baby preparations

 We have been having so much fun creating a baby room for our little boy:

Kami sketched a tree on the wall and then all of us girls painted in-between her lines:

The finished product, minus the laminated patterned-paper birds we added later:

The little boys  were hopeful painters- but probably not quite capable- so I set them to work on the important task of painting some pictures to hang on the baby's wall for him to look at:

Their finished product - they also painted the picture frames:

Abram  was finished after he painted that big brown bear in the upper right hand corner:) There is also a bear cub in the lower right of that same picture and a small coyote in the lower left!;)  Nolan painted the other three: a blue bear, a moose and a great horned owl.  They know their baby brother is going to love these!!

Meanwhile, Caden was busy assembling a baby crib.  Yes, it may seem a bit late in the game to purchase a baby crib, but ours was thrashed.  In many ways, this baby is like starting all over again.  We have also been buying baby supplies that didn't make it further than the three other boys:)

While the boys were all gone at father-sons outing, part of the girls party was that the girls sewed some stuffed owls for some baby room decoration:

l-r: Maddie's, Kami's, Isabelle's

I sewed a bumper pad, crib skirt and diaper stacker out of these fabrics:

and crocheted a baby blanket - draped across the end of the bed:

We're all pretty pleased with our group effort. Abram's show-and-tell when people come over is to reach into the diaper stacker and pull out one of the tiny little diapers.  After people notice, for him, how small it is, he says, "Smell it!  It smells just like a baby!!"...he actually means the baby powder smell that is still in them...

Anyways, nine more weeks to go...