Only 38 Days To Go!

Can you believe it?? I really can't! Plus, I still have a lot of things to do and prepare before Eby comes. Last week Clint and I met with our friend Silke, who has 3 children, and talked with her about baby stuff, pregnancy and birth. It was good to talk to someone who has had a lot of experience. She and her husband Guido are letting us use their bassinet. We weren't really expecting to pick it up that day because it was in Oelsnitz in the attic of her parents' house, but she asked us if we had time that afternoon and we did, so we drove to Oelsnitz and got the bassinet! We have since put it together and put the sheets and everything on it! It's now in our room. I think seeing it on a daily basis makes it a bit more real that Eby really is coming soon!


Clint putting together the bassinet


Me and my huge belly next to the bassinet in our bedroom.

We also have rearranged the furniture in our living room and bedroom. We are not yet finished in the bedroom though. We went shopping for another wardrobe to put all the baby clothes and other things in it. We found a nice one and Clint and Larry will hopefully pick it up today. Then we will have to take some things out of the bedroom to make room for it... well it is actually one of those cloth hanging wardrobes that Clint brought with him from Oklahoma. I have to admit that I despise that thing. It just looks so awful. I would much rather have real furniture. But, since we are buying this new nice wardrobe, it will have enough room for the clothes that Clint has in the other one plus all the baby stuff. So, I'm excited to say that we will be taking it apart and getting rid of it and then we can put the new one together! We are also going to get a chest of drawers with a diaper changing pad that fits on top and a coffee table from Allison and Grady. They are our friends from Dresden who are moving to Minnesota in a couple of weeks. We will really miss them! It will be strange not having them around.


The ugly wardrobe tends to collect junk on top of it

I will leave you with a couple of pictures of the progress we have made in our apartment.


We moved our bed next to the windows and bought a new night stand.


Our wardrobe is now on the wall where our bed once was.


We moved one of the chairs from the bedroom into the living room, took out the table in the corner, moved the china cabinet and also moved the trunk from the bedroom into the living room.


You can see the trunk behind the chair.


This is just a little festive Christmas spirit!