Nursery Time

We're getting there...little by little, we are finishing all the prep work so that Harrison has his own little space...take that back, so that he can completely overrun our house with baby stuff. We are almost completely finished with his nursery, bathroom and travel needs (strollers, bouncers, pack-n-play, etc).

Nursery Updates: The room was painted yellow to begin with...Mark would not let me repaint it. I had to work with what I was given. I figured, I made all the other decisions about what we were going to do as far as the decorations were concerned so I guess he could have his wish on the wall color. I mean after all, the monster theme kind-of just happened for me and there was no turning back after the idea took place! Our color theme is pretty much NOT pastels. We have aqua blue, bright orange, royal blue, fire engine red, many shades of bright green and pops of yellow. It's all boy and it's a fun mismatch of the colors that will hopefully stand out enough to keep our little guy occupied and interested. Wait til he sees his bathroom!!! We'll send some update pictures on that soon; Mark is almost finished in there and it's definitely all kid-inspired.

Harrison's bedding and curtains were made by a great friend of the family, Lee, who sewed every inch of the items together (what an awesome skill that I so do not have!) and they look amazing! She made the crib sheets, baby blanket, dust ruff, curtains and is currently working on the bumper pads--what a woman!

We had some great help from my Dad hanging all the shelves not only on the walls but also in the closet. So Harrison has a horde of monsters in his room and has a closet full of baby clothes that he can hopefully all wear.

We even tested out most of his stuff already (thank you all for the lovely shower gifts!) when our friends Traci and Kevin brought over their little sweetie Reagan. The monitor rocks, she loved all his toys and those glowing/musical creatures for nap time work like a charm! It's great to know that we picked out some winners for our little guy and if he's finicky, we can always give Reagan some new great gear!

As far as the rest of the baby gear goes: We installed the car seats in each car and it's truly amazing how much room they actually take up! We must both sit way back in our cars because we had to move those passenger seats up and it's now a sad situation for whoever is stuck riding along. We also put the stroller and snap-and-go together so we each have one ready. The pack-n-play is up as well as the bouncer and swing. Like I said, it's all coming along. Now we just have to wait for the baby.

Speaking of Harrison, we had our 36 week appointment today and he's doing just great. Everything looked good and we'll have another appointment next week. It's amazing to think we have somewhere around 3 weeks left before he's here! Right now he's moving all over the place and he's got me famished and parched as always...so off I go to fill up the meter.

We'll send more updates soon!