Update 1.9.14 Mostly Preggo Stuff…

Just about done with the co-sleeper, now that there are 9-10 weeks left until I get to meet MiniMiller, I am feeling good that she will have a place to sleep when she gets here!  Mom is busting away on her quilt also!  MiniMiller is getting huge (I STILL don’t have an updated belly picture, I’m sorry, I hate cameras and it’s not super high on my list to stage a photo of myself 🙂 ).  I have gained 18 pounds in the last 7 months though. ALL in the belly.  I am not yet at my highest weight ever (that freshman 15 was a little more for me!).  I will be passing that here shortly though, I am supposed to gain a pound a week from here on out.  I have no idea where I am going to fit 10 more pounds and no idea how I will be able to put on my socks either!  It is already like trying to get dressed around a basketball!  I will work it though, millions of women have in the past!   I have finally started with the food cravings, so far, at odd hours of the night I have decided that I absolutely NEED a raspberry cream cheese danish and Gushers (not just any fruit snack, it HAS to be strawberry Gushers…).  I ALSO, finally, got to take part in these crazy realistic pregnancy dreams, I had a awesome dream the other night that I got to meet MiniMiller, that went really well, definitely a very happy dream :), it could also have been that Denver let me sleep the entire night!  I don’t even remember the last time I didn’t have to get up at least a couple times either for him or to pee, it’s been MONTHS!

James and I started Lamaze class as well, I never know how those sorts of things will go, a lot really depends on your ‘teacher/instructor’, we lucked out and got a cool one!  She’s funny, she enjoys her job, and you can tell, also, very educational!  Not only that, I am really glad that I picked the situation I did, going through a midwife but still tied to the hospital was a good call (just in case there are any complications with that recently broken back and all…).  I have read enough (or perhaps have intentionally NOT read some things 🙂 ) to feel pretty comfortable going into this at this point.  If there is one thing consistent about me it is that I trust nature, a lot more than myself and this is really a pretty natural thing!  People’s terrible birth stories make me nervous and people being nervous for me make me nervous, so just don’t do those things around me for a few more weeks please! 🙂  Honestly, I have had really good feelings about everything for the duration (other than the being sick as a dog stuff, I don’t have good feelings about that), I think everything will go really smoothly, I have taken care of us both and I think she will be healthy and everyone will be happy and well.  She seems to be right on point for everything, heartbeats, moving around, gaining weight, etc., it all FEELS normal.   Either way I think it is important to go into the ‘big day’ very positive and hopeful rather than terrified (there there is a good amount of that as well, I assure you! but I’m choosing to focus on the good parts). I feel like things will work out for the best, and one way or another she is coming outta there, and soon!   I do think she may come a little bit early, that MAY just be hoping though on my part because it would be nice to take more than 20 mins between bathroom visits! 🙂  In case you ever wondered, it is JUST as uncomfortable as it sounds to have a human head (a small one, sure, but still) lodged in your pelvis.  Also, in case you are wondering, it’s WAY harder to build a human than it is to build a house… if your wife/partner built you a baby, buy her some cheesecake, she deserves it! 🙂

I hope everyone is well!  Here are some pictures:

Mom finished the top of MiniMiller's quilt! It's adorable!

Now shes well underway with the actual quilting!

It's jungle themed with primary and secondary colors, and candy, because if MiniMiller takes after me than she will dig candy 🙂

The pieces between the blocks are rainbow colors with little hearts quilted in

She used cookie cutters to outline the hearts.

Not only does she have a quilt well underway she just about has a bed! I have just a couple finishing touches to make but here is where I last left off with the co-sleeper (it's bigger than normal because I am using a full crib sized mattress so she can use it for a while).

Putting the rails together at a perfect 90 degree angle was done with a square block of wood and some clamps

I then doweled them together as well as gluing all along the mitered edge. This will be sitting against a wall as it is so I can't imaging much pressure coming from a 30 pounder, not enough to break anything anyway.

More dowels.

The rails are glued together and then tied together further with dowels that will be cut off and sanded down as soon as they are dry.

I am so happy to say everythign fits together very nicely!

Instead of sanding down all of the laminated together rails I put my planer to good use again! Worked like a charm even though it had a vendetta against one of the rails and took a chunk out of it a couple times, I will be able to sand that down manually and make it work!

This is where I had to cut it short for my error in manufacturing, it still works though, and I will put a little safety rail on it so she doesn't get hurt by any sharp corners anyway!

I even recessed the screws and plugged them up, these too need sanded down and then sealed, then I am good to go!

I attached the rails to the bed by some dowels as well. I just layed it on top, marked where to drill and tried to hit center, I know other people would have a more precise way of doing it but I have a decent eye and there is a little bit of play so it worked out!

Some close ups of the recessed screws in the base

and plugged

This was just hilarious to me, Denver just knows he is a lap dog, just ask him. My brothers girlfriend was sitting on the floor and he saw her as fair game to sit on.

He just walked right over and sat down, multiple times 🙂 'If it fits it sits!'