Last weekend my mom and sister came up to try and finish up the nursery. Kristen slaved over the baseboards while Mom hung wallpaper over the ugly cork wall...it looks amazing! The wall got finished (minus the border, which has to wait for wallpaper to dry), baseboards cleaned/painted, door/window frames painted and carpet cleaned...what a busy 24 hours! Great job ladies, I know Peanut will love his room when he gets here (hopefully not until mid-March) and we owe you!
Here's the wall -- kind of hard to see but the yellow wall color really brought out the yellow in the paper.
Easton decided it was too much to handle, so he took a nap (mostly) under the bed :-) What a silly puppy!
After Mom and Kristen left, Jimmy had an itching to put together some furniture -- but he had explicit instructions to wait until Wednesday at least so the carpet would be all the way dry. He was actually able to hold off until Wednesday night when he put together the IKEA purchases -- the changing table (left) and the step-up storage bins (right). The glider/ottoman his mom bought us (see below) was put together the next night (so comfy)!
The weather in Chicago was horrible on Friday and school was cancelled for me (early Winter break, but one extra maternity day of leave I have to take now, oh darn -- it was a much needed day off after Thursday's hard lockdown and lunch room fiasco at school)! Jimmy stayed home too, but he actually had to work (sucker)! So Saturday was the big day -- dresser and crib day. Again, he did most of the work while I supervised. I did attempt to put together the drawers for the dresser, but the manufacturer (Carter's) had the grooves off by just a smidgen -- enough that I couldn't get them together -- after leaving a message (which I'm sure won't be returned) with the manufacturers), some brut force from Jim got the bottom boards on them and we finished it (3 hours later). It looks great though and I love that the drawers actually "dip down" so a kid can't easily pull them out to climb them. After a lunch/stress break, we decided we might as well push on through and assemble the crib -- SO MUCH EASIER!!! I think it took us about 30 minutes for the crib, so we were relieved and got to see the whole room come together!
And I thought this picture was just too funny -- Easton was BEAT from all the hard work Jim did putting the nursery together, so he had to take a nap -- what a life and with no inhibitions! Easton was actually very curious as to what we were doing all weekend in the room and spent some time getting cozy on his new bed in the nursery's doorway while we worked...I think he now believes he is the guardian of that room :-)
After Mom and Kristen left, Jimmy had an itching to put together some furniture -- but he had explicit instructions to wait until Wednesday at least so the carpet would be all the way dry. He was actually able to hold off until Wednesday night when he put together the IKEA purchases -- the changing table (left) and the step-up storage bins (right). The glider/ottoman his mom bought us (see below) was put together the next night (so comfy)!
The weather in Chicago was horrible on Friday and school was cancelled for me (early Winter break, but one extra maternity day of leave I have to take now, oh darn -- it was a much needed day off after Thursday's hard lockdown and lunch room fiasco at school)! Jimmy stayed home too, but he actually had to work (sucker)! So Saturday was the big day -- dresser and crib day. Again, he did most of the work while I supervised. I did attempt to put together the drawers for the dresser, but the manufacturer (Carter's) had the grooves off by just a smidgen -- enough that I couldn't get them together -- after leaving a message (which I'm sure won't be returned) with the manufacturers), some brut force from Jim got the bottom boards on them and we finished it (3 hours later). It looks great though and I love that the drawers actually "dip down" so a kid can't easily pull them out to climb them. After a lunch/stress break, we decided we might as well push on through and assemble the crib -- SO MUCH EASIER!!! I think it took us about 30 minutes for the crib, so we were relieved and got to see the whole room come together!
