Getting Ready for Baby Brother

So I am obviously behind once again in updating this blog.  I planned to make this post before baby brother was born.... but that didn't happen.  Anyway, here goes.  I will slowly but surely get this blog back up to date.

We worked hard to change our guest room (code for junk room) into a nursery.  Teddy, of course, wanted to help.  Here are some "before" shots of the room. 

First Shae painted the room.  Then I added a brown border:

We finally got all of the old furniture moved out.  Then the fun began.   

First I added stars:

And some animals:

Teddy was excited to help:

More fun for Shae; he got to assemble the crib:

Finally we got all of the furniture in and I really got to have fun.  Here are some "after" shots of the room:

Shae painted this shelf for me, and then I added stars and a lion to it.  Also, you can't really see in the picture, but my mom made us a gorgeous needle point blanket with jungle animals on it.  It matches perfectly, and at the bottom has a mom lion with her cub:

Teddy's favorite part of the nursery, by far, are the lion curtain tie backs.  He also helped Shae assemble the bookshelf under the window:

Close up of above the crib:

I used scrapbook paper to make his name.  Then I had fun adding the wording.  I am not sure if you can read it above.  It says: "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight."  We are hoping by writing these words on his wall, baby brother will actually sleep well!

 My attempt at a painting is below:

Teddy loves baby brother's room. Maybe because it is new, or because he helped decorate it, or for some other reason, but often when Teddy is quiet and I realize I am not sure where he is- I can find him in Leo's room.   This is what I find:

He is rocking his baby "Herbert" in the chair.  He also loves to give her bottles, and put her in the crib.  He is practicing to be a great big brother!

I wanted to take a few pictures of Teddy and my belly while I was pregnant.  Good thing we took these on August 3rd before Teddy went to bed.  Who knew the next day my belly would be shrinking!