Nursery time

We've waded through all the choices for bedding (code word for theme) online and in most of the stores, and landed on what we wanted. It's at Babies R Us, but only online. Well, on Saturday we found it at Nursery Time on New Circle, and liked it even more in person. Since we needed something to use in determining the paint colors for the room, we went ahead and bought the 4-pc set. It's full of animals with lots of colors. Here's a link to what it is: http://www.cottontaledesigns.com/catalog/Enlarged-bedding/Paradise.html

Nursery Time also had a lot of nice furniture. We picked out two we liked, and decided they were finalists along with the set we liked at IKEA. We talked about it all night, and decided to make a trip to Cincinnati to look at the IKEA set in person again. After going through the store, we noticed one of the tags on the crib said "Not in stock." We decided to look in the bins anyway. As luck would have it, they had a few. But then we started debating if it would fit in my car or not. As I went outside to measure, Janelle started talking with another woman who was getting of the cribs. She said she had been to IKEA 4 times to get this crib, and they had been sold out each time. She suggested we get it if we really were interested. We talked about it, and since it was the one we wanted, decided it was probably best to go ahead and get it now and not have to worry about the drive back up for it. So we loaded up the car with the crib, a changing table and an extra piece that attaches on the top, a toy chest and a 6-drawer chest of drawers.

Below are the IKEA photos of the pieces. We still need to paint and clean the carpets before we have it in the room. For now, it's hanging out in boxes in the garage.

Only four months to go....