A huge THANK YOU to my dad and brother this week, without whom we never would be so close to not only finishing the nursery but also the tvroom now!
The house is so quiet now that the week has ended and everyone has headed home (PJ left Thursday night and Dad left this evening).

First up, the nursery … all of the trim except for the crown molding has been installed (and most of it was pre-primed). Nails holes are filled and it’s all lightly sanded and ready to be painted (or primed in the case of the rosettes and sills).

The floor has the second coat on it, a tinted poly and we’ll wait to do the last coat until the trim is finished, basically do it last since we hope to finish the room before Ryan goes back to work Wednesday.

A view of the door trim

Trim installed!The doorway trim (and baseboards) installed

even the closet has baseboards and trim on the inside (it's small so it's hard to take an inside pic)

A view of the windows

The last piece of trim to go on will be the shoe molding which is already primed, has a coat of paint and is coped, ready to install. So what is left exactly?

• Sand the closet ceiling and prime/paint it
• Prime/Paint the trim
• Install crown molding in closet and paint it
• Install the closet system
• Install crown molding in nursery and paint it
• Last coat on floor
• Shoe molding installed, then painted last coat
• Last coat on the walls
• Fan/light and outlets all installed

That’s it!
We also have a bunch of doors we plan to take down to Worcester to get dipped (strip off the lead paint). We’re up to 7 doors and it would just take too much time to do ourselves and with the baby in the house we feel safer just having them dipped and done with.

The TV Room also made progress, Dad finished all the sanding, got the first coat of sanding sealer on there, then a coat of clear poly. Again he left the final coat for us so we can finish the trim first. This room has a bit more to get done only because painting includes the built-ins which will take a while. We do hope to finish this up ASAP however, even if the built-ins are the only thing not quite finished.

This is actually after only a single coat but it's a good view of the tvroom floor.

Alex and I also had a good day, we went out to a new mom’s group at the hospital to meet some other moms and babies. While surprisingly at 10 days old she wasn’t the youngest there, she was definitely the smallest. I weighed her there and she was up to 5lbs 9.6 oz! With pj’s on but still – that’s great! Growing steadily. Now she and I are resting while Ryan is out at a group meeting, hopefully a very short meeting. Tomorrow we’ll spend some family time together in the morning and Mom may be coming out for a quick visit in the afternoon!