Ready for Liftoff!

A little over a week ago my sister Laura was complaining to me that "some people" (a.k.a. me, I can only assume) never update their blogs. I think I've made up for that since then! :) Today I am happy to be blogging that I am DONE preparing for the arrival of my little Cal Pal, at least as far as physical preparations go. I don't think there's really any way to truly prepare emotionally. But his nook is set up, his things are organized, his dresser is painted, his clothes are pre-washed and organized by size and season, and a couple of cases of diapers and wipes have been purchased at Sam's Club. Hallelujah. I do wish his nook was bigger (like, as big as a REAL nursery), but I will admit that it's pretty darn cute, and I think it's going to work well. Not quite as cute as I had planned though, because we bought a shelf to put up above the mini-crib for all of my cool puppets to sit on to give it more of a "real" nursery feel, but then we discovered that the wall above the crib seems to be made of solid rock and is impossible to drill or nail into successfully. Oh well. My main project was painting a dresser for his things. Our good friends the Thomases gave us a dresser from their basement that they used long ago when they had their first baby. At the time Jane had painted it white with little black stripes and pink knobs, so I just added bright colors in between the black stripes and painted the knobs red. It turned out pretty cute, if I do say so myself! Someday it will have a changing pad on top of it with a bright red changing pad cover (which I finally found one of at babiesrus.com....I'm not super big into pastels, which is pretty much the only thing that anyone seems to make for babies), but it isn't currently in the budget, so that will have to wait a few more weeks or so. The last physical preparation is a packed hospital bag, which is my #1 "To Do" for this evening, so we are officially ready for liftoff!

5 days and counting!!!