vanyas changing post

well..with the parents gone..we have our extra room back and its vanya's..alll vanya's. we managed to use our exisiting ikea storage system and just added on parts to make it look the way it looks now. im glad we did as buying extra 'baby' furniture just didn't seem right for us...being creative we are happy with the way things turned out. as even the coloring is all calm cremes that just happened to match the sofa bed in the room. thank jeebus for ikea!

the batik painting is of an indian mythological woman named 'shantala' - she in an incarnation of goddess parvati (wife of god shiva) & shantala is the name of the beautiful wife of the ruler of karnataka (state where we are from in south india) centuries ago. At one time and when vanya started laying on her changing mat she always looked up at her...im guessing because of the bright colors..but maybe shantala was talking to her in some mythological way? hmmmm i find it interesting when there seeps more meaning in things we think are placed by chance. AND shantala massage (shantalamassage.org) for babies is a special indian based way of baby massage. whew!