Bagel's New Digs

This Friday, I'll be 20 weeks pregnant which is half-way through.  It seems like Baby Bagel will be here any day!  While Friday is the half-way point, Thursday is even more exciting because it is the day that we find out if we are having a he-Bagel or a she-Bagel!  There has already been some trash talk, so we're hoping we can contain things at the doctor's office.  It would be a little embarrassing to be known as the couple that found out the sex of their baby and then one of them started gloating about being right instead of paying attention to the ultrasound :)

Since we know we'll both be ridiculously busy once school starts in September (I go back August 23 and Jeremy goes back a month later) we've been trying to get things ready for Bagel now.  The first thing  we did was clean out the room we are using as a nursery.  It is the smallest of our two extra bedrooms, but it is also the closest to our room.  It had a desk and a bunch of random crap in it before, so we had to re-assign everything to other rooms.  We also cleaned the carpet, although with three cats, that is kind of a losing battle.

Once the room was all cleaned out, we painted.  We specifically chose to paint before we knew the sex of the baby, because we wanted to make sure we picked something gender neutral.  If we have another baby, we sure don't want to have to repaint!  Since both Jeremy and I like blues and greens, we found a nice turquoise that we think will work well for either a boy or a girl.  We spent a small fortune on the environmentally/kid/pet friendly paint from Sherwin Williams, so we hope Bagel appreciates it!  Here is the nursery with its fresh coat of paint:

Chez Bagel - sans furniture

We tried to do a good job and (mostly) followed my dad's extremely type-A painting process (with a few shortcuts - for example, we only washed the walls once and there was no bleach involved).  We also used painters tape around the top and bottom, but it didn't stick so well to our textured walls/ceiling.  This led to a some-what less than perfect edge around the walls, but we figure Bagel won't care.

We also bought some furniture for the room, but that is a whole separate post :)