Good-Bye Office, Hello Nursery!

Dave and I started stage one of preparing the nursery this afternoon! It's so exciting to start this new step...it means we are getting closer and closer to bringing home our new baby boy! There's a bit of background to our getting here though...

The day of the ultrasound, Dave and I went to Babies-R-Us to start to "shop" for baby stuff. We weren't overly impressed with the nursery decoration selection...considering my heart was set on frogs. There was one that caught our eye, that we agreed we could settle on, although it wasn't exactly what I had in mind. It had frogs, among other jungle animals...it was going to have to do.

Then...to what should our wandering eyes appear...but the PERFECT FROG GEAR...in the clearance aisle. Argh! Although it was on clearance, it was still out of our price range. Realizing that since it was on clearance, we didn't have a hope for registering for it, so we continued to visit frown town and made our way out of the store.

Kim, Keely and I were out (supposed to be finishing up wedding stuff for the bride!) but found ourselves in Once Upon A Child on Friday afternoon. There was another frog nursery set there that I liked. When we were asking the clerk about it, she pointed out another one they had in the front of the store that they were going to put up on display...and...IT WAS THE PERFECT FROG GEAR FROM BABIES-R-US! I was pretty much sold from the get go, but went through the motions of looking over everything and pretending like I had to think things over. Needless to say, it's now in my living room!

One of our other stops on Friday (again, not really helping Keely to much :(...) was going to Menards to look for paint that would match. We came home with about 10 examples so Dave would get some sort of say. We've decided up Cascading Water as our main color, with touches of a pale yellow for trim and closet doors.

So, Dave and I made our Menards voyage today to get the paint. We came home, got things taped up and my amazing husband (per his request to get those words in here somewhere) Dave started rolling. He was originally going to only do a small square so we could really get a good look and then fully decide. I think the roller got the best of him! The first two walls are done and look great. (They will need another coat...but I know it's going to be perfect!)

Enjoy the transformation!

This is the before...looking in from the door.

From the window...looking towards the hall.

Dave is just getting started.

Working on the first wall.
First two walls...done with the first coat!

We're going to continue tomorrow...the other two walls will be getting their first coat, and these two will be getting their second! Stay tuned for more updates!