6w4d in The REAL Baby Journey!

I remember when I really little, still being cuddled and rocked to sleep and sang to at night, and my mom would hum "You Are My Sunshine" to me in the still darkness. She would sing the lyrics so sweet and kind, so genuine and full of her love for me. She sang that song to me until I was older, long enough for me to palpably connect her and those words and that beautiful song.

Now, as I grow my own little sunshine, my only little source of light and love, I find myself drawn back to this song. Rob and I agreed early on, even before we were officially pregnant, that we didn't want to find out the gender and we wanted to let it be a surprise. With that comes the need for a neutral nursery, neutral clothing, neutral wall art. We'd need to find a theme that meant something to us but in no way meant 'little boy' or 'little girl'. Do you see where I'm going with this? :)

I had simply been rolling the idea around in my head, not committed to it or even really consciously aware of it, and then I came across this sign. It was buried deep in the back of the clearance bin at Kohl's, discounted by more than 75% and the last one left. It felt, as much as anything, like fate. It was meant to hang above my sweet little still-growing baby. It was meant to come home with me.

I bought it for a steal at $12 and have been brainstorming ever since. Maybe grey walls with yellow accents? Maybe a sunshine on one wall or some decal words scrawled on another or brightly colored words in frames to bring a touch of 'rainbow' to the room. So many ways to go with this!

I've been Pinteresting all afternoon, researching 'sunshine nursery' and 'rainbow nursery' and trying to keep it classy and beautiful, not tacky or ridiculous or cheesy. It also needs to be neutral - I'm worried it may feel too feminine somehow? I want it to be about the 'you are my sunshine' theme - NOT specifically the gray/yellow theme and I think that's what people will latch onto. I want it to be about the sunlight, the brightness, the possibility, the sunrise, the sunset, the rainbows, the color, the beauty in nature. So many things I want to pull into this nursery but unsure how exactly to do it. Regardless, even just talking about it this much, it feels like the first palpable step of planning. We're only six weeks in, we have so much further to go before this feels real but this is one baby (excuse my pun :)) step. What do you guys think?