Hows my little roommate?

Someone recently told me a baby only needs three things, Milk, Diapers, and your love. Which is mostly true. But on those words do not uphold the capitalist America that I know and love. So Laura and I have been busy keeping the economy afloat and preparing for our new person to impact the world.

Last year I set a new low for number of blogs written, getting our baby's things and room put together had a very large impact on that. I could've written a blog on why I thought the Motorola MBP36S was the superior baby monitor on the market, but honestly who gives a shit. Now a blog about a room transformation, that my friends, is something someone will read!

This was probably one of the bigger undertakings Laura and I have set-fourth to conquer around our house. We had to basically gut, clean, paint, organize, and relocate everything in our oversized closet masquerading as a guest room. Thanks to my parents moving (twice) I found many treasures I didn't know of, forgot, or didn't want but left tucked away still existed in this space. But also do you remember moving in your early 20's thinking, why do I have so much shit!? Well combine those things and you have what lurked in all of the nooks of our guest room.

So this was it before we started our uphill battle. It is considered "clean".

 From time to time I would project PS3 games onto the blue wall in glorious surround sound.

One of the first things we did was replace our dresser in our bedroom with two tall chests to hold all of our clothes, this got our clothes out of the room. We were also able to finally donate this ugly dresser to an equally tolerating home.

After resorting clothes, and donating some we were able to start digging through things. See that nightstand? Aside from that lovely decorative copper pot there is a desk organizer complete with some game boy games and spare yo-yo strings from 6th-7th grade. Along with some college projects. Out went the junk and into a tomato box and up to the attic went treasures that I couldn't live without.

Much Better. So much less stressful to look at.

 Our cedar chest didn't fit into our bedroom anymore, this was our temporary idea for it's location. This space felt much better. Look at that nice homebrew nook! I thought it was great until Laura said, I hope you know that's not staying in here. :(

Time to paint! Organized room be damned!

Homebrew nook downsized :(

Let the baby thing invasion begin!

We got a crib(right) and a cradle(far left) that Laura's Dad built for her older brother Scott! This cradle is the family bicycle and everyone's had a ride, from niece and nephew to many cousins! Baby J is up next.

Laura searched high and low for a fun kids rug. After she found one, I looked high and low for a place that actually had it in stock. It took a while but we think it was worth it. Jinx doesn't like it though. She scratches at the different animal faces, she doesn't particularly like the rhino but the monkey has never been scratched at. Weird cat.

 Laura's Co-worker's held a baby shower for her and we got some good loot. Thanks to our hard work there is a home for all of it, with room to spare! (for now)

Laura found a good idea on Pintrest to hold some changing stuff for easy access. So I made one! The day I finished painting the baskets it fell off the wall. That didn't make me happy. Especially since it hangs over the changing pad where baby will spend a decent amount of time. After tripling my number of screws holding it together and reinforcing the wall mount as well it's not going anywhere from here out.

We're officially done setting up for baby, we have all the big things, and almost all of the small things. We are now just building anticipation and waiting for little Baby J to make their screaming arrival.