This is where to ride starts to go really fast! We have been working away at a few different projects. We got a great long shelf as a hand-me-down from Jerry's brother Nick. I painted it white and found some brackets for it and put it up in the nursery. We also found some shallow shelves that are sold as "picture rails" that will act as the baby's library shelves - where the books face out and she can see the fronts of them. (We realize there will be a rotation, of course.) Here is a picture of my handiwork:
The other exciting idea is for the wall above the crib. I got some wall decals that look like willow branches and I plan to hang them from the top of the wall. I can then hang the moon-shaped wall light underneath the branches and paint stars on the wall around it. The whole idea is to make it look like we're sitting under a willow tree at twilight. Here's a picture of the decals I ordered:
I might get crazy and paint some clouds on the wall to look like they're in the distance, or some rocks and toadstools along the bottom of the wall... if I can work up the nerve! The whole plan for that wall has been shaped around the fact that I don't want to hang anything on the wall over the crib just in case it could fall onto the baby (even if I do have great faith in my picture-hanging skills).
Here is the glider we're hoping for:
The other big undertaking has been our gift registries. It is difficult to put it together knowing that we are, in essence, "asking" for gifts. So presumptuous! And uncouth! But, I know as a gift-giver it is helpful to have a guide, so we've got a good list of stuff going... And, Jerry loves using that laser gun, zapping the labels at the store! We have 2 registries. We're going with our favorites: Target and Amazon. Hopefully, we have a good variety of stuff between the two. Here are the links to the registries if you'd like to take a peek and share your input. We're only acting like we know what we're doing!:
The baby is moving around quite a bit these days. It's a beautiful feeling knowing she's in there!
We're going on a camping trip this weekend with a great group of friends. We have group meals planned and some serious time in the river. It's on the Russian River between Sacramento and the coast, so the climate is pretty mild and the trees thick. We've been looking forward to it for a long time now! We'll see how I manage as a Happy (pregnant) Camper. We're bringing our big tent that is tall enough to stand up in. That is a bare minimum to keep me happy.
We send our love!
