new paint, new job

Well it's been a busy couple of weeks, but what else is new, right?

I finally made two baby registries, one at Buy Buy Baby and one at Babies R Us. I decided not to do one at Target because their return policy is ridiculous, they honestly don't have that much baby stuff and when Aaron and I went to go ask about starting a registry there, the employees were extremely rude. Unfortunately, there just aren't any places in Lincoln to register for baby things.

One thing we have lots of? Baby clothes. Younkers has been having a good sale on baby things so we have quite a selection from there. Also, Aaron's sister Rachael and her husband Justin sent us an adorable pair of shoes with little pirates on them (pirate booties!) and Aaron's parents gave us a little sweater they found with a skull and crossbones on them. Arrr matey. My mom also found some of my old pairs of overalls that my grandpa gave all us grandkids so we could be good little farmers, haha.

While we're on the subject of new things for Michael, last week two of my little cousins were in town visiting my parents so we took them to Paint Yourself Silly. While they each painted their mugs, I painted a piggy bank in the shape of a sock monkey. I think he looks so cute, like he's just sitting there saying, "Yay! I'm ready to be Michael's piggy bank!"

A couple weeks ago, my grandma told me that she'd like to embroider a baby quilt as a gift to Michael, so my mom and I went to Hobby Lobby to find a pattern that I liked. I eventually went with one with pictures from different nursery rhymes on it. Here's what it looks like.

I'm also currently working on embroidering some baby bibs and eventually I'll do a little crib pillow too. Yes, I know how to and enjoy embroidery. For some reason people tend to find this surprising.

Today Aaron and my dad painted Michael's room:

Original paint color. Check out my awesome taping job.

painting...

All done! And the crib is put together too!

Last week I ordered Michael's bedding, so hopefully it'll be in this next week and we can continue working on getting everything set up and ready for our little peanut's arrival.

I had a midwife appointment on Monday. I have gained twenty-four pounds. Ho-ly crap. Even though I know I'm really not large at all (especially for someone who is six months pregnant) I am starting to feel like a cranky hippo. I'm used to being able to wear whatever I want in my closet, and I can't do that anymore. I love Michael more than anything, but I am definitely ready to have my body back, haha. One thing I really love about my baby bump is that when I lay on my back, I can see when Michael is moving around. It literally makes me start laughing every time I see it.

Outside of baby news:

Thursday was my last day of teaching Creative Writing at Summer School. Overall, I feel the class was successful. There are of course some things I would do differently if I taught the class again and some things that we just weren't able to do due to the limitations of the course only being six weeks long. I'm really glad I was able to get the job, because I learned and grew so much from it and really started coming into my own more as a teacher.

On Tuesday I had a job interview with a high school in the district, and on Thursday LPS called me and told me I was hired! Needless to say, I am pretty excited, and a little terrified too, haha. I'll be teaching English 9E, 10E and Children's Literature (which is an elective course for Juniors and Seniors). So I'm taking this weekend to kind of relax and get my house in order and then I'll jump back into lesson planning and preparing on Monday.

This also means I get to go shopping for maternity teaching clothes. Darn, we all know what a chore clothes shopping is for me...