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I'm glad the kitchen is almost done (updates coming soon, I promise - the counters are being installed today!) because then we can focus on the nursery :)  Yep, Baby T (aka Squishy) is due December 6th!

I'm just over 13 weeks and things look great so far.  I had a fairly easy first trimester and I hope that baby continues to be nice to me! 

I've been keeping up a different blog to document this journey - feel free to follow along:
Our Greatest Project

bathroom progress

the mess that is our upstairs hallway right now

new insulation installed by yours truly

and if you look closely, you can see the electrical boxes installed by Hubs

little hole = old light

big hole = new vent fan/light (currently being installed by Hubs)

and, just because I like looking at it - our new vanity (not being put in until next weekend maybe?)

awesome feature - drawers INSIDE the cabinet

We had a bit of a water mystery earlier this week.  Monday and Tuesday morning, the plumber was here, blah blah blah.  Wednesday morning I realize the water in our second bathroom isn't getting hot.  great.  it's barely lukewarm (not cold, but definitely not warm).  Hubs thinks maybe the hot water tank (which was turned off all day Tuesday) just hadn't finished heating up the water.  Thursday, same thing.  On his way to work, Hubs calls.  He had an epiphany - the new shower valve upstairs doesn't have a handle yet, so we can't stop water from running through it (it's a mixing valve).  He has me run a little test - turn on every other faucet in/around the house (including outside hoses) on cold and then try the shower.  Sure enough - hot water.  Friday morning he also found the valve that shuts off just the upstairs water, which allows us to use our water normally again - no more turning on all the faucets just to take a shower!

Oh, and we had another bat in the house (refer to this post).  It's been almost a year and a half since our last bat sighting.  I'm just glad we can fully explain this one - bathroom is exposed to the attic, so that must have been how it got in the house, then Hubs thinks it crawled under the door.  While I was so mad the night it happened (Wednesday night), it was definitely the least traumatic of our bat episodes.  We saw it, opened the front door, and within a couple of minutes, it had flown outside.  That makes 4 bats in 2 years.  That makes me unhappy.

On a very happy note - I have to give a shout out to my good friend, J.  She and her husband welcomed their first child, a bouncing baby boy, this past Tuesday.  Little Jameson (Jamie) was born on July 27 (6 days late) weighing in at 7lbs 5 oz.  I got to meet him on Wednesday night and he's just perfectly adorable and looks just like his daddy.  I can't wait to watch the little bugger grow up! 

the baby bug

I'm surrounded and constantly taunted. By babies. And pregnant women. We're still at least a year away from trying (that's if I get my way) but I have permanent baby fever right now. On Friday I had lunch with a friend who's adorable little boy is almost 4 months old. Then last night we had dinner with good friends of ours who are expecting their first in February. She has a cute little baby bump and was glowing. I know why we're waiting (house projects, money, Tim just isn't ready yet, etc) and I really am ok with it - but it doesn't stop me from day-dreaming! Hopefully the next year of marriage flies by as quickly as this first one did and we'll be more in a place where we're both ready to expand our family.

On a similar note - on Friday night we were talking about aforementioned expecting friends and Tim asks when babies start walking. A little confused I told him the average is about 1 year old and asked why he was curious. He said "when J & A's baby starts walking I'll probably think 'we should have one of these cute little things'". I couldn't help but chuckle and secretly start plotting how to get their unborn child to be the earliest walking infant ever... :)