Pantry & Baby Updates

First--the baby (of course!)....I had another ultrasound today and there was all around good news--the kidneys are looking better and the amniotic fluid (that they were concerned with last week) is back in normal range. They will do another ultrasound next wednesday to decide if I can stop the ultrasounds or if I need to continue weekly ultrasounds and start non-stress tests. They gave me another 4D picture--but his foot was kind of in front of his face this time and they had a hard time getting a decent shot--it doesn't look nearly as cute as last week so I will just refer you to that one if you want to see one (he hasn't changed much in a week).

Second--the pantry! Thanks to Shanna generously watching my kids yesterday afternoon, I was able to go grocery shopping to begin restocking my pantry after the moth disaster. It has been about 10 days with no grains (we did buy some bread to keep in the fridge to use for school lunches)---and I am very happy to have food again! In the last 10 days I cleaned the pantry with bleach--covering every possible surface with a lot of bleach and scrubbing. Once that was done I decided to repaint the pantry--it needed to be done before we moved in, but I ran out of time, so this was a good opportunity. We then waited for the fumes to die down and now we are back to having food in the pantry and not having to search through cans on the dining room table.

Here is a look at the new pantry--lots of ziploc freezer bags for the grains. I love the storage containers that I bought--and now I want to buy more to store all the things I forgot I needed them for....but we are doing good for now. There are still a few things left in boxes (I over estimated how much cereal the containers could hold), and the cake mixes are left--but once the cereal is opened it will be put in an air tight container, and the cake mixes will be used immediately once they are opened.