Nursery

Most of you have seen the big nursery reveal on FB but since you are good friends and followers I will show you some more details (including some in process shots to show all of Eric's hard work!)
First - you repaint the khaki into a perfect baby aqua blue (doesn't he look like he is enjoying this painting part?  Miss Kevin came and helped too the weekend I went to Ohio for a shower)

Great color - but eck!  Look at that carpet!!  (really its pretty stained and you can't tell - but worse yet check out the pic below of the unmatching carpet we had between the bedrooms and the hallways)

Mis-Matched Carpet

So Eric ripped up all the carpet... (Mason tried to be helpful too)

Then cleaned up from the disinegrating pad (again - yuck!)

And then started adding our new laminate floors.

In the meantime Matt came over to help rip up the REST of the carpet (in the hallway and down the stairs).  This stuff was REALLY nasty - and probably original to the house in 1984 (eck!) 

Whew!  Look at those fresh wooden steps!  They might have looked nice all refinished (since they are hardwood and all) but Mason is scared of wooden steps and we want him to be able to run up them and hang out with the kiddos upstairs so we got some great new carpet for the hallway and stairs too.

Finished floors!  Carpet in the hall (and up the stairs) and laminate in the bedroom (with our super cool white shag rug!)

The BIG reveal!!  Ta-Da! Our woodland creatures nursery habitat for our little man!

The bedding I made.

A shot of the bedding from the outside.

 Our mommy and baby sweet little reading nook.  (note mom is trying to read baby-wise before baby gets here - not getting too well so far!)

The 'guest room' side of the nursery.  We have the drawers all full of baby clothes and cloth diapers, blankets and other baby things.  The closet is full too (but thats not as 'cute' to look at.)

So there you go - a tour through all of Eric's hard work that made a beautiful canvas for us to create this space for our little man (I guess I did some work too - all that sewing!).  I sure hope he gets here soon to start enjoying it (well - but mostly so we can start enjoying him).