It's so close!

Goodness sakes. I am going to have my babies so soon!
Today and yesterday were really awesome days in terms of accomplishing things I needed to accomplish.

Yesterday was our baby shower. It was really awesome. A lot of people came, and I got A LOT of gifts. Mostly clothes, very very cute clothes, some diapers, blankets, just lots and lots. So yesterday when we came home, I decided to go through everything I had and do a sort of inventory. I needed to see how much of what size I had in everything. I def don't have any worries in terms of clothing up through 6 months. I don't need to buy a thing until they are out growing 6 month clothes. Even then I have some stuff. Also, I have like 500 bibs. I still need some burp cloths. I only have like 6 of those.
So after all the inventory, I washed EVERYTHING. Every blanket, sheet, piece of clothing. Which meant I then had to fold and sort everything. It was a big job that I didn't finish until this afternoon.
In the mean time I went through everything else like toys, bathing stuff, diaper genie, etc. and unwrapped it all and set it up so I could actually use it. Now that was a job too! I can't even tell you how much garbage I have right now. It's craziness.
Word to the wise, unwrap/wash/set-up everything as you purchase/receive it. It will save you SO much time and hassle later on (like when you are 8 months pregnant and can barely move). As I was doing that I was trying to get the baby's room transformed from a storage room and an actual bedroom. Today I accomplished that!

Chris set up the crib, I got all the sheets and blankets set up on it. I put all the clothes away in the closet/drawers. I organized all my stuff into little organizer bins, I packed the diaper bag for the hospital, I organized the diaper changing areas, I just got the room all together. It's not painted yet, but there isn't much actual furniture in there right now so we can just kind of push it all to the center. Having the baby shower and putting the room together has got Chris super excited so I think he'll be in the mood to paint here pretty soon. He told me to go buy the paint tomorrow so he could get moving on it. I am purposefully not putting much in the room. I want it to just be a relaxing area. Not all cluttered with crap. We have two dressers, the crib, baby changing station, and soon we will have twin bed. I had originally planned to only have one dresser but I actually do need two dressers for all the clothes/blankets/sheets/etc we have now. I want to paint it a really pale yellow and possibly paint like clouds. We are also going to get wooden letters and hang their names up (after we have them). So right now, it's not necessarily 'cute' but it is usable and organized which honestly is what really matters at this point. It's also what I was super concerned with considering the possibility of my having these babies in just over a week. (They won't stop labor if I go at 34 weeks, this Wednesday I will be 33 weeks).

I decided that tomorrow I am going to go ahead and put the car seats in the van so that way they'll be there and we won't have to remember them. I am debating about just keeping my hospital bag and the diaper bag in the van too. I'm only debating that because I have like toiletries and what not in those bags and I don't want keeping them in the van to make them go bad or w/e. I think that tomorrow I am also going to set up the pack n play and basinet where I want it around the house. I want to be as prepared as possible.

I feel like I am going to have these girlies sooner than later. I am starting to have more contractions and today was just like one of those days where I was feeling lots of odd things, in places that might make you think you will have babies soon. haha. Hope that wasn't TMI. haha. Seriously though, I think it's coming up. It just feels like my body is getting ready for it.

Tomorrow I plan on getting the house cleaned up. Getting all this stuff has kind of wrecked my house. The last two days I've just had stuff strewn everywhere. I've got most of it put away now, but I need to mop and vacuum. My two favorite chores...ugh! Anyone want to be my maid for a day? I would probably pay you :-)

Well that is all in baby land. FYI I have an appointment with the midwife on Jan. 3rd and the OB on Jan 14. We will see what happens in the mean time :-)

Oh, and pray that our stupid insurance company gets it's act together. I've never seen an example of such stupidity in my life.
Good day :-)