Amara's room

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Eric and I had SO much fun decorating Amara's room (in EVERYTHING Ikea) before we got here, and we STILL have fun adding to it, any chance we get. We've been "meaning to" get those "my room" shots for her baby book for well, over a year now, so I finally straightened it up a bit and took a few.

It is a small room, and there is a LOT of stuff in there, but we know she really loves her room, and so do we. She plays in there any chance she can get, and I've never seen a kid who will voluntarily play in her bed for 1/2 an hour or so, with us sitting on the floor next to her, just because she loves playing in her BED so much.

Special note(s): the grass on the wall--we are SO very proud of Eric's artistic side. We saw this idea at Ikea about 2 years ago, and wanted to recreate it, and boy did he ever! Not only is it awesome, but it's even BETTER than what we originally saw--and goes PERFECT in her room. ALSO, this was NOT her original rocking chair--basically, the one we had was from mom and dad, and had been repaired a "few" times--over the years. One day, one of the back supports snapped, in a place it had been broken before, so we set out on a quest.

The art above Amara's crib was my Mother's Day present. It's a jungle scene from one of my favorite artists, Charles Fazzino. I love it!

We looked at rocking chairs from Plain City to Lancaster, online and in stores. We FINALLY chose this one, which I believe, MIGHT have been the very first one we sat in, once we started looking. Other than that, the room is still in original state.

Lastly, the mobile above her changing table was another Ikea idea--and probably one of our most fond moments from the early days of Amara. Eric started saying "Amara's here!" to the animals as he'd spin them for her. She started smiling and laughing each time he'd do it, and I'm sure we did it HUNDREDS of times before it "wore out its' welcome."

OH--one more thing. The white dresser was Grandma & Grandpa Harmon. It started off brown, but with some white paint, and new fun animal drawer pulls, it has a new life, with old roots. It's gotten a TON of use, and fits great into her (ever bulging) closet.