31-week check-up and the house is coming together!

Chris and I went to the doctor on Monday, March 10, for my 31-week check-up and ultrasound. The babies are doing great! Baby A, AKA Matthew James, is 4 lbs, 2 oz, and Baby B, AKA Thomas Joseph, is 3 lbs, 15 oz. Matthew should arrive first, and he's the slightly bigger baby, which is good. They are also both head-down, so they're doing what they're supposed to do! Thomas was not in the mood for the paparazzi, so only Matthew has his picture here this time.

I'm doing much better; I think I have almost recovered from the flu. I'm still congested, but that's most likely from being pregnant. Chris and I both have a lingering cough, but it's much less frequent now.

Yesterday we both got so much done. Chris spent the morning over at our Glendale apartments, collecting some late rents and working with our handyman, Matt, on tearing out and re-doing the bath/shower in one of the apartments. It's vacant right now, but new people will be moving in next Saturday. Once the bathroom's done, Ron, one of our other tenants, is going to paint it, and then the carpet is getting installed on Friday. He also collected rents over at our Sunnyslope "Estates."

Meanwhile, I was home finishing the painting in the nursery and washing all the new baby clothes. When Chris got home, he re-hung the blinds and put together the crib. The crib is nice; I bought it used through Craigs List, but it is in great shape. It is quite large--big enough for both babies for many months, at least, and it has a changing table and drawers and shelves attached. Then, Chris brought in all the bookcases, which had been sitting in the hallway for weeks now. He attached them to the wall and to each other, so that they are nice and sturdy and can't be tipped over. I brought in all the books, that had been piled up in the guest room, and loaded them onto the bookcases. They look really cute! I also moved all the condo stuff (dishes, linens, etc.) out of the guest room, and it's all ready to be loaded into Chris's truck and taken to the Litchfield condo today. So, the guest room is now back to being a guest room, and we can walk in the hallway! The living room is also almost back to normal, though it still has the stroller and baby stuff that I haven't yet gone through. Today I will do that and finish writing my thank-you notes!

The pictures are of my newly moved office (it used to be in the room that is now the nursery) and the still-a-work-in-progress nursery. I need to hang the border, and we're going to bring Alicia's dresser over from the condo. Otherwise, it's pretty much done. There is also a picture of their first shoes! Jill, Babs, and Shannon and Craig all gave us the most adorable shoes. They're different sizes, so they'll have shoes for a while.

That's all for now. xo, j&c