A picture (for Amy)

I promised Amy I would put some pictures on my blog. I got out all of the items I am suppose to photograph, but I haven't yet had a chance to actually take the pictures (or upload them to my computer, or write a blog post). If my baby ever learns to take a nap, or if she goes to bed a little early for once (we tried tonight.... oh how we tried!) then I will get it done.

For now, here's one picture:

(Ames, this dress is the one I was telling you about; it's my favorite. Wouldn't you love to have the same thing but in a pink fabric? Marie did a great job!)

Maybe it was prettier before all the fancy stuff...

I think that somewhere in the process of giving birth I managed to squeeze out several of the important sections of my brain, including the area responsible for decision making. Seriously.

As I'm looking at the "before" and "after" pictures of the baby's blessing dress, I can't help but think maybe it looked better before I added the red flowers and the ribbon. Am I losing it? Should I remove the extra frills? Someone help me...

Which way with the ribbons?

Option 1:

Option 2:

Because Amy DEMANDED them :)

Here are a couple of pictures (details on FB, since this blog is public and I don't want to give any stalkers info about this bundle of joy):

She was born with the ugliest little hands you've ever seen and I just love them! They are kinda big, and right now they are really wrinkled and very pale white. They look like the hands of an old man, I'm not even kidding. But the winkles are softening and they are looking more like normal baby hands. :o)

A quick tour of the nearly-finished nursery

Last night I created a video tour of the nursery. I actually just did it for myself, but N8 said I should share it with "the world". It's a silent video so I hope that's not too weird for folks (I don't like recordings of my voice).

The nursery is pretty much finished. Things left to do (which are not urgent):

(1) Put a dust skirt on the crib; I've got two on the way, in the mail (with thanks to Jennifer and to my aunt Lynda).

(2) On the wall over the crib that there's a bit of empty space. I've been thinking about buying and decorating wooden letters that spell out the baby's name (???) for that space.

(3) The closet is full of my clothes, which I need to pare down and organize (after I fit into them again, of course).

(4) Someday I'm going to reupholster the "kid chair" with the fabrics currently draped over it.

(5) Oh! And we need a baby! That would really complete the whole nursery :o)

Crib skirt?

I can't make up my mind. Your opinions?

Option 1:

Option 2 (look at just the skirt and imagine the stripes are brown instead of blue):

My week, in pictures

This use to be my bathroom:

This is the bathroom as of last weekend:

Halfway through destroying the shower:

Part of what use to be our plumbing system:

In progress...

Another pile of old pipes:

(By the way, removing old plumbing is a filthy, horrible mess.)

This is a good example of why the plumbing needed to be replaced: A drainage pipe, originally 2 inches in diameter, reduced to about 1/2 an inch of capacity due to build-up and rust...

In the garage:

Some of the new pex pipe (= AMAZING)...

The plumber, hard at work...


And although the house has been ripped apart, I can now confidently enjoy this, straight from the tap: