Bennett's Nursery (the start of it anyway)

So, people keep asking about the nursery and might be surprised to find out that we have not done much with it yet.  This is very much out of character for my super planner husband and myself, however, that bathroom and the holidays have just kept us from it.

However, having said that we have registered for everything we need (as far as someone who does not have a baby knows anyway), and we have 60% of the baby furniture in the room.  I am ordering a chair tomorrow and we are hopefully picking up the bookcase within the next two weeks.  In the meantime, the color is picked out for the room - yes, orange it is - don't worry, not UT orange, though there is nothing wrong with that, but it is orange nonetheless.  Here are pictures of the crib and the dresser/changing table - like anything else in life - pictures don't do it justice, but this is a start.  Baby at least has a place to sleep (we also have a mattress for him too). Hopefully the chair, bookcase and room will be painted no later than the end of January!

Here is the changing table/dresser unit:

Big as a House!

So, we are in the middle of the holiday season, and I feel as big as a house!  I still have several weeks to go, and I know that I am going to get huge, but I already feel that way.

Just to sum up our past few weeks - Preds game with the Grahams, dinner with some of my British friends who stopped over for a night, cocktail parties, hanging out with some old college friends at Opryland Hotel and Garth Brooks benefit concert.  We have already had one family Christmas, and are scheduled to do the remaining ones this weekend - three to be exact.

Right now we are looking into mattresses and pediatricians - all very exciting stuff.  I want to go ahead and apologize to all my friends who have children because I will blow up your emails the next several weeks with questions as things fly into my head - most of you have already experienced it, but if you haven't, don't worry - questions will be forthcoming about random, but important baby items!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday.  Some of you I will see before 2011 and others I won't, so Happy Holidays!  Bennett is growing like a weed so new pictures of my massive belly will soon follow.  Hopefully a new update on the bathroom as well!

Bathroom update

So, I am sure many of you are wondering about the nursery.  Well, the nursery is on the back burner until the bathroom is finished.  The bathoom is about 40 square feet, but may as well be 5,000 considering the amount of problems we have come across.  See the laundry list below:

• The space for the bathtub is not suited for a standard five foot tub, it is just a couple of inches short, meaning I had to order a 4 1/2 tub - which gave us a little too much space.  Easy fix, Eric's dad can build a shelf!  Problem solved.
• Lets order tile - after walking around the tile store and looking at varying versions of essentially the same thing, Eric and I picked out floor and wall tile!  Yayyy-tile ordered.  Tile comes up one box short, re-order box, box is broken, re-order again, broken again!  Now we are just at their mercy and no idea when tile will arrive.  They really suck!
• Plumbing - we just need to set a tub, ,add a shut off valve and get new sink fittings - couple of hours of labor, right?  Four plumbers later and a couple of astronomical quotes $1300 being one of them, we finally found a good/dependable/reasonable plumber who took care of our needs!  Finally something goes right!
• Just looking for a small pedastal sink, I have seen tons of them - ohhhhh- I found the perfect one - it is at Lowes and it is a perfect size!!!!  What, it is only a display and you don't carry them and haven't for six months!  Thanks for nothing! So, we have settled on a basic sink that we don't love, but will do.  Another item checked off.
• Fixtures for the sink and tub - copper, stainless steel, brass????  Lets go with copper - great, let's do it.  Purchase made - get home, open sealed box - pieces are bent!  Crap, let's return it - ok - picked up a new box, all set for the plumber - what - the second box is missing two pieces.  Another trip to Lowes!  Thanks Delta - teach your people how to box an item properly - especially if you are going to charge $200 for it.
• Now, we have almost all the tile, the tub is in, and the sink is ready to go in after the floor.  Let's get to work.  Eric, bust up the tile!  Honey - we have a slight problem - this tile is not busting up.  What do you mean?  Well - it is not breaking up!  What does that mean?  I don't know! 
• First, check out a pic of the tile below.  It's pretty right, why don't we just keep it?
• Well, can we put tile on top of tile - in a word, no!  I will  keep you posted on the bathroom saga.  Hopefully these hiccups will begin to prepare us for parenthood.



Latest Belly Pic

For those of you who don't see me often, here is the latest picture of the belly!  Three more months to go!