There’s really a little one in there, wiggling around! It isn’t just my imagination or weird special effects at the doctor’s office.

I now feel Smudge kicking and swimming every few hours. But the REAL excitement this weekend was that Jill got to feel him too!

We were relaxing with some brain candy on Friday night when he started kicking up a storm. I grabbed Jill’s hand and pressed it into my belly — after a couple of seconds, her eyes lit up, "I felt it! I felt something!"

And although this was exciting on a much more modest scale, it makes us VERY happy. On Saturday, the nice people from Storehouse.com delivered and installed 7 bookshelves, each with extensions to make them 96" tall. Our dining room wall is now a full wall of books, plus we have 3 more bookshelves in the living room.

I spent Saturday afternoon and early evening unpacking our ~25 boxes of books, and it now looks as if we have a dining room, rather than a storage facility at the front of our house. Well, a room anyway. The dining room table is still on the list of things we want.

Here’s the scary part: We still have two 4′ tall bookshelves upstairs, and there is no room for the books on those shelves to move downstairs. Except for the lowest shelves in the living room, which have doors on them, all of the shelf space on all 7 bookshelves is already occupied.

We are going to do a "phase 2" of this project, organizing the books and hopefully purging some. So various personal finance, management, and computer books can move to the office, while fiction, plays, essays, and children’s books can be separated into distinct categories downstairs.

Next up: An entertainment center. With our new beautiful bookshelves, our unfinished pine TV stand looks even more like dorm room furniture. Then dining room furniture and baby furniture.