Disney Wonder Sept 3-7,2006 Part 2

[PirateCutie05]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

 

[purplern]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

 

[LCTsMom]

 

[Piecey]

Niiiice, Lisa!

That is one of my favorite scenes.

If only stuff like that really happened in life! haha.

 

[LCTsMom]

I love that scene. I love his expression.

 

[Piecey]

I love that scene. I love his expression.

So when does this movie come out on DVD?

I need some Edward!

 

[LCTsMom]

I want to see it again. I'm not sure but I heard it'll be released in March. Far too long to wait if you ask me. I am going to have to start re-reading the books again....

 

[Piecey]

I have a tough decision to make. You guys want to help?? Haha. (It's not tough just ...hard to change what you've been envisioning!)

The room I was going to use for the nursery (smaller, in the back of the house overlooking the yard so quieter, etc) needs the cieling ripped out (we knew this) but we've recently discovered that three of the four walls need re-drywalled. (Yay! I'm rolling my eyes here.)

We're down to 159 days-ish and my husband is NOT handy! We'd have to wait for someone else (or hire someone) to get the room done and I'm not sure my nerves can take waiting that long.

So. I'm trying to decide if I want to move the nursery to the front of the house (right along the road) but I don't know enough about babies to know if the noise factor is important enough to keep the nursery in the back.
The room is bigger (more room than a baby needs, for sure) and we were originally going to use it as a guest.

However, it needs no work except some dry wall patching (they put peel and stick PLASTIC bricks that when we removed them tore off chunks of drywall. What were people thinking!?) and so it's ready to paint, assemble baby furniture, etc.. and calm me down a bit.

Also, worry on doing all the dry-wall work in the back bedroom is we're planning 100% to be in the house before I hit month 8.
And Tom, in an odd moment I will NEVER understand... ripped the cieling out of OUR bedroom... so that'll need re-drywalled too.

GAH! I love owning a home.. Hah.

 

[LCTsMom]

Patsy, keep in mind that in all reality, you'll probably keep the baby in your room with you until close to 6 months old (if not older). That will buy you even more time. You could always set things up in the other room and rearrange them later. If you're worried about noise, also remember that the baby will be less inclined to be bothered by noise if you don't keep him/her in a totally quiet enviroment from the start. I (personally) wouldn't be concerned with noise from outisde. I used to vacuum in my kids' rooms when they were little, and they never woke up. Babies will adapt over time, in the beginning it's always a little crazy no matter where you put them. Hope that helps. (So excited for you!!! )

 

[Piecey]

Hmmmm... I'm getting excited, too! :-D

I think we're going to switch the rooms, then.

Painting Saturday! WOOHOO!

 

[JLSE50]

We are on Rt 70 headed west to our home in Indy. We just passed the exit for Rt 51 to Pittsburgh and Uniontown.

As I posted in my Facebook profile last night, no one can ever prepare you for how much you will love your grand children!

Both her parents are capable, competent and highly motivated to care for her. They are ideally suited to be Sophie's parents. I have no concerns--

I JUST MISS HER LIKE FURY!

I cried while holding her yesterday since I knew I had to go home today.

The mother-bear instinct extends past my sons to include her and her mother.

AMAZING :
: WHAT A SYSTEM !!

 

[JLSE50]

I have a tough decision to make. You guys want to help?? Haha. (It's not tough just ...hard to change what you've been envisioning!)

The room I was going to use for the nursery (smaller, in the back of the house overlooking the yard so quieter, etc) needs the cieling ripped out (we knew this) but we've recently discovered that three of the four walls need re-drywalled. (Yay! I'm rolling my eyes here.)

We're down to 159 days-ish and my husband is NOT handy! We'd have to wait for someone else (or hire someone) to get the room done and I'm not sure my nerves can take waiting that long.

So. I'm trying to decide if I want to move the nursery to the front of the house (right along the road) but I don't know enough about babies to know if the noise factor is important enough to keep the nursery in the back.
The room is bigger (more room than a baby needs, for sure) and we were originally going to use it as a guest.

However, it needs no work except some dry wall patching (they put peel and stick PLASTIC bricks that when we removed them tore off chunks of drywall. What were people thinking!?) and so it's ready to paint, assemble baby furniture, etc.. and calm me down a bit.

Also, worry on doing all the dry-wall work in the back bedroom is we're planning 100% to be in the house before I hit month 8.
And Tom, in an odd moment I will NEVER understand... ripped the cieling out of OUR bedroom... so that'll need re-drywalled too.

GAH! I love owning a home.. Hah.

.
Babies who learn to fall and stay asleep only in dark, quiet places have a hard time sleeping with other conditions.

Babies who learn to fall asleep wherever they are when they get tired, are more flexible people and (imho ) easier to live with.

You want to take Baby on trips to WDW and DCL where you will not have the same level of dark and quiet so a flexible Baby would increase everyones' enjoyment.

Also, many of us have discovered that, in the early days at least, our lives were simpler with the baby in the master bedroom. A Pack-N-Play or something similar, near Mom (espacially if mom is nursing) makes life easier.

So that gives you time to decide later where the Baby will live. And if you have not spent MONEY on the furniture you don't have to store it until the room is done.

I also vote for the front room because Baby will grow and need space for toys and kid furniture. After all, how many hour will guests be using the space and how many hours will Baby be using space?

Instead of calling the child THEM could you say BABY. :

:
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[Piecey]

Okay, so here is part of the room that will be the nursery:

Look at those BRICKS! They're little strips of 4bricks by 4bricks that peel and STICK onto the wall. HORRIBLE, horrible, HORRIBLE!... (they're puffy, too, with a TEXTURE!.. you can poke them with your finger and they pop back!)

Look at that carpet, the deer hooves on the wall and that chair. Oh baby, we've got a great looking room!

 

[LCTsMom]

OMG Patsy!!

 

[Piecey]

OMG Patsy!!

It's hysterical, isn't it?!

I swear, I'll make it pretty..

 

[JLSE50]

Okay, so here is part of the room that will be the nursery:

Look at those BRICKS! They're little strips of 4bricks by 4bricks that peel and STICK onto the wall. HORRIBLE, horrible, HORRIBLE!... (they're puffy, too, with a TEXTURE!.. you can poke them with your finger and they pop back!)

Look at that carpet, the deer hooves on the wall and that chair. Oh baby, we've got a great looking room!

Baby won't know and won't care.

You could put Baby to bed in a shoe box in the bathroom and as long as Baby is fed, has clean diapers and is held a lot, Baby will be HAPPY :

Companies that make stuff want you to THINK that Baby NEEDS all their _ _ _ _ because they make money if you buy it.

I think the less JUNK you buy and the more TIME you give the better it is for kids.

You want Baby to count on people when there is a problem, not to fill that need by buying STUFF. That materialism starts in infancy when baby is left to cry it out surrounded by toys not cuddled by loving adults
.

 

[Piecey]

Uh. I don't dig deer hooves, plastic bricks and retro carpet. That is going because I don't want it, not because it's going to be the babies room. IT was going to go when it was just the guest room (poor guests are getting stuck with wood panneling now that baby has been upgraded, haha)

It'll be much easier to change it now, that we're not living in it, than later. Why wait? Seems stupid not to do it. We've got the money, the time and it's convenient to do it now.

All we've got to do is rip up the carpet, paint the walls (the brick has already been taken down), polish the hardwood and buy a rug.
Voila. Baby room.

I don't know what JUNK you're talking about Jan? All I've bought is a convertible crib, a blanket and some neutral clothing??

 

[JLSE50]

Uh. I don't dig deer hooves, plastic bricks and retro carpet. That is going because I don't want it, not because it's going to be the babies room. IT was going to go when it was just the guest room (poor guests are getting stuck with wood panneling now that baby has been upgraded, haha)

It'll be much easier to change it now, that we're not living in it, than later. Why wait? Seems stupid not to do it. We've got the money, the time and it's convenient to do it now.

All we've got to do is rip up the carpet, paint the walls (the brick has already been taken down), polish the hardwood and buy a rug.
Voila. Baby room.

I don't know what JUNK you're talking about Jan? All I've bought is a convertible crib, a blanket and some neutral clothing??

A thousand apologies
------please pardon me...
So sorry for overstepping....

I did not mean that you HAD bought junk, I meant that manufacturers want new parents to believe that babies require lots of equipment and toys.

Do whatever you have time for. I misread your angst and thought time was a grave concern.

I should have known better with Super Patsy on the job :

 

[LCTsMom]

I'm with you on the deer hooves...that's just wrong. What the heck are people thinking? Even if you're a serious hunter....do you honestly NEED to SEE hooves on your furniture?!?

 

[Piecey]

Ahhh.. well with the other room, time was a concern. Getting the cieling redone (along with our bedroom's cieling) and the three wood panneled walls fixed in time to paint, do the floors, etc... with classes starting next week and work, etc... I just don't think my nerves could take it because I know we'd be cutting it close. We're fixing now (moving odds and ends, like summer clothes, packed suitcases, the holiday decorations, etc) and painting now and then mass-moving everything later so we can all-out clean this place up.
We're running out of days but as long as we look at it realistically (like, why does the baby need the room with all the work required when the other will be A-OK and the stressful room can sit for now and scare my houseguests into wanting to help me?)

The other room (The deer hoove room) is pretty much ready to go now that the red brick is gone (and the hooves have mysteriously disappeared!) ... I've already taken off the wallpaper. It just needs paint, tackboards removed after we pull up the carpet and a few hours with a hardwood re-finisher! If it weren't for the fancy stripes I want on the walls, I'd say we could do it in a day.

It's cieling is just fine in the hoove room!



...we went to Lowes tonight and got contact paper like stuff to frost a window that starts at knee level and goes to your head in the downstairs BATHROOM over looking the driveway. Seriously. I have no idea what they were thinking! IT spans the entire back wall of the bathroom, right next to the toilet-- and the shower has a clear glass door. Apparently the previous occupant liked to make the peeping tom's job a little easier.
We also got cieling paint and wall paint for our living room and dining room and found some excellent green tea colored faux bamboo blinds on clearance that we're crossing our fingers are the right size. They look a little big but we chanced it, figuring we can always take them back but not necessarily go get them later since they're clearance. Cross your fingers they're not too wide!!!!!!!!

Oh, and I am by no means a super Patsy ... I just simply dictate whether or not portions of the deer are allowed to live in the house with me. They're not!


...did I mention the house also came with a full deer head over the fireplace?
YUCKK!


...found the blinds online: http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=164046-31252-0361026&lpage=none
However, ours were $2.52 a set at the local Lowes.
I really wish now that I'd measured windows!!!!