It’s day two of Pregnancy Week here on Our Dream Foreclosure and today’s topic – the baby room plan! Yesterday, I discussed my birth plan and may have shared a bit too much… heehee.
The most popular post in our blog’s little history is on Kenton’s nursery…
The plan all along was to make that room gender neutral and use it for both of our babies. I can’t believe it’s actually time to move Kenton out and make way for his little brother or sister!
- Kenton – about three months old
- Kenton – 15 months old
He has very few days left in this room…
But he’s taking the crib along with him to… his “big boy” room!
Well, we’re calling it Kenton’s big boy room, but it’s really going to look like another nursery – a boy’s nursery – for a while.
More on that in a minute, back to where the new baby will sleep.
- Note: we later swapped out the rocker/ottoman – pic at the top of this post is accurate.
Baby will go in the nursery and the only major change we’re making is a crib swap. Since Kenton is taking his crib with him, baby needs a new crib – which we’ve already purchased.
We decided not to get the same crib we got for Kenton and go for a cheaper, Ikea crib for the baby. Why? Because we care less about our second child.
Ha! Obviously, that’s not true. Kenton is very active – jumping in his crib and basically beating the thing up. The baby will be a blob for about three months, then just roll around for another three. Finally, around six months he/she will be sitting up and a couple months after that will start to pull up to stand. Basically, we figure we have at least six months with the “cheap” crib before Kenton may be ready for a toddler bed and the baby gets the sturdier crib in time for shenanigans like standing and jumping. That’s the thought anyway, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there. Right now, it was far less painful to spend $99 than $300 – plus we still had to buy a $169 mattress. Kids are expensive!
Other than the crib, we’ll only make minor changes – like swapping out the K’s and other items with Kenton’s name. And, of course, we’ll have my mom add a bird to the wire!
The closet will have to be cleared of 24mos clothing and newborn selections will be put back (I kept them all!).
We’ll also add a portrait of the new baby to this wall, once we have a chance to take one.
My initial thought is that I’ll move Kenton’s portrait up higher and put the new one below it – but we’ll see how it comes together.
But that’s it… otherwise this room is ready to go!
It’s the room next store we’re working hard on. That’s where Kenton is moving. Here’s a look at how the upstairs rooms are organized from my depressing Upstairs to do list post:
The most challenging part of this room shuffle was taking all of my sewing/craft crap that had been in Kenton’s new room and moving it into the study – into a merged space – Half office/half craft room. That part is coming together nicely, actually – but that’s for another post!
Kenton’s room is coming along… but is not ready to be revealed. It’s going to be a “Big Boy Bike Room” – with inspiration from Le Tour de France. This photo is my primary inspiration.
It was taken in Annecy, France while we were there following Le Tour. I love the different Tour jerseys criss-crossing the quintessential European street. I have those colors/patterns and I’ll be making some bunting to mimic this and using those colors as accents in the space.
We actually have a yellow jersey signed by the 2009 tour winner, Alberto Contador, that we will display in there.
There’s Jason with the jersey just after we scored the autograph. That was such a fun day!
The Olympic rings will finally move from their temporary spot in the playroom into Kenton’s room:
We’ll also be putting up bookshelves on one side and using a little Ikea tent as a reading cave.
Our goal is to make it look more like the flamme rouge you see with one KM left in a bike race than a circus tent (don’t know cycling lingo? Google it or come back later to see the Ikea hack!).
So, that’s the plan. We’re almost there! I’m excited to show you the new room. Kenton would like to show you his bellybutton, if he could figure out buttons…
Meanwhile, I’m soaking in every second with my firstborn as my “only”…
Self-portrait in our daily-used, slightly-messy nursery. Only my “baby” for four more weeks!
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