For the past few weeks I have been stomping around my house with one of those little storm clouds over my head.  If it wasn’t a pregnancy related thing stressing me out, it was other stuff.  I needed a break from all of the ridiculousness and have a high dosage of crazy cute to get my smile back.  That high dosage came in the form of a (nearly) completed nursery for this new baby.

This nursery was quite a bit of work.  When we first bought this house last November, we knew that this room would need a complete and total redo.  It had a wallpaper border at the top (I HATE THOSE!!!) and an old and yucky carpet that looked and smelled like someone had been brutally murdered on it (and when we tore it up, the marks on the hardwood floor didn’t do much to convince us otherwise).

These before pictures were taken before we actually bought the house.  I wish I’d taken more detailed photos of that scary carpet.  Just to prove that it looked like someone was murdered on it and then the carpet was bleached to death.

Luckily the room looks completely different now.  The contrast from that dark and smelly room to the bright and cheery room that it is now is awesome.  It’s a happy room.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this Vintage Snoopy bed set.  I guess I could have re-used Lukas’ bed set.  I made sure that his was very unisex and it is still damned adorable, but I really wanted this baby to have something of his own and for Lukas’ bed set to always be JUST Lukas’.  These boys are going to have to share a LOT of things during their lives, and I see no harm in throwing in a unique thing here and there.  Sure, these bed sets will probably be donated when this baby has outgrown his, but I still just wanted this to be something that was unique to each of them.  I grew up with lots of hand-me-downs and I know how those few things that were all mine were so special.  I want my boys to have those few things as well.

Here is the changing table/chest of drawers that my Facebook followers talked about last night.  Jessie put it together and kept doing silly Jessie things that had my in stitches.  This is EXACTLY like Lukas’ and that is simply because it is an awesome piece of furniture.  After it is no longer a changing table, it can just be a dresser/chest of drawers until they move out and take it with them.

Now I’m really going to kill you with cute.  Who’s ready for itty bitty baby clothes?

Drawer full of tiny socks, tiny hats, and dozens of bibs.  I’m so glad that I didn’t have to re-buy a lot of these.

I get excited about holding my new baby in my arms when I am reminded how tiny he will be.  That’s a tiny sock!

I’m hoping that both of us will be out of the hospital and home by the time trick or treaters come around to my house.  I plan on sitting on my front porch with my little baby swaddled and wearing this as I hand out treat bags.

Before I started having kids, I remember my mother-in-law telling me that I needed LOTS of onesies.  She was right and I’m glad that I have lots here.

Teeny tiny shoesies, anyone?  Yes, they are shoesies!

Teeny Tiny bunny slipper!  Passed down from his big brother who was able to wear them for about the first week of his life before he outgrew them.

Teeny tiny sneaker also passed down from Lukas.  Lukas wore these ONCE.  The child was born with size 12 feet, I swear.

A closet stuffed full of clothes.  Most of them are hand-me-downs, but there are a few outfits in there that are just for the new baby.

For those of you perceptive enough to notice the wallpaper on the inside of the closet, yes, we are leaving the pink ribboned wallpaper up.  When this child is old enough to have a problem with the pink ribbons inside of his closet and complains about it, we figure he’ll also be old enough to help remove it.  I hate wallpaper so much.

ATTACK OF THE GIANT BELLY!

Aaaaand the weird belly button thing is back!

And to put a proper end to this cuteness post, I give you a picture of my beautiful first-born.  He thinks Momma’s bed is paradise and takes every opportunity to get snuggled in under that quilt that he and I both adore.

Basically a boring video of Lukas and I on the beach.  My attempts to get him to enjoy the water are futile.

Beach from Somer Canon on Vimeo.

I can’t help it.  That totally harrowing event at the end always makes me crack up laughing.

I was so happy to be able to fit in a beach vacation this year.  It may very well be another two years until we can go again.  We’ll see how my L.O. is and we’ll talk about it, but it might be best for everybody if we wait.  That’s no big deal.  My boys are only going to get bigger on me and I have plenty of time to drag them to the beach!

It had been 5 years since I’d last been to Rehoboth Beach.  I love this place.  It was the first beach I had ever been to (at the age of 13) and it is the only beach I really like now.  Sure, when I was 17-18, I really liked beaches that had lots of clubs and hot guys to flirt with, but now that I’m a momma and a wife, I prefer the smaller, quiet Rehoboth.

I hesitate to say outright that Rehoboth is a gay beach.  It’s a beach where lots of families come to mingle with the gay people.  So I guess the most gentle way to say it is that Rehoboth is very gay friendly.  It’s one of the things that makes this place so charming.  There are awesome gay stores (Out Gear) and just really really cool people there.  Jessie and I actually went there on our honeymoon.  It was slightly off season and we really got a good view of how the town itself is very gay friendly.  It was a great week.

We had a very good weekend there.  Lukas was good at night and slept well, and he enjoyed all of the shops and the sand.  The water, however, was another story.

This year is the first year that I’ve been able to get Lukas into a swimming pool without the child freaking the hell out.  I’ve taken him swimming every summer of his life and he’s always hated it.  This year, he’s been all about swimming at Grandma’s house and doing daredevil dives into our arms.  So it was a bit of a stretch to believe he’d be ok with water that has waves and knocks him over.  He wasn’t impressed.  We got him to venture out a couple of times and even got him to go out into deeper water with us holding him.  And then a huge wave broke right upside the poor child’s head and he was DONE.  Maybe next time I’ll be able to talk him into going out deep with me.

We all had a good time at the shops.  He marveled at the hermit crabs, sea shells, and preserved baby sharks in a bottle.  He loved the Christmas shop and Out Gear (everything had rainbows!!).  He loved all of the neat little eateries.  He ran us ragged going from store to store, but he had a good time…..so it was worth it.

I’ll post a video tomorrow, but for now, here are some pictures from our trip.  I can’t wait to go back!

Playing in sand.

Lunch at Nathan’s.

He pooped out from all the shopping and slept through dinner.

Wearing his “Macho Man” hat.

BEST.  CHRISTMAS TREE.  ORNAMENT.  EVER.

Video tomorrow!