Adler's Little Room

It is finally finished! You know, a week and a half after he was born.... 2 weeks late. So basically his room was finished.... right on time. 

The first 4 pictures are from right to left, what you see on each wall starting with what you see when you walk in the door. 

My Aunt Sandy/Uncle Cliff bought the amazing growth chart for him, Thomas built the play gym and the house for his bed, and Adler's Aunt Lisa made the awesome hot air balloons for my shower!

I do love the curtains that I was able to whip together. And the deer head? That was an awesome find! I had it on my registry and when I went to buy it with a gift from my dad, it was half off!

The bunting banner was basically where all the colors were based off of. That along with my vision for the "You Are Our Greatest Adventure" sign. I found the wood in our basement from before our time here and have envisioned that piece from the get go. Love how it turned out.

Eventually I want to take the door off the closet. Once he actually becomes mobil, this will turn into a real Montessori bedroom, but for now it is organized perfectly for us. This dresser was one that my dad built for me when I was a kid. Love that we can still use it!

I love this little corner. Burp cloths, blankets, books, and toys. We already have ideas of what to replace the rocker glider with on his first birthday! Another project for Thomas and I to do together. 

I love this little area. Fostering independence from an early age. 

I need to make the Montessori art for his play gym. Just haven't done it yet.

And this diaper station above our changing mat is perfect for us! Although I really do need to change out the random stock baby in the picture frame. I plan on putting a picture of the 3 little embryos that we transferred all at once that gave us him.  Erin made the awesome "Adventure Awaits" sign, My Aunt Renie made the Adler blocks, Julie gave me the frame, and Lisa made the pinwheels. 

Inside his closet will be a place for a few more toys, but also a place where he will eventually have his own place to pick out his clothes where he can reach them. 

So many clothes from so many of you!! Thank you all again for all the love this little boy has been showered with!

This is honestly my favorite part. This right here is what started the whole vision of his room. Because truly, Adler is our greatest adventure in life.

I know it took forever, but there you go! His room, finally all put together!

The Beloved Finished Basement

Welp, here we are. Our year long project only took us a year and 9 months with a few other projects, rounds of IVF and FET's in the middle of it all. Not bad for home projects. But it is finally complete and now we get to move stuff in and we have extra guest rooms, a library, more storage, a play room, and a library/TV room! Basically it is all in one.

This is what we started with.

We then moved everything from the north end of the basement, to the south end of the basement.

First off, insulation be gone!

Next up... Painting a waterproof coating on the walls.

We then added a layer of plastic just in case our basement that has never leaked, decided that it wanted to start leaking now.

 

We also had an incredibly slanted floor. So DJ came over to help play with self leveling cement.

Next up, the first of many different loads of wood that we moved down into the basement.

Time to start framing this place!

Cutting and measuring. We quickly found where we thrived.

The above pictures were a day I left Thomas, Mike, and DJ to themselves. Good thing I came home in the middle of my morning out! And although the wood isn't exactly the straightest, Thomas always says the wall itself is straight and that is all that matters! Boys. :)

Framing complete! Next up, insulation. We got the thickest waterproof insulation. The Home Depot dude told me I could survive in the ocean with this. I decided not to remind him about the shark factor, but whatever. At least our basement won't be getting wet any time soon.

After we insulated all the walls, we decided that because it was going to be a playroom, we would use plywood as a base instead of sheet rock.

 

 Build in the area that we will be storing our blue bins full of stuff in.

This guy. Love him.

Tom the Tool Man Kucera.

Ceiling insulation time.

 

And time for 2/3rds of the ceiling!

Framed out the air ducting next.

So many different tools were acquired on this little adventure of ours.

And then there was the special blade we got to clean up the incoming air from the ducting.

 

And then completing the rest of the ceiling.

Next up: Time for the door.

And the walls surrounding the door to officially make it its own room!

And we built book shelves! 

Next up, bead board on the walls and all of the beams in the middle of the room boxed in!

Flooring! This includes, plastic, another layer of warmth, and then our cork flooring. Seriously, it makes a world of difference in the warmth of the room!

Bookshelves and blue bin shelves are done. Crown moulding and baseboards, check. Ceiling paper is in and painting is done. And Thomas connected all the outlets and lights to work!

And that my friends... is our finished basement. Now we always have an extra place for you to stay with us! Just in time for Adler to arrive.