Nursery 2014

One of the best parts about updating the nursery is how much James loves his new room. We kept the nautical theme, but I tried to make the new baby's side girlier by adding mermaids and more pink. On James's side, we got him a new bed Kevin's family bought him Jake and the Never Land Pirates' sheets, and we tried to make the room generally more fun by adding wall decals.

Baby girl side with mermaids. Though she still need some mermaid dolls.

Peak in the crib! (though we'll take out everything before she sleeps there)

Changing table's new location with baby gear inside- and new cheapy drawers

James is seriously in love with his room now. He calls his room "under water," and invites people to come under water with him, and then he shows them all the fish. At his suggestion we even added a few fish to the ceiling. Kevin also set up my old iPod in his room so he could listen to all his nursery rhyme jams in there. He sits in his little rocking chair singing all the songs or paging through his books.

James's side

James's reading nook

A view of both their beds

The girls are both ready!

The boys enjoying the "reading nook"

And here's a picture of what our room looks like right now since baby will be sleeping in our room for a few months.

Co-sleeper on my side and glider that will move to nursery when baby does.

• The Nursery in 2011 when we got it ready for James's arrival
• When we switched the crib to a toddler bed for James in July
• Here's the last post about updating the nursery complete with a video of James "helping."

Updating the Nursery 2014

At first we thought we might have the kids in separate rooms, but when it occurred to us that having a baby, having Kevin go on book tour, and moving all the same summer was not a good idea, we decided that the new baby would stay in our room for the first few months, and then she'd share a room with James until we bought a house.

This is the nursery when we first set it up in 2011. We finally changed the crib to a toddler bed in July for James. So we wanted to reclaim the crib before the baby came so that James wouldn't blame the baby for taking his bed, and he'd have time to adjust to a new one. So our first step was to clear out the room a little, and rebuold the crib.

Crib-as-toddler-bed

Moved the diaper changing table

Where James's toddler bed is going to go

My boys building the crib for my little girl!

Here's a super awesome video of James tightening the screws on the crib for his sister:

James building the crib.

I also had to clear out all the clutter in my room to make space for the baby's first home. So we have the nursery and the space in our room all set up now. I'll post the pictures in the next post.

Nursery 2011

We finished decorating the nursery yesterday except that there are two pieces of wall art we're awaiting from Etsy.com. One is a huge whale wall decal and the other is a little steamboat painting. I also finished putting away the baby's clothing size newborn through 3 months. I hope he wears the newborn clothing at least once since he's already past 8 pounds. I keep walking in and just soaking it all up. I think I'm going to enjoy this room more than the baby.

When you walk in, the first thing you see is the crib.


Diaper changing station and chair opposite the crib

 

Moby and baby Moby

Book case and little dresser next to the door and closet


Peaking inside the closet


Drawer of newborn- 3 month infant bodysuits

P.S. One of the strange benefits of a blog is that I can go back in time and fill things in. This what the book case wall looked like after James came, May 2011-2013:

With whale art and the rocking chair from Sarah