Week 15: Nursery Mania

I am a very decisive person: my wedding dress was the third dress I tried on. It took me 15 minutes to pick out our granite countertops. I know what I like and I don’t look back. With that being said, I found the perfect baby bedding and crib in a matter of days. There is SO much to choose from, it can be really overwhelming so I tried to narrow it down by theme. I also loooove the internet for stuff like this; you can bargain shop without running ragged all over trafficky Houston. The only problem with internet shopping is you don’t get to feel the textures of your possible textiles in person.

I’ve heard that all Moms cherish the moments when their baby sleeps peacefully either throughout the night or in reasonably long increments. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t sleep very well if my sheets felt like sandpaper. And I’m not kidding when I say that some of the cheaper bedding really does feel similar to an emery board. However, I was not about to go to the other end of the spectrum and spend more on my infant’s bedding than my own. Recently, I was in Baby’s First Furniture and happened upon the most gorgeous, moderately priced and very soft patchwork bedding set. The only problem with it was that it was pink and they didn’t carry the boy version so I turned to my best friend, the internet. I found the boy version online (it was even cheaper than the girl’s!) and ordered it that day. It doesn’t have a theme per se, but one of my fashion-forward girlfriends described it as “shabby chic.” It’s a patchwork combination of blue and cream toile print, cream dupioni silk squares, tan and cream houndstooth check, gold satin and blue velvet. The same week, I also happened to stumble upon a beautiful antique style old world crib with gold hand painted detail. Since it was on sale, I called the store and they said there were only three left so I went ahead and ordered that too. The nursery is well on its way to being completed and we still have five months to go!! However, we are undertaking another remodel project (poor Carlysle has been so bored since the kitchen and patio have been done for a few months now) and we’re re-texturing the walls starting in the nursery so that will take a while to finish and then we’ll paint. No more 80’s popcorn walls (AKA Wall Acne texture)!!! My friend Lauren is coming from Dallas sometime in April to custom paint the nursery and I will definitely post pics when it’s done!







Weekly Womb Workings:
Baby's head is now resting on his well-formed neck instead of directly on his shoulders like Igor. He's beginning to grow eyebrows and eyelashes this week. (All the better to give me that "Mom, you're crazy" look when he's a teenager.) Although his eyes are sealed shut, he's now able to sense light. His eyes and ears finally look like real baby features now. As he practices sucking and swallowing actions, he may actually hiccup, it’s a tell tale sign that he's had one too many shots of amniotic fluid. Over the next month, he will grow faster than ever, and I’ll actually start to develop a “baby bump” instead of just looking chubby (YAY!). He now measures nearly 4 inches, about the size of a piece of a Kit Kat (regular-size, not the Big one you get at the movies), and weighs almost 2 ounces. Little biscuit :)