Think Pink

With 10 days to go until the baby's arrival, we have been working on getting our act together over here. It is much more laid back the third time around, to say the least. We figure we have everything that we need for baby gear or will have plenty of time to go out and get it later. I asked Joe to pick up newborn diapers at the store last week, but he said "nah, I can just get them when the baby is born."

One area that has been getting a lot of effort is turning the nursery into a little girl's nursery. We are going with my friend Kaitlyn's advice to just go ahead and embrace pink. She said she initally tried to come up with a color scheme that was something other than pink when she was planning for the arrival of her twin girls but realized it was much easier in the end just to drink the kool-aid and do pink. She ended up painting her nursery walls Paris Pink, if I am remembering the color name correctly. And her girls' nursery is gorgeous.

This turned out to be good advice, and we are thinking pink over here. I made a trip to the local fabric store with my mother-in-law, who is a champion sewer and excited to be able to use pink after years of sewing and shopping for her own four boys. The results are pink infused curtains, rocker pillows and bed skirt, which I will post a photo of shortly. If you are wondering whether it looks like a Pepto Bismol bottle exploded in there, we tried to show some restraint and incorporated some yellow and green as well. We are well outside the territory of Shelby's wedding from the movie Steel Magnolias where her colors were blush and bashful, or for those who don't speak interior decorating, dark pink and light pink. Now I just have to convince Joe to help me hang some pink, yellow and green butterflies from the ceiling.

Even AJ is thinking pink. The other day when I asked him if he wanted to get his baby sister a gift, he came up with "I'll get her a pink toothbrush so that I can brush her teeth for her!" I started to explain that she won't have any teeth when she is born but the sentiment was so sweet that I just said "good idea!" And so this baby has a pink toothbrush waiting and ready for that first tooth.

I have also been picking up a few little girl clothes here and there. The funny thing is that when I had baby boys, I always thought the baby girl clothes were so much cuter (and they are), but while shopping I keep noticing how much more stylish all the little boy things seem to have gotten since I was shopping for baby clothes for AJ and Davey. As Joe will tell you, I managed to find enough cute baby girl clothes to do a little damage on that front as well.