More Nursery Stuff

We've added a few more thingies to the nursery.  :D

Here's the cute bug mobile that I wanted:

And I found a cute flower to wrap around the bed side-bar for Aidan to look at - too cute :D

I was busy making cute thingies to hang on my home-made mobile, but then I found the one I wanted anyway and just bought it - now this wormy is gonna hang around elsewhere in the room:

Long ago I bought a spice rack at the craft store, except I never really needed a spice rack 'cause I had one already, but I wanted to decorate it and use it for storage space in my craft room, but that never happened . . . so I painted it to match the nursery and so far it's being used as a storage thingy for nappy changing things:

And he's got a bath too:

And a cute little rocker chair thingie:

And that's it!  The next big item I'm just waiting for now is the curtains and bed stuff to be ready! :)

28 Weeks 2 Days & Nursery Update

Definitely bigger than last week!
Aidan's 71% complete and he's also getting much more active. :D  Besides the usual kicks and squirming, last night it felt like he was jumping up and down, hehe.  We really can't wait until he gets here already. :D

I saw a cute growth chart sticker and of course I had to get it.  We stuck it on the cupboard door - it came with some extra animals so I just stuck them on the other door.  Cute! :D

 

You can only start measuring once he's at least 60cm tall though, so in the mean time it just has to make the nursery look cute! :D

Me and my mum went fabric shopping for the curtains and bedding and FINALLY found something cute and affordable and in the colour scheme and animal theme that I wanted - this is what the curtains and duvet cover are going to be made from:

On Friday I'm going to give my mum-in-law the measurements, so hopefully I can get the end products SOOOOOON - I'm gonna be really impatient, hehe.  Once the curtains and bedding is up and on, it's really going to look much more like a real nursery. :D

And I also knitted a blankie.  I can't knit but I bought a loom knitter 'cause it looked like fun to use (and it is!) and so I had to make something with it, so why not a fluffy blankie?!  You can only make things of limited size though, so I had to knit 4 squares and then "sew" them together, so you can see one of the joins going through the blankie, but oh well:

It's REALLY soft though, and it's quite big for a little baby so when you fold it in half you won't even notice the join. :)

We still have to wash the carpet of the nursery because a certain yoghurt-eating DeeDee . . .

. . . has been using it as her bedroom for the last 2 years, so not looking forward to that, because a) we've never washed a carpet before and we've borrowed an oooold carpet washer (looks sort of like a vacuum cleaner thingy) from one of our parents, so hopefully it actually works properly, b) we have to empty out the nursery furniture which also means we have to take the cot apart again because it can't fit through the door whole, and c) well it's a schleppy job and we probably have to wait a few days for the carpet to dry thoroughly before we move everything back in again.

At the mo I'm working on a (hopefully cute) mobile for either above the cot or above the changing station, we'll see.  So I'll post that when it's done! :D

21 Weeks 4 Days & More Nursery Decor

Yesterday we had our 21w3d scan and everything shows that all is good. :)

Heart beat's at 139bpm (the heart beat is that graph thingy at the bottom) and apparently he weighs about 512 grams.  I think that little blob at the top right is his left hand and the big blob in the middle is his chest viewed from the top (he's been bisected in half by the sonar, hehe).  So far the expected date for natural delivery is around 18 Dec, but I'm having a C-section so it will be about 2 weeks earlier.  The further away from Xmas the better, haha!

The other day he really started to squiggle around a LOT more, not just kicking like usual but something that feels like he's doing summersaults or something. :D  Feels weird.  I'm not sure when he snoozes, but it feels like he's awake most of the day and moving around, but I haven't noticed yet that he's moving around in the middle of the night when we're snoozing - or at least he's not kicking hard enough to wake me up. :)

I haven't really gained weight yet - I'm more or less now what I was before I became pregnant, so hopefully this is a good sign that I won't pick up unnecessary weight during the rest of the pregnancy!

And I think I may have exhibited a few instances of what they call "pregnancy brain". :O  The other day I see that my bottle of water is standing in the TV room (when it's supposed to be in the fridge) and I ask Noob Dad if he put my bottle there and he said no.  I have NO memory of taking it out of the fridge and putting it in any other room!  And I know he wouldn't have put it there because HIS bottle of water always stands on the kitchen counter because in winter fridge water is too cold for him so he doesn't drink from my bottle.  How weird . . .  And in the nursery we bought a chest of drawers and Noob Dad opened the draws so that we could air them since they smell of new wood and stuff.  One day he mentions that he noticed I closed the drawers and I said "no I didn't!" and he said well neither did he.  So whether that one was me too I have no idea!  lol  I mean, I'm sure we all do stuff sometimes that we don't particularly remember doing, but nothing as weird as this water bottle incident.  Oh well. :D  Apparently this pregnancy brain thing is your hormones messing around with you and having a laugh at your expense again, combined with the fact that you may be a bit more tired than usual so your brain isn't always as "optimally functional" as it should be, hehe.

And I've made some more decor for Aidan's room. :D  I painted little wooden tray thingies and used them as frames.  Then I remembered that I had the cutest little animal keyrings (and I just happened to have 4, a zebra, leopard, lion and giraffe), so I made them sit in the frames and I think it looks too cute! :D

 

 

I have another wall to decorate so I have to think up something interesting and different again.  Weeeee! :D

Also, we have a HUGE-ass fabric shop that sells not only TONS of fabrics and curtains but just about EVERYTHING else related too . . . yet we couldn't find ANY nice fabrics for the nursery, booooo.  :(  In this post I have a pic of the colour scheme I want, but all the shop has is these nasty bright green fabrics or dark greens that aren't really nice for a baby's room.  *sniff*  So I'm hoping we can find something nice and cute in Pretoria.

RE the curtains, I thought of an idea just in case we don't find nice curtain fabric - we could use white curtains with green net curtain behind it, and on the right and left sides we put some more net curtain over the white curtain and keep them tied to the sides with curtain tie-backs so that it's only the white curtains that open and close - that could work, eh?  But ALL-white curtains, ish . . . can we keep the white, that's the question, haha.  But it's very dusty here so I think even without any help from ourselves, these curtains ain't gonna remain white.  *sigh*  What to do, what to do . . .

Baby Crafts - Name for Door

I made the first piece of decor for Aidan's room. :D  I decorated some wooden letters and put his name on his room door:

And in sticking with my green and yellow and cute bugs and cute animals room theme, I added some cute things to the letters.  Cute!  Hehe.

 

 

 

I have a couple more crafts waiting in line, so let me get started! :D

The Nursery - Part 1 & 2

Here's what's been happening with the nursery since June:

20 June 2012
Today we officially started preparing the nursery. :D  We're actually a room short - our third bedroom is used as a home office / study, so that has to move out to *somewhere* 'cause it has to become the nursery!  So today we were clearing out the cupboard in the study and moving the stuff over to my craft room-slash-guest bedroom cupboards (before which I had to make some space for the office stuff first!).  What a JOB, and needless to say I had to throw some stuff away to make some space, but luckily nothing that'll be missed really.

So here's the nursery BEFORE photo:

 

And this is where everything in the study has to move to . . . somehow . . .

I was thinking that I want this colour scheme for the nursery, except I'm going to add some yellow too, so pastel green, yellow and white - I think the colours are nice and cheery!  And neutral.  :D

We're just not gonna paint the walls green, I'm going to leave them the almond-white they are now - that makes it easy to change the colour scheme later, especially if future-baby wants it's own colour scheme.  So always leave the walls neutral I say.

And I think I'm gonna have green curtains made for the room too.  Here comes more work for you mum-in-law, hehe!

Here's the cupboard that we cleared out (mostly!) in the so-far-still-a-study, so I finally had place for some of baby's stuff that I'd bought already (on the right):

5 August 2012
And the nursery's been set up! :D

Everything's (well almost everything) been moved out the office and Aidan's furniture is in. :D

We still need to get rid of that broken office chair, get some green curtains and get the fabric for the bedding.

And we need to get rid of that office stuff on the wall too - I'm gonna make some cute wall decor for the walls!  Oh, and that table in the back corner there has to be painted white too.

And we had some fun buying some clothes already. :D

Noob Dad decided he rather wanted to move his office to the TV room and not my craft room, so instead we had to move our exercise equipment out of the TV room to make space for the office - my eliptical bike thingy went to the other TV room and his gym stuff moved to my craft room . . . which meant we had to get rid of one of the spare beds in my craft-slash-guest-bedroom.  And the office bookshelf was put in my craft room too:

My craft section of the room is out of sight on the left behind the door, but nothing changed there.
And here's his office now!

There in the back, see?

In fact, now he's got a better view - he can look out onto the garden and pool and he still gets all the warm winter sun too, so, considering the space constraints, all in all I think it worked out well enough! :)