The rooms are ready!

Papa Tigger and I continue our rampage to be ready for this baby! We learned our lesson with Tigger and have been super diligent about being prepared early.

As we've mentioned in previous posts, Tigger has moved to a toddler bed and now shares the study with us. His old room, the nursery, is now all ready for Tilly. We honestly haven't changed too much (you may recall when we prepared the nursery for Tigger). We've switched from a Winnie the Pooh/Tigger theme to a water lilly theme (Tilly, lilly, water lilly - get it? Thanks for the idea Kelly!). The color palette has stayed the same. Once we decide on a name, that will go up and it will really be done!



The biggest change has been the study. We pared down our office furniture and now share it with Tigger. Here are the before pictures (and some action shots with Tigger helping)...




And after shots, with our Dr. Seuss theme. First, we squeezed the study into the front part of the room; that's a Papa Tigger custom-made desk you see. Papa Tigger calls this part of the room the collegiate gauntlet Tigger has to go through to get to his room.




We painted and put his name up, along with some Dr. Seuss wall stickers (I love eBay!).


It all goes with the Dr. Seuss bedding:


I wanted to highlight the buttons I sewed on the curtains - the colors match the bedding and wall stickers and give a pop of color to the curtains. I must give credit to our decorator for this one (though the rest of the room is all us!).

The Nursery is Done!!

The nursery is finally done!! We realize that Tigger is nearly 3 months old and this seems a little late, but he was a month early and has been keeping us busy. Here are some pictures of his new home:


Notice the curtains done by G-Ma T:

The crib from G-Ma C:

Check out the Tigger lamp (thanks Anna!) and the circle artwork done by Mama and Papa Tigger:

The Tigger nightlight:

And the nifty way we're utilizing the closet for storage:

Tigger's Car Seat is Installed

We are now ready to be mobile with Tigger - at least in the car. Papa Tigger and I installed the car seat today in our car (thanks again Kelly and Paul!). Now the hospital will let us take Tigger home:)

Success!! All indicators are a 'go':

Fireman Paul, how's it look?

Tigger's New Bathroom!

OK, so it's really the master bathroom, but since we'll be giving Tigger baths in our bathroom, I'm going to call this part of the Tigger home improvements.

As we've mentioned before, we've been doing some home improvements not just for Tigger, but because we finally sold our house in Texas and can do a little work in our new home. Our master bathroom is one room I wasn't thrilled with when we bought the house. The entire bathroom is white and the fixtures just weren't to our liking. So Papa Tigger rolled up his sleeves and made the following improvements:

• New tile
• Paint
• New sink
• New medicine cabinet
• New faucet
• New hardware

We also bought a new shower curtain and rug. Here are some of the 'before' pictures:

My least favorite part, the white tile:


Demo begins:



After demo is complete, the new bathroom begins to take shape; Papa Tigger laying tile:

The new sink and faucet going in:



Tada! The new bathroom:

The bathroom is now a light green ('Eucalyptus' according to Restoration Hardware). The rug is so soft and isn't the tile lovely? It's a gray blend:


The lovely new towel rack:

Note the new handles on the vanity. That was the one contribution I was able to make:

The new medicine cabinet is recessed, so it works much better in our small bathroom:

Pretty new faucet and sink; the sink is a pebbled-gray color:

Even a new towel bar on the other side (the old one was narrow and low):

Didn't Papa Tigger do a great job?

More nesting

It appears that I'm not the only one who is nesting. Without any prompting on my part, Papa Tigger started investigating installation of our new car seat.

See Exhibit A:

Nesting Part II

I am keeping a running log of these now - even created its own tag. Mama Tigger and I are heading to the National Mall for the weekly Screen on the Green. Mama Tigger is gettin' prepared. On the couch is:

• bug spray (a necessary evil in DC)
  
• blanket (good thinking)
• cooler with water & vitamin water
• 2 chairs (and a blanket?)
• chips & salsa (in case "we" get hungry)
• freshly baked chocolate chip cookies (this trend, I like)

and the reason for the post:

• Sunscreen

It is 7pm already, and the movie of course is shown in the dark. But the new and improved "nesting" version of Mama Tigger thinks we need to have it with us "just in case..." Funny stuff!

The Nesting Has Begun!!!

Mama Tigger woke me up this morning by staring at me, around 9am. I quickly learned that she had been up since 6am, and had made some decisions...

First, she didn't like the rug we bought yesterday for the nursery - too dark (though I must confess I agree with her). She also decided on new accessories for our bathroom. And of course, she had a slew of new stores that we had to go to today...

Oh the joy of impending parenthood!!! I thought we were going to eschew this modern maternity materialism? I guess you can only hold out so much...