The Nursery...

This week I indulged in something for myself, and of course, used the fact that we have a baby on the way as an excuse.  I got a really nice DSLR camera because I wanted something good and dependable for all the pictures that we are going to be taking  in a few months.  In all honesty, I have no clue how to use it, but I'm working on it.  :)

All that to say, I thought it would be a good time to share some pictures of what we have done with the nursery so far.  I posted a picture before of the crib, but I wanted to show a little bit more.  I have some DIY projects that I have been working on that will be added over time.  I also will be showing off the cradle that my Uncle Dale made for my sister when she was born.  But for today, I'll be showing just what I have so far, and I'm looking forward to sharing more later on.

This first picture is our adorable little mobile that we got to match the rest of the Noah's ark stuff that we got for Christmas.  I absolutely love it!  The animals are precious!

The crib and the Noah's ark wall hanging

Again we have the crib and the changing table.  The boxes are some cute little things that I found at Target about a month ago.  You can't see it in the picture but on the side of the changing table is a diaper stacker.  We are going to use the plastic boxes for wipes, and other things to try to keep the room as neat as possible.

I have always loved Winnie the Pooh.  This was the first thing that I bought when we found out that we were pregnant :).  Right now we have it sitting on the bookshelf in the room, but I can't wait for the baby to be able to play with it.

sooo... here is the nerdy side.  Ha!  You thought it was the dark side didn't you?  But you were Wrong!  Actually this doesn't belong in the nursery at all, but for some reason it is in there right now.  And I know what you're thinking.  NO this is not Nathan's.  It belongs to me.  And as much as I love my baby, I will not be sharing this.  However, it's really stinking cute and I love it!

These are some things that my Momma got for the baby's room.  One thing that I really want is books, and lots of them.  When we were kids my mom would read to us all the time, and I loved it.  So we are trying to start a collection of children's books.  So far we have ... 3.  This is especially sad because we are book people... I mean we have shelves upon shelves upon shelves of books in our house... so our baby needs some too!

The valance that matches the bedding...

Another view from the mobile... the curtain in the background is the front of the closet, and of course you can see the bookshelf too.  The bookshelf is extra special because it is from the bed set I had in my room when I was a little girl.  The closet had sliding doors on it, but I took them off so that we could fit a long dresser inside.  The room is sort of small so we didn't have a lot of wall space to fit the dresser, but we needed the extra storage.  The curtain is nice because it still ties in with the rest of the decor and matches the colors of the room.

As I mentioned before, we still have a lot to do, but I think we are making pretty good progress :).  I can't wait for baby showers and all that fun stuff so we can really have the room equipped and ready to go.  I am so excited to actually have our baby in this room.  It's going to be amazing.

We find out on February 17th what we are having!  So stay tuned for all the fun and exciting news, as well as nursery updates!  :)