Lil Ariza Monster

A shower was thrown in honor of our forthcoming baby this past weekend. Although I was entertaining the guys it sounds like it was a complete success. When I helped unload the car with all the gifts I was in awe of everyone’s generosity. Thank you to everyone who came bearing gifts. My favorites were definitely the blanket with the embroidered monster and the Lil Ariza Monster Doll. But really everything we received will be put to good use. I don’t know all the details of the shower but I can tell you the guys had fun dodging rain drops, shooting pool, eating junk food and talking about how no one will probably hang out with me anymore after I am a father. If you want Kaci to post something about the shower then you should definitely send her nagging emails.

We started the painting process today. It’s gone pretty smoothly so far. We have some contrast issues but tweaking the color should fix it. We still have a lot of painting ahead but at least it’s a fairly fun. Ricky came over and helped us out a little. Kaci was even able to paint a lot since the fumes were pretty minimal. It’s cool watching it all come together. Check out the process. With a paintbrush in one hand and one eye on the Olympics is how we spent the afternoon. I would consider it well spent.

We’ve been short on posts as of late. There just hasn’t been a lot to report. I was pretty sick last week and did my best to stay far away from Kaci so she didn’t catch anything. Thanks to her rock solid immune system she weathered the viral storm without incident. We’ve bought all the paint to hopefully get started painting our monsters in the room. Kaci continues to visit the doctor and come back labeled perfectly healthy. All seems well at the moment.

And just to silence all the questions… No, we will not share our baby names with you. It’s nothing personal but we just don’t want to hear everyone’s opinions on names. And believe me everyone seems to have one. But rest assured we have the perfect name picked out for our little boy.

Slowly but surely our nursery is coming together. Kaci has been shopping for the right room accessories and putting things in their places and our friend Ricky whipped up some awesome illustrations for the walls.

This Sunday was spent hanging curtains and drawing some cuddly monsters on the walls. With the help of a projector from our good friend Jeremy we drew some fun monster scenes. Since the projector wasn’t ideal for some spots we even did a few freehand. It’s coming together now. Next step… we’ve got to paint these little critters.

You can see a few photos of the progress here.