8 weeks!

8 weeks from now I will be snuggling a sweet, cuddly, 24 hour old newborn!!! I can't believe time is flying by so quickly and soon we'll be bringing our littlest girl home. We still have lots to do to prepare for her arrival and I anticipate all that keeping us plenty busy and that the next few weeks will be gone before we know it. I can't wait to see her little face, her little fingers and her little toes!

2 down, 1 to go!

Aaron has now refinished the crib and chest of drawers and only lacks painting the changing table!! The chest of drawers proved to be a bit of a challenge (the inside had to be rebuilt in order to replace the drawer guides among other things) but my handy hubby came through with ease. :) Once the changing table is done, we can get our guest bed out of the nursery and into the garage for storage and I can get the decorating done. It's looking like we may actually finish the room by early June like we'd hoped!

While Aaron was finishing up the chest of drawers the last couple days, I was busy creating some artwork for the nursery. I bought a ton of different size canvases when Michaels had them on sale a couple weeks ago and couldn't pass up the chance to create something (on the cheap) for the girls' room.

A few projects...

I just wanted to share a few projects that I've done this week. I've kinda been dabbling in everything and hope to start painting a couple canvases for the girls' room tonight. :)

Babylegs for Sydney

Of course sister wanted some too!

And so did brother!

Since I made the black, white & gray bow, she wanted a skirt to match so I made that for her today. I realized her babylegs would match about the time I was finishing up the skirt.

"Scrap" mobile for my littlest girl

Bows! Since I'm going to have two girlies to outfit with bows I figured I oughta learn how to make them.

Babylegs

I bought the knee socks to make these a couple months ago but just got around to getting them done. I laughed a little when I realized I had purchased the exact same 3 pack of socks that the tutorial's author used in the tutorial. Babylegs sell for about $12/pair but since I found my knee socks on clearance, I got three pair for $4.98!! They may not be store shelf worthy but they'll definitely serve their intended purpose.

Crawfish!

We had a crawfish boil with some old friends last night and the kiddos enjoyed torturing the poor crawfish and keeping the adults entertained. I never know what to expect with these two but, as usual, they didn't fail to keep us laughing.

First he played with them

Then he cooked them

Then he devoured them

She did the "typical girl" screech when it came to holding the live ones but obviously had no qualms about the ones that had been cooked.

But she's not much of a crawfish fan and went with sausage instead.

Another haircut!

It's amazing to me how haircuts can make my babies look totally different.

Before

After

A few new Seuss additions!