Nursery Reveal

Still here, still pregnant.  Totally ready for this little hapa to make her appearance.  Speaking of the word hapa, my in-laws have learned it.  Apparently there are quite a few at their church and they are totally hooked on how "cute" they are.  In fact, if I hear one more thing about the appearance of this child from my MIL, I'm gunna lose it.  Did I tell y'all she got the last ultrasound photo and told us she had a big nose?  Yeah.  She did.  Funny thing is I thought she had J's nose... which is the same as his mother's.  Anywho...

Without further adieu, the nursery is ready!  Here's what it looked like before, when it had no purpose outside of making us sad.

Now, let me take you on a little tour...

When you walk in, a ballerina greets you on the wall.  Now, I was a ballet dancer for a billion years.  It was really hard for me to stomach the fact that a ballet career is not realistic for one who is 4'11".  My mom started embroidering that picture for me when I was a kid.  Like most of her projects, it was put to the side for a long time and finally finished when I was in graduate school.  She hung it in the room I stay in when I visit her and I'd asked her to take it down and told her to give it to me when I had a daughter.  She gave it to me at my shower.

I'm really excited about this crib.  The top part folds down.  It's made with short moms and people with disabilities in mind.  I'm so psyched about being able to reach my kid in the crib.  After 6 years of working in the infant room of a daycare, I know it can be a challenge!

Since we have the birch trees and birds on the wall, J had the idea of putting the video monitor in a bird house.  Really!  He came up with the idea all by himself.  It's sitting on a faux crafty nest.

View from the other side.

We picked an embie photo and decided that was her.  We put it in a little frame to remind us.  We totally lucked out on the fabric for the glider.  We'd found the bedding we liked and then when we went to get the glider, we learned that Little Castle uses the same fabric manufacturer that the bedding people use.  I was also able to buy some of the same fabrics for some projects.

Projects like this one.  A bow holder! :)

We had a blast putting the decals up.  We were worried it would be hard and we would get frustrated with each other, but we had so much fun! There are little pink birdies flying around too.  We are also addicted to the totally ridiculous chandelier.

I made these book slings too.  Little Chimpunk is hooked up with the books!  Thankfully I work with a lot of speech pathologists who know what they are doing.  She even has the whole Harry Potter collection.  Really!

We stuck an extra birdie above the closet door.  I like how you can see the rainbows the chandelier throws in this picture.

Hope you enjoyed the tour!  Oh!  She has a name.  We went with Korean tradition and my father-in-law chose her middle name.  We'll reveal the whole kit and caboodle when she makes her appearance.