Lila and Olive's Shared Room

Hooray! It's finally done! Well, not so much "done" as I'm just tired of doing anything in there.

When I was pregnant with Lila, we painted this room green (Koi Pond by Sherwin Williams) in hopes that it would stay a gender neutral nursery. (The original before and after post is here.)  The color served us well starting originally with Lila, and then Little Guy, and then both Lila and Little Sister, and then just Olive, and now both Olive and Lila.

We're lucky to have a house that has three fairly large bedrooms, so I tried to split up the space into a few smaller spaces.  Here's the girls' little hand me down kitchen from the girls I used to babysit.

The dish towel was one of Johnny's grandma's, and the tiny little rug was supposed to be a giant rug that I was latch-hooking out of jersey sheets.  This tiny rug is as far as I got.

The bunk beds are the biggest addition to the room.  We bought beds that could come apart and be used as two twin beds, which came in handy when we had both Lila and Little Sister sleeping in here.  Now that we bunked the beds, Lila loves to climb the ladder and tell everyone that you "just need a yiddle courage!"

The duvets I made myself with fabric from Jo-Ann's.  The top one is backed with light pink, and the bottom one has dark pink.  The fabric at the end of the beds is left over from the valances.  Eventually they will be blankets...probably in about four years when I get around to it.

So no one in my family has supported these little poofs; we'll see if you jump on their bandwagon as well.  I saw this on Pinterest and tried to recreate it.  I like mine, but they are not as cute as the ones in the picture.  They must have used something other than tulle...ideas?  And I tried cutting them with curved edges, but they don't look any different.  I'm pretty sure Johnny still thinks I just threw tutus on the beds.

The chair was a Craigslist find back when we were pregnant with Lila, and the cute flower table was my sister's.  My aunt crocheted the gorgeous pink blanket for Olive.

I planned to do more tissue paper flowers, but that never happened either. Almost as cute as what my cousin did in her daughter's room.

Still using the same teeth marked crib that was a fabulous Craigslist find.  Lila has figured out how to climb into it, so she likes to climb in and bounce Olive.

The Boo Boo likes it too.

The girls' dress up collection is quite extensive.  They're using my old dress up box that my grandmother got me as well as all my old dance recital costumes because I was such an amazing dancer.

We took the doors off of the closet so that we could fit a dresser in there, and I am still happy that we did it.  I'm not sure how long we will be able to fit both girls' clothes in there, though.

The girls also have all of my old Madame Alexander dolls on display.  I once caught Johnny explaining to Lila that the ones on the left were wearing such weird dresses because they were from another country.  They are Little Women dolls.

And here's my favorite part of the girls' room, their little book nook.  The only problem is that now Lila is starting to try to climb up the shelves to get to books she wants on the top.  I wrote in an older post how to do the gutter shelves.  It's super easy, and they hold a lot, but I think you could do something similar with baskets or Ikea shelves for a little bit cheaper.  Gutters ain't cheap, yo.

So in the end, I'm happy with how the girls' room turned out.  Johnny couldn't understand why I was doing a post on it because he said I just rearranged stuff.  But I'm pleased with my rearranging, and I hope that eventually we'll get both girls to actually sleep in there together without waking each other and subsequently us up.

Happy Weekend!

Baby Caleb's Nursery

Earlier, my friend Danielle let me post about her older son's room, but Danielle is lucky enough to have two adorable little boys, so today I wanted to show you seven month old Caleb's room.  And if he didn't already live in here, I would totally move in.  The grey, navy, and green color scheme is perfect!

I love Caleb's grey crib.  He has to have a breathable bumper like Olive so that his arms and legs don't get stuck in the slats, but Olive also taught him how to untie the bows to suck on the ties, so take that Mom!  The cute prints above the bed are from Etsy and once again, Danielle had them matted and then framed them. So cute.

I love the darker grey accent wall.  I'm always tempted to do a whole room one bold color, but we've all seen how that goes.  And if you scroll up to the first picture, she used the accent paint on the trim of his closet.  Such a good idea.  And these navy curtains, that I'm planning to steal the next time they are out of town, are from Target.

Such a sweet little rocker, and I love the navy iron table.

I've talked before about using gutter shelves for books, but Danielle got these little wooden bookshelves from Ikea.  They are definitely cheaper than the gutter ones that I did, and I like them almost more.  I'm planning to pick some up next week for our living room when the big ol' Kansas Ikea opens.  Ninety-nine cent breakfast here I come! And they have free baby food.  Olive's going to be dining in style.  Heck, I might start feeding Lila baby food again.

I absolutely love using book illustrations as artwork throughout my house, so I love that Danielle used poems from Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends in Caleb's room.  She couldn't find navy frames anywhere that she liked, so she bought some cheap ones and spray painted them navy.

Such a great little room for such a great little guy!

Lila's First Day of Preschool!

Wipe your tears, folks! Yesterday was Lila's first day of preschool!

She was so excited!

She even got to use her frog umbrella, making it one of her favorite days in her whole short life.  You may notice a change in shoes between this picture and the last.  Lila extremely detests wearing tennis shoes (or sneakers or gym shoes or whatever, depending on what state you live in) but decided to suck it up and put them on about three minutes before we walked out the door.  That does not mean, however, that she didn't throw a fit about thirty minutes into preschool where they had to go find my mom, who happens to work there, so that she could reason with Lila that she should keep her tennis shoes ON until nap time when she would be allowed to take them off.  Hey, I say between 9 and 2, she's their problem.

We love preschool!

So much that she didn't even say hi to me when I came to pick her up.  Maybe I'll just drop her off at the curb next week.

Baby Kate's Grey and Pink Nursery

I'm so excited to share Baby Kate DeStigter's room with you today! (Or as Lila calls her, "Baby CAKE!!!")  Kate's mommy, Sandra, decided early on on a pink and grey elephant theme, and it turned out so absolutely adorable.  And the nice thing about choosing something specific early on is that people gave her things to fit the theme all throughout her pregnancy.  She was even able to reuse baby shower decorations in the room.  Thrifty.

Alrighty, so the adorable decal above the crib is from Etsy.

And all the cute white furniture is from Pottery Barn Kids.

We kept losing Lila when we were at their house.  I would send Johnny looking for her, and he would just some down and say, "She's riding an elephant."  So I guess she liked this toy.

Here are some of the decorations that Sandra reused from one of her showers.  Such a cute idea.

Isn't that bow holder adorable? And a crocheted stuffed elephant? Please.  Too cute.

The paint color is French Gray by Sherwin Williams.  And in googling it, I have confirmed that I usually use the British spelling of "grey."  I might just have to start using more British words like colour instead of color and biscuit instead of cookie and chips instead of french fries.  I think this might catch on.

The cute pink sheets are also Pottery Barn.

Such a cute little girl's room!  Thanks for letting me sneak in, Sandra! And for letting Lila ride your elephant that she is probably way too big for!

Olive's Seven Month Photo

Olive's mom finally got her act together and took her seven month pictures!

She is looking very snazzy in her Luluboo merch.

Olive is crawling now; almost three months ahead of when big sister did.  So that means everything on the floor is ending up in Olive's mouth.  Not that there's anything on my floor...other than peas, hair, dust, pieces of rug that Olive has ripped off, broken macarons, crackers, etc.  It also means that she tries to crawl into spaces where she doesn't fit...like the two inches between the refrigerator and the wall.  That one made her pretty mad.  At least she's pretty.