A Nursery Project and the First Special Deliveries for LZog

As anyone who has talked with me for more than ten minutes realizes, I am a person of many projects. Even though I have only today wrapped up the final edits to the dissertation for submission to the thesis office, I have several somethings at various stages of progress in preparation for LZog. Hats, leg warmers, blankets, newborn gowns - all begun but very few finished. Though my focus has mostly settled on wearables,  it seems one of the first questions anyone asks (following "When are you due?" and "Is it a boy or a girl?") involves the theme of the nursery.

Theme??? I find it funny to respond with something like: "Sure! The theme is 'This is where LZog will sleep, along with some guitars and other random stuff that won't fit in a closet.'" Most people - women AND men, I should add -  have not shared my cavalier attitude on the matter.

In fairness, I should explain that we do have a couple of factors that prevent us from adopting a whole hog approach to decorating. First, of course, we do not know how much longer we will stay in this house. It does not make sense to emblazon the walls with jungle murals only to have to paint over it in the next six months. Second, which bothers other people more than it does us, we have decided not to discover or divulge the sex/gender of LZog. According to any baby store and many people who have had babies, this is the deciding factor in how one decorates a nursery. Nonsense, I say.

While I have refrained from fully capitulating to slathering a theme all over the nursery, I have developed a couple of ideas that I plan to incorporate into LZog's room. The one of which I am most proud involves creating an area dedicated to baby photos of the immediate family. Not only will this keep the family close, but we will also see: from whom exactly did LZog acquire that nose/eyes/hair/expression? We think there lies a contest in this as well - whoever LZog favors most wins the privilege of a year of diaper changing, courtesy of LZog . . .  Maybe?

So far our quest for photos has proven successful, but we have a few more to collect before I begin organizing them.

In other baby news, yesterday LZog received their first special delivery! Aunt DBom and Uncle GBom (a branch of the Missouri Zogs) sent the adorable Snugabunny Bouncer, to encourage a restful LZog, and a Banana Brush (toothbrush), to help keep LZog's teeth clean. Thank you, thank you!

XO,
JZog
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