Oh, these kids!

Today was an interesting day. First I made a bad choice by letting my son hang in his room diaperless (you know, that area absolutely needs some air as well) which resulted (TMI alert) in him taking a nice #2 on the floor. I'm sorry if this detail is offending you, but I can't help but laugh my behind off. So there was an unplanned bathing session in order. 

Btw we switched the rooms (something I was talking about here and here) without waiting on the floor being done. Ian actually explained my impatient head, that it's a winter with snow and rain, which makes it impossible to go outside and do all the cutting of paneling. Duhhh! Well, we did it last weekend and we are both thrilled how wonderful our "new" bedroom turned out. I even got to hang my DIY Mason Jar Pendant Lights. 

The reason, why I'm mentioning the room switching, is that because now the living room is much safer for Ethan to play in. We leave him there alone for quite some time when he is super busy. There are only two sofas and TV in it, with one door that has his baby gate in. The other door is blocked by one of the sofa I mentioned above. It's much smaller so he feels so much more confident walking around, since he can get from one side to another pretty quick. So while he was busy playing with some of his kitchen wear in the living-room  (kid has ton of toys but all he wants is ..NOT toys. haha) I had sometime to do a quick DIY project. A little in to it and I heard something I shouldn't be hearing. The door knob was making noses like someone was touching it. The only way for Ethan to do that is for him to be ON the sofa O_o I went in and yes, he was indeed on the sofa "dancing" with the big proud smile on his face lol Unfortunately his party was interrupted.

Well last but not least...Ethan now can open the doors and all of ours has old-school door knobs, it's quite tricky...so I have no clue how this almost 11 months old learned how to do that. Not to mention that he now, with no problem, can get off of the bed or sofa if he's hanging out with us. 

In 4 days exactly he will be 11 months old. I better get on to finishing the menu and making a trial cake. 

Ok, enough about us. Hope your week is going well! Stay healthy.

Boy's room - sea theme

Since I've started his blog after I had my baby, I won't be bothering and posting "the progress" or "the details" pictures of my son's room and how hard we worked on it. I'll just get right to the point and share the final product, so to speak. But first, please look closely at the room the way it used to look.

It was a tiny, almost square room with one window and one questionable "closet" on the opposite wall, on the left from the door. We had to close that "hole" that was the closet door and move it to a wall that was outside of the room, in the hallway. That way we weren't limited with wall space and the way we wanted to put furniture in. Husband turned the questionable closet into a nice closet but it will be a different post ;)

Are you ready for an amazing transformation...I hope you are, it will blow your mind haha! (or at least it did mine)

 

 

 

 

Where do I begin. The theme of the room is all things sea and we picked non-traditional color scheme for walls..as you can see. A lot of small things were hand-made or altered after buying them at the store. This week I will share some of the DIY projects we did for Ethan's room. We couldn't be happier the way it turned out and I think our son loves it too! 

In the end we spent around $1700 on all of the things, including laminate for the floor and material for the closet that is behind the wall on the last photos. 

Let me know your thoughts! 

Swaddle DIY - repost

This is an old post from my other blog that I will be deleting soon.

I was lucky to get a very nice thing for my baby at the baby shower - Swaddleme swaddler that we used and used and used. My kid can't sleep if he's not swaddled because he has the "crazy hands" and always smacks himself on the face and wakes himself up. Unfortunately the thing has it's expiration date if you use it pretty much every night. So I was about to go and buy this ridiculously expensive woombie thing that had a zipper instead of Velcro, which seamed so much easier and it also lets the baby move the arms inside whichever way. BUT...i didn't! I couldn't justify spending $26 + shipping for piece of stretchy fabric with the zipper in the middle. I went in and found some hand-me-down night gowns that we never use and decided to make my very own wommbie. I spend about an hour (I was rushing to make it and test it so it's made poorly but it works) and about $3 on the zipper..and Voila!...Sleeping kid = happy mama :D