Silicon Valley Baby

Maternity leave; holiday season; nursery coming online

A pretty eventful week here in SiliBaby land!

SiliMommy started her maternity leave this week. On her second-to-last day of work, her company held its holiday party. One of the party games was guessing her waistline!

She spent this week being domestic and also getting some rest.

In other news, we finished clearing out SiliBaby's bedroom, and had the nursery furniture delivered yesterday.

Here are pictures of the furniture in its new habitat!

First, as you stand in the doorway to the room, you face the window, under which we placed the dresser:

Turning left, you can see the crib (you can see a bit of it at the left side of the photo above):

Finally, standing next to the dresser (thus, facing the doorway where I stood for the first shot), you can see the changing table:

Someday soon, I'm going to start incorporating YouTube into this blog. At that point, I'll do a 360-degree video pan of the nursery.

(The things beneath the casters, by the way, were styrofoam squares to keep the furniture legs off the carpet until it finished drying; the carpet cleaners had been here early that morning, and the carpet was not yet 100% dry.)

In other news...the doula is scheduled to come for our prenatal consultation on Sunday. During that time, I guess she'll get the lay of our household, and we'll do the various administrative stuff (contract, etc.). We're also going to watch a couple of videos together: one about nursing, and another about how to calm your crying infant (the latter video, called The Happiest Baby on the Block, is the complement to a very-well-regarded book of the same title).

Then, that night, our friend who hosted SiliMommy's baby shower is going to come over with her 1-year-old (and her pugs?) for New Year's Eve.

For the rest of the long holiday weekend (my company's closed for 4 days for the New Year), we'll be unpacking and setting things up: the cosleeper needs to be installed...I badly need to clean my car (even if I didn't need to install a car seat into it)...lots of other stuff to do...

Have a Happy New Year!

SiliDaddy,SiliMommy, SiliFetus, and SiliPug

posted by SiliDaddy @ 8:26 PM