a legit family

So, we got our family/maternity pictures back, and I'm so happy with them! Jen Herem is totally my new favorite! I'm 4 days away now from my scheduled C-Section. 4 days. What.the.hell? My friend did my hair today and we were talking about how for some reason, having your 3rd kid suddenly makes you a legit family. Not sure why that is, maybe it's the whole -we are about to be out numbered thing, but 3 feels huge. Hi, I'm a 26 year old wife and mother of 3. I'm also remembering how surreal this feeling is - impending birth. But let me tell you, it's like at least 11x more surreal when you still can't really believe you got pregnant in the first place. Somehow I still have no idea how we got here, so really believing I'll have a new daughter in a few days is beyond weird. Weird, I tell you. That is like the understatement of the century.

As far as a name goes for her - we have added 2 new possibilities to the list. It was probably a mistake. I feel like we are getting further away from it. We ask the kids what her name is and they have come up with a few interesting ones. The latest: Sizzler. Thanks Boss, we will have to consider that one.

In other news - somewhat baby related... is how crazily I have nested this time. About 2 weeks ago I somehow guilted John into starting like 4 fairly large projects around our house. Don't ask me why. They are mostly done now, and I'm glad we did them, but during them I sure started second guessing myself for thinking this was a good idea. We prepared the baby's nursery, moved Boston and Naomi's things into what used to be the guest room, bought a huge bunk bed, painted that huge bunkbed, moved the guest room and office into what used to be Boston's room, decided to paint a wall of stripes in the kids new joint room, (finally) bought window treatments for the remaining naked windows we had, and the biggest project of all... hung, caluked, and painted board and batten in the entryway, dining room, and down thehallway. Holy moly. Why John didn't kill me halfway through that project I'll neverknow,because it was way more labor intensive and time consuming than we thought it wouldbe. But it looks gorgeous. I'm super obsessed with it. It's my new favorite thing about my house. We (I) also got a little more ambitious about decorating a little bit. I have hung a few things and got a few rugs to make the entry, formal living room and formal dining room feel much more complete. I'm pretty happy with them, and am glad to have those rooms (for the most part) checked off my list. Next up: the rest of the house and yard. Ya, it's going to be probably a never ending process.

(Wall stripes, bunk bed painting and board and batten in-progress)

Don't ask me why I took pictures of this process, but I did. I took all my baby girl clothes and spent about a week sorting, cleaning, soaking, prepping and folding them. They must not have seemed too dirty when I packed them away just 2 years ago, but they sure did when I got them out. I was able to make most of it look brand new, but the things I couldn't I got rid of.

As far as "after" pictures go, I'll have to take some of the board and batten project, I love it. John did such a great job...

For now... it's time to have a baby.