For those of you who have more than 1 child - I have a question for you
coasterqueen wrote: I need your help looking at this, lol. Okay here I go, I hope this isn't long. I'm still trying to decide whether to use Kylie's crib bedding/nursery theme for this baby.
Anyways I could either do:
1. Re-decorate Kylie's room now at this age with a new theme and use her bedding/accessories for the new baby. But if I do re-decorate it would be with a regular theme not a licensed character.
OR
2. Buy new bedding/accessories for the new baby's room and leave Kylie's the way it is til she's old enough to pick what she wants. (Right now all of the nursery wall decor is still on her walls (well some of htem are) and she's using just an old quilt I had for now).
Here's my questions? When do kids REALLY know what they want for something like this? When did it happen for you or did it, lol?
I guess I hate to redecorate Kylie's room knowing that she may not like it in a few years whereas if I wait then she can decide. But I also hate leaving her room "undone" in ways. Does any of this make sense?  I know if I ask her or give her choices to pick from she would not be able to decide at this age.
Any insight, anyone?
Jamison'smama replied: Can you do it in a simple theme that can be changed--I know if Jama could pick she would have Dora everywhere but in 6 months it would be someone else. I just did her room in a simple blue and white with pink accents and I can add the Dora wall decorations or do sheets in some theme or whatever. I really don't think she can chose at this point. I had to change since her nursery theme didn't really transfer to her big girl bed--colors were too hard to match.
ammommy replied: Ds had an opinion at about 2.5. We moved him to another room before the baby was born when he was about 19 months. It wasn't decorated, just really generic. We painted DD nursery a mint green with picket fencing, flowers and dragonflies on 2 walls. I figure that will get her through 5 or 6 if not longer. DS now has a jungle painted on one wall and we currently have pics of animals around his room. Later we can change out to dinos if he wants without changing the mural wall.
booey2 replied: Well, when I had Matthew he arrived 3 weeks early and I hadn't finished the nursey other than painting and never did buy new linens because I had a lot of hand-me downs from family and friends. When we moved him to his new room at 3 1/2 yrs old he chose to add a Hot Wheels border cause he was car crazy. As for the nursery we didn't know what sex he was going to be so I went with a Noah's ark theme and kept the wall colour it is a golden yellow colour and added peel and stick stickers that can be easily removed. Thomas's room is still the same no changes there but Matthew has since had his room painted a nice deep blue and the Hot Wheels are gone. I don't know if that helped at all but I wanted to let you know what we did. I don't really think they "know" what they want, I have found that it is mostly the parents that want the nursey "done". I would leave Kylie's for now and if she decides once the new one arrives that she is a big girl you may want to change it then. JMHO
coasterqueen replied:
Well right now she has a "whirligig" nursery theme in her bedroom (which is bugs and butterflies). But when we moved her to a full size bed the quilt she had didn't fit so I just gave her one of my old ones. So she has all her old whirligig decor (bugs and butterflies) on the walls as well as the whirligig border at the top of her walls.
I could easily find a quilt that would match the decor on her walls (well it won't completely match, but will somewhat) and match her curtains. OR I could take all the wall decor off and find cheap cute butterfly/bug prints to hang on her wall to go with new bedding.
BUT then my dilemma is it would be the same theme then if I put the whirligig nursery stuff in the new nursery. Make sense? SO they would ahve the same themes. Not sure how big of a deal that is or not.
I haven't really found anything I like that is particularly plain except bugs/butterflies, lol.
I guess for Kylie we've made her bedroom just a place to sleep and change clothes since she has a playroom so at this age I think she could really care less, lol. I just want to do something in there because what's in there now doesn't match. Am I still confusing you? LOL.
~KARA~ replied: My oldest has always been very independent and always aloud to pick her own stuff.
When we moved in to the house we are in now, I was pregnant. We did my oldest dd's room a brignt yellow and it goes with everything. She has more than one theme going on in there. She has power puff girls, spongebob and shark tails.
My youngest dd's walls are paneling so she just has Dora pics everywhere.
They will be sharing a room with in the next 1 1/2 year. Depends on how long I keep baby #3 in my room. When they share the room it will be dora and power puff girls. everythign else will have to go!
Boys r us replied: I would definitely redo Kylie's room now and let the baby have Kylies nursery items.
My reasoning is that #1 this is something special for Kylie during a time when a lot of things are being bought/given for the new baby, so this is something you can do special for/with Kylie.
#2 this way, they both get "new" things. Kylie gets an updated room that will be a fresh change for her and the new baby gets a room that obviously will be new to her!
#3 Kylie will enjoy the new bedding, paint and so forth much more than a newborn!
My2Beauties replied: ITA with Nichole!
gr33n3y3z replied: I agree with Nichole also
mom89 replied: Hmm well if it were me I would do a new theme for the baby and let the older one have the original. then I would of course let the older one choose whatever he/she wanted as they got older.
they 'usually" are old enough to decide for themselves when they're about 3 or so.
HTH! 
Cindi
mom89 replied: Hmm good point,Nicole! 
jcc64 replied: I know you've been agonizing over this for some time Karen. I would be inclined to leave everything the same for Kylie for the time being. I think if she sees the baby with her "things", there is a chance she will get possessive, regardless of whether she has a newly decorated room. I would wait to redecorate for Kylie until she's a little older and has more defined interests. I agree that character themes, while cute, are lacking in the longevity dept. In my experience, I slaved over a handpainted mural in Corey's room (also butterflies and dragonflies hovering around wisteria vines), she looked at, liked it, but is now completely oblivious to it. I think if you wait until Kylie's older and asks for something specific, it will have more meaning to her. My sons (and granted, I think boys are generally less interested in this stuff) only became interested in their room decor recently, and they're 9 and 12!
And if the baby could speak, she would probably select a wall covered in boobies. 
coasterqueen replied:
You crack me up Jeanne! Thanks you are probably right too. BTW, when don't I AGONIZE about something.  I seems like I make matters worse for myself now that I'm going to have two children than one. I better just stick to two, gosh knows what I would agonize over if I had more.
Maddie&EthansMom replied: I agree with Nichole.
This may help you decide.
We were always going to do something different in the babies room...boy or girl. Maddie's bedding was not reusable and her theme is also the same as it was in her nursery. She has pretty much the same curtains, etc. I was still able to buy her fabric when she moved to a big girl bed and I made her a comforter to match with a coordinating fabric. When we were painting and decorating Ethan's room Maddie got real involved. Especially when she saw her Nana helping. She kept asking my mom (her Nana) if she would paint her room pink when she finished painting Ethan's room. We still haven't changed Maddie's room b/c we haven't had the money to change it, but we are going to try to redo it this summer. She has already chosen the quilt and we know she wants us to paint it pink. Maddie was 3 at the time and is still stuck on the same thing. Tell Kylie she is going to help decorate the babies room with her old stuff and then let her pick out some new stuff for her room. Make a big deal out of it and make her feel special. Give her a choice of 2 themes you have chosen and would like for her room.  That way it isn't so overwhelming to her and you have already approved it. lol! I think Maddie really felt left out since she didnt' get a new room, too.
HTH!
|
