The Nursery is complete. It's a Nest. Or a Sanctuary.

Late one sleepless night - before we knew if it was a baby boy or a baby girl - I had an ah-ha! moment about the nursery. When we were in Honduras the summer of 2006 we bought a few souvenirs and hadn't found homes for them yet. Two tree bark works of art from the Mosquito Coast that I had taken to be professionally framed - and then put in a closet - and two wooden carvings of birds - a Macaw and a Toucan.

All of the items came from Macaw Mountain Bird Park in Copán Ruinas. A place that we are looking forward to taking our baby to visit when he is old enough to enjoy the birds himself.

So slowly, The Office transformed to The Nursery. And the theme is parrots and tropical birds. The amount of sweet, thoughtful items we have been given to put in the room is so touching. It really feels like we have made a nest or a sanctuary for our little baby. And now, because of all the parrot talk, we have started to call him El Guacamaya. It's a joke - mostly. It's not the manliest of nicknames. But it's fun to use your Michael Buffer boxing announcer voice and set the stage for Baby Boy "El Guacamaya" Rivera.

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This is a detail of the quilt above the crib. It was the first nursery item I bought once we decided to do the parrot theme. This was from eBay.



Someone in our family has clothes in three closets. He had to squeeze down to the lower bar so the baby outfits could have some room. It's still the office filing system, too.





These photos were taken at Macaw Mountain. Except for the bottom one... those are cookies from one of the baby showers.



Here you can see one of the tree bark artworks. The other is above the light switch as you come into the room. The pillows in the chair were made by mom (grandma!) and the macaw puppet is a special gift from one of our very close tango friends. We were blown away by how sweet he is! Michelle outdid herself with this gift.