Getting Ready for Nursery

We will know the gender of the baby for 100% at my sonogram on January 4. The fetal specialist, Dr. Rowe,  told me "girl" at 13 weeks; and though it was only 80-90% accurate, my regular doctor told me, "Oh, it's a girl then.... he's only been wrong twice in his nearly twenty year career." Seeming that Dr. Rowe did not just begin his career yesterday, I feel pretty confident in his accuracy. He is a very well respected and sought after doctor in our area. We feel very fortunate he is following the development of our baby girl. So after months of putting off shopping because we didn't know the gender of the baby, I finally started getting just a feeeeeew things. Just a few, and I mean that seriously (I can sense some of you rolling your eyes.... but it's true!) Here is the very first thing I've bought for the nursery, and I just got it this week:

I saw it at Target and knew it was a must-have. We haven't cleared out the bedroom we are going to use for the nursery yet, and I know, I know-- it's gotta be done soon. I'm sure we'll start in the next month or so. Luckily, it was the room that is my study/office, so that way we'll still have our guest room intact (for mommies and mother-in-laws that want to come help and visit.) In my office I have two good-size bookcases, one filled with children's books and the other with the adult books that survived The Great Half-Price Books Selling of 2011. I have a God awful computer desk that I've been waiting to trash for years, and a 3 shelf case with the usual office necessities (since the computer desk doesn't have drawers.) The closet is used for storage of some wedding china that I don't have a place for right now, a file cabinet with all my papers, and other random "office-y" stuff. Then, there's the deer heads. Yes, deer heads. There are four wall mounts and a pedestal mount of a fallow deer. So, this is what we're working with. My mom has generously offered to help me organize the children's books (along with the hundreds from teaching) in age-appropriate tubs and she's going to store all my books at her house since she has a lot of storage space. I'm sure the office things will find a home in our closet, which is rather huge, and the bookcases are going to my dad's office where he has some storage space. This is all temporary until we buy a larger house in a couple of years. I think Will is going to hang the deer on our stairway wall (it's about 20 feet high) and the fallow deer will find a nice home in my dad's game room until further notice. It's really not a  lot; we just have to do it, and before I get too big! But I know my mom and Will will do anything and everything to help me. I'm thinking that we will paint Baby's room either a light pink or yellow. I'll have to study the bedding a little more. Lavender was top of my list (I had a lavender room growing up; it's one of my favorite colors), but there isn't any lavender in the bedding. Yellow is very sunshiney, and it IS my favorite color. I also had a yellow room in high school, but it was so bright it would burn your retinas if you stared straight at my wall, haha. I think we will go with a little more of a pale shade. (I remember when the painters came that day to paint my room.... I came home from school to find my mother shell-shocked at how absolutely bright it was. Funny.) I am REALLY excited to get this ball rolling, and after January 4, I think it will be gathering speed at a rather rapid rate. I suppose we have to get through the holidays first; and I really am trying to enjoy every second and not rush through them, since this is my favorite time of year. But the New Year will be full of excitement, as well. Wish us luck!

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