...and We're Still Waiting!

Our Christmas Day due-date has come and gone, still no baby. I joke and say that Baby would be smart to stay inside until June with all of the cold, nasty weather we get up here. Calie doesn't seem to find that very funny. But she is doing well and feeling fine, just ready to have the baby and begin the next chapter of this always exciting journey into parenthood. If Baby doesn't come on his (or her) own within the next couple of days, we will be going into the hospital early on Tuesday, December 30th and Calie will be induced! Please keep Calie and Baby in your prayers!

Until then, here are some beginning pictures of the baby's room:


Because we still do not know if we are having a boy or a girl, it was not easy coming up with a "theme" for our room. Of course, we have also been known to make these decisions much more difficult than they really need to be. But we now have our "jungle theme" and a homemade sign to welcome people to our child's room.

Our first wall sports our fancy, coffee-colored dresser and changing table. As you can see we have a sweet jungle lamp and three lovely wall-hangings: a monkey, a tiger, and a giraffe.

Just beyond our fancy dresser/changing table we have a lovely, comfy rocker given to us by one of our favorite Our Redeemer church ladies. The chair is surrounded by the Diaper Genie (part 2), a jungle pillow boppy, and the very-beginning stages of our library. And that ridiculously beautiful picture hanging upon the wall is a maternity picture that Calie and I had taken somewhere in month eight!

Turning the corner, you will see our lovely crib. Overlooking the baby you will see a well-crafted shelf (more on that later). What you can't see too well is the baby's own boom box for bedtime lullabies and his (or her) very own humidifier.

Let's start with what you can see: a simple shelf with a few jungle animals overlooking the sleeping place of our future bundle of joy. What you can NOT see are the plethora of unused holes and broken screws that accompany this masterful final display. Also not visible is the dent in the aluminum closet doors to which I threw a hammer and wrench at in my assembly frustration. After using enough four-lettered words to make a sailor blush, the only other thing that would help was hitting or throwing something!

And off to the right of the crib, our elephant and frog wall-hanging complete our jungle decor.