In the late 2000s I kept a personal mom blog called Nest Bliss. I reviewed books, wrote about the house and the girls, and was even in the Wall Street Journal. These posts are from then: light, young, a mom in her late twenties. I have edited them to stand on their own.
So a few weeks ago I chose a name for my new baby girl! After MUCH thought I have decided on : Lilly Emma Lane
The way Ava says 'baby lilly' is so ridiculously cute and maybe even part of the reason I love it :) I don't have any real reason for choosing Lilly other than I just like it - the spelling is the same as the logo for Lilly Pulitzer (clothing line) such a cute logo!
I liked Emma also but a little to close to my nieces name for a first name I thought ;) Emma is also one of my favorite characters from Jane Austen. Also, I picked out some new baby bedding for Lilly - o.k.
so I knew what the baby bedding would be before I knew if I had a girl...BUT I am really sure about it now! It is Maria's Flowers from Land of Nod designed by artist Maria Carluccio .
on yellow
on red
on pink
on purple Just different enough from Ava's bedding to be fun and new but still very girly and quilted and toddler friendly too. I think I will just go with a twin quilt this time because I know that most likely Lilly will be in a twin trundle bed before two (her room is smaller than Ava's so she won't be able to do a full bed like Ava has ). Also, I never used Ava's baby quilt for anything other than hanging on the side of her crib. The other thing I am debating about is the bumper because I had to take it out of Ava's crib at about 7 months when she started pulling up on the crib's sides and then using the bumper to stand on. I think a great thrifty idea for a nursery if you are watching the $$ is to splurge on or register for a twin size quilt you totally love and hang it folded on the side of the crib and then buy the sheets, bumper, and skirt from somewhere inexpensive like Target in coordinating colors or prints. You can use the twin quilt for a long, long time even when your child moves to a larger bed. So what do you like the best on yellow, on red, on purple, or on pink? It will be white on the top with a white chair rail so I need to pick one of these colors for under the chair rail!