Coed baby showers have to be one of the worst ideas in the world. Come on, what dude wants to spend a Saturday afternoon drinking punch and watching a pregnant woman ooh and ahh over strollers, diapers, and tiny outfits that say ridiculous things such as Mommys little alarm clock? I guess the fates aligned against me last weekend. My sister and her husband are expecting their first baby and as a result, at 2 pm on Saturday afternoon, I was sitting in my Aunt Carols living room with 20 of my sisters closest friends and their spouses as well as an assortment of family members playing name that baby animal. I'll confess, I dreaded the 30 minutes of mandatory gift opening that was shortly to come. As the stack of presents dwindled down and my sister got closer and closer to opening my gift, my face started flushing and I broke out in a sweat. As much as babies make me nervous, pregnant women make me even more nervous. Seriously, you never know when they might just to burst into tears! I took a huge gamble by not buying something on my sisters baby registry. Would my choice of a non-registry gift bring tears or smiles to my highly emotional sister?

Although I'm not the most detail-oriented person, I remembered that my sister and brother-in-law had painted Junior's nursery yellow and selected a crib bedding set featuring the colors blue, yellow, and green.  However, they were leaving the walls bear until after baby's birth (once they knew the gender).  While all the women out there may be thinking... "Oh, what a sweet, sensitive great listener".  The truth is, I only knew the wall and bedding colors after my sister described them to me in great detail during six different phone calls. Anyways, in an attempt to avoid a dreaded trip to BabyLand where I, a single guy, would have to trek into a store selling nothing but newborn essentials, sort through a long registry list, and buy my sister something she had already picked out (whats the point?).  I decided instead to give her nursery wall decals. I just knew that my blue Chic Chic Chic nursery decals featuring a modern take on a mother hen and her baby chics would work great in the baby's future room. These vinyl nursery decals would be easy for my sister to install, match the colors, be perfect for a baby boy or girl, and be easy to change out if (when!) my sister decided to change the rooms décor.