Counting and ABC's and Nursery

Caden amazes me every day with how much he knows and how big he's getting.

Last night Michael, Caden and I were hanging out in the living room. Caden had taken all the pillows off the couch and was jumping into it from the couch. As he stood there he counted before he jumped off and said, "1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18!" and then leapt off the couch. Michael and I both stopped and asked him what he just said because up until this point we'd only heard him count to 10 and now he had added 3 more numbers. Now, granted 18 doesn't come after 12 and most of the time he skips #2 but STILL....counting that high at the age of 22 months. Crazy!!!! He is such a smart little boy. Occasionally he will say parts of the alphabet, "A, B, C, D....G, H, J...." and sing parts of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." It is so cute!

We've been thinking and looking on the internet a lot to try and figure out how we want to decorate the nursery for our baby girl and we think we've figured it out. We found a picture on etsy.com (see below) that has a turquoise wall w/ a cherry blossom tree wall vinyl that looks amazing!

In the picture the cherry blossom tree has red and white flowers but we are going to get it in fuschia and white. So our colors for the room will be turquoise, fuschia, white and dark brown. The brown will be incorporated into the tree trunk and all of our nursery furniture is chocolate brown. It's been hard finding bedding that's the right colors...for some reason all of the crib bedding is pastel pinks, purples, yellows and blues, so we're going to have to be creative but are up for the challenge. Once we start getting stuff we will post pictures.