The Final Countdown

Ok so i haven’t been on here in quite some time. I have been crazy busy. There is so much to take care of and get ready. We had both of our baby showers actually we had 4 showers total. Her work threw her one and my work did as well. So that put us up to 4. we got some good baby loot. there were only a few things we had to pick up. Haven’t picked them all up yet but almost there. The final preparation to bring a child home is a ton of stuff. I never realized all the things until this past week. unpacking all the stuff get all the cloths washed. OH and ill tell you what washing a full load of laundry of baby cloths Horrible! cause a full load to a normal person is a few pairs of jeans some shirts and done. A baby 25 receiving blankets, 50 burp cloths, 20 shirts, 10 pairs of tiny socks, 17 bibs. yeah try folding all that at once. CRAP took me forever. anyway got all the stuff assembled and still having to get D batteries i finally know what D batteries are for baby toys i swear i never have use a D battery in my life and all of a sudden i need a case of them to make all these toys sing, vibrate, swing, & talk.  I have been trying to be as good of a husband as i can Trying to get all of the things done for the nursery for her and making as little work as possible. I also finished the nursery. Here is the link to my flickr to see the pics.

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it turned out pretty sweet. all the eggs are hand painted and i created the art work of the yoshi’s and got them turned into wall stickers. but that whole thing took me about 3-4 solid months to do. started from re-drywalling and ended at the pics. everyone that has seen it says its amazing it took a lot of work. I hate painting but its a little different when you are doing it for you unborn child who would of thunk. we have less than 4 weeks to go still haven’t packed the labor bag. yeah super slacking on my part. christina is doing as good as can be expected for having another human inside her. the baby is starting to bare down. which means its coming in the next 4 weeks some time. she is totally ready for this baby to get out. I just want to see what the hell we have been waiting for. Boy or Girl thats the mystery i can’t wait to solve with the first glance of my child. (sappy part over)

-MeaD.

Its Underway!

So the drywall is done. which is terrific it took so long and i have learned so much from doing it. So next room i remodel will be a little easier. . . . hopefully. so now that i have conquered the drywall now the real challenge begins. you guessed it PAINTING! So went and bought the primer and painting supplies Then i prepared the room to paint. i cleaned up all the drywall dust, cleaned, swept, and wiped the walls of any dust that would be on them. i laid the drop plastic back down after i cleaned it. So after all of it was nice and clean i painted the entire room it took just a bit over an entire gallon. so now i have a nice white room and tonight i will be checking it and making sure that there are no imperfections. if there are not and i truely hope there will not be any i will give its second coat and the room is ready for all the painting. i will reveal what i am painting in the room little by litte right now. its just white so here just in case you don’t know what color that is.

 

 

 

there you go. i will keep you updated little by little of everything i am doing. a hint *this is going to be the sweetest baby room you have ever seen.

-MeaD.

Overloaded.

i have been soo busy lately. with all the damage to the property due to the wind storm i have been put way behind on all my things i want to get done. the storm ripped about 30 some trees down on my property. 11 of those trees you probably couldn’t even rap your arms around them. So my dad has been helping me cut all of the trees up and ive been stacking them and getting ready to sell them. make some cash off of this disaster. So since my dad has been helping me so much i helped him all this past weekend. he is adding on to his house and in the process making a storm cellar. we got it all dug out 12 feet by 13 feet and about 10 feet down. yeah its a big hole we finished up with that this weekend and pored the footers. which means i mixed and poured concrete sunday. and man i am soo freakin sore. in other news since i have been outside so much i have not been inside to do any of the things i need to get done on the nursery. i am still sanding the dry-wall half done with that. i am done with the ceiling it had that popcorn ceiling i don’t know if you know what it is but if you do i am sure you hate it just as much as i do. its that type of ceiling that has the speckled crap of bits of styrofoam and paint. so what i did i scraped the ceiling off and now it just looks like its a textured ceiling which makes it look a whole lot better. but i have maybe another nights work on it then i have to go back over some dry wall joints. Then a final sand after that it should be ready for some primer paint. but yeah there is so much going on right now i have not had much time to do any thing even post on my blog. what not even time for that!! well i am hoping things will start to slow down so i can start back to posting regularly. 

-MeaD.

Let the Construction Begin.

I am underway with the nursery. I have started my construction so to speak with a little demo work. Yes the best type of work. but not really cause the best kind of demo work is the kind you have a sledge hammer in your hand. i just had a hammer and a chisel. due to the fact i have to save things i couldn’t just go in bashing things. Even though that would be the best in the world. So I what i am doing all this little demo work is that I live in a Manufactured home. which means when they put up drywall instead of plastering the seams they just put up little strips of wood to cover up the gaps. yes this does look as bad as it sounds. So i have taken all of the strips off the  walls and had to pull all the nails that kept those strips up on that wall. I also tore down all the molding around the room. So now the room is completely stripped of all the stuff and its just bare walls. I now am going to completely re-drywall the entire room to make it nice and smooth so i can paint all the things that i am going to paint on the wall. I just bought all the drywall this past weekend and all the supplies that i will need. So this saturday i will be Dry-walling the Nursery with my father-in-law. i have no idea how to do it but he does so he is going to be helping me. once i get all that i will start to keep you updated on what i will be doing next.

All i am going to say this is going to be the sweetest nursery in the world. 

-MeaD.

That’s not no sea monkey! Thats my kid!

 

So today i saw my child. it was by far the greatest experience yet. It was amazing christina & I saw its little heart beat again this time it wasn’t a pixel heart beat it was about 12 pixels acrossed. thats guesstimated of course. but it was pretty freaking great to see my little baby growing in my wives little tummy. i also say it move which was the most greatest part of it by far. it did a tiny curl twitch kinda thing. it was cute cause its the size of a gummy bear right now. so yeah we go back to the doctor in 4 weeks but we don’t get to see it. that is what sucks. we have to wait till its 20 weeks along thats along time to wait to see your child but i guess in retrospect 9 months total is a pretty long wait. takes a while to bake a baby in the mommy oven. (thats a sentence i never thought i would say)

In other baby news.

I am almost done ripping apart the nursery. i am going to re-drywall the whole thing then paint it and so on. that will be getting done in the next few weeks ill keep you updated on that. 

Also I am going to be starting the crib soon with my dad we are going to be building all the furniture in the nursery. don’t know if have said that yet. so we are going to be making a round crib. something different and something that will be an heirloom. plus i can’t do anything normal i have to be different thats just what separates me from the weasels & all the other weaselly like animals. 

-MeaD.