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On February 24, two weeks before his scheduled birthday, Walter Rey Fredrich decided he was done being in my belly and joined our family at 3:22pm. So... what happened? I'll tell you what happened. NASA happened. JPL, the jet propulsion laboratory happened, that's what happened. Matt and I had a friend of a friend who works at JPL give us a private tour of the place Thursday which was fantastic and so exciting for this space nerd. We saw the Mars rover twin, mission control, bought Wally some souvenir plush space shuttle and walked quite a lot. Even up a steep staircase and I didn't drink enough water or give myself enough of a break for someone that's so very pregnant. I am about the size of a planet here. I felt pretty weird and tried to keep my feet up the rest of the night. Then that night I was restless and uncomfortable and around 5am regular contractions started and though it had been 2.5 years I remembered them well. I waited for Alice to wake up and start...

Class, what's my idea of pretty much scandalous sexy images? That's right: laundry rooms. And look at this little one below and online . It's so freaking small and efficient and adorable! Theirs is right off their master bedroom just like ours is and it multitasks holding pet items just like ours does and I would totally do butcher block countertops if I ever did that in the laundry room. Anyway, go check out the whole post, it's just... adorable .

Miserable pregnancy has been upgraded and about freaking time since the calendar says we have 16 days to go. My appetite never fully recovered and food aversions are a lot less extreme but I'm no longer barfing (except for this one day where all I had for breakfast was coffee and a donut, bad move) but I do have to watch my protein intake because if I don't I get pretty nauseated. I managed to fight off one of the colds Alice caught too! Sleeping is way easier this pregnancy as I mentioned before, I think I just go to bed really tired and am able to shut my brain off more this time around. Know what helps a lot too? Reading a physical book before bed and removing facebook and twitter from your phone, can't recommend that enough. I sleep pretty elevated and I have a pregnancy pillow too and I alternate from one side to the other and that usually lets me get enough sleep and on a good night I only get up once a night to pee. I am very winded if I have to walk a lot. We went t...

Okay... so Alice is really into my digital camera and decided she wanted it the very moment I wanted to use it to take photos of the finished room so one there's one more part to this room thing. After much hemming and hawing this became the eventual layout of the room. As I commented to my mother in-law Jill, I wasn't sure why the room felt bigger with the extra bed and she thinks removing the curtain gives us a lot more floor space which was definitely true.  I never hemmed the curtain either so it would pool at the bottom but in order to accommodate the crib and glider moving over here we've settled on this arrangement which is blinds and a blackout roller blind on top of it since just the blinds lets in too much light for afternoon naps. While at my sisters I asked "where'd you get those roller blinds ?" "Ikea! Super cheap." Yup. When it's all rolled up at the top it looks like one seamless unit. I feel like it was pretty easy to ...