Step Two of Nursery

I took these pics this morning, but in reality no work has been done in the room since last Monday because I hurt my back. I'll probably get in there again this weekend and get some Kilz on it, but that may or may not happen.

So, these pictures represent a major step! I managed to take down all of the border, the shelving and took out some of the closet features. They'll go back in after the painting is done. The white spots on the wall are spots of spackle. Since there were so many wall-mounted shelves, there are lots of holes.

Here they are, in the same order as last time:

(above) Corner One: this is taken from the doorway.

Corner Two: this is taken from the closet. The large spot right in the middle (blue circle) is where I put a crow bar through the wall. I fixed it though.

Corner Three: this is taken from Corner Four, and includes the door and part of the closet.


Corner Four: taken from Corner Two, and includes the closet and the window. You may notice they both doorways look terrible. I decided that I would do the right thing and remove the paint that has been on the frames through at least five colors. I have since changed my mind. We'll just paint right over them from this point on.

Still a long way to go, but I still have four months to get it done!

Step 1 of Nursery!

Since I have received notice that I need to be posting more regularly, I thought I would get pictures up of the will-be nursery. A bit of history of the room would include the fact that my brother and I shared this room right up through the year that I graduated from high school. It's not a big room, but a big-enough room. There is a slight slope, as there is with all of our house, but I think that I have figured out a couple of things to make it a little bit better.

Anyway, I have decided that since none of the four walls are the same, I need to post four pictures as the room progresses. Since Blooger was being a pain two weeks ago when these pictures were taken, these are old to me, but they're still new to you!

(above) Corner One: this is taken from the doorway.
Corner Two: this is taken from the closet. You may notice a little door. It does not serve any purpose anymore, but it used to be access for the bathtub water. I am thinking up a cool story to start telling little-Monroe when the time comes. Maybe the Foam Gnomes moved to our house?
Corner Three: this is taken from Corner Four, and includes the door and part of the closet.

Corner Four: taken from Corner Two, and includes the closet and the window.

Our plan right now is do have a Barnyard theme. Anny says that I watched too much HGTV/TLC/Home Network. We actually watched all of the nursery remodeling shows that were on for about 6 weeks. (Thank you glorious TiVO for hunting them all down for me!) If it comes together like it looks in my head, she'll have the coolest room in neighborhood!

New Ultrasound Pic!

We went last Friday for an ultrasound because the last time that we saw her they could not get a good shot of all four chambers of the heart. That has been resolved, to the extent that they could see all four every time they passed by her heart!

Things are progressing right on schedule. She weighs a full pound now!

Anyway, here's a profile view of our little girls head:


For some reason her knee is touching her nose. Crazy little girl!

Go ahead, post a comment about how cute she is! You know you want to!

2/4/2007 Pregnancy Picture

Measured at 45 1/2 inches

A Good Song when having a Daughter

So I've been looking for songs to add to a Baby Shower Playlist that I'm making for Ye Olde' Ipod. It's fun to see what things come up when you search the web or iTunes.

Anyway, I found a song by Rodney Atkins called "Cleaning This Gun (Come on in Boy)" that I think is necessary since we're having a girl.

Here's the chorus:

Come on in boy sit on down
And tell me about yourself
So you like my daughter do you now?
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl
Her momma's worldShe deserves respect
That’s what she'll get
Ain’t it son?
Hey y'all run along and have some fun
I'll see you when you get back
Bet I’ll be up all night
Still cleanin' this gun

Now the gun that's in our house is a civil-war era musket that has probably not worked in over 100 years, but can't you just see me sitting on the couch giving this speech in 20 years? (When she's allowed to date, that is!)

(For full lyrics, click HERE)