Baby Hutson's Room Before and After

After much fuss and tado, Baby Hutson's room is officially complete! And by complete I mean it has everything except a crib, a rocking chair, and the book illustrations on the wall that I talked about here.  Oh yeah, and a baby.

Here's the room before:



And now:

The rocking chair is going to go in this corner along with the children's book illustrations that I am in the process of thinking about framing.

Where all of Baby Hutson's clothes live:

So tiny! He/she already has quite a collection.

And finally, the crib is going to go to the right of the bed, kind of where that cow is hanging out.

Just a little update: Baby Hutson is currently at 29.5 weeks.  Thirty-seven weeks is officially considered full term where bags have to be packed and ready to go, so we're only seven and a half short weeks away from that. If he/she comes early, Baby Hutson could possibly be a leap day baby.

I had to go get more maternity clothes yesterday because I've grown out of all the maternity shirts that I originally purchased.  I'm thinking I'll just stay inside for the next two months.

So Long Science

This week I worked on stripping the science wallpaper border off of the baby's room.  It's finally done and ready to be painted!  Hopefully I'll have results to post next week.

Baby Hutson's Room

Now that the living room is underway, I'm starting to figure out what I'm going to do in Baby Hutson's room.  You might remember it as looking like this:

The walls are going to be some kind of light, non-pastelish green by Sherwin Williams  But the thing that I am most concerned about right now is my plan for decorating.  I want to have illustrations from nine different children's books framed and hung on the wall in a three frame by three frame square.  My plan is to either cut the illustrations out and frame them (which I have done before) or attempt to make high quality color copies of them and then frame them...that way they could all be the same size and I don't have to ruin nine books.  So if you have experience doing that, let me know.

Here are the book options that I have so far:

Curious George by H.A. Ray

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile by Bernard Waber

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

by Judith Viorst

 Babar by Jean de Brunhoff 

(I have this one in French from Paris.)

 Corduroy by Don Freeman

 Flotsam by David Wiesner

 Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

 If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

 Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

 Olivia by Ian Falconer

 The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

 Miss Nelson is Missing! by James Marshall

 Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban

These books are compiled from books that I enjoyed as a kid, books that I've enjoyed while babysitting more recently, and also books that I became acquainted with in Children's Literature at Wheaton.  Am I missing any?  Do you have favorites?  I have to narrow it down to nine.  Help!