Baby Fingers

Last monday I had another ultrasound to check Melody's progress. Everything looked great, but she seemed a little upset that we kept spying on her. After a big yawn she gave me the finger several times. The doctor was kind enough to wait until she had her index finger up before taking the photo.

Belly and Painting

Last week my Dad drove down from Minnesota with a trailer full of furniture. Some of it was mine, some was my parents, some my grandparents, and some my great-grandparents!

My Mom flew in on Saturday and she was ready to paint and decorate! In one week, they not only painted the living room, but the hallways, baby's room, and the office as well.

In addition, Skyler and Dad added new floor and ceiling moulding, new oak tops to what will be the bar between the living room and kitchen and Melody's closet, replaced the outlets, light switches, fire alarms, doorbell, and light fixtures, as well as made repeated trips to the dump clearing out our backyard.

Here are a couple of photos of my Mom and Dad in the newly created living room! They turned an empty room:

into something that belongs in a catalog.


We still have a little bit of work to finish in Melody's room and as soon as we get that done we'll post some photos.

Here's a new photo of my belly at week 30. Yeah, 10 more weeks of growth left!

House progression

Last week we were very busy trying to prepare the house for my parents visit this coming weekend. One of the few jobs I am able to do is cleaning the stove top. It is a beautiful original 1948 stove top, and it hasn't been cleaned since installation.

I finally had to resort to a razor blade.

Here is a burner before cleaning:

During cleaning:

And after cleaning:

While I worked on that, Sky removed the old linoleum and discovered the original tile.

We were going to try to save the original tile, but there were too many nails in it, and it just cracked and broke when trying to remove them. So we (meaning Skyler) took them out and we're going to lay down some new colorful tiles of the same style.

This week we also got the hardwood floors refinished.

It looks really nice, but now we're fully aware of how dirty everything else is!

Baby face

Last week at my prenatal class I got this picture of Melody's face. Looks like she has her Daddy's cheeks!