the grand tour

In my last post, where I wrote about a typical day's schedule lately, I forgot to add the various points in the day when I spend time walking around the baby's room, doing nothing in particular. So let's go on a tour, shall we?

Here's the bookcase, only one shelf of which is actually devoted to pregnancy, parenting, and baby books. Most of them came from my niece and nephew, a few are new, and surprisingly, quite a few came from our own collection. I never realized we had so many children's books.


Here's a basket we received as part of a shower gift that now holds all the stuffed animals, again, some of which come from our own pre-baby collection (I figured we should keep them all together, for now at least). We have several of these hanging-down kind of stuffed animals, some with mirrors, that I'm not really sure what to do with. Besides the handle on the car seat, where else do these things ideally go?


Aw, my favorite - opening the drawers of the dresser/changing table to look at the baby clothes inside.


I like to call this part of the nursery the dirty corner, home to a variety of different sized diapers, the diaper pail, and the dirty clothes hamper. It's also temporarily home to the not so dirty baby mat that I can't wait to try tummy time on (well, not me, but you know what I mean...Actually, I am looking forward to enjoying my own tummy time again, after avoiding laying on my belly or back for nine months now!).


And rounding out the corner with the crib and car seat/snap 'n' go. Note the hangy-down rattle toys here, too. These are so long; I worry they'll swing in the car and hit him in the face. What do people do with these things?