It’s been a fairly busy but good weekend so far. Despite being woken up at 5:30am on Saturday morning by a pointless work-related phone call (not my work), we managed to get pretty much all of the finishing touches done on the nursery. We (well, mostly Jag) put together the glider and ottoman set we had ordered online (yay Amazon Prime!), and it turned out to be comfy and a very good value for the money. It was a good $100 less than anything we found at BabiesRUs, Buy Buy Baby, etc. We also hung up an IKEA crescent moon wall light that I had bought for myself years ago (all of my incredibly juvenile decorating purchases over the years have suddenly come in handy!), and we put up all the pirate wall decals. (There’s now a “Yo Ho Ho!” sticker on the nursery door.) We have a couple mobiles to hang up, but we are pretty much done.

Afterwards, we headed to Wake Forest for my family birthday gathering. We had a yummy dinner and I got lots of cool loot, including some Guinness for, um, medicinal purposes after the baby’s here. Robin had also done some more Griffin shopping and we were presented with some very cute onesies and with Captain Calamari, who fits in great with the pirate theme.

(Jag has since noted that squids have 10 arms and not 8, so he’s really an octopus. We may rename him “Admiral Ackbar”.)

On the knitting front, I finished the last wool diaper cover I was working on and washed and lanolized all three of the wool wraps/soakers I’ve made so far. We’ll see how those work out in terms of leakproofness and fit once Griffin arrives to use them.

My next project is this “Area 51” alien eyeball hat.

I’m making mine in a thick and thin merino single-ply I spun up this summer as an attempt at a faux Malabrigo. It’s not machine washable, but it should be nice and soft on Griffin’s little head and it’s a hat, so he’s unlikely to poop or barf on it and make me wash it frequently. I hope.

It was a really nice day today, so me and Jag stopped at West Point on the Eno on the way to the grocery store and took a little walk to try and shake the baby loose. 😉

Tomorrow we’ll be at 38 weeks, 2 weeks out from the “official” due date. I’m trying to be as patient as I can. I’m very uncomfortable and I’m really dragging due to insomnia and generally crappy sleep, but I’m not miserable, in pain, or suffering from any pregnancy-related health conditions. So it’s time to just suck it up and deal, use the time to make cute baby stuff, and wait for the little one to pick his day to arrive.