A Room Of Their Own

As I mentioned a few posts ago, at long last, Harry and Lucy are out of our room (um, I mean, the babies have an official nursery).

View from the doorway:

Lucy is still wee enough to sleep in the Pack N Play, so that's her spot. Meanwhile Harry is bunking in Ellie's old crib. We're dragging our heels on buying a second crib until we absolutely have to. Which will be soon. Yes, yes, I still need to do something about those little windows and the naked curtain rods (the rods have been there since we moved in). Gah.


This was Ellie's old room, which was pink when we moved into the house. Pepto-Bismol pink (not exaggerating). We promptly took care of that in a painting spree and converted it to this soothing, gender neutral green. Little did we know I would give birth to the Queen of Pink. When she turned about three and became pink-obsessed I sort of wished we'd kept it pink, but that was before we added two more people to the family and long before I could have ever imagined Leo and Ellie would share a room. Of course now, I'm so glad we painted it green before Ellie was born because it's such a nice, neutral, suitable-for-boys-or-girls-or-hey-how-handy-both!-color.

I'm in absolute love with that tree wall decal. When I first put it up I used to go into the room and just look at it. It just makes me feel good. Calm. I hope the babies think so too. That rocker belonged to Erin's mom (she rocked Erin in it) which I think is very sweet. Also, it's very comfortable and roomy. Harry must agree as we spend a lot of quality time in it together, at 1 a.m., and 3 a.m. and 4:45 a.m.

I'm not big on "themes" but I guess I'm sort of going with "trees" and "nature and birds" here. I picked this green rug because I think it looks sort of "grass-like." It's very soft and thick and cozy and you can say what you want about Ikea but they do certain things very well. I thought this rug had it all, very reasonably priced and great (so far) quality. Wow I suddenly sound like an annoying carpet salesperson. Sorry.

And I pretty much freaked out (in a good way) when I found these curtains which aren't "matchy matchy" (which I hate) but compliment the whole tree/bird thing just perfectly. And yes, they need to be hemmed.

There still isn't much on the walls, but there isn't a ton of wall space so I doubt I'll hang much more than what's up. This photo was taken by my friend Stephanie Willson, who did our amazing newborn photo shoot (coming all the way from Florida to New Jersey to do it). Yes those are tiny Lucy and Harry heads.

Ye trusty sound machine (highly recommended). That frame on the left are 3-D ultrasound images of the babies four days before they were born. The one of Lucy (on the bottom) looks exactly like her (which shouldn't be surprising since, you know, it is her). But still! Those pictures are incredible, when you think about it.

This is a drawing Leo made when I was pregnant with the babies, a few days after I took him and Ellie to an OB appointment with me (yeah, that was fun). It was winter break so the kids were home from school and my dad and stepmom, who were supposed to be there watching the kids had been unable to come because of that little thing called the Blizzard of 2010. The drawing depicts me on the exam table getting an ultrasound (standard for every OB visit when pregnant with twins). On the left is Leo and Ellie, in the middle is the doctor (those little "dots" are the keys on her "computer.") And very faintly there near Leo and Ellie, you can see, babies. I knew the minute Leo showed me this drawing back in January that I wanted it in the babies' room.

Hopefully a lot of good times and plenty of sleep will be had in this room.

We've had a bit of both, already.