week 17

onion baby!

average size: 5.1 inches, 5.9 oz.

what's going on with baby: "Baby's skeleton is hardening, changing from rubbery cartilage to bone, and fat is finally accumulating around it. The umbilical cord is getting thicker and stronger, and those little fingers and toes are now topped by one-of-a-kind prints."

AND I FINISHED PAINTING THE NURSERY SATURDAY NIGHT!!!! here are the pictures i took! click them to make them bigger :)

first, let me show you the before photo (and when i say "before", i mean WAY before...like before we moved in! it has all our landlord's junk in it!)

so we took off those curtains, primed the walls, then painted them and the ceiling a light sky blue and fixed up the white trim:

then came the fun part! painting the mural, adding the curtains, and a fun light!

i don't think i even want to KNOW how many stars are in that crib nook!!! wow that took a long time. but, i'm really happy with the way it turned out. i''m not sure why the photo is showing sections of pure darkness, because the whole thing has stars all over it hahaha...i think the corner is in the shadow or something.

and here is the moon that we plan on attaching to the middle of it! it lights up too!!! i think it really completes the look i was going for, and will be a nice night light for when i go get baby in the middle of the night.

a close-up shot of the clouds/curtains :) i actually got the curtains through a seller on etsy! i just looked around at people who made valances, chose a seller who had really nice work, then just messaged her with my idea! i sent her a sketch of what i was planning, and she made them PERFECTLY! wonderfully made, too, out of thick material. not cheap looking at all, and the price wasn't bad for custom work! only $30 total for both of them to be made!

and here is a shot of the yellow "sun" light in the middle of the room. just a cheap $3 chinese lantern that erik turned into a light for the ceiling!

and here are some shots with furniture that we have already. we got a few things for xmas, and couldn't wait to set them up! that dresser was actually mine though, from when i was a kid! i've had it all these years, and actually, erik has the same one from when he was a kid too! we plan on changing out the knobs later on to something that will match the room better.

changing table with cloth diapers and a few random onesies that we have :)

the owl mobile that we picked up while in japan this past summer <3

this glider should hopefully come in handy when i'm getting up in the middle of the night! i love how there are pockets on the sides to hold books.

the adorable baby swing

and the cute crib tucked away in the night sky area :) our friends sara and darin got us that adorable ninja to match the one i painted on the wall! i love it! i just put it in the crib for now (i know newborns can't have anything in the crib with them for a while).

so woo-hoo!!! the paint in the room is finished! i'm SO happy i did all this early because it was getting harder and harder on my back to do (especially the stars! haha). i cannot even imagine what it would have been like later on!

so now, i have given myself a NEW goal, which is finishing this "grass rug" before baby is born:

as you can see...it's more of a runner at the moment hahaha...i'm probably only 1/4 of the way done, but i'm really happy with it so far! after i finish crocheting the whole thing, i have to go back and cut all the loops in half to turn the loops into "grass blades", if that makes sense. i already did it on the first couple of rows because i wanted to see how it would look (and to motivate me to keep working on it haha)

so you can kinda see how it will look once those loops are cut (on the right). i'm liking it so far! this will be another huge project, but at least i don't have to stand on a mini ladder to do it! i can sit on the couch! ;) 

hope you like the nursery! and i hope baby does too!!!