Cleaning, Organizing ect.

Monday Moan-day
So Chris and I spent the entire weekend cleaning the office area in our house. This entailed shampooing the carpet twice (and it could probably go for third or fourth round). All of this was caused by two factors:

1) We needed to reorganize things because part of it was/ is going to become the baby’s downstairs area (playpen ect.)

2) We seem to have a furry child who has suddenly refused to wake anyone up when he needs out in the middle of the night. This has become a daily (nightly) struggle. I cannot tell if it is because as of New Years he no longer gets to sleep on the bed. We got a new bed that’s a lot higher then the old one – and Mom won’t let him get on it due to his knee surgery last year because of a fear of re-injury), age or just him being a turkey. Odds are he is being a turkey – despite the fact he has gotten his own bed for the moment out of it! (He sleeps on the guest bed in the baby’s room it is a lot lower.)

Any who, after spending the weekend cleaning the floor, reorganizing a closet so my art stuff could be moved in there and my drafting desk moved out to the garage our office is finally ready for baby furniture. Now we just need to have the shower so I can go shopping with out getting crap for it.

And since we spent the whole weekend between cleaning, doing nothing and taking the boys on a short trip to the beach (it was just here on the base) I spent all day today doing homework. While doing homework I learned I was better off clearing of the dinning room table and sitting in the computer chair then spreading my books out on the floor and sitting on the floor for three hours straight. What did I learn from this you ask? Well for me, when I went to get up it caused my back to start spasming again! I sat in the recliner for about an hour and a half with the heating pad and that helped, so I did not have to resort to using the Darvocet the Dr prescribed. Lucky me.

Going Out On a Limb Here….
So I’ve been reading up on stuff to do while pregnant for the baby online and I came across a few websites that say it is good to start reading aloud to the baby now. They can’t understand the words or what they mean, but they get use to the rhythmic sound of your (or Daddy’s voice). One site also claims that it will help the child sit still when you read as they get older because there is that connection from a very early age, encouraging their interest in books. I like to read, Chris does not. I was hoping to use this as a way for Chris to start bonding with the baby, so it would be more of an “our” thing as opposed to just a “my” (or “your” as he puts it) thing. I was also hoping that if we started getting into the habit of reading to the baby now, this is something that would continue and the baby would take an active interest in books as it grows.

Chris on the other hand is okay with just slapping on a pair of headphones and playing music – which is okay too. And is something I plan to do as well. I guess I would just like to start doing everything I can to encourage our child to take an interest in books, and hopefully that will foster a love of education. Maybe this is part of the learning to be a parent thing too. We’ll see how it works out. – Oh I did read Oh The Places You’ll Go – By Dr Suess out loud last night before going to bed and the baby started moving/kicking/whatever all over the place. Now if I could just get Chris to try it! ;) Maybe then the baby will move enough for him to feel it!