Real-life Addams Family turn baby's room to dark goth haven with headstone teds
A real-life 'Addams family' transformed their newborn babies' nursery into a scary goth haven - and even use teddies as headstones.
New-mum E.V. Rogina finished working on her grey-walled nursery earlier this year, which is now home to three-month-old girl and boy twins Indigo Ventura and Orion Ventura - whom she dubs her 'baby bats'.
Combined with black Victorian-style decor, the little ones' room is complete with spiders, bat outfits, and even headstone teddies. Gothic baby books are ready for bedtime stories - such as Mother Ghost and C Is For Coven.
The 33-year-old mum compares her little ones to the sibling duo Wednesday and Pugsley Addams, revived in the popular Netflix series Wednesday with actress Jenna Ortega.
Their house is both modern and gothic: granite worktops and gold finish littered with quartz crystals, cherub trinkets, and various taxidermy.
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E.V. Rogina and wife Monica Ventura have transformed their newborn babies' nursery (Kennedy News and Media)Along with their wife Monica Ventura, the content creator is obsessed with Halloween - an important date to them after their marriage at Salem City Hall, Massachusetts, US, back in 2019.
E.V., from Orlando, Florida, said: "We're definitely known as the little goth family in the neighbourhood. I think we remind people of the Addams Family. Their nicknames are literally Wednesday and Pugsley. I got a boy and a girl, how ironic that they're like the Addams Family kids. I love it.
"When the neighbours found out I was pregnant, they already knew what to get them like no colourful things, mostly monotone. In their nursery, behind the door is a mini library. I made the bookshelves by hand and every shelf is different.
"I didn't know publishers made gothic baby books and I thought 'I love this'. One is called Mother Ghost, another is called Beatrice the Sea Witch, and then C for Coven.
"The last shelf has a meditation book for babies and a book on crystals for babies. On the floor mat, where they lay to do tummy time, that's where we keep all their plushies. They have some ghosts, baby spiders, baby bats."
Their house is both modern and gothic: granite worktops and gold (Kennedy News and Media)
Ghost, spider, bat, and headstone teddies decorating the rooms of the children (Kennedy News and Media)While many online have criticised the parents for their lack of colour in the nursery and their less-than-colourful clothes, E.V. disclosed they actually have a basket full of colourful toys from grandparents hidden out of view.
The stay-at-home mum said: "They wear little skeleton onesies and spider outfits. "Anything Halloween related I absolutely love. They have a little ghost outfit too. I call them my baby bats because I love bats. 'Baby bats' just came out of my mouth one day and it stuck.
"I've lost count of how many people have sent them bat outfits since I call them my baby bats. They probably have enough to last them until they're two years old. I didn't want anything too colourful and overwhelming for them as they were babies.
"That's when I started reading about colour psychology, it said colour can be really overstimulating for babies and grey is more calming, so I went with it.
"What I find funny is that as a creator you choose what people see. If you pan to the left, they have a whole chest full of colourful toys. I just didn't want to show it in the video as it didn't match."
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New-mum E.V. Rogina finished working on her grey-walled nursery earlier this year (Kennedy News and Media)
E.V. Rogina and Monica Ventura holding their three-month old twin babies (Kennedy News and Media)The two are just days away from erecting their seasonal giant skeletons in the front garden, which stay there from September 1st all the way to Christmas - decorated in Beetlejuice costumes to Santa Claus.
Along with her car sales representative wife, E.V. can't wait to dress up as a family this year in matching costumes, which are yet to be revealed.
E.V. said: "I'm so excited for Halloween this year. We got married in Salem in Massachusetts, so Halloween is very close to our hearts. So we're excited to share it with the babies. I don't want to reveal what we're dressing up as yet, but it's nothing too mainstream.
"We have these 12ft skeletons up outside the house every year and I have to make giant clothes for them. The little kids in the neighbourhood love it. I think the neighbours look forward to it because no one else does anything so strange."
E.V. posted the video online with the caption: "Our sad grey spooky baby nursery." It received more than 46.2 million views, six million likes, and 43,000 comments
Some people said they would like the room for themselves but suggested babies should grow up around colour. One person commented: "Love it as an adult, but children should be stimulated with colour…"
Another said: "I would grow up thinking I'm colour blind" and "Wednesday is about to be born."
However many pointed out that children get enough colour in their lives anyway, while others suggested monochrome was 'stimulating' for babies' brains.
One said: "People commenting 'babies need colour to develop' really think that child will be inside the house 24/7 huh."
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