The Crib is done, in place, and decorated. It took a summer of weekends down in Hampton with my dear old Dad, a few hundred hours of sanding, and about all the patience I possess but we got three beautiful pieces of furniture out of the deal. So without further adieu... because there has plenty of adieu already....
Here's a hippo with a Cub's Hat.
There is stuff like that everywhere in the house. I think this kid has about 20 stuffed animals around, and at least that many blankets. Unfortunately this has led to stuffed animal on stuffed animal crime.
All this simulated animal angst has poor Jade on edge.
The first piece that Dad and I got done was the changing table. I made it so that it's basically just a bookcaseykindathing. Ash gets to use her little basket things, we can keep all the kid's books together, and even have a spot to try to avoid getting hosed with baby pee. From what I hear that takes great agility, and blessings from the Lord himself. I am not really ready to get peed on... or poop everywhere.
The next thing we made was the dresser. This thing is beefy. It is all that you can do with two guys to move this thing around, and that is when the drawers are out. Let's just say that Dad and I didn't screw around when we built this stuff. It's built to last... for about a hundred years or so. Maybe a nuclear war as well.
What's that you say? Why yes! Yes, those are inset raised panel doors with ball bearing easy glide self closing slides attached to dovetail jointed drawers! Why yes Sir, those are most commonly only seen with high end cabinetry. (www.classiccustomwood.com) Good for you for being so observant! Inset doors are a bit more work that regular doors, but I do think they look really nice.
So there are the first two pieces that we built this summer. They have been done since around June, and Ash has them full. It's crazy that a dresser that big can be filled up with clothes that small. The closet is absolutely hilarious now that the racks hold little dude clothes instead of his moms.
Ashley has had a ton of fun decorating the room. One thing she loves is hanging new shelves and pictures.
Oh, I am sorry. Did I make it seem like she likes to hang them herself?
You know how I have requested that you don't poo during Bear's games? Well, any time your mom is in the wall decoration area of a store, or inside a Pottery Barn store at all, by all means BOMBS AWAY! Do what you can do save me from hanging stuff. I hate hanging wall stuff. Especially shelves. I hate shelves with a passion. I would go sand and drywall all day to get out of hanging one shelf.
And finally, the crib. So with one final thanks to dad, here we go.
We built this crib with a solid base, so the crib skirt wouldn't work like normal. So once it was assembled we cut the middle part of the crib skirt out, I got in, and we used a screen spline to hold the thing in place. Ashley looked like she wanted to puke as I started cutting, and my mom went outside so she couldn't be blamed. Coward! It took a lot of tugging here, pulling there, and a few swear words but it all worked out. The best part is that I am no longer trapped inside of the crib.
I was so excited to get out of there.
So here it is decorated and ready to go. Except that I recently found out that you can't have a bumper, blankets, or toys in the crib. Apparently everything we had when I was a kid will KILL YOU now. So all this stuff is just decoration, kind of like the 13 pillows I have to throw off the couch to sit down.
So that's it. The crib is here. In a little over a month we will have a little dude to put in it. We can't wait.
