14 Weeks

I haven't written anything for a while because we've been so busy sorting out the house in preparation for Peanut's arrival. Without listing all the boring intricacies of what needs to happen before November, we basically need to clear out the office before we can transform it into the nursery. This means that all the huge amount of stuff (mostly J's) including the huge desk and chair that's currently cramped in there all needs to come out and find somewhere else to live.

So last weekend, which was the early May Bank Holiday, we spent two days painting and decorating the dining room. The outdated and grimy terracotta walls have finally gone (hooray!) and been replaced with a soft creamy almond on the two smaller walls and a kind of pale brown / almost mauve colour called chocolate milkshake. We are really happy with the results! 

Today, poor J has spent the entire day building an Ikea Hemnes Bureau and add on unit which will house his Mac Pro and files. The reason it took so long was because the bureau had been mislabelled and was too big as it was old stock. So we had to drive back to Ikea and get it exchanged, which, believe me was a painfully long and stressful process. Now it's finally built it looks great, but I feel bad that J has had to do all the hard work without me...

And today we also bought the cot! It is a Lucia Cot / Cotbed from Mamas & Papas. It's a beautiful cot made even lovelier by the price we managed to get it for! Afterwards, we took my mum out for lunch in Pizza Express and she gave us a whole load of bits for the nursery from Mamas & Papas Rosie and Rex range.