We finally finished painting our apartment last week (and by "we" I mean our fabulous painter/handyman), so I thought I would share some before pictures!

We have two entrances to our apartment.  This is the main entrance on the second floor that leads from an entry hallway into our kitchen/dining room.



We have three faux fireplaces in the dining room, living room, and master bedroom... I wish at least the one in the living room worked!



The kitchen windows open onto this deck that's also accessible via stairs from the backyard.



We probably won't be using it much in the winter, but I'm not sure what we should do with it in the summer.  Perhaps a little table and two chairs to eat breakfast? (That's my mom.)



We let the cats explore a little bit, but they're indoor cats so we don't let them go outside.



This is Max, our next door neighbor's cat.  He is so friendly and sweet and practically lives in our backyard because we have a big tree with a squirrel family that lives in it.  Unfortunately Smokey and Sparky do not like him and hiss and attack the window every time he shows his face in our kitchen window.



View of the living room from the kitchen.  It's a very long living room with pocket doors, original floors, and lots of crown molding.





View from the living room looking into the kitchen/dining room.


Stairs leading down to the first floor


View from first floor entrance
 

First floor entryway


Master bedroom


Bathroom door on left, closet on right.  I do wish there were more closet space, but I can live with what we have.


Connecting bathroom to master bedroom, aka Mr. Bee's bathroom


Nursery


This room is probably bigger than our master bedroom, but it kinda has a funny shape.  The nursery is almost done, and I will share pics soon!





Who knew life was so wonderful with your own washer and dryer?  That first open door on the left leads to a very very scary basement.  A blessing and a curse because we have so much storage space, but that  just allows us to accumulate more crap.



My bathroom



The hall leading into my office is pretty long, which is good because I'll have a little more privacy.



My office that looks out into the backyard.





The backyard.  Excuse the crappy pic -- I just took it really quickly right now with my iphone.  It's comparable in size to our previous backyard, but probably a bit larger because there is more usable space.  I'm going to have to bring my dad in the spring and put him to work revamping the space.



We're off to Ikea now to buy some random things.  We still have a lot of organizing and furniture shopping to do, but it's getting there!  We have twice the space in Brooklyn that we had in Manhattan, and with a baby on the way, it was definitely worth moving.  Now I just have to convince all my friends to move here!

Yesterday was our 6 year meetaversary and though we haven't been too big on celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, etc. in recent years, Mr. Bee surprised me with this gorgeous bouquet from Belle Fleur -- a replica of my actual wedding bouquet from our wedding florist!







Even Sparky was interested.



We shot our maternity pictures yesterday with Punam Bean.  We're both horribly unphotogenic, so I hope at least some of them turn out well.

I'm gonna stay home and unpack and organize all weekend, but phew I've been feeling almost as exhausted as I was in the first trimester.  Hope you have a great one!

I've been crazy busy so this is just a quick update.

Here's one of the pics from our 30 week 4d ultrasound.  He's smiling!



I have a 34 week checkup tomorrow.  It's getting real close!