An Early Arrival (of furniture, that is)

The cribs are here! The cribs are here!

Early this morning (6:45AM), we awoke to the sounds of a diesel truck perched outside our bedroom window, signaling the arrival of our furniture for the nursery. We ordered the pieces - two cribs, a five drawer high dresser and a dresser/changing table - from Rock A Bye Baby in Lebanon. (We negotiated for free delivery if we had someone here to help unload the furniture, so Mark took a few hours off this morning to help the process).

This delivery guy was awesome --- he was so careful with all of the pieces (you know how sometimes you get a delivery guy that nicks up the walls and just throws the pieces into the room). He worked with me on my indeciveness on where the pieces should go. And, he put the cribs together for us for just $15 each --- a bargain when we considered the headache it would have been for Mark, my dad and my father in law to figure out how to put them together.

These cribs are massive. They're so big I think they could both sleep in the same one for at least a year. But, we wanted to get two and put them in their separate cribs right away so there's one less habit we have to break them of when they're bigger. Here's a link to the site and a pdf of the cribs. We went for the darker pieces on the left. http://www.bonavita-cribs.com/downloads/cabana.pdf

We think the dark wood looks great with the bedding we picked out. Here's a link to the bedding: http://ww2.potterybarnkids.com/index.cfm?src=rmsaa%7Ccromnur%7Cda%7Crrooms%2Fhme&cid=romnurlux&area=rms&age=a (Sorry, you may have to cut and paste that into your browser --- in case it doesn't work, it is the Diamond Matelasse collection). We ordered one with the pink trim and one with a brown.

So, we're getting there. It's nice to walk in there and see the cribs (sans the mattresses and the bedding) but to know that really soon that room is going to be a hub of activity!