Baby Wearing

I decided I wanted a baby wrap carrier after reading about them but they can be fairly expensive to buy one.  So I set out in the wide world of information and found a great tutorial on the web for this Mei Tai.  It seems like a well made design.  We’ll see how it turns out in real life, but those who have used the style and tutorial speak highly of it.  I made the carrier so that you could wear it reversible. Here’s the colorful side….

And here’s the plain (more dad-like) side.  There is the solid piece that keeps the baby in place and then there is a hood attached to the top that has the ties to secure it so it stays put while you are walking around.  You can use it to put over baby’s head if she is sleeping, or if it’s too sunny or drizzly, etc. 

Here’s a couple of pictures of me wearing a stuffed cow.  Just to see how it works/looks.  You can actually put newborns up to several years old in here and can wear the child either on your front or on your back (newborns would be front only though).  Anyway, I’m pleased with the way it turned out and about the only thing I may change is making the straps a little bit shorter.

Baby Lanier's New Room

So I know some of you are wondering what exactly the baby’s room looks like right now.  Well it is definitely still in a state of “coming togetherness” but there is progress to be seen.  Here’s an around the room view of its’ current state.

This first one is the entrance to the room along with the closet.  I decided I had to hang at least one thing up for pictures, so since I had already determined this piece would be going beside the closet, I went ahead and hung it up.  I remember having this in my room as a child and my Mom gave it to me not long ago, knowing I liked it.  It makes me smile still  :)

This next picture is just showing the inside of the closet. I’ve organized the many clothes I’ve already acquired into boxes according to sizes. I figure that will make it easier to change them out as the time comes. We’d like to eventually put in some permanent shelves in the closet to make more efficient use of space to store stuff but that is second to the other stuff which really needs to get done before she is born.

Panning over, this is the window in the room. It takes a large portion of the wall that it is on. The curtains are obviously temporary until I get the real ones made. I’ve just got to go find material that I like. In three weeks, I plan to start working part-time (and can’t wait!!) so I’m hoping I’ll have some more time during the day to do things like this.

Here is where the bed is planned to be, along with the rocking chair.  I’m looking for a small table to sit beside the chair that I can put a lamp on and other small stuff.  I also plan to find a place for books beside the chair also.  The mirror sitting behind the chair I plan to put on the small wall to the right of the yellow curtains and off to the left of the chair.  I figured baby girl will have fun looking at herself when she gets tall enough to stand in her crib.

This final wall is where the changing table/dresser will go.  We’ll be moving it in sometime in the next week or two.  Most of the stuff sitting there will either be going in or on top of the table.  And you can see the doorway off to the very right hand side, which is where we started our tour.

This is a mural that my friend Marianna is painting for me.  It is actually a collage and I just LOVE it!  It isn’t finished quite yet but when it is completed, I plan to put it above the changing table.  I’m so lucky to have talented friends and family!

That concludes the baby room tour for now! I’ll post an update once I’ve made some more decent progress on the room.

Baby Movement!

Baby Lanier was being particularly active last night!  We'd been trying over the last week or so to get video of her movements without much luck.  Last night paid off!