Nesting 201

Welcome to Nesting 201!  If you have enrolled in this course, you have already mastered Nesting 101 and are familiar with the intricacies of how to prepare for the arrival of a new baby.  In this advanced course, you will learn how to prepare for the arrival of a new baby (or babies, in some cases) while also continuing to care for the baby that arrived after your graduation from Nesting 101.  The end goal is the same (preparing your home and family for a new addition(s)), but achieving said goal is now only reached by mastering this higher level of skill.  So I suggest you take copious notes and begin your preparations early.
In Nesting 101, you learned all about using all of your luxurious free time in shopping, decorating, assembling, organizing, cleaning, and sanitizing.  The equation is still the same; all of the same tasks must still be done.  But you now have no free time.  You now have a toddler.
This change in the equation calls for a new variable that may or may not have been utilized during your first nesting phase:  calling in reinforcements.  It's highly recommended that you have on call a team of professionals who have at least some free time on their hands and who know how to handle toddlers:  the grandparents.
Sending your toddler to visit the grandparents for one or two (or even three, if they're feeling ambitious!) nights, will give you some much needed time to frantically accomplish all of the many items on your growing to-do list, hopefully before your growing belly seriously limits your ability to be of much use for any task.
Activities that have proven successful in entertaining the toddler include:
Chicken nuggets.

 Reading.

 Coloring.

 Going to church.

Silly sunglasses.

 Did I mention chicken nuggets?

 Swimming in their underwear.

 Frivolity and general merriment while in the bath.

When the grandparents become exhausted, you also have the option of calling on favorite babysitters to distract the toddler while you continue on your nesting mission.

Proven methods of distraction include:
The operation of heavy machinery.

 Fossil excavation. 

 The making of magnetic clouds.

And space travel.

Should any of the aforementioned be too time consuming or costly, the babysitter could also just take the toddler to a local museum.

 Oh, yeah - and chicken nuggets.

 And fries.

While your toddler is being so skillfully distracted, you must set to work immediately.  First, you must rearrange all of the bedrooms in the house in order to ensure that the baby(ies) have the most suitable room for baby.  The yoga room (or craft room, rumpus room, etc.) gets moved to the basement.  The yoga room becomes the guest room.  The guest room becomes the toddler's room, and the toddler's room becomes the baby room.  It must be this way, trust me.  You will not be satisfied until every room has changed its purpose.
Then you (and when I say "you" I really mean your sweet, hard-working hubby) must re-paint each and every room...er, well, you will probably run out of time, so just paint one room and make yourself content with the colors in the remaining rooms.  Next, you make and hang curtains for each of the rooms and move all of the contents to their new home.
Quick side-note on the guest room:  now that you will have more than one child running around your house, you're going to need lots of help, and you're probably going to need a little extra enticing to get that help to come to you.  So, I would suggest making your guest room as inviting as you possibly can.  Is that a little tricky to make your visitors think that they'll be able to relax on the comfy bed, reading magazines from the stack on the bedside table when in actuality they'll be hard at work?  Sure, but it's necessary considering the dire circumstances.

Toddler room:

Baby room:  Please note that there is a mattress missing from one of the cribs.  In addition, there is also no cute decorative item above the cribs.  This would have been grounds for failure in Nesting 101, but in Nesting 201, there's no time for that!  Hopefully, you'll take care of it after the baby arrives (at least the crib mattress!). 

Just as in Nesting 101, you will want to wash all of the baby clothes.  Then you will want to fold, hang, and organize the clothes according to size and season.  This is a non-negotiable - you won't be able to sleep until this is done. 

Lastly, you must 1) double anything you cook for a month in order to freeze half for later, 2) get out of storage and clean all of the baby gear, and 3) install the baby car seat(s). 
Once you have accomplished all of this (in a relatively short amount of time while the toddler's away or distracted), you can finally put your feet up and let the baby(ies) keep cooking until it's (they're) ready to come out of the oven!

Wren at 36 weeks - 6 lbs. 7 oz.

Judson at 36 weeks - 5 lbs. 12 oz.

Congratulations!  You've successfully navigated your way through Nesting 201!  I hope you've found this information helpful, and I look forward to seeing you in Three Under Three 101 or Advanced Relaxation Techniques for Frazzled Parents next semester!
(Thanks to the grandparents and Madison and Marlee for helping with Caleb!  We couldn't have gotten it all ready without you!)