Nursery

It is now officially three days past my due date and no baby yet. Waiting is harder then I thought it would be. You spend so much time preparing to be ready to go to the hospital early that it is a little anti-climatic once the day comes and goes. I'm sure it will be worth the wait but little guy come on out already, we all want to meet you.

One good thing about him coming late is that it has given us time to get the nursery in shape. I want to add in some more vintage and handmade toys but it is pretty close to done. A few of my favorite things: the orange and green quilt my mom made, Jon's art over the crib, the chair that Kate loaned us, the vintage books from our childhood, the stuffed cat, the cardboard deer and the owl bank my sister gave me.

Breaking up a curb

Check out the photo of our back yard transformation. Somehow Jon talked a group of friends to help tear out the mysterious curb in the back yard. It was a lot of work but the beer and oysters after word made it a little more fun. Jon next ripped out the circle in the center of the yard, cleaned it all up and added sod. The checker board pattern makes me think of a giant chess board. He has been working on the beds and all the trees are now filled in. Will post more images as more things start to grow and bloom.

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Building a crib

After many issues, we finally got our new Dwell crib from Target. It only took them loosing one, canceling that order after several weeks of waiting, waiting for the crib to come back in stock, reordering it in a different color, calling several times for a refund of the first crib, putting the second one together only to have the original one show up the next day.

We put it together this weekend and I love it. It is nicely made and you can't beat the price for a simple modern crib. As far as putting furniture together it wasn't too difficult. We had a hard time figuring out how the drop side worked so we thought we had it on wrong at first. Cribs apparently only come with directions on how to put them together not how to operate them (a necessary item for those of us who have never used one before).