The birth of renovation

I haven't blogged in a while and there are lots of things that I'm skipping over, but I plan to backtrack later and post details and YES, pictures!
It seems that with every pregnancy (by the way, we're pregnant! It's a boy- Henry! and we're half way through!) anyway, it seems that with every pregnancy I have what I jokingly refer to as extreme nesting. It starts early on, and involves waaay more than just washing and folding baby clothes and painting the nursery. Nope, that would be normal and let's face it I'm anything but normal. My nesting involves taking a good look at the house and seeing all those semi-major projects that we just haven't gotten to yet. They have to be done. Now. With Colin we repainted the outside of the house, with Jonas we tore out part of a wall, with Kinsley oh man there were so many things I don't know where to begin, and this time (with Henry) we have repainted the kitchen cabinets, ripped out the ugly pink carpet in preparation for laminate that I'm praying the kids don't destroy before they move out, and we've totally rearranged parts of our house. Now, I DO always paint the nursery in preparation. This will be the only time that I am reusing crib bedding because it's really neutral and I like it. I will "man it up" by accenting with cute woodland animals instead of flowers and butterflies. So the idea for this post came as I was moving Kinsley's stuff to her new room. Just for quick reference, the boys moved downstairs to the majority of my office (I put up a very temporary wall to keep them out of my stuff), Kinsley took their room, and Henry will have the nursery. It's not saddening for me to move Kinsley out of the nursery, in fact it's a nice change because for the first time since she's had toys, they will all fit in her room. It's kind of hard for me to see her growing up and being a little person instead of a baby, but I still see her as a baby so it's not so bad. It was a good time to go through her clothes and toys and pack up and or get rid of things that she's too big for. It's a good time to decorate her new room with things she'll like, like dare I say it, Dora. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little by admitting that. I like Dora, but she's loud anyway and then she encourages the kids to scream and it just drives me nuts. If she was quieter I would LOVE Dora. Anyway, I'm off to see what else I can pack up out of the nursery and take into her new room. -Kellie-