Nursery Themes and such

We decided to go with a gender-neutral nursery theme even though we know that we are having Alexandra rather than a boy. The bedding is called "CoCaLo Alphabet Soup." Here is a almost decent picture of the entire theme line. We are only going to get a couple of the items so Lexie's room won't be quite so overwhelming as it might appear.

Mark and I have already purchased the actually bedding set and those cute wall hangings as well as registering for a couple of other pieces to go along with them. I just love how bright and cheerful it is and I won't have any trouble finding things to match since there is pretty much every color in the rainbow present!

We have pretty much finished the baby registry thing too! I decided that this was even more fun that registering for our wedding...I mean, come on. How exciting can Tupperware really get? I think Mark liked this better too since he didn't have to come along. Mom and Emma were my register partners and may I tell you that Emma ROCKS at figuring out those gun/scanner things! Mom was absolutely essential for me, too. How else would I have known how many bottles and such I will need? Thanks Ladies! We are registered at Babies-R-Us as well as Target.

With the thought of making room for all of the fun baby gear, I have been getting to work clearing out the nursery. Right now that room is kind of the household junk room...Filled with everything from piles of papers to be filed, to off-season clothes that don't fit in the closet to the boxes of my stuff that I have yet to unpack even though I have lived here for over 2 and 1/2 years...Most of this stuff will end up getting tossed or put into a garage sale pile. What's left gets to be packed into storage.

This week I finished organizing the room that it is all moving into and have gotten about 10% of the "junk" relocated. My hope is to have it empty by the end of the weekend so I can clean the walls and Mark can fill in the hundreds of pin holes that his old renters left behind. Mom, Emma and Grandma have kindly offered to come over in a couple of weeks to help with the painting so hopefully the room will be ready for baby stuff come June. I can't wait!