"Engine Room"

When we first started working on Little Bud's new room, we decided to go with a car and truck theme.  Over the last few months it slowly evolved into a looser theme: anything with an engine.  Little Bud likes to play with trucks, tractors, trains, fire engines, planes and cars of all kinds.  Several of the fun things in his room were Christmas gifts from various family members, and recently John's brother James gave Little Bud some tractors and trains that were his when he was little.  We are so happy with how his room turned out, and Little Bud enjoys waking up to all of his fun toys and decorations every morning (after he wakes up he usually spends a few minutes jibber jabbering and making truck and train noises).

Most of the furniture (and lots of the decorations) in Little Bud's room are extra special.  John and his dad made the display cabinet and little bb gun shelf (that's above the window - it's only displaying little planes for now!) when John was a kid.  His little rocking chair was actually John's dad's from when he was a baby!  John built the corner shelf for Big Sister's nursery a few months before she was born (we're planning to paint the trim on it blue, we just haven't had a chance to yet).  John's grandmother painted the train that's below the "J" for John's brother James when he was little. 

 

Little Bud sleeps with his monkey, Llama Llama and Rebecca Rabbit every night

(at the moment he loves his Llama Llama books and 

pulls them off his shelf for us to read multiple times each day)

(Grammie made his crib sheet out of the cutest fabric I found on Etsy.)

 

John's dad built this shelf for Little Bud for Christmas

 

Gigi and Papa Dean gave Little Bud the clock that's above his shelves for Christmas.

The tractors (and little train decoration under the shelves) came from Uncle James.

The red train was given to the kids by my Grandpa.  It was a toy from when my mom 

and my uncle and aunts were growing up.

Little Bud came into the room as I was finishing up taking the photos, 

and I couldn't resist snapping a few pictures of my sweet little love.