Well, yesterday we finished the nursery. Almost. We finished our cute little animals. We got the nobs put into the drawers and doors. And all the furniture is put together and arranged in the room. Now don't be mad, the pictures aren't great. They were taken after spending all day working hard on the nursery and it was almost 2 am by the time we got our tired butts to bed. But it just needs a few tiny touch ups and it will be done with the painting and moving part.
Now all we have to do is sort the closet of stuff we have accumulated in the last couple weeks. And this is tougher than you might think. I started doing it last night and whew, I know we have tons of drawers but now what goes in which drawer! And let me tell you about this furniture, I thought the dresser would be the hardest because it is the biggest. But we started with the changing table, thinking it was the smallest piece of furniture and it has a little cubby hole to help keep it out of the way as we put the other furniture together. This little thing was the hardest darn thing to put together and the instructions weren't very good, but we got it figured
out. The crib came next, it wasn't too bad as there basically are four sides and two bottoms to the thing. The crib went together really fast. And then we sat there and looked at it stunned. IT'S HUGE! We had measured everything else out so we knew where they would fit and exactly how big they were, but not the most vital part of the nursery. So, after deciding we probably won't have room for the glider in the nursery, it'll have to go into our room, we moved onto the heaviest part of the room. Kelly had had our neighbor help him move it upstairs so we just had to get it down the hall a little closer to the nursery. As we cut open this huge box (it was at least 4 ft tall), we realized that inside, our dresser was already all put together all we had to do was figure out how to get it out of the box. Kelly figured that if we just cut down the sides of the box we could just pull it out of this box and with a little tugging and pulling and fighting with plastic wrap, we got it done. So, now we had all the furniture in the room. I sent Kelly to make dinner and I made the bed and started unpacking some of the clothes that were given to us. These clothes came from a little boy who didn't wear much of them,
however, most of them are blue. I sorted through them to find the ones that were unisex looking and put the rest in the spare bedroom so we would have them for later, just in case.
We put these black our curtains up in the nursery so that we could block the sun when it comes up because the n
ursery (just like our room) faces East, so when the sun comes up in the morning, it gets bright even if the blinds are shut and the curtains are closed. And the room gets hot too. So when my father moved out of his house, he gave us two of these. Yesterday while Kelly was painting animals ( I just can't do little bitty detail work, but he does really well at it since he did a lot of it when he did model painting) I figured out how to use a power screwdriver and took down the blinds in the room and hung these black out curtains (it's like blinds but they are really solid and block all the light and heat). I was impressed that I could work a screw driver!
I am working on getting the pictures up on photobucket so you can see all of them from start to finish. And I know that I need to get better pictures with some normal lighting in the room.
As for other things, I have been feeling Mattie move a lot. It feel funny and I think I get
confused by it. I think it's gas but then she'll kick me again and I realize that's not gas, THAT'S MY LITTLE GIRL! It's exciting but not yet strong enough for Kelly to feel yet. Well, she does it so quick that I don't have time to even put my hand on my belly to see if you can feel it from the outside yet.
I guess I've blabbed long enough, we are just extremely excited to finally be to a point where we can start organizing for baby. But on and end note, the puppies are fine. Their eyes are opening and they are starting to walk. We do play with them in between running around for the nursery. I'll try to get some pictures up here.
Now all we have to do is sort the closet of stuff we have accumulated in the last couple weeks. And this is tougher than you might think. I started doing it last night and whew, I know we have tons of drawers but now what goes in which drawer! And let me tell you about this furniture, I thought the dresser would be the hardest because it is the biggest. But we started with the changing table, thinking it was the smallest piece of furniture and it has a little cubby hole to help keep it out of the way as we put the other furniture together. This little thing was the hardest darn thing to put together and the instructions weren't very good, but we got it figured
out. The crib came next, it wasn't too bad as there basically are four sides and two bottoms to the thing. The crib went together really fast. And then we sat there and looked at it stunned. IT'S HUGE! We had measured everything else out so we knew where they would fit and exactly how big they were, but not the most vital part of the nursery. So, after deciding we probably won't have room for the glider in the nursery, it'll have to go into our room, we moved onto the heaviest part of the room. Kelly had had our neighbor help him move it upstairs so we just had to get it down the hall a little closer to the nursery. As we cut open this huge box (it was at least 4 ft tall), we realized that inside, our dresser was already all put together all we had to do was figure out how to get it out of the box. Kelly figured that if we just cut down the sides of the box we could just pull it out of this box and with a little tugging and pulling and fighting with plastic wrap, we got it done. So, now we had all the furniture in the room. I sent Kelly to make dinner and I made the bed and started unpacking some of the clothes that were given to us. These clothes came from a little boy who didn't wear much of them,
however, most of them are blue. I sorted through them to find the ones that were unisex looking and put the rest in the spare bedroom so we would have them for later, just in case.We put these black our curtains up in the nursery so that we could block the sun when it comes up because the n
ursery (just like our room) faces East, so when the sun comes up in the morning, it gets bright even if the blinds are shut and the curtains are closed. And the room gets hot too. So when my father moved out of his house, he gave us two of these. Yesterday while Kelly was painting animals ( I just can't do little bitty detail work, but he does really well at it since he did a lot of it when he did model painting) I figured out how to use a power screwdriver and took down the blinds in the room and hung these black out curtains (it's like blinds but they are really solid and block all the light and heat). I was impressed that I could work a screw driver!I am working on getting the pictures up on photobucket so you can see all of them from start to finish. And I know that I need to get better pictures with some normal lighting in the room.
As for other things, I have been feeling Mattie move a lot. It feel funny and I think I get
confused by it. I think it's gas but then she'll kick me again and I realize that's not gas, THAT'S MY LITTLE GIRL! It's exciting but not yet strong enough for Kelly to feel yet. Well, she does it so quick that I don't have time to even put my hand on my belly to see if you can feel it from the outside yet.I guess I've blabbed long enough, we are just extremely excited to finally be to a point where we can start organizing for baby. But on and end note, the puppies are fine. Their eyes are opening and they are starting to walk. We do play with them in between running around for the nursery. I'll try to get some pictures up here.
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