Nursery and updates - week 26

We worked all weekend on her nursery.  It makes me so happy seeing that room come together.  My vision for it is a lot of things that we make for her ourselves that mean something to us.  I want her to feel the love that we've put into that room.  We struggle with making decisions on what to buy for her room, but we both agree with how and what to make for it.  The making thing comes a whole lot more natural to both of us, even though it's a whole lot more work!

I'm keeping up with some of the nursery changes here too, even though most of you have seen them on my other blog. 


Here's where we started about a month ago:

And here's where we are now :

We haven't quite finished the built in closet yet...just a few finishing touches.  I'll post the entire closet when I'm done with it.  We built the book shelves and finished those up on Monday, and got most of the closet done by then too.  It's a lot of work, but really worth it.

On Sunday, Erin came over and taught me how to sew.  Her and I are working on making a puffy quilt blanket for our babies.  She has yet to conceive one yet, but that's besides the point!!  It's fun having someone to work on that stuff with.  Chris actually loves to help with all the building and my DIY plans, but I'm pretty sure he draws the line at sewing :-).

I'm really getting excited and happy about bringing her into the world in a few short months.  I do get somewhat annoyed with a lot of people's 'concerns' or unsolicited advice, but I have to keep in mind that they just care.  I had 5 neighbors come up to me while I was sanding and painting and sanding and painting and sanding and painting these bookshelves, while I looked like this :

And stop me in the middle of my project and ask if I was sure I should be doing this.  And because I'm still painting while they walk up, I have to talk through this god-awful, yet absolutely necessary device, and tell them that I'm fine.  That my doctor said this was fine.  What I really feel like saying is "I have 8 parents and a concerned husband...do you REALLY think it's necessary for me to have the ENTIRE neighborhood questioning me too?!".  But I try to take it in stride.  Chris has started coming to my rescue and chatting with the various neighbors when he sees them coming up to me.  The face mask is uncomfortable and makes me sweat, so wasting time chatting while I'm wearing it is just frustrating.  We've got so many DIY projects going on though that it's impossible to 'hide' from the neighbors.

In all honesty, I'm really glad that we live in a neighborhood where everyone is excited about us being pregnant.  I'm glad that everyone cares, and I know that it takes a village, and we've got lots of villagers around here to keep their eye out for us.  I would think that the sight of me in that hideous mask would be scary enough to deter away any of the neighbors...but so far it's not working.  Kodi was scared of it initially, but now when I'm sitting down, he tries to bite on the side of the respirators.  He's also been my shadow during this whole pregnancy.  He doesn't like for me to get too far away from him.  He's going to be a good big brother!!

T-minus 14 weeks!!