xavier's room

for about a month now we have had xavier's room almost done. we are missing ONE thing. just one. its his crib quilt. it should have been done and here a couple of weeks ago but the person that made it for us ran into a problem getting part of it done. we dont have it yet but i do have a picture of it that will be posted.

in february we bought xavier's crib and changing table. jeremy put those together as soon as we got them so that was out of the way for when we decorated his room.

xavier's room theme is nintendo. his theme was very easy to decide on since jeremy is into video games and has been for most of his life. the first thing we made was a frame. we bought clay from our craft store and made a nintendo controller out of it. the frame itself we already had and i just painted it red. we are very happy with how it turned out.

 

as a present, shera bought us super mario bros wall decals to decorate xavier's room with. we were very excited about this because we werent exactly sure how we were going to make his room total nintendo, but with these, its awesome. the first thing we had to do was paint his room. on base they give out free paint. if you want to paint you have to agree to either paint it light enough to be covered by one coat of paint or if its too dark paint over it before you leave. they give a tub of white paint and then the dye of your choice and you mix it to whatever tone you want. we did blue for the sky. once we got the right tone jeremy started painting. since the room is pretty small it didnt take very long.

 

now we had to wait for the paint to cure. it said on the package for the decals that we should wait 2 weeks but i knew we couldnt wait that long! so a week later we decided it was good enough for jeremy to put the decals on. this was fun for both of us. jeremy scaled out on the computer how he wanted to do it on the wall. he was really accurate with his measurements and when he put them on the wall it was pretty much exact. it was awesome and i thought it was cute how jeremy really go into it.  i think overall it may have taken 2 hours to put the decals up.

we didnt have the room finished right away. it wasnt until after we had xavier that we got the remaining things (besides the quilt). so here is the room with everything in it.

the door to his room:

storage area for diapers, wipes, blankets, towels, burp clothes, ect:

glider:

wall, part 1:

wall, part 2:

wall, part 3:

just the crib:

just the changing table:

and the final thing we are waiting for, his quilt. the same person that made jeremy's triforce quilt made xavier's baby quilt. it took us the longest time to decide what character we wanted for it. we didnt know if we wanted to stay with mario or if we wanted to go with zelda or another nintendo game since his room is nintendo themed and not just mario. jeremy finally decided to go with a bad guy, a blue germ from doctor mario. we got the quilt embroidered with xavier's name on it as well. we like how it turned out and are just waiting for it to arrive! =)

so that is his room! we LOVE it!