This weekend we put a few more finishing touches on Griffin’s room. I sewed up a window valance from the same fabric that I used for the crib skirt, and I’m very happy with how it turned out. The animal print fabric was on clearance at fabric.com and it works really well with our vague jungle-animal-and-pirate theme. I still have a bunch left, and I’m planning on making a few more decorative things with it.

Here’s how the room is looking, viewed from the door. We had a great time putting up the jungle animal wall decals this past week, and we’re expecting the pirate decals to arrive this week. The room definitely is a little sparse right now, but there’s plenty of wall space for adding a dresser, bookshelves, etc later on. We also want to add a glider before the baby arrives.

Here’s the other corner of the room. We decided that the cool giant bird kite that Greg gave me as a gift some years back would be great in here as a decoration. (Mom, your afghan’s not on hanging the crib any more because it’s packed in the overnight bag to keep the Grifflet warm on the ride home.) That storage unit currently holds all of the baby clothes, diapers and diaper covers, extra blankets, swaddling wraps, etc. We figure we’ll end up buying a dresser eventually, and Griffin can use the cloth bins to hold his toys and things later on.

We found these crib sheets with jungle animals on clearance at Target, and they fit in great.

And lastly, here’s me at 9 months pregnant. 36 weeks, 6 days. I am HUUUUUGE. I have never weighed this much in my entire life. You don’t really realize how big you are until you see a side-on picture of yourself. Yikes.

One thing I’m finding as I’m making things for Griffin is that there’s a severe lack of knitting and sewing patterns for boys’ clothes. If we were having a girl, there would be more adorable patterns for skirts, dresses, pantaloons, tunics, pinafores, leggings, etc etc than I could possibly make in a lifetime. There is diddly squat out there for boys. 🙁 I may just have to concentrate on stuff like sewn/knitted toys and play costumes for him as he gets older.