Nursery Project #1

I'm a pack rat. I've been that way my entire life, in fact Pack Rat is what my Papa has always called me because I keep everything. Which as I get older is starting to pose a little bit of a problem, especially since we live in a small two bedroom apartment. We want to start on the nursery but in order to do that we first have to clear out all of the things that have accumulated in what we've been using as an office. Last night we took on our first project, cleaning out the desk. Which may not sound like a big project but it really was. Our goal was to take everything inside this desk:

And some how make all of that go neatly and organized into this bookshelf (which was full of it's own random assortment of things.

It took awhile and I actually threw away quite a bit but in the end everything fit and it's all neatly organized and stored away and this was our final result (sorry for the awkward picture but we had to move this book case over a little).


So one small step down, but we now have an empty desk that we can get rid of.

Starting the nursery...

Pretty much we can't do anything with that room until we clean it out, but Marcus did put together one of the cribs so we could see what it looked like. Perhaps not one of our smartest moves since there's absolutely no where for the crib to go except sit in the middle of the room. Opps.


Marcus starting with the assembly.


An almost finished crib, and Marcus hiding from the camera (Similar to his daughter who also likes to hide from pictures)


And just because it's cute. The next morning when I went into the room, I found that Marcus had laid two onesies in the crib to represent the babies. (We don't have mattresses yet, we ordered them and they're on their way and we won't be using the bumpers but put them in just to see what it looked like).

Bedding...

In addition to Marcus' particularities about the babies names he also has specific ideas about what he imagines the babies bedding to look like. For some reason he seemed to think that the bedding must have some type of animal on it. Where as I liked simple, more modern bedding. A total clash. I found some very simple bedding on clearance that I loved but Marcus just couldn't imagine what it would look like in the big picture and by the time I had convinced him of my vision for the room the bedding was sold out.

So the search continued for something we both could live with. We finally settled on this:



Despite the lack of animals Marcus really likes it and I'm also a big fan. Although we haven't seen it in person yet so we may actually hate it and have to start the search all over again.

Baby stuff...

Yesterday, for the first time Marcus and I ventured out to intentionally look at cribs and strollers and all that fun stuff. We mostly just wanted to get an idea of how much money we would need to get the basics. Holy crap there are a lot of options. We went to Ikea first because their cribs are cheap and in the Baby Bargains book they have a good rating and we found a crib that would work. That is until we went to Babies R us to compare and liked all of those cribs much better even though they cost a lot more.

I'm sure we'll end up going with Ikea just because we're practical people and really can't spend all our money buying two cribs when there are other things we need. We also reached the conclusion that having twins complicates things. There was hardly anything designed for twins out of all the strollers they had three for twins, but now we have an idea and slowly over the next few months we'll probably start buying things.

To date we haven't purchased a single baby related item with the exception of two books. I'm feeling a little bit
overwhelmed at the moment.