Mommy's Little Monster / Nerd Nursery

 

So happy I finally got all these pictures taken and posted and can now share them. In all honesty, I did take the pictures before Whit arrived. And the day I went into labor I kept meaning to post these, but felt so poorly I never got around to it. But now, without further ado, I present to you the nursery that started out monster-themed, but ended up a bit of a mix of me and Ben's combined nerdiness...

"Mommy's Little Monster" Baby Shower

Last weekend was my first baby shower, thrown by my fabulous sister, Shanna, and fabulous friend, Summer. It even ended up being appropriate since it was the day before Mother's Day. We all had a fantastic time and I was thrilled, seeing as I've never been to a baby shower in my life! I didn't know what to expect, but I've heard horror stories of fake pooped-in diapers, cakes resembling pregnant torsos or, worse, fetuses! Thankfully, they are just as horrified by that stuff as me and everything was awesome. 

I had mentioned a while back that I was digging a kind of monster theme, and they hit the ground running with it. I've been having a hard time finding monster things that weren't just wall art, but they really did well and had to get creative. And Shan and Summer are nothing if not creative! Just check out some of the pictures from the shower below...

Shanna's amazing diaper cake. I swear she needs to sell these, she's so good at it!

The monster cake (chocolate) with wedding cake eyeball cake pops.

A few of us decorating onesies and bibs. Shanna got really good at this and started making things for the less-crafty people to claim as their creations.

Summer signed some of her work. 

A few of the monsters my mom crocheted for the bambino.

My friend, Amanda, who is almost exactly 4 weeks behind me. As you can see, we've already given up on real shoes. Though that could be just from living in the South, not necessarily being pregnant. 

Then, after the shower and Shanna and I had spent Mother's Day with our mom, we + Summer headed back to Franklin to work on the nursery for a bit. I feel like we got a lot done, and it definitely looks like a room now! And then I think about that half-finished dresser in the shed (grrr). But whatever, it was nice just having girly company around for once!

Working on putting together the lethal crib.

Shan putting up the mobile, which require some impressive knotting skills.

There were definitely some hang ups putting things together. The crib, for instance, we could not figure out how to put together. It's 30 years old, so the instructions are long gone. But I had an inkling of how it should work, but there were these holes that looked filled in for some reason. Summer and Ben started fiddling with them, turns out dirt daubers had been to work there and when they cleared out the holes our came some 10-year old bug pieces. Ben may have freaked out a bit (I'm definitely the bug-slayer of the house). But we got it all cleaned up and it's fine, you know aside from being the Crib of Death. Whilst googling assembly instructions for it, all I could find were articles exclaiming that this crib would eat our children, pets, and anyone unlucky enough to not understand how to operate the drop side feature. Oh come on, internet, this crib has already housed three kids, I think we'll be fine.

Well, I'm off to start writing thank you notes. I swear to be a good person this time (and make up for my bridal showers) and write everyone a thank you!

Progress

We got a few projects done around the house today. Yay! The first one being our cat, Ceti's new habitat...

It may not look like much, but before the cat had completely taken over our second bathroom (which had been fine since nothing in there worked anyway, but now that most of it is fixed...). But this lovely little item contains his covered litter box, bag of litter, bag of food, and his food bowl on top. It's right next to a window so he can look out enviously at freedom and soon will have something to help keep litter inside and not all over the floor! When I get it completely set up I'll post more pics. Unfortunately I'm having to buy a new litter box since his old one is a tad too wide.

Also, my MIL came over and primed the nursery. Little did I know, until I got home, that she also put the first coat of paint on the walls too!

I was shocked and excited. Thank goodness I ended up loving the color! I was a little weary picking something so vibrant, but it really does look great. It's a little tough to tell from this picture with all the yellow from the light, but it's such a pretty color. And it makes the trim and floors look sooooo sharp! Now I'm only a little annoyed that I bought four more samples of paint after I had already had this, but mostly I'm relieved that the search is OVER.

Yesterday I started my for real workout routine. I found it on thebump last night and it's super quick and easy, but I can make it harder if I need to later. I can already feel a little burn in my legs today and some of that hip pain has gone away. Though the hip pain being gone may be from me no longer wearing scrubs to work. I refuse to buy anymore big scrubs and started to wear some pants I had that were close enough in color and most of the pain was gone by the time I got out of work! Anyhoo, here's the link to the workout if you're interested: Pregnancy Workout Plan. Enjoy!