Latest Ultrasound Pictures

These are a little old, but they are the latest ultrasound pictures / video we have. Baby Maio will be entering its third trimester this week. Take a look.

Here is a lovely little smile for everyone to enjoy.

Check and check

It's been a gorgeous weekend here in suburbia; just the thing we needed to keep checking household projects off the list. Matt finished painting the baby's room this week (pebble rock is the color - nice and neutral), and the evil plastic was removed from the stairways. Matt commented that this was the first time since the beginning of February that the upstairs wasn't covered in drop cloths, and we noticed that the ratio of spaces we've painted to not is 10 (including exterior which really should count for at least 2 on its own) to 6. Yikes.

We spent Friday night at our friends Dan & Erin's (who will be Mr. & Mrs. in September!) which was an awesome break from the busy weekend to come. For a house the size of ours, we have a lot of garden and the rest of the weekend was marked for tackling one particularly heinous corner of the front yard. I tried to help as much as I can, but let's call a spade a spade here folks, it's all I can do to bend down to get ice cream from the freezer much less spend hour after hour plucking weeds and laying mulch. So instead I took my job of landscape designer very seriously.
All in all between the bathroom, the painting of baby's room, and the garden projects, my amazing hubby (and his trusty sidekick, Ralphie) gets major props for being a kick ass home improver.

Adventures in Babyland

There are piles of things to do as we prepare for baby. One major project was remodeling our main bathroom from floor to ceiling. I'm thrilled to say that that project is complete and looks mahhhhhvelous (see scary before & afters below). Now we're working on painting the baby's room. Unfortunately neither of these projects has come without great sacrifice, mostly of Matt's body. Below is a shot of Matt continuing to pull up bathroom tile earlier this year after the six stitches he needed at urgent care from not wearing gloves in the first place (note to the reader: we were not permitted to go to urgent care until both Matt and his bro Steve had been fed lunch. Classic.). Now that the wee cherub's room is in mid-paint, we have plastic lining the stairs going from the first to second floors. I have had a sense over the last few days that one of us was going to slip but naturally assumed it would be me, as my motor skills have basically imploded on me the last few weeks (what, it's not normal to tip over backwards while putting groceries away?). However tonight I heard a big thud and lo and behold Matt slid down the stairs and sprained something in his left foot. Fortunately we were on our way out the door to Baskin Robbins so all was right with the world. Hopefully we both make it to September in one piece.