Productive Day Off

It's pretty safe to say that I'm in full on gotta-prep-for-the-baby-coming-in-4-weeks mode.  Once our Christmas trip was over and the decorations came down, it hits you that OH WOW, we are going to have a newborn again.  And soon!

So, along comes a little thing called nesting :-)

My husband might call it "what a dumb excuse to break your back when you have a day off of work" but I prefer nesting!

Today I went through Benjamin's clothes and put away all the 18-24 month stuff that no longer fits.  Then I cleaned out the closet in that room that had shelves full of baby items that he obviously isn't using at the moment, but needed re-organizing for his baby brother.  So I oganized blankets, crib sheets, burp cloths, etc.  I also cleaned out the closet in our guest room, since we're rearranging what we'll be storing in there.

Meanwhile Peter was helping to rearrange the bed in our guestroom so it could be up against the wall and have the guardrail put on.  The guest room is going to be Benjamin's BIG BOY room.  I can't believe I'm even saying that!  We decided to try and see if he'd sleep on the full size bed we have in there starting today and if it didn't work, we'd keep him in his crib longer.  He was SOOO excited to be on the big boy bed and though it took him 20 minutes to fall asleep because he was so antsy, he did fall asleep, stayed in bed, and slept for 3 hours!  Hooray!  Tonight he's sleeping there again and though it's taking him longer to fall asleep he hasn't got out of bed.  Now, I really DO think he's going to get out early in the morning, but we shall see.  If we lose too much sleep we'll just put him back in his room.

I have been finding/bringing out some items to decorate his new big boy room.  It's going to have kind of a train/plane/tractor/transportation theme because he is sooo obsessed with those things right now.  I'll post pictures as I get things done!

While Benjamin napped Peter went and chopped wood for a guy in our church that really needed that help.  When Ben woke up, we went to Wal-Mart for some more big tote tubs, came home and fixed leftover strogonov for dinner, then got back to work on cleaning things out.  Peter went through technology boxes, I got out lots of baby gear, got out the 0-6 month baby boy clothes, Peter put Christmas decorations up in the new attic storage.  We made a Goodwill pile and a craigslist pile and though we're not finished, we got a huge chunk done and it feels great (though we are both very very tired and I think baby boy thinks I may have overdone it a bit!)

Tonight, we're going to be super exciting and probably eat some dessert while watching the Republican debate.  Don't everyone swarm our house with visits all at once....I know we are just full of good times!  Closet cleaning and political debates, man, we're getting old!

Benjamin was great most of the day and had a grand old time playing and "helping" us with our projects.  We kinda love him :-)

 he saw Mommy drinking coffee while checking her email and covered in a blanket this morning, and later in the morning this is what I found!  My sweet(ornery) mini-me :-)

 he is very much into his Little People right now and was soooo proud that he stacked them all onto his truck.  He kept exclaiming "I got WOTS and WOTS of PEOPLES!"

 looking stinkin' cute (and a bit dorky) in his pj's :-)

 our sweet almost 2 year old boy!!

while we were busy cleaning out closet/storage messes, Benjamin was busy making messes of his own!  At least he was happily entertained though right?? :-)