Well, we've decided on the theme for the nursery. Being a teacher and both of us being lovers of books, it's only natural that we'd look for a literary influence in our nursery theme. After some consideration of all the great children's authors, we decided to go with Beatrix Potter. Not only does this appeal to the book lovers in us, her stories are also such a beautiful celebration of both nature and the innocence of childhood. Gregg wasn't as familiar with the works of Beatrix Potter, but recently he saw a bio-pic of her life and became quite fascinated. I of course, have been a lover of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny and Jemima Puddle Duck since my own childhood.

We might have gone about this in the wrong way, because now that we've chosen a theme for the nursery, one that we both absolutely love, we're finding it difficult to find nursery items in this theme. If we had chosen Winnie the Pooh we'd have no trouble finding everything from crib sheets to wall decals. Even so, we're dedicated to creating the perfect nursery filled with the beautiful woodland creatures made so famous by one of the greatest children's authors of the late 10th century.

Thanks to my mom and brother, we already have the baby book, Baby Grows Up with Peter Rabbit. Now we just need to find everything else to go with it. What exciting times, we just can't wait to hear from our adoption specialist that we've been selected as adoptive parents for some wonderful little baby!