good times...

alrighty!! some excitement - the crib is in!!! we gotta go get it, but it's in and that's awesome. have a dr. appointment today and nick is gonna get to come. he hasn't been able to make it the past few visits, so this'll be his first time to hear her heartbeat (YAY). we got upstairs finished - well all the hard stuff is done. now all we have to do is mud a couple small holes/gaps in the sheetrock on the outside facing wall (to keep air from getting in/out/etc) and hang carpet on the walls and put it on the floors. i think we'll do some of that today. kev's been such a great help in getting it done and jimmy helping out with the electrical and eddie helping frame that door and the wall around the water heater - awesome. yay for ppl helping out! i'm so glad den and kev let us use their home depot card (which we should be able to pay them off at the end of this month), without it i don't think we woulda gotta this done - and once upstairs is carpeted (or at least 1 wall and the floor) we can tear down the furniture in the downstairs room (which is all that's left down there as the rest is in the attic on the other side of his room) and get it upstairs so we can start on the nursery. after that the only thing we'll need to make sure of is that we get a hole cut in the wall and a window unit put in and a vent thingie in the roof to ensure proper air circulation and to keep it from getting so hot that it ruins nick's stuff this summer.
we've been doing our birth class on mondays - we've gone to 2 so far. we're learning breathing techniques, and there's a free class offered in february that i think nick and i are gonna go to and it's for more relaxation/pain relief stuff for ppl that want natural birth (like us).
so exciting :) she's not kicking anymore, she's run out of room. now she pokes and rolls, it's quite uncomfortable, but still awesome. i love watching my stomach randomly move, lol :)
especially when I explain that not even mom is going to be in there. I do feel a little bad b/c I was so excited to have mom and her in the room with me and Nick this whole time, but as I get closer to term I find myself rethinking things like that. It’s like it’s seeming more real now and it’s seeming like less of a group event, if that makes sense.