17 weeks pregnant & making room for Baby Jones!

Here's my 17 week picture - you may notice something a bit different about me. My hair was growing SO FAST and it was becoming impossible to keep up with highlight maintenance. So today I decided to go back to my natural color.... looks different, right? :-)

Jason and I (OK, mostly Jason) did a lot of work this past weekend to make room for Baby Jones. We moved our office to the basement, moved the guest room to the former office & began setting up the nursery in the old guest room. The office transition went smoothly - the only mishap occurred when I attempted to help Jason carry a VERY LIGHTWEIGHT desk down the steps, and more or less dropped it on the 3rd stair. Having learned the lesson that I have no business picking up anything heavier than a toothpick, Jason called in some help for the rest of the moving. Our landlord's son, Brent & Jason's co-worker, Rob helped with the rest (thanks, guys!!)

When we moved the guest room into the old office, we quickly realized that the room was a bit smaller. So apologies in advance, guests - your quarters will not be very roomy, but baby comes first! :-) With the former guest room empty, we, I mean Jason, was able to start putting the baby furniture together. He started with the glider/ottoman, which only took a few minutes. The crib was a different story..... 2 hours later, and a bit of grumbling & throwing things around, we had a beautiful cherry crib. And the final piece was the changing table, which compared to the crib was a breeze.

What was I doing all of this time? After organizing the new office area, I decided to document the nursery building process with pictures. Now Baby Jones can one day see just how much work his/her Daddy went through for his/her nursery. I took a lot of pictures, but below are the highlights. Enjoy! :-)

Jason said the crib instructions read like "Chinese Algebra" :-)

Putting the finishing touches on the crib

Posin' with the final product :-)

Now time to work on the changing table....

And again with the finished product ... not smiling though

Someone was EXHAUSTED!!!

Jason worked hard for MANY hours & made sure that all of the pieces and parts were secure and safe. We now have the furniture in place, so once we find out if Baby Jones is a boy or girl we can begin the fun part....... decorating! Thanks for your hard work, sweetie, but I'll take it from here :-)