Topic: Pruitt
I am so excited. . .if only I weren't so tired you'd hear me screaming and hollering! :) Here I sit at 33 weeks pregnant and Pruitt's room not done. We were starting to get a bit stressed out by this fact, but when talking to Gretchen. . .and as she so beautifully states in her blog today, he won't even be sleeping in there, so why should I be stressed??
I guess I'm an anal planner, ok, no guessing about it, this is a matter of fact statement. I wish I could be more like crazy hippy Gretchen (LOTS O LOVE MAMA!!) and co-sleep with the boys. But Christopher refuses. . .it's not even up for discussion. One morning last week Cale woke up to the storms and came into our room at about 5. He's never done this and I was taken aback as he crawled over my belly and sleepily stated, "I wanna sleep with you." My instinct was to grab him and never let go, but daddy patted him on the back and quietly said, "It's night night time buddy, we need to go back to your room." Cale kissed me gently and said, "Oh, ok, night night momma" and my heart just melted. I miss having him right up against me and smelling his hair. Ahhhhh . . . .that's what mothers love. But soon enough, Mr. Pruitt will be lying beside me in our bed. . .at least until daddy puts him in his bassinett. I do get a wee bit of satisfaction out of the fact that he'll be less than a foot away from my bed during the night. And probably will be up until about 9 months old.
Although I can't get Chris to co-sleep, I have sold him on breastfeeding past 3 months and babywearing. I keep crossing my fingers that the breastfeeding will pan out and I'm not hooked up to the milk machine for another 11 months. And I love the feeling of having the baby right there and not keeping them at a huge distance all the time. I even went and got another really awesome sling from a woman that happens to live in Tulsa! Cool huh?? :)
So, without further ado, here are the pics of the walls that Jason Memoli (my hunk of meat brother-in-law) painted yesterday. Mr. Muralist rocks and had this done in approx 4 1/2 hours! Oh to have his talent!!
I failed to capture the SMILING fish behind the door. Yes, he looks like a giant red goldfish cracker smiling at you! It cracked me up, but the whole story includes an OU on its body. Not sure what reaction that would have gotten, but I do like the goldfish-cracker-wannabe. I will post these on my site soon, along with finished nursery pics. I still have a ton to do, but this is one GREAT BIG HUGE weight lifted off of my shoulders. . .my big broad fat pregnant shoulders ;)
