After months of dreaming, arranging, rearranging, thinking, planning, quilting, painting, ordering, tying and doing a bit of shopping, I've finally got Wes's room the way I like it. We moved the dresser and mirror far too many times, leaving gaping holes in the walls. I would like to one day cover the chair and get a bit more gender neutral rug but for now they blend well and suit the purpose. And what room would be complete without a baby! Wes is in the crib in these pictures. On the last day of arranging his room, he rode around in the crib adoringly watching his mobile as I shifted it about several times.
The animal alphabet cards were the inspiration for almost everything in the room - paint, curtains, sheets, quilt, dust ruffle, etc. - bought them even before we started the adoption process. I hadn't bought any baby things in the then 3 1/2 years of waiting. That was a particularly sad day and somehow these made me smile and encouraged me not to give up hope so I broke down and bought them. I just put them in a drawer in this room for months. Eventually from these came first the paint color - the room was also painted before knowing about Wes and with the idea of it being a good color for an adult guest room which is what this room was before Wes came to us, and also that it could possibly be a good neutral baby room color. As I look back now, I am not sure how it could work for a girl. I guess God put it in my head there would be a boy before I knew it!
The animal cards were a jumping off point for colors for the quilt I made - which I also started before we knew about Wes but after the adoption paperwork was completed. I had thought about it for months before starting on it. Somehow after all the paperwork was finished, I felt the freedom to go ahead with making it even though we thought it would be many months or even years before we had a baby. I so enjoyed picking out the fabrics and the design. Surprise! Wes came about three weeks after I started putting it together! In our Iphotos, the pictures of the finished quilt top are the last set of photos before Wes came! I finally finished the quilt when he was about 4 months old. It is a bit big for him now. We sometimes use it as a blanket for him for playing on the floor. He'll probably start using it for real when he's a toddler. 
These pictures have a two different quotes - the one on the left is a prayer I made out of Ps 92:12 which says, "Lord, may Wesley be a righteous man, flourishing like the palm tree and may he grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, may he flourish in your courts. We pray he will still yield fruit in old age,that he will be full of sap and very green, declaring, 'The Lord is upright, He is my Rock and there is no unrighteousness in Him.'" The one on the right says, "Hope shall change to glad fruition; Faith to sight and prayer to praise." It is a verse from a hymn called, Jesus, I my cross have taken.
This is what the room roughly looked like, kind of, before Wes came, except that the fan was installed in the ceiling and we had a few things on the walls.
