Hello! It’s been a bit so I thought I’d pop by to say hi. As you might imagine, we’ve been grounded for quite a few weeks now while we wait for our baby boy to make his grand entrance. Which, by the way, should be scary soon — tomorrow marks 39 weeks, so we have at most about two weeks left. Whaaaaaaaaaat.

First, on the travel front: We already have plans to spend Chris’ leave mapping out the rest of the year for our new family of five, which will include a return to the US to see family sometime this summer. Woohoo! Also on my hopeful list: Austria, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Croatia and Thailand. We’ll see how it goes =-).

In the meantime, I thought I’d share some pictures of our finally (mostly) completed travel-themed nursery! Back story: we put a lot of thought into Owen and Fiona’s nurseries when I was pregnant with them. For this one, we thought we’d be less obsessive about it, given that we are living in a rental and didn’t plan on doing much painting or anything. I honestly thought we wouldn’t get real worked up about it.

Turns out, we couldn’t help ourselves. So, a travel-themed nursery it was!

I fell in love with these prints from Etsy, then spent literally days trying to decide which cities to go with. We wound up with, from left to right, Dublin, Berlin and Amsterdam. The first two are two of our favorite cities, and the third was just so pretty I had to have it.

For various reasons, we actually came to Sicily with two cribs in tow. We ended up deciding to use Fiona’s because the white would pop better against the blue. We also snagged this fun passport-stamp crib sheet from Etsy. Elephant was a gift from a dear friend.

This wall decal was also from Etsy, and it sat in the nursery for a couple weeks because I was scared I’d mess it up (as various school projects have shown lately, I am NOT GOOD AT CRAFTY THINGS). Luckily some sweet friends gave us a hand to make sure it got up there properly! The chair, by the way, was from Owen’s nursery back in Indiana. So, new baby gets something from each of them!

The dresser was actually part of our bedroom set, but since it doesn’t fit in our room it got repurposed into the baby’s dresser as well. The rug and the Kensington Station clock are both from a cute shop over here called Maison du Monde, while the globe was a Christmas present from Chris’ mom that we realized fit in perfectly in this room!

The Boppy pillow has always been my favorite, most-used piece of baby equipment, but its old cover was looking a bit rough after six years and one international move. I picked up this travel-themed boppy cover (which has soft navy-blue minky fabric on the other side) from, no surprises here, Etsy.

We opted against curtains in the room because the door has very effective and easy-to-use shutters, which made curtains fairly pointless. I do want to possibly add one more piece of art to the corner near the chair, but I haven’t found anything I’m in love with yet so that’s on hold. (Also, hanging things here can be a bit challenging).

So, that’s it for now! It is a little less elaborate than our other nurseries, but I’m absolutely in love with it. And relieved that blue wall came out as I hoped!

Lastly, for those of you asking about this boy’s name: he doesn’t have one yet! We never made a decision on a name until we meet our babies anyway, but narrowing it down this time has definitely been more challenging. In the last six years we’ve met a LOT of baby boys, plus now any name we select needs to sort of “fit in” with Owen and Fiona’s names. So, everybody please cross your fingers that this boy comes out with a name tag!