26 weeks (tomorrow)

Next week I will be in my third trimester. Holy crap!! I cannot believe how far along I am!! What's a more horrifying realization is that I'm the ONLY person left in my place of work that is pregnant. Everybody else who was has "popped" in the last few months. I'm all that's left... We are approaching the END of June, then I have July, August, and most of September (assuming I don't go early!)

And that's it. We will have Caius with us soon after that. I have suddenly started worrying over the last few weeks that we don't have enough time to get everything done that needs to be done. Fourteen weeks left, and I already feel like I'm suffocating from being overburdened with all kinds of crap to do!

Luckily, at the beginning of June Ben (my brother who has been living with us for a few months) will be moving out into his own place so I can FINALLY start to organize Caius' stuff and put things together and just truly nest. I have had SUCH an urge to nest this last month or so and I have absolutely no way to do so... all of our extra space has been occupied by him. As soon as he is out, I will be doing all the baby clothes laundry I can, we will be purchasing some more stuff for the boys' closets to help organize, and I will be in Landon's room until I feel I am satisfied with how things are set up. I can't wait to get all of the baby stuff out of our living room and bedroom and get it in it's rightful place!

(<---- This is how I perceive my living room everyday..but please note it's not my actual living room, lol!)

We have the pack n play that will be staying in our room for when Caius comes (he will be in our room the first few months.) Then we have ALL of Caius' cloth diapers, disposable diapers for when he first comes home, his bouncer, his crib, his crib mattres, all the bedding, clothing, breastfeeding supplies, bottles, baby monitor, BOXES upon BOXES of clothing, shoes, toys, blankets, bumbo seat, baby carrier, and whatever else is in the pile of baby-shinanigans downstairs. 

I especially want to get it organized as soon as Ben is out specifically because I found out my good friends Jessica and Rachel will be throwing me a baby shower sometime next month, bless their loving hearts =) I just want to be able to bring home whatever I am gifted and place it EASILY into it's designated spot instead of throwing it on top of the pile-o-baby-crud we have going on any given place in our house! It will be VERY nice to take care of it all right off the bat instead of stressing about where the hell it's all going to go.

I SOOOOO wish at times I was a more organizationally-savvy person with an eye for design... sadly I'm not. I'm not very creative at all and need to copy other people's ideas to make my house feel like it is quite possibly "organized", lol! Alex and I sat down today and went through Pinterest boards as well as google and some blog's we found and got some *ideas* on what we should purchase to help organize the boys' room. Hopefully we will be able to afford all the stuff we wanted.... but until then, we put it all on our baby registry. No harm in that, right?? >.< I don't anticipate anybody to buy us anything from our registry (people are really good at ignoring that kind of stuff for house-warming parties/baby showers/bridal showers I've noticed, rofl!) but JUST IN CASE, it's all on there ^_~

The last thing I am debating in my head (not out loud because I'm sure Alex will slap me... hahaha) is whether or not I should buy one final batch of cloth diapers. I would be buying the Sunbaby 12 pack of pocket diapers (they have such cute new prints!! I wasn't too thrilled with the selection when I bought our first batch..) I feel like I could feel COMPLETELY ready cloth diapering-wise if I had one more batch... but then again, Alex thinks I'm crazy already and went WAAAAY overboard on the diaper front. I like prefolds and will be VERY happy to use them, but all the same I love the idea of the pocket diapers, especially since they seem much easier to deal with in the middle of the night. Ohh well...

There are days when I feel EXTREMELY pregnant, and days when I'm in complete denial that our family of 3 will soon become a family of 4 with two spunky, rambunctious little boys. I think once I have everything in place and set up the way I see it all in my head things will be MUCH more real to me...