Horrible twos and nesting

My first due date is exactly in a week and Teodor is turning two in less than two weeks...this is just crazy...

Since the due date is coming so fast, I decided I finally have to move forward with preparations for the new member...

We finally got some more basket drawers for our built-in wardrobe - so the newborn size diapers have a place where to live.

All her clothes, size 50-56 fits in one drawer. 

Finally washed and ironed all wraps and carriers. 

I also finally emptied the Stokke Flexibath, which was used as a basket for clean laundry (which has been there for at least 2 moths...).

And the last thing I did this morning (it was a looong morning starting at 5:35), I brushed out the sheepskin.

Charlie for some reason thought I made it soft and fluffy for him and was ready to take a nap there. Did not happen for him.

I loved the sheepskin when Teodor was tiny, he loved it too - it was soft and warm. Newborns actually prefer soft surfaces to hard mattresses...so I will use the sheepskin in his play-corner, which might be set up this weekend? In some ways I am ready to give birth, in some, we still have stuff to do...like to figure out the sleeping arrangements.

We didn't buy him a crib as it wouldn't fit in the bedroom and Teodor didn't spend much time in it (he didn't mind sleeping there, like at all, but I minded waking up every hour to feed him and go to poop with him), so it would be a waste of money, bedside crib would be wonderful but when I saw it in real-life, it was just so small that it didn't feel right to spend so much money on it. So there is Stokke daybed left...but our daughter is probably sleep under the same blanket with me...Btw. I loved Stokke daybed for Teodor...he liked it for the first 2 months...then he started hating it.

To sum up, the most important things are ready for the arrival of our daughter, the rest can be figured out on the go.

Going in his own direction

Teodor is constantly teaching me that I should not boast about my parenting successes because nothing lasts forever...Teodor had been extremely good at walking in the city, he would never run away, run into the road...I felt I did it right to make him walk in the city since he was about 15 months and able to walk than couple of metres....but lately he has been showing me he is about to turn two and he has his own opinion about where to go...We walk and then he suddenly changes direction and walks really fast away from me...sometimes I know why, sometimes I have no clue. Luckily, he still hasn't figured out he can run into the road...

It is quite demanding both mentally and physically; mentally because I have to either figure out where and why he wants to go (because sometimes we have time and we can go wherever he wants - like yesterday he decided to go to the forest, ok, why not, right?) or to persuade him to go my direction (power play does not work on him). Physically it is demanding because I'm way too pregnant...today I carried him home because he was just making it up...he was annoying himself and me..there was no point to prolong both of our sufferings, he was tired and hungry, so the smartest solution was to get him home and feed him. Have him to have a rest.

I'm wondering where this will go when the baby girl comes...and is it a short or a long phase?

Otherwise I don't think horrible twos are going to hit us hard...well, I hope...but this running away seems to be a typical feature of "horrible twos"...

Except for his unexpected changes of directions, we are having quite calm days together and I'm amazed by how smart he is despite the fact he has about 10 syllables....but that's for another post.