Lydia's Bedroom

Two weeks before Lydia was born this is what her bedroom looked like...

A month before Lydia was born this is what James office looked like...

So ummmmmm, needless to say all those beautifully decorated baby nurseries wasn't reality in Lydia's world. Infact our little girl was born into a very practical family. She came home to a bedroom with a crib (and mattress!!!!) and changing table. Her practical parents also decided to move and renovate a basement while being 8 months pregnant, so that is our excuse!

But anyway, we decided after one entire night of trying to feed the baby and get in and out of a big bed that we needed a rocking chair. So we bought a rocking chair for her room. Online - the only missing review for this rocking chair was that it was only comfortable for 10 minutes. 

Several weeks later, we realized that Lydia slept better in darkness. So in the middle of the night we found a big sheet and threw over her window. The next day, we decided that we should do something a little more permanent for curtains. I went back to the linen closet and found an old set of "blackout" curtains. We declared them PERFECT and James hung the perfect blue and yellow curtains. 

I eventually decided that we were keeping our little girl (hahaha) and maybe we should hang something on the walls for her. Make her room look less like we don't care. SO off to the store I went. Well, with a young infant who wanted to eat every couple hours I made it all the way to the DOLLAR STORE! Determined to find something cute I found some cute pink picture frames. Took me many many many weeks but eventually the stars and moon all aligned and there were pictures in the picture frames AND the pictures hanging on the wall. It was a miracle!!!!!! 

After Christmas, life settled down again and I was spending many hours in that rocking chair looking at the yellow walls that really needed some love. So I talked James into letting me paint the walls pink (he thought he was going to have to do it but I conquered!). And then I found the CUTEST little pink and brown polka dots stickers. They were adorable, so right over Lydia's bed they went. 

Her room actually looked like we cared! 

Lydia eventually started getting her legs stuck in the crib rails so I found her brown crib bumpers. Amazing - they actually kinda coordinated with her room! 

Her Gramma Mary even sent her a wall hanging that we transformed into a bow holder. It was a pale pink wall hanging so it matched ;)

Long story short, after 18 months Grandma Karen finally succeeded in talking Mom and Dad  into new blackout curtains that actually match her room. And look like a little girl (and they keep the light out even better than the original blackout curtains!!!!!!). 

Friday at 4:30 PM, I finally got the tie backs for her curtains. Started to take a picture of the masterpiece but we were going out to dinner. 

Saturday all day I was going to take a picture of the masterpiece. 

Saturday at 4:10, I discovered that my dear daughter has spent her afternoon nap time not sleeping but rather pulling the cute polka dots off of her wall... 

Yes, there was a punishment. Yes, the polka dots that survived the afternoon play date have been moved to a different wall. Yes, my daughter had a cute and fully decorated bedroom for approximately 24 hours... 

Moral of the story - decorating is really just not worth it ;)