Curtain bling.

In our new apartment Avery's room faces East and in the morning it is very bright. It's especially bright right around the time of her morning nap. A couple of weeks ago I bought some blackout curtains that do a great job of darkening the room. Unfortunately once she is up I had been having a hard time finding a way to keep them open so she didn't continuously think it was naptime.

I decided I would make some curtain ties. I printed out a flower shape in four different sizes, pinned the patterns to felt in fuchsia, light pink and white. Once I cut out all eight -- two in each of the four sizes -- I put them together with a dab of hot glue between each layer. Then I took some embroidery floss and stitched a spiral in the center.

Once the flowers were done I stitched a piece of hook & loop to opposite sides of a piece of 1/2" grosgrain ribbon on either end. Then I hot glued the finished flower to one end of the ribbon on the opposite side as the hook & loop.

I love how it dresses up her otherwise blase curtains.

Art Project!

Today Justin & I were on a mission to get some of the last things we still needed for the nursery. One of the few things we've been putting off is getting the letters to put on the wall above the crib. Today we finally decided on some from Michaels, but they needed to be painted.

We were going to wait to paint them until next weekend, but I couldn't wait! Check it out!


At first I painted the wrong side of the V -- they stuck the label on the wrong side! So once we hung it up, I had to take it down and paint the other side.

Here is the finished product!

Nursery Progress!

Once we bought the crib and set it up we sort of closed the door on the nursery and hadn't looked at it except to put things in there to some day be set up. Well last weekend we finally got started on putting it together.

Here's how it's coming along:


We decided to use a dresser we already had instead of buying a new one because we couldn't find one we liked enough to go with her crib. This one matches, plus it was free!

Here's her crib with clean sheets! I still need to tie the bumper back on, but here's an idea of what it will look like.
And here's the organizers on the back of her door. It's full of blankets and towels that are all freshly washed. It took me 4 loads to do what's in these organizers!

Now we're getting somewhere!

Yesterday Justin & I went to Sacramento to pick up the crib. We had planned on putting it together today, but once we got it home, we couldn't stand the wait! We started putting it together around 10:45 last night and surprisingly we were done around 11:15! It was way easier than I thought.

We also cleaned out the desk that was in her room. This morning Justin and his dad moved it to Justin's parent's house for storage. Now the only things in her room are her things!

So much progress in so little time!

The last two weeks have been such a blur!

First we Went to Goore's in Sacramento to look at furniture and bedding. We finally decided on a bedding set by CoCaLo. We wanted something that was not the traditional pink flowers and caught our attention. I love it!
While we were there we found a crib we really liked (and both agreed on!). Then last Friday when we ordered it. We decided on the Munire Essex in White. On their website said it could be 6-10 weeks for it to arrive. I called to see if they could give me a little bit more specific time frame. The sales rep looked to see if their distributor had it in stock. They did! She said it would be 2 weeks, but to call next week to double check. Then I called back on Tuesday to see if it would indeed arrive in 2 weeks. She told me it would actually be in this Friday! So we are going on Saturday to pick it up!Then came probably one of my favorite moments since being pregnant.

Justin finally got to feel her kick! I have been feeling kicks from the inside since 16 weeks and could recognize them on the outside for the last 3 weeks or so, but every time I tell Justin to feel, she always stops moving!

Finally the other night I was laying in bed watching tv when she was having her nightly rave. I got him to come into the room and as soon as he put his hand on my belly she kicked him. He just looked at me and his eyes lit up. He said, "That was it! She loves me too!" It was amazing. I almost cried.

We've made so much progress and I can't wait to see what more we have in store!