Your room

As you can imagine, kiddo, your parents have a hard time making up their minds and agreeing on anything. Like we don't know your name, we have been discussing what your room will look like. Last year, I found a really cut pastel jungle mural that I liked. When I looked at again this year, I don't love it as much. I think it is because we have changed the direction of where furniture will be positioned. We talked about doing Elmo because your dad has a ton of Elmos. Then, he was feeling nostalgic and said Mickey Mouse. I really don't have a strong opinion on it - I would rather choose your name than your wall decor :)

I went out looking at murals last night and I think we have found what we want. We are going to do the walls a light brown - pretty neutral. Then, on the closet doors (they are double doors), we are going to put this mural:



I would like to get a little mesh stuffed animal holder so we can string it in a corner and fill it with cute stuffed animals like in the mural. Can you imagine a little monkey hanging from that net? SWOON! Then, on the long wall where your crib will be, I want to do several canvases. I would make them like a scrapbook page and have them printed on a canvas. Each canvas would have a letter of your yet-determined name and one of the jungle animals. Here are what the individual canvases would look like. SWOON again!





In my head, this is the cutest room ever. I don't know that anything I plan ever turns out as cute as I think it will but I think we have some real potential here. I am guessing that your dad will have the flooring and the painting done by the end of October. Then, in November, we can start spiffing it up.

As far as furniture, we have a crib and changing table. Your dad has his kid furniture that he constantly reminds me is "good, expensive furniture." We made a decision yesterday to refinish it. It is currently a dark wood but your crib and changing table are light wood. So, we are going to sand them down, replace the handles and use those. Of course, we are planning a special spot for Great Gramma Lang's rocker too :)

Well, that is about it for today kiddo. We are going to go over your Aunt Sheila's soon for some grub and family time. We have done your baby beat 5 times. You move a lot when it is on. I can't tell if you are moving to the groove or if you are squirming to try to get away from it but I can tell you that I am counting the minutes until we see you on Tuesday :)