The Monkey's Room

 I have a new favorite room in our house.  It is green, taupe, pink, and filled with Monkies.  It belongs to our "Little Monkey"-Carly.  Now that Christmas is over, I am trying to find where I am going to place all of her new toys and yes...more monkies.  Some people ask me, why monkies?  Well, first of all, what monkey isn't cute?and babies are fun to call "Little Monkies".  I also thought about Peanuts as people sometimes call their babies Little Peanut, but where can you find a bed set with pictures of peanuts?  I guess we could have gone the Charlie Brown route, following the Peanuts theme, but I am very glad we stuck with monkies.  

Decorating a baby nursery is fun.  I don't care who you are.  Whether you are looking for wall colors, bedding or pictures.  Pictured here is a mural that our friend Lisa painted. (Her husband Jason is rocking one of our monkies to sleep). Now that Carly is getting older, it is fun to watch how she laughes and giggles at the monkey tree when we are nursing.

Since we would be spending a lot of time in the monkey room, we picked neutral yet fun colors that either kind of "Little Monkey" would prefer.  We could later add the pinks or blues.  Furniture was probably the most difficult to find as Bismarck-Mandan lacks in baby furniture options.  Target has it going on as it is the only place in town for baby registration and offers the largest variety for furniture options and most anything for baby. One furniture store did have a crib, but it was crazy expensive.  Some great local places for monkies and other fun themes include:
Hobby Lobby-Letters
K-mart-Bedding
Target-Furniture

We are always on the look out for new additions to our little jungle.  We also love our fun monkey gifts from friends and family.  We found some cute monkies at a boutique in Medora this past summer and even Cracker Barrel has some goofy things we've added. 

We hope our little girl, I mean "Little Monkey" likes her room as she grows and we can keep this theme for awhile.  It won't be long and she won't be our "Little Monkey" anymore.  Who knows who or what we will be painting or hanging from the walls?-As long as it literally isn't our "Little Monkey" we should be good.

Are you expecting?Want some nursery ideas?  Vist thebump.com at http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnancy/nursery-ideas.aspx; HGTV at http://www.hgtv.com/topics/nursery/index.html; or Parents.Com at http://www.parents.com/baby/nursery/