Link's Pond Nursery and Meo's Forest Big Brother Room

We've finished getting the boys bedrooms ready at this point and wanted to share the end results. First, Link's nursery:

He has a thermal, black out curtain to keep the room warm and dark, just like we have in the other bedrooms.

Link now has Meo's bureau (which was Robbie's when he was little). The painting on the wall is one of Monet's Waterlily's; one of my favorite paintings.

I found these great posters about Maine ecology for very inexpensive. Link has one about amphibians and one about turtles in his room.

Link acquired Meo's white cubby as it suited his room better. It is important to us that his toys and books are low and accessible to him.

This was Meo's crib. We set it up just in case Link will use it on occasion, or as a safe place to put him down if I need to attend to Meo or something. Meo hardly used his crib, but it was nice to have if I had to run to the bathroom or something...he loved looking at the mobile (for a few minutes at least hehe).

A lot of the stuff in Link's room was Meo's when he was a baby, but all the new turtle bedding, wall hangings and stuff like that were genrously purchased for us by our family. Thank you so much for helping us to make Link's room perfect; we feel so spoiled.

Meo's room has changed a little bit too through the process of preparing for Link.

Since Link has Meo's bureau, I gave Meo my bureau (which was originally my mother's when she was a little girl), and purchased a bureau for myself from a friend. So while it seems like we have a lot of new furniture, a lot of it is in fact very, very old. Meo also has a couple Maine ecology posters: birds of the forest and mammals of Maine.

Since we used Meo's mattress in Link's crib, we had to get Meo a bigger mattress. And since we still lay in bed next to him to put him to bed at night, we decided to get a twin mattress so we would be more comforable. Robbie may end up sleeping with Meo at night sometimes depending on how well Link sleeps at night, so it's nice to have a big, comfy bed for our Meosaur. The mattress we chose for him doesn't have any chemicals in it, is dual-sided, waterproof, and eco-friendly (Sopora Delux Twin Mattress). We obviously had to get him new sheets and a comforter too since the crib sized ones wouldn't fit anymore. Meo also has a Monet poster on his wall now as we feel it is important to have a least one important work of art in each of their rooms (The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest).

We got Meo a wooden shelf unit to replace the white one we gave to Link.

And we finally put glowing stars up on Meo's ceiling. This is something I planned on doing before Meo was even born, but we never got around to it. We arranged the stars in the shape of his birth constellation: Leo. We will do the same for Link with the left over stars, but we have to wait until we know what his birth constellation is going to be. It's difficult to see in a photograph, but here are Meo's stars.

I think Meo is quite comfortable in his big boy room, and he enjoys spending time in his baby brother's room as well. Here is Meo sitting on his big boy bed with the little chipmunk he started sleeping with a couple weeks ago.