Well, we spent several weekends gutting the old nursery (aka Ben's room) and girlifying it for Caroline. I wish we could replace the hideous carpet, but we've dealt with it for 7 years, and I don't think that's going to change any time soon. We painted the room Behr's Lemon Pound Cake and it turned out a little brighter and citrusier than I had expected, but it is growing on me and will be just fine. We painted the trim around the window, doors and floorboards a pure white (it was sort of a blah-cream). We put together the crib and the dresser arrived just in time (I supervised the putting together of the crib - I should give Scott the manual labor credit). I washed a bunch of baby clothes (three full loads of 0-6 mo little girl clothes!), and put them away in the dresser, and we began the process of accessorizing the room. We still have several major things to do - hang a mirror, hang wall letters that will be hung from ribbon over the dresser, install a white ledge, change out the wall outlets and switches to stark white ones, and change out ceiling fans as we have a pure white one in the boys' room and the one in here currently is a honey wood (which will work perfectly in THEIR room). We also need one more piece of storage - probably like a short 2 shelf bookcase or a little nightstand to set between the crib and the glider that I can plug in the monitor and adorable little pink CD player/radio that Kelley and her parents gifted me with. Here's some pictures of our progress. Speaking of progress, none made in the month-away arrival of Caroline. I had my 35 week appt last week and I'm still measuring right on track, although I did manage to gain a whole 3 lbs in 2 weeks....which was discouraging to me, but still under my starting weight when I got pregnant to begin with. My blood pressure and ankle swelling were a little above average, but not bad or worrisome, and totally explainable as it was the end of a LONG day of work. She still doesn't want me doing weekly appts so I'll have one last two week break - go to my 37 week appt, and do weekly ones from there. March will be here before we know it! 
Her bed with her polka dot/striped/toile bedding from PBK (I finally found all the pieces!)
The glider where we will spend a lot of nights in - with the Boppy!
One of the diaper caddys, currently filled with burp cloths and pacifiers
The other diaper caddy filled with socks and hair accessories.
The dresser - it is so huge, and so wonderful!
5 comments:
I do love it---so different than the boy room---she will be precious in pink, yellow, and white--and everything, I'm sure!!
I love Caroline's room! Looks like you guys have been busy decorating! Adorable! Are you going to register anywhere? Burke and I can't wait to meet Miss Caroline!
Great job on keeping your weight in check! 3 pounds is NOTHING! Take care! xoxo
Oh Carrie - it's so sweet. You guys have done such a good job. I've been watching a lot of the HGTV home decorating shows and on several of them, they have installed the carpet tiles. Inexpensive and easy to do. You could pick neutral colors and more than one if you wanted. Or do a border around the perimeter and solid in the middle - just an idea.
Carrie! It looks great! I can't wait to see it in person to get the 'full effect'! Matt and I are working on that little gift we talked about... hopefully in 2 weeks or so we will be good to go! ;)
It's SO cute -- just the way it is. Very trendy!
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