C'era Una Volta...

It's time for the big nursery reveal! Jillian Grace's room is 98% ready!!!!!!!

Here is a 360 degree tour of the room:


Looking in the door


Looking to the left about 45 degrees (notice the butterfly mobile I made????)


The butterfly mobile from underneath. Isn't it so dainty and delicious?


A close-up of the fingerpainting that D made for his sister's room.


Left at 90 degrees (the saying means, Once Upon a Time in Italian)
**please ignore the fan ball hanging down, it's a TALL ceiling!


Looking behind you at the door wall (this wall has some boxes and bed rails to be moved into storage)


A close-up of the vintage Italy map I framed that is to the right of the dresser/changing table.


Looking to the right as you walk in the room. This wall is mostly closet.


A close-up of the handmade canvases. Translation is: I wish you well or I love you.


That brings us back to looking straight on as you enter the room.


A close-up of the very first thing I bought for the nursery. Thank God for Children Inspire Design for knowing that nursery decor can be modern and fun!!


And lastly, the shelf from BRU with the latest buy, the vespa print from Target. Dominic picked out the cross. It is the exact match to his, only in pink!

So, there you have it! Jillian Grace's nursery, a room fit for a principessa!! Ci vediamo!

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Not really sure where this post will take me, but haven't posted in almost a week, so here we are....

This week we had another ultrasound and got to see little Miss again. She has been a good girl and is no longer sitting breech, but is now head down!! YAY!
I took, and passed, my glucose test. YAY!!
Ladybug's room is coming right along. The closet is finished, girly clothes are hanging up, pictures are up on the wall...only a few more touches and the room is ready for it's official reveal. YAY!!

I will share the link to one of the items I made specifically for the room. I saw this cute little butterfly mobile:



over at PBK and swooned. Then I saw the price and swooned again, I mean it's just paper and string. I resolved to make my own. And so I did. I must say, I did a pretty good job. AND I got to customize mine to match the room!

D has been sleeping like a champ and eating like a horse lately. I KNEW he was getting longer so we measured him yesterday and he's grown an inch and a half since his birthday 6 months ago! He's pretty proud of himself.

We made a chocolate cake for L's birthday and delivered it to her this afternoon. A was just waking from his nap so the boys got an impromptu playdate while L and I chatted. She is expecting in May so our little ones will only be 3 weeks apart (depending on the EDD). It's so nice to have some friends going through the same stage in life at the same time.

Sunday we were invited over to K and G's house after Mass for a pancake breakfast. G picked at her pancakes while D snarfed down 2+!!!
D wasn't too impressed with G's little brother, A. He liked to look at him sleeping but didn't really pay too much attention to him once he was awake. Ah, well....

We met them on Tuesday morning for some toddler fun at the local arboretum. I didn't get too many pictures as D was all over the place! The kindermusik people were there and D had fun dancing around with the big kids. I did manage to snap a picture of D and G sitting in the little mermaid's enchanted chair. Cute!

***Photos will follow shortly, my camera battery is dead and I'm too lazy to deal with it right now. I'm all cuddled up in bed with one eye on the monitor. There was a loud truck that just drove by and startled D so I was expecting him to call for me, but he didn't. What a brave boy!

BTW, my Lenten "project" has been going very nicely. I realize as I'm reading the book that I haven't really been too bad about taking my hubby for granted. We still seem to have the newlywed thing going for us.

Rushed to make a post

So, Dominic has been sleeping for a little over an hour and I'm now on what I call "borrowed time" - the magical time in which he could wake at any moment. I am always assured a good hour nap, any moment over is simply due to the stars' alignment.

Here are some photos from the snow storm we had last week. Blogger is finally being nice again and letting me post pictures.







This week is a BUSY week for us. We have something on the calendar everyday this week. Monday we have a Valentine's party with the neighborhood group, Tuesday is a playdate, Wednesday we are meeting S and B at the mall, Thursday we have a Meetup charity event and Friday is another playdate! Phew!!

I have some photos of little sister's room but they will have to wait; I want to put together a storyboard of these as the room progresses!

Well, that was my fast recap! Off to nibble on the chocolate chip cookies we made earlier!!

February snow days

We've been holed up inside for 5 days now. First we had a tremendous ice storm blow through that paralyzed the city, then the lowest temps we've seen in a very long time (15 degrees???). Friday we got 5" of snow piled up atop the icy roads and still we stayed inside. It was too cold to play outside for longer than 10 minutes at a time.

This morning we've got a bit of a reprieve: we managed to stay outside in the elements for a good hour with Dad and Annabelle, making two snowmen, a family of snow angels (complete with one for baby sister) and got some fresh air in our lungs! What fun!!

The batteries to the camera died but I did manage to capture some photos from over the course of the 5 day hibernation. At the moment blogger is not allowing me to upload photos so I'll have to try again later.

I've also got pictures of the baby's room and how we are preparing for her arrival.