35 Weeks and Counting

Little baby Garate is growing. Day by day she is getting bigger and seems to want me to eat more and more... the problem is she can never figure out what she wants to eat, which creates problems for me when I'm grazing in the kitchen!

Everything is moving along so quickly, but yet it seems like there is so much left to do (although I can't seem to figure out where to start)!

Our to do list still contains:

1. Actually writing down our birth plan on index cards to give to our doctor, the nurses and anyone else who may be in the labor and birthing rooms (oh yes, we have to translate the list as well because it's currently in English which won't do us any good)
   
2. Pack the hospital bag... really procrastinating on that one. Besides, who has an additional pair of glasses, toothbrush, etc. to pack in a bag now anyway?!
   
3. Pack the going home bag... also really procrastinating
4. Buy our washable diapers (the all-in-one kind, not the you have to fold the squares in the diapers kind)
5. Buy a changing pad and covers
6. Get some sort of chair for me and baby (or Arturo and baby depending on whose turn it is to get up with her)
   
7. Finish our bedroom

I would like to focus on #7 for a minute. My amazing husband decided to heed my plea of "I HATE THE WALLPAPER IN OUR BEDROOM" and redecorate our room for our new little arrival. Well, taking down wallpaper that's been in a room for 25 years on your own, then trying to putty, sand, and paint. Yeah... not the greatest idea (Sorry Arturo! You were right!). So after two full days of working on the room (Chela, Alex, Arturo, and I all worked on it!), we have decided to hire someone to finish up the walls. What us "gringos" who come from living in wooden houses with plasterboard walls don't realize is that it's really really really hard to work with cement walls. If you don't know what you're doing it comes out looking like a cheap job. So, we have hired a maestro to come in and finish what we started and repair what we made look really bad. For a full day work to completely finish, sand, and paint our bedroom walls they are charging us $30. Yes, that's it, $30. We are THRILLED! So we will have brand new walls on Saturday!

We also ordered a new Queen-sized bed (here it's called dos plazas y media) and mattress and a dresser that will double as a changing table from Colinial. They are beautiful and I can't wait to get them! They were supposed to be here today (Tuesday), however, we pushed the delivery back until Wednesday because we thought we would have the room done. Now they're not delivering until Monday since our walls won't be complete until Saturday. The good thing is, when all is said and done we will have a nice new room with new furniture and we will be ready for baby! (sort of)

Two more Lamaze classes to go and two more weeks until our little girl is considered full term. I can't believe how fast time has flown during this pregnancy. We can't wait to meet her!