"Harry Potter"

I forgot to actually post on here the gender of this baby! We held a gender reveal party at the end of May to find out by cutting into a cake with either blue or pink icing. The ultrasound technician wrote the gender down on paper for me and sealed it in an envelope for me to take to a cake maker.

.....It's a boy!!!!!

We are so thrilled to have another little boy join our family! I'm going to be a bit over run, seeing as the only other female in the house is my diva little guinea pig!

I'm so glad we get to have another boy, Gage has been so much fun. I actually don't think I'm cut out to handle girls, and all the drama that comes with them as teens. Boys are smelly and squish bugs and jump in dirt and eat things off the floor.... but I'm okay with all that!

Stuart and I decided to not reveal the name we've decided on for this baby until he is born. It started off as a joke, but then once we saw how much it drove my parents crazy, we decided to continue with the torture. We are huge readers in our house, and huge Harry Potter fans. I've been reading them since I was really young and grew up with the series. The name we picked is actually a character's name in the book, though not a main role. We've of course heard it other places as well, but originally we both read the name in HP. Because of this, this unborn little boy is now referred to as "Harry Potter" by all our relatives!

We also decided to decorate the nursery in a Harry Potter theme. Not the "disney" version with life size HP stickers on the walls, but tastefully. We are going to make it look like a little wizard really resides in the room! I've put some ideas together and I'm so excited to put it all together as a whole. The walls will be painted a neutral cream colour with the exception of the one wall where the crib will be. That wall will have wide vertical stripes painted in the neutral cream, and a little darker yellow. It won't be a huge standout thing, and the room is small, it's just to showcase the crib itself. We plan on stenciling onto the wall above the crib "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" and underneath "Mischief Managed!" (only HP fans will know what that means!).

My mom is going to help me with a quilt that we'll make from scratch for the crib. It's going to have all HP items on it. Snitches, owls, lions, the Deathly Hallows symbol etc with all the Hogwarts House colours and little lightning bolts in the corners.

I've started to put together a little hand made mobile. It will hang from the ceiling, with a cross piece of 2 sticks painted gold and hanging down will be antique keys (I just got them from ebay last week!) and attached to each key will be red and gold ribbon (Gryiffindor house colours) and small cards with spells from the books written on each one to twirl around.

We plan on finding an old lamp (my mom has part of one we can use) for on the dresser, and we are going to get a dark wood crib and I've been looking on Kijiji for an old antique dark wood dresser. My mom and I are also going to make red and gold curtains too.

I have some other small ideas that I might add later, but for the most part that is the base of the room!!
I'll make sure to post before and after pictures, I can't wait to show it off!

I'll try to update the blog more often too, I find it really therapeutic to write here when I'm having a bad day. There's no way I can keep these pregnant hormones all to myself!




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