Shelving

This morning I had my 35 week and 4 days BPP ultrasound test. My mom went with me again to my appointment. We had thought they were going to do the baby's growth today as that's what they told me last week at my appointment, but instead they decided to wait another week and do it right before the amnio. Everything looked great with the baby as always. His heartbeat was strong, his movement was good, his practice breathing was strong, and the fluid level was good. I saw Dr. Reddick after my appointment and she said everything looked great and they were all hoping the little guys lungs were mature next week. She said she knew I had to be anxious to go ahead and have him and I told her that was indeed the case, the sooner the better. My fluid level today was 20 which Dr. Reddick assured me was normal and not concerning in the least. Good. I always knew too little fluid was a bad thing but I never knew you could have too much fluid. Apparently, it can be a sign of something being wrong but Dr. Reddick told me that usually occurs at a much earlier gestation period and for my gestational period, my levels are just fine. After my appointment I went by the Kitchen and Lighting Gallery to pick up our ceiling fan light that had finally come in. The light was for our nursery and I had already hired an electrician to come install it and our vanity light tomorrow morning. Since I was both hungry and nearby a PT's I met my Dad for some lunch. Since the rain had yet to come when we were finished with lunch, Dad stopped by my house to help me dig up a couple of little trees. We intend on extending our front porch over to the end of our house but first we needed to removed the little trees and dig up all the weeds and grass. It's one of many projects we have around our house that we just haven't had time to get to yet, but I'm hoping that before the summer gets here that patio will be built. At least now we have the big stuff out of the way and just have to kill off the rest of it.

The rest of the afternoon I spent doing some work around the house. I hung a shelf in the baby's room and moved the TV from the office in there. It was a pretty long shelf so I was quite pleased with myself that I not only hung it securely but that it was perfectly level. I had to take a picture of the level on top of it to send to Marshall just to prove it. While I was motivate to do some work, I started putting together the closet door track for the nursery. We had decided to remove the heavy mirrored doors when we remodeled the room and wanted to put up some sort of doors that wouldn't catch little fingers in them. Therefore, bifold doors and most track door systems were out. We finally found a couple of door systems at Ikea that used only a top track and no bottom track. In our house in Charlotte, we installed one such door system that utilized fabric panels as doors instead of solid doors. Once installed it looked really great and modern so we decided to do that to the nursery doors. That way if the toddler pulled the door down, only a piece of fabric would hit him, not a heavy closet door. Also, the fabric panels are easy and cheap to replace if the kid messes them up. Marshall had cut the track for me the other weekend when he was home, so I secured the two pieces of track together and put all the panel wheels in and installed the bar to the closet door frame. By the time I was finally done with all of that, it was time for Zumba so I stopped my project. Alice was in town visiting her fiancé so she came by and picked me up for Zumba as she wanted to try out my instructor. She really enjoyed Karson and said she was a lot more fun than other instructors she had been to. After Zumba, Alice treated me to dinner at Towne Bar and Grill. It was nice to catch up with her as we only see each other sporadically when we happen to be in the same town as one another. She plans to be back in about 3 weeks which will be perfect timing for her to come meet the new little guy.