Nesting 1

I wasn't going to write this blog until I had a final result to present, but I have some time this morning and some photos that aren't getting any younger, so here is "nesting part 1!" Fabri was really cute when I explained the concept of nesting to him.  If you follow him on Twitter, you've seen his updates with photos of the progress.  If you don't follow him on Twitter, you should and there's a link to the right of this blog!

The baby's getting the room with a view!

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So our guest room/office is becoming the baby's room.  That means that we no longer have room for guests here in the apartment, but fret not, the Motta's have space at their home and the B&B in Ruffia (don't book through the site, I just wanted to include it for the photos and English description), so we still have room for off-site visitors!  We painted the room yellow when we first moved in 3.5 years ago with the "baby possibility" in mind, so no painting necessary.  We started by getting rid of the desk and reorganizing the armoir.

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Then we added a new dresser to hold all that cute baby stuff our generous friends & family gave us at the shower.  Shout out to Joey for helping to carry that heavy thing upstairs for us!  Olney was of course integral in putting the thing together.  He's quite a handy pup.

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The next project was putting together the Inglesina travel system.  This includes the bassinet which is in our bedroom, the car seat and the stroller.  It's all very modular so everything can attach to the wheeled stroller base with relative ease.  We still need to put the base of the car seat in my car.  I think that's a week 38 project (this is week 36).  We're waiting for all this snow to go away; we'll be waiting a while as there is snow in the forecast for this weekend; so we can practice walking Olney with the stroller.  Meanwhile he's been getting a lot of practice in the house and it doesn't bother him at all.

Look at all those boxes for a stroller!  Well, a travel system.

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This was fun to construct because everything snaps together easily.  We'll have to keep the manuals close by to remember how to do all the changes when you attach different pieces.  This is a prime example of Italian fashion and the preferred brand of the most fashionable Italian mothers.  What I'm doing with it, who knows, but after I saw the one handed closure, we didn't seriously consider any other brands.  Also I like that the car seat can snap out of the base in the car and into the stroller to avoid waking a sleeping baby when we arrive at our destination.

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Last weekend, we put together the crib, the final piece of furniture for the nursery.  When we were finished we realized we put the very first piece on upside down.  After a quick redo, we had the future baby bed.  Now with all the furniture constructed, we've been moving things around trying to figure out the best configuration.  We think we have it figured out and we'll probably put up the paintings and decorations this weekend if we decide we still like where all the furniture is.

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Speaking of paintings, after over 3 years of searching, we have artwork up above the couch in the living room!!  That was part of the nesting process too.  That and a new piece of furniture in the bathroom, a humidifier in the bedroom and a third stool at our bar!  Check out the rest of the photos in my Picasa web albums (link to the right).

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