I'm jumping all over with the building lately. I've been working on some of the details lately. They are things I can get done relatively quickly, and with Em nearby. I'm definitely on the downhill side of this project. Getting excited to get it finished and let Em play in it!
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| framed chalkboard on inside wall |
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| a little closet for little dress-up clothes under the top storage stair. |
So one of my big justifications reasons for building this playhouse bed now as opposed to later was storage. I want somewhere that Em will be able to play in her room, and a place to put the spare bed that will eventually become her big girl bed when she is a big girl, and a place for toy and clothing storage. Today I began working on the storage aspects of the project. It's all starting to come together. There will be a small set of shelves that face outside, and a small set that face the inside.
Please note, the levitating baby is gone. She was supposed to be sitting by the hill. Now she's sitting in the road.
Since my last post, I have completed the assembly of the remaining rails and walls. Those walls have been assembled in Emma's bedroom. This thing is HUGE! I measured everything out in her bedroom long before I started building. I measured correctly. I knew it would be large. But the real life thing bed seems so much bigger than I imagined. I had a moment of panic. But I'm warming back up to it.
Now that the walls of the playhouse are together, I now will work on the storage aspects I have planned for the playhouse. In the next couple of days, I plan on getting a bookshelf built. Then the storage stairs. After those things are built, it's all about the icing!!
So here are some pictures of the progress.
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| The walls are up and painted. |
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| The window frame and shutters. |
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| frame and shutters painted and installed--and begging for a window box |
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| playhouse front with door frame and window, and trim installed--and the window box that window was begging for |
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| side by side view--look at what a difference the details make! |
One leg of our family journey was Embryo Adoption {Embryo Donation}. Pictured above is a day 3 embryo--3 days after conception, as small as the period at the end of a sentence, and it IS LIFE! Because each one is unique, frozen embryos are sometimes called Snowflakes {Snowflakes is the name of an Embryo Adoption program through Nightlight Christian Adoption}, or Frosties. We had seven frosties, frozen at day 3, and donated by one couple, and 6 other frosties from another couple. We have had three separate embryo transfers, with three embryos transferred each time. One transfer resulted in a pregnancy. Unfortunately that baby, that we later named Bella Hope, went to heaven shortly before the end of the first trimester.
