Getting ready for the baby one stitch at a time

After our shower on Sunday Jered and I came home and unpacked all of our goodies. We were so overwhelmed by everyone’s generosity- and by the fact that we now have quite a bit of baby stuff in our house, which can only mean one thing- Uni is almost here!
We decided to unpack everything and gather up all of the clothes and blankets to be washed in the next couple of weeks. We have an entire section of our laundry hamper full of baby blankets, onesies and crib sheets! Now that we have a pack of diapers in the house, as well as toys for Uni, a bouncy seat, an infant tub, a baby monitor, a Boppy pillow, baby bath robes, towels, and a diaper bag it has started to really sink in that another little person is moving in with us very soon! I think a preliminary “nesting” instinct has taken hold of me as I’ve started to go through the house room by room making an inventory of all of the things I want to get done before June. I’m done with classes May 5th, and after that I’m thinking I’ll have a solid month of waiting for the baby without too much to do. This is a great position to be in, but I know I might go a bit stir crazy. Having a list of things to keep me occupied will hopefully keep me from climbing up the walls! This will be the first summer in years that I haven’t worked at the clinic, taken classes or seen clients. I realize that this is the calm before the storm- and I have every intention of taking advantage of this down time!!!
For the past month or so I’ve been working on a blanket for Uni- I’ve mostly been knitting it in class, but now I have a bit more time on my hands and plan to finish it up when I’m not cleaning the house or folding baby laundry! Here are a couple of pictures of the progress I’ve made so far.

And, just for fun (Jered tells me that I remind him of these things almost daily) Uni weighs close to 4 and a half pounds now- that’s nearly as heavy as the “flour” babies we were made to carry around in middle school as part of our health class, whew!

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