Liam and Gibson: Liam's In Between Room

I can't really call it a nursery, and it's not yet a big boy room. It's somewhere in between, I suppose.

Before Liam was born, we planned to have a nursery for him like most parents do. I knew how I wanted to decorate it and what the color scheme would be. We moved into a new apartment what turned out to be less than a month before he was born. So of course, the nursery did not get done before we brought him home. That wasn't a big deal. We were planning on having Liam in our room the first couple of months anyway. Around the time he was 2.5 months old, his nursery was still not ready for him and we weren't ready to be so far away from him at night. That's when we moved his crib into our bedroom (Liam had been sleeping in a pack and play bassinet). Months went by with the intention of cleaning out his room (it became our catch all room) and moving his crib and him into it. But we never really had a desire to give up our roommate. Sure, there were times when we wished Liam was in his own room, but I guess the desire was never big enough for us to actually take action to get his room ready. Then before we knew it, we were planning another move to a different apartment. That's when we decided it wasn't worth the effort to clean out the room and it wasn't worth it to put Liam through two transitions.

We moved into our current apartment when Liam turned 11 months old. We had bought a new mattress for our bed, but still had our old one. The first week we were here, Will was out of town for most of it. Since the bedrooms are across the apartment from each other, I knew I wanted to be near Liam for at least that first week. The movers put his crib into his new room, not ours, so we put our old mattress on the floor in his new room with the intention of sleeping there the first week. As it often does, time got away from us and we ended up sleeping in his room for almost a month...on a mattress on the floor, even though our perfectly good new mattress and bed were in our room.

Finally, on Liam's birthday, May 14th, Will and I just simply went to bed in our own bedroom instead of Liam's. We turned the monitor on, and thankfully everyone made it through the night just fine. Liam never even woke up! His first birthday seemed like a good day to go our separate ways.

Since then, we've all adjusted well to our new sleeping situation. Liam has woken up a few nights, but it's not too bad having to walk across the apartment to him. I think we all sleep better being in separate rooms. We sold our old mattress a few days after his birthday, so now we can't sleep in there even if we wanted to!

I know most people wouldn't dream about spending the whole first year of their child's life sharing a room with them, but there are plenty of other people who do and go way beyond a year. For us, a year was just right.

So now that Liam has his own room, I finally decorated it! I used the decorations friends made for it before he was even born. It felt good to finally get all of it up! I love his room. I think I will eventually put more on the walls, but I think it's good for right now!