Meals large enough to make one batch to eat tonight and one to freeze and eat later, I have already cooked a few things from it and they are great! (and now I have a few things in the freezer to make later when I don't feel like prepping a meal) The idea behind this is that I can master these recipes now, and when I am closer to my due date I will cook up a handful and freeze them to re-heat and eat later after the baby arrives, because I am sure the last thing I will want to do is cook and we want to avoid eating out too much.

Thats all for now, here are some pictures of the finished paint job in the nursery!