Nursery photos!

So, aside from the hutch that is going to go on top of the changing tower, the nursery furniture is all assembled! I'm really happy w/how it looks w/the paint, and I think the bedding will look nice w/it as well, when we get that.

Pardon the tools and other stuff sitting around...I didn't want to take everything out since we're going to need it back in there again.

Jon and I decided, in order to avoid any future chewing incidents (hopefully), that we're just going to replace all the wooden drawer pulls w/metal ones...brass or something, probably.

Anyway, pictures!

Happy Mother's Day!

So it's not really Mother's Day for me this year, since I'm still a mother-to-be at this point (and hopefully for a few more weeks... I don't need any early arrivals!).

Jon told me earlier this week that he'd been racking his brain for the past few weeks trying to come up w/something to get me, but wasn't hitting on anything. And frankly, I couldn't think of anything either, aside from getting the nursery furniture put together. So that's what I told him :) The crib, bookshelf, and toybox (save the lid, which arrived w/a chunk broken off it...we're waiting on a new one to be shipped) are all together at this point. Just the changer/hutch are left!

I just kind of peer in the doorway sometimes... it's still really odd to me to have a pink room w/a crib in it :)

And why didn't someone tell me that I would be so freakin' EXHAUSTED during the 3rd trimester? It's light-years worse than the 1st 3 months. I fall asleep at the drop of a hat... and it's not just dozing. I'm OUT, sleeping hard. It's like this all the time, no matter how much sleep I get at night. *yaaaaaaaaaaaaawn*

I've been trying to stay off my feet more, when I can. I've been having weird tingliness in my thighs when I do a lot of walking (or lately, not even that much, really), which apparently is a result of the baby smooshing my sciatic nerve. It kind of feels like they're asleep when it happens... pins & needles-ish. Annoying more than anything, really.

I was doing the math last night, and unless she makes an early appearance, I have only 7.5 weeks of work left before I'll go out on leave! Holy cow... that's kind of snuck up on me :)

Nursery renovations

So in the course of one day (that day being today), we got rid of the daybed (sold on Craigslist), had the crib delivered (still in the box), and primed & put the first coat of paint on the walls in what will be the nursery. Not bad for a day's work!

Here's a few photos of the work in progress:

Before:



Jon priming:



After 1 coat...it's a little streaky. We'll be doing at least 1 more coat.






I think the color we chose is going to complement the bedding nicely. It's a tidge darker than we thought, but we're still pretty happy w/it overall. I probably did more than I really should have, and I'm sure I'll be aching tomorrow.

I had a doctor's appointment this morning, which was fine. I'm measuring right on point for 31 weeks, and the baby sounded great. No worries!

Furniture: check!

I ordered our nursery furniture today! We were originally going to get a set from Babies R Us, but looking online this week, I found a set that we liked even better. And -- bonus -- it was much less money than the first set we'd picked out, so we're actually getting a couple more pieces, like a bookshelf and toy box.

I've pretty much got the room that will be the nursery cleaned out. We have to move the chest of drawers over to the other spare room, and I've got the daybed listed on Craigslist...hopefully we'll get a buyer on that w/in the next week or so.

Anyway, here are the 2 big pieces. Both will be in the honey color of the hutch, but the crib isn't shown online in that color.

Changer/hutch:


Crib: