Bay-Bee Shower

There are few things more irritating than having all the pieces to the world’s most beautiful crib laid out across the floor, realizing it didn’t come with instructions, and then discovering that the bag is actually missing the right size screws, washers, etc. It looks like a trip to Home Depot is in order before we can continue. Once I set my mind to a project I hate leaving it unfinished so I was definitely pretty disappointed. And thanks to a few duplicate gifts from the baby shower I rushed out to Babies R Us the very next day to swap some things for a crib mattress because I am just so antsy to get the crib together and start decorating. Soon! 

The same day I decided to try to tackle the glider chair and ottoman. I was pleasantly surprised to open the ottoman box and discover that it came fully assembled. Wohoo! Score. The chair, on the other hand, came with about 13 million pieces and like 20 pages of instructions. Yeaaa, we just put everything right back in the box and closed it up. That is a project for another time. Besides, Lizzie the cat enjoys sleeping on the giant box in the middle of the living room.

Other than the two big items getting assembled, almost everything else is good to go. We finished painting the room (14 sample quarts later we went with beige with glittery shimmer) and I think Miss Mackenzie is pretty set in the style department. There are just a few necessities left to get and then it’s go time.

Our bee baby shower was last weekend and it was wonderful! So many loving people came to celebrate with us. The hubs and I feel so blessed by everyone’s support and are so thankful for the amazing gifts. Here are some pics from the day. I’m sad I didn’t get a picture of the chocolate fountain, though.

Baby shower # two is coming up now and I can't wait! And then after that... baby time. I can't believe it's coming up so quickly. Perhaps the best piece of advice we've received so far is to read Baby Wise to help with sleep training. A fellow mommy that I talked to said that she used it for her girls and they both were sleeping through the night by 6 weeks (8 weeks maybe?). This shall be my bible for awhile. Sleep = Gooooood.

That's all for now.

Love love.

Heather

A little movie humor :D

Update: The crib has now been assembled. It has also been thoroughly tested and approved by the furry  children.