BabyCenter.com has finally run out of beans and produce (and one anamolous shellfish) to describe Tink’s size. Surely this is some kind of milestone. Oh wait, it’s an actual milestone– as of Tuesday, I will be halfway there!
I’ve got a couple of Amazon gift certificates burning a hole in my virtual pocket, so if you’d like to share the must-read books that will tell me how to get my (probable) kid to eat, sleep, suck, grasp, and develop into a well-adjusted genius of some kind, now’s the time, people. Because I, uh, burned my developmental psych book on my 21st birthday.
In an act that will likely spell the end of our relationship, my mother and I are planning to paint a mural in Tink’s room-to-be. I’m thinking animals and am looking for picture books for inspiration, so recommendations here welcome as well. Ground rules are 1) nothing overly commercial and recognizable (no Dr. Seuss, Disney, Where the Wild Things Are) and 2) nothing too cutesy. Leading contender at the moment is Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle.
A pointed out a few days ago that my belly button is getting shallower. I’m really looking forward to it popping so I can finally clean out all of that lint! I learned on Beauty and the Geek that one can use bandaids over one’s nipples to maintain some modesty whilst, say, wearing a thin shirt in an air conditioned office. Which set me to wondering, will that work for my belly button, too?
I know, I know… Here I am asking all these questions lately, wanting you to do work when I’m supposed to be the one entertaining and informing you. I don’t know what to say, except that I love the interactive nature of blogging and I love hearing from my fabulous readers. I’ll tell you what: To make up for things, I will offer to answer any of your questions as well. As long as they’re not math questions. Or science. History’s somewhat limited, too, but I’ll bet A would help. I rock at career and interview guidance and I have strong opinions about topics such as social etiquette, particularly required gift-giving events and the disturbing new trend of baby registries.
I don’t know how artistic the two of you are, (I am not at all.) I plan to do what a friend of mine did when the time comes. She used a color transparancy taken from a print of Peaceable Kingdom. Lots of animals. They put clear contact paper onto the wall. Projected the image onto the contact paper using an overhead projector. Traced the image with sharpies, labeled each area with the color it was to be painted. Then they cut a color at a time out of the contact paper with an exacto knife. Painted the color, then when that color dried, covered it back up with the cut out contact paper and moved on to another color. The whole wall became a stencil. When they were done they removed all the contact paper. It was really beautiful. I wish I had taken a picture of it before they moved out of the house.
I am thinking about using a Rousseau jungle print.
I love the Rousseau jungle print idea but my dream has long been to paint the Canterbury Tales pilgrims from the Ellsmere manuscript.
I’m not going to give you advice but myself, but instead direct you to this link where oodles and oodles of people have posted pictures of their nurseries. You can look through them if you like and see if anything inspires you.
http://www.windsorpeak.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=7&topic_id=4487&mesg_id=4487&page=
There was also once a really good link on tcoyf.com, but I can’t find it anymore.
Oh wait…I will give you advice on the mural. The Phantom Tollbooth. This is one of my favorite books ever and is boy appropriate and awesome.
And while you are at it…check out http://www.serenaandlily.com just because their stuff is so damn beautiful.
All ideas that spring forth are sarcastic, like tall grass and creepy trees and emily strange cats etc… sorry. Perhaps a ying yang room with one side sunny and happy and the other darker and gloomy. That way junior can pick sides early on.
See no help at all. drat.
Congrats on the milestone that’s really good news!
All ideas that spring forth are sarcastic, like tall grass and creepy trees and emily strange cats etc… sorry. Perhaps a ying yang room with one side sunny and happy and the other darker and gloomy. That way junior can pick sides early on.
See no help at all. drat.
Congrats on the milestone that’s really good news!
All ideas that spring forth are sarcastic, like tall grass and creepy trees and emily strange cats etc… sorry. Perhaps a ying yang room with one side sunny and happy and the other darker and gloomy. That way junior can pick sides early on.
See no help at all. drat.
Congrats on the milestone that’s really good news!
Make Way for Ducklings has the most charming illustrations.