First off, we found out at the beginning of July that our expected "bundle of joy" is going to be a GIRL. From everything I'd been craving (and all of the online old wives-tales tests I'd been taking), we were both kinda surprised, but excited nonetheless.
The week following finding out, I just couldn't help but go and start getting things for the nursery. I'd already had a few people ask me if I'd registered yet, so I got started on that as well. ---- By the way, I love registering online!!! So much easier than going through the stores, circling round and around to make sure you didn't miss anything! ---- First off, I started clearing out/cleaning up the room we'd planned on using for the nursery. We'd already decided to sell the guest-bed, so I got it stripped down and ready to take apart. Then I moved on to the curtains I'd bought for $1 at a yard sale that needed to be shortened. Got those done and hung up and John got home. As we sat on the soon-to-be-apart bed, we both got frustrated with the decor already in the room. It restricted us on what colors we could do for the nursery. I'd already made plans to work around it, but as we sat there, we ended up deciding to change rooms... making that room the office and the current office the nursery.
We knew it'd be a lot of work, but thought it would look better overall in the long-run. The previous plan had a color scheme of dark blue, crimson red, gold, and white. I could've made it work... but now we could do whatever we wanted (the other room has NO colors on the walls). After all, as John expressed when we discussed the nursery: "When I think of baby girls, I think of purple and pink and white and butterflies..." The only thing that hasn't changed, is the over-all theme. John, knowing how much I loved the theme, was concerned we wouldn't be able to keep it at first (not sure if I could make it girly enough)... but after we got everything re-arranged and I could start on it, I think he realized I have NO PROBLEM making ANYTHING girly enough. Hahaha!
The theme, you may ask? NARNIA! I've always loved those stories, ever since I was little... but even moreso now. There's so much depth... so much to learn from... kids and adults alike. My current plan is to have at least one thing from each book be represented in the room. Sometimes in photos, sometimes in quotes, sometimes in stuffed animals or anything else I can thing of. But I'm having so much fun with it and can't wait to blog about it (with pictures) one of these days. I've used purple and white and some black and gold... making it have a royal look without it all being "princess" stuff.
As I said, I'll blog about it more whenever I finally get more of the room complete. But for now, just thought I'd share a little of what's happening. We have curtains, we have a crib, we have the bumper and bed-skirt, a bookshelf (already displaying some Narnia things)... but also one very large, massive shelf-thing that needs to be taken OUT of the room! We're slowly, but surely, getting it cleared off... so I'm hoping it'll be out soon.
As for what many people constantly ask about: Her Name... Well, John and I take naming her very seriously. As of right now, we do have a favorite (we've had it for at least 4 years), but we'll most likely wait to meet her before making the final decision. The way our personalities are, we'd probably feel like we'd let people down if we told them all a name and then changed our minds when she was born. Haha! We're weird like that, what can I say?!
