The Bartels Family: Cameron's Big Boy Room

I have called Cameron my little monkey since before he was born. He is always causing mischief and climbing on everything and in general being a monkey lol. I suppose this is why his favorite tv show is Curious George. Anyway, about 2 months ago, I went to check on Cameron to see if he had fallen asleep yet, and I found that he had climbed out of his crib! I nearly had a heart attack as the images of him plummeting to the ground and cracking his head open flooded my mind. I immediately took out the bumper and anything extra and hoped that it would stop him from being able to climb out. It worked...for two days. I went to check on him during his nap two days after the initial incident and found him sitting on top of the attached changing table turning the light on and off. Since I was terrified of what could happen, we decided it was time Cameron got a big boy bed. Normally, this just consists of buying a bed and taking down the crib, but not for Cameron's room.

Since we are staying in the apartment my family has used for a century, there is a lot of "love" and "character" about the place that isn't always baby friendly. Cameron's room was my room as a child and still had the pink and purple wall paper up! We started by removing the wall paper...and found a second layer of wall paper, so we removed that too. it took about 6 hours, but not too bad. Then we realized that the wall paper was up because of the condition of the walls. Tim then repaired the walls as best he could and the painting started! It took 3 coats to completely cover the walls, but I am very happy with the end result. Cameron picked out a dinosaur theme and now his big boy room is all decorated for a cute little boy.