Nursery Ideas

Steve and I are very lucky to have an extraordinarily talented friend. She is actually the one that introduced us. As if that isn't talent enough, she is also a wonderful artist in addition to being a big-shot NYC lawyer.

So, in honor of our Alma Mater (also Dr. Seuss') - Darlyn has offered to recreate these (or maybe slightly different) characters on our nursery walls. These specific images are from a relative's house she did awhile ago.

I am pretty sure she doesn't consider these high art, but I think they are pretty darn impressive!

All images are copyright by Darlyn, and can not be displayed or distributed without permission.

Check, Check, Check.............what, there is more??

So we have been very busy and accomplished a lot in the last 2 weeks:

*Bought and put up valences on the stairwell
*Hung a few pictures
* decided on a bunch of baby items and what my best friend will paint on the walls (this will be the topic of another post and will include sample pics!)
* Decided on a bunch of kithchen stuff including:faucet, glass for the few cabinets that will have glass fronts, and the color of cabinets (which white? ugh - we made our lives easier by sticking to the standard 8 whites to select from instead of opting to look through ALL the sherwin williams colors that they no offer - talk about too many whites!)

Sadly there is still a ton to do:
* final type of granite for counter (down to 2 blacks - absolute or galaxy)
* final color of floor (we are getting prefinished hardwood so we have to pick a stain)
* Any tile work (we may skip this at this point - long story)
* toilet
* bathroom fixtures
* furniture for the nursery
* lots and lots of baby stuff including figuring out what you do with one once they come home!


Once all the kitchen things are decided (they want it finalized this week) they will start in 8 weeks - the last week in March - and they swear it will be done before the baby. This gives them 9 weeks. My Aunt's contractor just managed it in about 5, so I am somewhat optimistic.

Exciting Friday Night

Apparently when it is cold out, water freezes. Even the water hidden in pipes!

We were unpleasantly surprised when we discovered the hot water in our half bath didn't work - at all. (All the other water worked fine in the house.) Luckily - or not given it is the cause of the freezing! - the pipes are exposed under the house in a crawl space. So Steve spent the last 1.5 hours figuring out which pipe is which and trying to defrost it with a hair dryer (which is the consensus online on how to fix such problems).

He also had some fun starting to demo our blue tile to see if he could access more of the pipe in the wall….



Success!

What we did on our winter vacation...

got to know the locals

[Besides tons of birds at Ding Darling, we also saw some dolphins up close but didn't have the camera with us on the beach.]











Took a scenic (well sort of) ride...















However we mainly enjoyed the view!

Crazy Weather...

Though the last few days have been seasonal, this is one of the hydrangeas next door to my office. I am no botantist/master gardener, but that is a green, green bud - not exactly normal for January in Boston.

First look!

So Steve came with me to my ultrasound today, and the very nice tech (a Spartan tech who wants to retire to TC no less!), gave us a bunch of great pics and gave us the great insight that she saw nothing amiss and the baby looked entirely normal! (I am sure with parents like us, that may not last:) She took all sorts of measurements and got all the shots she needed. Yay.

And for those that haven't heard - it is a boy!






Hmm, there is nothing to eat in here, maybe I should try this hand...














Are you looking at me? Because I am looking at you!














Big feet! (Like mom and dad)

Oh yes, that is a hole in our ceiling

For those of you who don't already know, Steve and I have decided to remodel the kitchen Ok, well gut the kitchen. Nothing will remain but the windows. Apparently picking which high-chair and crib was best wasn’t enough research for us, we also have to deal with drawer pulls, light fixtures and appliances. Steve and I have seemed to divide this up – I deal with the baby stuff and fixture he deals with everything else.

The contractor came the other day to see if they can raise the ceiling to the same height as the rest of the house and check out the bump in the wall that we assumed was the water wall for the bathroom upstairs. Luckily there were no shocks, and we can have our nice high ceilings and it is indeed was a couple of pipes along the wall.

Real demo won't start until approximately March. We are in the final stages of picking appliances and finalizing layout. If we get an updated drawing from the contractor this weekend, I will try to scan next week.