Baby's room

One of the questions I get asked a lot nowadays is what the "theme" of our baby's room is going to be. I don't feel like we really have a theme; in fact, we are not even painting his room a different color. It is a khaki color that we painted two years ago when we moved to our house, and with the recent painting Chad has done in the rest of the house, no one really felt like painting that room again. I'm totally fine with that though; I like the color or else I wouldn't have chosen it in the first place. We also already had a deep red area rug and red curtains in the room, so I wanted to use the color red so we wouldn't have to redo everything. When I first started looking at bedding, before we knew whether we were having a boy or girl, I didn't really get too excited about anything I saw. I'm not a fan of all the pastel baby stuff that's out there, and I wanted some of the bedding to "grow" with our child so we wouldn't have to buy new stuff when the baby wasn't a baby anymore. So, I found the perfect bedding:

I ended up getting the quilt, the sheet, and the bedskirt, all a gift from my mom. I am using a bumper that my sister gave me that is just a blue denim color. Although I love the bumper that comes with the bedding, I felt like it was a lot to spend on a bumper, and it turns out they're not selling the bumper anymore so it's just as well I didn't want it. The thing I love about this bedding is all the different colors that are in it...not too "primary" and not too pastel. Also, we think we'll probably keep this room as the nursery, which means whenever we have another child, this little boy will move to the green room (those of you who have been to our house know what I'm talking about), and I think the quilt will still work in there. I will be stealing Pottery Barn's idea of hanging the quilt on the wall, probably opposite the crib. Above the crib, my sister-in-law Emma, who just happens to be a very talented artist, is doing some paintings from images on the bedding. She will paint one square as the frog, one as the helicopter, and then the middle painting will be rectangular and will have our child's name (using the letter styles from the quilt, once we pick a name!) in the middle with more of the little objects around the border. I can't wait...I think it is going to turn out so cute. I had the bedding shipped directly to Emma and she says that it's even cuter in person than in the pictures, so that got me even more excited.

Coming soon...Chad has been working hard on a below-ground irrigation system for our garden, which he plans on doing as a raised bed this year. I'll get some pictures soon to show the progress.