The Nursery

As some of you may know, our little boy, Aiden Tyler gave us a surprise by arriving three weeks earlier than expected.  On Tuesday early morning, my water unexpectedly broke and after 17 hours of labor and failure to progress, our little one arrived via C-section at 7:55 PM. 

Today we were finally discharged and are now at home trying to settle in from this very eventful week.  Since things have happened unexpectedly, I have not had enough time to write a post about our baby nursery.  So although baby is here already, I will take a minute to show everybody our finished nursery and I promise to write more about Aiden’s arrival over the weekend. 

	This room used to be my husband’s tool room. Funny how things change after marriage. :)  Here is Adam and his dad installing flooring in the Nursery.
	Once the floor was installed, deciding on paint color was a bit of a challenge since we were still waiting on our custom paintings.
	Experts now believe that ceiling fans significantly decrease the risks of SIDS so my dear hubby and father in law decided it was best to install a fan in the room.
	Adam then installed these roll out shelves in the closet which have turned out to be worth their weight in gold.  I have all of our baby clothes all neatly folded and we still have tons of space.
	This little monkey was waiting for Aiden for a long time.

After weeks of preparation, our room was finally finished and we could not possibly be happier with the end results.  We are more happy that we were able to finish the nursery before baby got here.  It took a lot of work, but we did it! 

It turns out my hubby has a knack for placing wall decals. He put up the trunk of the tree, and I spent the following day putting up all the little leaves.  Even something as simple as putting up leaves can be quite a task for an 8 month pregnant lady.  Even harder was hanging the letters, but I could not resist the temptation to do so. :)

The painting on the wall was a custom made piece by Brian Cantwell from the Cantwell Studio. He is the husband of a dear friend of mine and was kind enough to paint these pictures at my request with very little notice. He is very talented. 

I used to use the bamboo as a decorating piece in my living room only to find out a year later that my hubby hated it. I decided to keep them in case I could come up with another use for them.  Never thought they would be used in a nursery.  :) Finding bedding that matched all of the color motifs was also a challenge but we availed! 

These shelves were also repurposed from a different place in the house. We bought the dresser at Kohls.com. It is made by Graco and must say, it is not a well built dresser. My husband used some of his own tools and materials to reinforce it, but I strongly recommend not buying Graco furniture. 

My In Laws got us both the Christopher Robin plaque and the room blessing on the wall. 

 

 

Our little animal friends all looking at the crib.

The finishing touches

 

The Finished Product