Sentimental Feelings

Last night I re-organized John's little clothes into plastic bins to be put away. I finally took down all of his nursery crib bedding and Kyle and I adjusted the crib mattress height to it's highest setting. It was a little sad removing all of the twinkle twinkle stuff, his quilt on the wall, and his cute little blue crib sheets with white stars. I am very sentimental about "things" and there was something sad about removing all the little "things" that have been in place since Baby John Thomas first came into our lives. There will never be another baby just like him.

But I'll tell you what REALLY made me sad the other day:

When John and I would read his bedtime story in his old room, we'd see a moon or stars in the book and he would point to the wall where his quilt was hanging and show me that his quilt has a moon and stars too. Well, the other day we read a book in his big boy room and came across a moon and he immediately pointed to the wall saying "moon" and then he looked at me confused and turned his palms up like "where's that thing on the wall with the moon and stars?" Ugh! That was sad--for me. John didn't seem to care too much past that....but it bothered me a little....

But of course I'm excited about little Anna Maye too. I needed to replace my sadness last night with something happy so, even though it was 12 AM, I put the crib-set ensemble I made on the crib. I've been waiting to see the whole thing put together for months. The room still needs to be painted but I couldn't resist taking pictures.

Sorry the pictures are so dark but the flash made the fabric look completely awful so I turned it off.