Nursery Progress!

Nursery painting is finally complete!! Well, almost. You'll see why down below. Dad came over yesterday and replastered the section of wall that was ruined by the wooden border, so this morning after I cooked a hearty biscuits 'n gravy breakfast we got straight to work!

Smoothing out the plaster job. What a MESS! Maddi helping paint the pink part.

She was very happy to have a part in painting her sister's room!

The finished product! Just missing the chocolate brown chair rail in between the two colors to match the one on top.

Maddison and Mommy Day

Today Maddison and I had Mommy 'N Me kind of day. I promised her last night that if she stayed in bed and went right to sleep after Oliver & Co. on cassette was over that I would take her ot see Despicable Me. Well, she was a very good little girl and suprised me by waking up at 6:45am! I was already up and had been on my morning walk with Sedona, so we woke up Marc, sent him off to work, did Pre-Natal Yoga together, had breakfast and then started getting ready for the movies. Despicable Me was super cute! I chuckled through the whole thing basically and even teared up at the end. Then I took Maddison for a chocolate ice cream cone and she helped me try to pick out a dress to wear to Derek and Angela's wedding on Friday. After that we went to Barnes N Noble and she picked out Princess and the Frog Read Along. We read a bunch of books and then she wanted to go to Pier 1 Imports next door to go "furniture shopping". Since she was highly anticipating her cousin Joey to come over we didn't stay very long. Nicholas was sleeping so Joey and Maddison's play-time will have to wait until tomorrow which she is kinda bummed about, but all in all I'd say we had a very fun day together!

Weekly Update

I stole this from a fellow preggo blogger =)

How far along? 26 weeks 5 days!

Total weight gain: As of 7/15/10 it was 13.5 pounds! I have since eaten like a hog so I am afraid to know what it will be when I weigh myself next Tuesday.

Best moment this week: That's tough. I'm on week 2 of being a SAHM so really I am enjoying ever second I get to spend with Miss Maddison. Can't pick a best moment!

Movement: TONS! She is quite the acrobat in there! I can see my whole belly roll and move with her and she is starting to make me a little uncomfortable these days!

Gender: Female. I'll have to come up with a new one for next week since this one won't be changing!

Belly button in/out: It's pretty much out. You can't see it yet through a shirt, but very soon!

What I miss: Being able to sit and lay comfortably.

What I am looking forward to: NO HEARTBURN! This kid is going to come out like a gorilla if this heartburn keeps up! It's aweful =(

Milestones: We are now in the semi-safe zone is God forbid something were to happen and she came early. 24 weeks I believe is the beginning since baby's lungs are a little more developed but I would prefer her to bake a LOT longer!!

Inspiration...

This is the bedding we bought for Miss Cylie's nursery.

This is a little inspiration for what I want to achieve with the bedding. I LOVE this room. I'm not a huge fan of the fabric dresser though. Since we do not have tray ceilings we can not do the silk on the ceiling (which I LOVE), but I love the warmth of the room and the color scheme is somewhat similar to Cylie's bedding. The picture of it seems ultra pink, but it's more of a dusty rose in person so this would be a nice room to create around it.
I also fell in love with this room. I saw this one before I saw the last and absolutely loved it. I couldn't pull off the look exactly since we have an espresso dresser and side table and an oak crib (not excited about them not matching but oh well!). But again, I love the feel of the room and if you notice the paint colors are similar in these 2 rooms. I had originally planned to do a paint job similar to the one shown in the bedding photo but with creme stripes on top. Now I am really liking the sage green. Much to think about!

I really don't get the tree thing. If you go to Rate My Space where I found these photos and view the nursery pics like 60% of all nurseries on there have trees painted on the wall. Tree of life?? Maybe. But I really don't get where that trend started or why SO many people are following it. Another 30% have huge alphabet letters painted usualy on one wall, with the letters turned different directions. I usually see this in boy rooms. Again, cool idea, but when soooo many people do the same thing it kinda kills it for me. Still love the color scheme and overall feel of the room. Can't wait to see what mine will turn out like!

A while back I had posted about a dilemma regarding the downstairs guest bedroom. Since we had never used it due to it flooding a month after we moved in we just weren't sure what to do with it. We ended up deciding on turning it into a scrapbooking/craft room for me, and Marc could have the loft to put all of his sports stuff in. Well, it's almost finished! The only thing left to do is add a second coat of paint and install the closet doors. Oh, and it needs a shleving unit and chair/sleeper sofa which we have not purchased yet. Other than that, voila!

I can't wait to get some work done in there! So far I still have not had time. Being a SAHM is a lot busier than I had imagined, so hopefully once all the projects and construction is done in the house I can get busy scrapbooking again!

Cylie's Nursery

We have finally started the grunt work portion of Cylie's nursery! These pictures are going to be out of order since I can't figure out how to do it correctly all in one post. Anyhow...

Cylie's stroller and carseat! We splurged a little on this, but it's the #1 rated carseat in America and all the WTE moms raved about it. We went with the green versus the pink to be more gender neutral JUST in case Marc buys me that boat in exchange for kid #3 and it happens to be a boy!

Cylie's diaper collection, some clothes (all size 6 months for some reason??) and my Guess purse I am using as a diaper bag because I have a minor obsession with Guess purses.

Construction! We had some difficulties prying off the bottom wooden chair rail/border thinggy and made 3 holes in the drywall. OOPS! P-Paw Larry saved the day with a patch job. Next we have to re-plaster this whole section where the border was because it's pretty messed up, as you can see.

The whole room...in shambles...and done completely backwards since I just HAD to set up the crib before we started. Blame it on "nesting".



Again, sorry the "before pics" are posted after the "during pics", but I was having trouble and got impatient.

What the guest room/"Grandma's Room" looked like before...

24 week Appt.

24 weeks!! 24 week appointment went well. My belly is measuring exactly at 24 weeks, heartbeat was 156 like usual. I just had a couple people notice for the first time that I am pregnant yesterday at work which is kinda funny, so I guess I'm doing better this time as far as not gorging myself on Big Mac's and Footlongs! I will have my glucose testing at my next appointment, not really looking forward to that. Ugghh...my blood needs to stay IN my body!! With Maddison I was borderline diabetic, but with the way I ate back then I am not suprised! Hopefully everything will go fine this time around.

Good news: TOMORROW IS MY LAST DAY OF WORK!!!! AHHH!! I'm so excited!! I am a little nervous too, that I'll get bored or just simply miss people interaction, but Maddison will keep me very busy I am sure! We also shave a lot of work left to be done on the nursery so that will keep me busy, and my scrapbook room finally has the wood flooring installed! All that's left in there to be done is the baseboard in the closet and it will be good to go! Marc put together my desk which is awesome! It's HUGE so I will have more than enough room to let my creativity spread out! So by the time all of that is completed I will probably have a little one in my arms so I think I have more than enough to keep me busy. So excited!!!