Now that there are 125 days and counting until the baby arrives, Mark and I are trying to focus on the nursery. I figure if we do a little bit each weekend it won't be too overwhelming and we'll get done with plenty of time to spare. As I stated in one of my earlier posts I have an inspiration room, but I'm changing the colors a bit. The brown was easy because I kept that the same so I had paint names to work with and it took about 5 min. to get the paint at Lowes. We had the brown wall painted in about an hour. The green has taken me several weeks, trips to three different stores, and four samples to find the perfect color... but it was well worth it. I finally found a green that I LOVE today (well technically two greens 'cause it's a light green and a dark green) so next weekend we'll buy the paint and get started on the other three walls. Besides agonizing over the paint color the overall layout of the room is something that I've been toying with. I've made a scale version of the room and everything I want to put in it and I'm trying to come up with a floor plan that I love. I think that I'm probably going to change my mind once everything is in the room, but hopefully only once or twice.
Thanks to the holiday weekend the furniture I wanted at IKEA was on sale... I was able to get the storage unit and dresser/"changing table" that I wanted. (It's a regular dresser, but I'm short so I'm going to use the top as a changing table and I'll get a lot more use out of it when the baby is out of diapers).
Thanks to the holiday weekend the furniture I wanted at IKEA was on sale... I was able to get the storage unit and dresser/"changing table" that I wanted. (It's a regular dresser, but I'm short so I'm going to use the top as a changing table and I'll get a lot more use out of it when the baby is out of diapers).
Fist off, thanks to Jamie for sharing her secret to all her amazing photo collages (photomix). Since I learned her secret I decided I would do my first collage of my Grandmas (soon to be Great Gandmothers). The left side is my Dad's Mom with my Dad and me and the right side is my Mom's Mom with my Mom and me and of course the sonogram is our baby =)
So Mark and I went to Babies R Us last night so I could get a pillow to try and sleep better (Which was a life saver! I hate sleeping on my side, but the pillow makes all the difference in the world). While we were there we decided to look around and see if we could decide on what pattern we wanted to register for. As many of you know we don't want to find out if we're having a boy or a girl. I was not looking to do a gender neutral nursery (I was just going wait to finish painting after the baby arrived either the exact colors of the inspiration room (pictured above) or substituting purple/lavender for the blue)... However, I found bedding that I fell in LOVE with (Also pictured above) and it just so happens to be "gender neutral". It matches my inspiration room, personality, and best of all I can paint now. Mark likes the bedding too and is totally on board with the room. We need help in picking a pattern for our playpen, stroller, car seat, etc. We've narrowed it down to the two shown above. We examined both strollers and I feel that stroller number 1 is way more user friendly (and I believe it's slightly bigger too). But I'm SO torn because I'm drawn to the pattern for number 2 a little more. Plus the pack-n-play looks a little nicer to me. There is also a significant price difference between the two. Please help us try and reach a decision by either leaving a comment or voting in our poll. (Note clicking on the pictures will make them bigger).
