The Nursery...5 Weeks and Counting

I know, I know, I only have 5-ish weeks until the little babe gets here, and the nursery's not all put together.  I have a chronic condition where when things need to get done, and it's on the verge of stressing me out, I do everything BUT those things.  Like cleaning my room when I needed to be studying in college.  But somehow everything always got done in time.  Usually I hit a crisis mode and do everything I need to do in record time.   I'm about to hit that point of crisis.  :)

I arranged all the clothes I have by size, and I need to return some smaller onesies for bigger ones since I have plenty of small ones, but I'm waiting for tomorrow--when I hit the jackpot of all jackpots and pick up all the old clothes from a friend's little boy.  Once I go through all those, I'll have a better idea of what (if anything) I need.

Just look at those clothes!  Totes adorbes.

And a piggy bank!  I guess it's really a giraffe bank...

Here's my latest project.  Originally I bought this fabric to make a crib bumper--cars outside, chevron inside--but I decided against making or getting a bumper at all because of the whole "safety hazard" thing they supposedly present.  See this article.  I am not too worried about the safety hazard they are talking about, considering bumpers have been used for decades without problems, but I don't like the idea of my kid trying to use it to climb out of his crib.  I also don't like the idea of going to the trouble of making a bumper if that's what's going to happen to it a little ways down the road.

Thus the decision to turn it into a crib skirt.  There are tons of tutorials on Pinterest about how to make a crib skirt--either by sewing or no-sew, usually with velcro.  There's also always Young House Love's tutorial, which seems very easy.  The car fabric I bought wasn't as wide as the front of my crib, so I had to cut it in half and am using the chevron fabric in the middle as an accent.  I'm pretty sure I'm using the car fabric on the side of the crib as well.

Not nursery related but baby related--this is the cute card his little stork dropped off for Father's Day!  So thoughtful of him. :)

Regardless of the state of the nursery when I do deliver, at least we have the essentials!  Diapers, wipes, clothes, and most necessary of all, a carseat!  ...to be installed sometime soon.

So things to be done:

--Finish the crib skirt
--Set up the glider when it gets here in a few days
--Install carseat
--Order more cloth diapers
--Make freezer meals
--Pack hospital bag
--Remember that no matter what's done or not done, we're having a little one of our own who neither knows nor cares about what his nursery looks likes
--Read up more on feeding schedules and other stuff like that, aka Babywise

Also, ideally I will have also done these other nursery things:

--Print these alphabet letters to hang
--Print and frame some old artwork from literature like Winnie the Pooh & Narnia, etc
--Make & hang a mobile

Hopefully he's not coming early!  That's pretty unlikely though.  Apparently everyone in my family delivers a week late.  Right now, that's a good thing, based on my list! But I can't wait to meet him and see his cute little face!