Nursery Progression... plus, I need your help!

We've been working feverishly in the nursery as we anticipate Zoey's upcoming debut... everything is coming together fabulously, but now it's time for me to get my creative bones crankin'... the Cricut is about to be worked harder than ever as I start cutting out flowers to hang from the ceiling and vinyl words to stick on the walls... as you can see, we've done a lot already:I've ordered this light switch cover off Etsy because it goes absolutely perfectly with the bedroom colors (I did not do the outlet covers because when she's mobile I don't want her attracted to the outlets!)...
Now I need a little help! I've been looking for a really cute lamp shade cover, that's obviously different and fun, to go in her room. I prefer Etsy because... well... no offense but I don't want her room to look like everyone else's... if you couldn't already tell from the nursery decor I picked out. I found two on Etsy that I like a lot and I'm not sure which will look best... both are colorful and would fit the bedroom's fun ambiance, but I just don't know which will be the best, ya know? What do you think?
I'm leaning towards the 1st one (I'd ask for green ribbon), but the flowers on the 2nd would look great, too... I'm just not sure if the owls are a bit much. I love all the different trees on the 1st one. Let's take a poll... what do you think???

100 days to go...

There are only 100 days left in my first pregnancy. When people ask when the baby is due, I always say "the end of April, which means early May." However, the fact that my ticker says I only have 100 days left is putting me into nesting overdrive! 100 days left and so far this is where I stand:

Weight Gain: 27 lbs. This means I've outgrown nearly all the maternity clothes given to me and finally had to purchase some of my own in my 25th week. All the clothes given to me were previously worn by a mother who gained 33 lbs in her first pregnancy and 27 in her second... this is why I'm busting out of them so soon. Holy moly. Thank goodness another friend brought me some clothes today :) They should help get me through the next 3.5 months.

Stretch marks: I never thought about stretch marks taking over my inner thighs, but alas, there is a colony marching up and down my legs. This baffles me. I knew they crawled up the boobs and belly, but legs? I've always had a few on my legs from growing a little too fast as a kid... but now they are ALL OVER THE PLACE. It seemed to happen overnight. I'm not even going to try to do something about them right now. As for my belly, I do have a couple starting at the bottom. This is because I have become horribly lazy when it comes to applying my magic lotion. My fault. Oh well. What's a girl to do?

The Nursery: Zoey's room decor + bedding came in on January 12 and it's above and beyond what it looked like on the internet. It's brighter and just completely warms my heart. Today, the paint colors were picked out. We're going with a light yellow and a green accent wall. Operation Nursery will begin shortly... I'm hoping on the 23rd. I'm itching to actually open her furniture and get it set up. I'm ready to take all the gifts from my first shower out of the gift bags and put them in their places. I'm ready to walk into her nursery and feel extra anticipation for her arrival as I watch everything come together...

Pains: Zoey is consistently sitting on my sciatic nerve, and lately it feels like she's literally dancing on it. I feel like a foot is going to fall through my cervix any second now. She's obviously moved into a foot-down position. It's the weirdest feeling and I'm ready for her to correct herself. All her movement is downtown and I don't like how it feels. I wonder what she is thinking right now... is she more comfortable? Mommy sure isn't.

I can't believe I'm less than 3 weeks from my 3rd trimester and just 3.5 months from giving birth. It seems like just yesterday I saw those 2 pink lines in the bathroom at work. Tuesday, January 19, is the glucose tolerance test and another ultrasound to check on the placenta previa. With as much downtown action going on, surely the placenta has moved into it's proper place... only time will tell.

The next 100 days are going to include a lot of preparation and OCD-ness. I look forward to seeing what happens...

Zoey's Nursery -- Love Bird

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Zoey's Nursery -- CSNBaby.com

Well folks, I didn't expect to say this until well after New Years... but Glenn and I have purchased Zoey's nursery furniture and we saved so much money, I can't even fathom it yet. The 4-in-one convertible cribs we had been looking at at Babies-R-Us are roughly $400-500 alone. That is just the crib... no mattress, no railing for the toddler bed... just the crib. The choices were sparse and we had "settled" on one we liked, but in the back of my mind I kept thinking about this website I had come across before I even got pregnant. This site is a lot like Overstock.com... tons of nursery items for a fraction of the cost, but limited stock. I had been browsing back and forth over the past few weeks, looking at different sets and keeping in mind that I could purchase a set of two nursery items for the price of one crib at BRU.

Tonight, at random, I was browsing the website and noticed that
1. Some of the nursery sets came with a FREE mattress
2. The website offered an additional 10% off the order if placed before New Years
3. FREE shipping
4. NO taxes.
I got to looking at the prices, and I just couldn't believe what I was passing up if I didn't order. I turned to Glenn and told him what I was seeing... I was told to order it. I didn't think twice!

So after it was all said and done, for $529.13, we were able to get this set:

http://www.csnbaby.com/DaVinci-K5101F-K5152F-DV1612.html

...including the free mattress and conversion rail kit so when Zoey is becoming a "big girl" (God, please slow down the hands of time) she has a toddler bed to crawl into. I'm so excited about the lifetime bed... we're going to save so much money because she will be able to grow up with it. It eventually turns into a full-size bed! Seriously!

We decided to skip on the big dresser because neither of us are "dresser" people. The hutch that comes with the crib is a changing table on top, but it will also be a good shelf later on, it won't permanently look like a changing table. It has shelves on the inside, so I can put some cute bins in there for socks, onesies, etc. This leaves more open space in the room for other things.

What gets me the most is that our baby girl is going to have a headboard and footboard before we do. *ahem* I think it's almost time for mommy and daddy to get with it and buy a headboard from Overstock.com at least.