I hate it when I read my last post and I’m all whiney.  I apologize about that.  How horrible it is to read things like, “Damn, I’m all healthy and crap and now this baby is moving according to HIS schedule and not MINE?”  Yes, it’s pretty horrible.

I’m still exhausted today, but I’m going to focus instead on the fun things of childbirth.  Like home decor.

So we decided on a Seuss theme many moons ago, before we even knew gender.  We did this because Bryan and I both grew up on the crack that is Dr. Seuss (we even had the same favorite stories: The Sneetches and The Lorax), and when Bryan was courting me, he would often read me Seuss by candlelight.  It was fitting our child should be tortured similarly.

Since we are in a house that we don’t own, we were kind of limited as to what we could do to transform a room without drastically altering it.  Oh, and I hate painting. 

So I found this wonderful nursery set online:

And was totally psyched!  It was only $309.

Um, screw that.

So I started looking for a simpler version.  I figured aiming for black, white, and red would be easier.  I found and fell in love with this set online:

Which Bryan said was dull.  So I offered to do some of my own handiwork to it, by removing most of the black bows and adding bright red ones instead and adding Seuss stuff as I saw fit.

This one?  Only $170.  Screw that, x2.  So I engaged in an eBay bidding war the other day and won a set for $60!! (Plus shipping.) Considering the other price options, I’m thrilled.

Now we’re on to the rest of the room.  I’m still looking for a full size bedset that will compliment this theme for the bed that we’re keeping in there, and Bryan borrowed an opaque projector that will help us provide wall-art.  Sudie et al also sent us great ideas for stickable, removable quotations that we may use around the room.  My goal is to not have a seven foot tall Cat in the Hat, but instead use his background art to create a Seuss environment.  I want a signpost that has Solla Sollew, Prairie of Praxx, and whatever beaches it was the the Sneetches lived on.  I want Truffula trees, swanny swans, and random fish. 

I want those because my FAVORITE book as a child (and I mean, a YOUNG child) was One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish because the illustrations were so completely vivid, but the storyline was so generic.  So I made up my own storylines.  I want that for Tony.

(Oh, and if you haven’t already, you have to see the Thneed that Kari made.  It is so incredibly fabulous.)

So does anyone else have ideas for a Seuss nursery?