Getting Ready for the Baby

We have a crib! Well, almost. D'Artagnan isn't big enough to bring it home, so they're holding it at the store until we borrow a van or truck or something to come pick it up, but we will have it soon.

It's been quite the ordeal finding a crib. We started looking about three weeks ago at all the furniture stores in town. We went to 5 or 6 different stores and were told at all of them that they don't carry cribs, which was kind of sad because we wanted to actually see the crib, not just order it online and hope that we liked it when it came. We did end up getting a glider for the baby's room that weekend, so it wasn't a complete loss, but I was starting to get worried that she was going to have to sleep in the sock drawer.

But then I was telling someone that we couldn't find any cribs in town, and they suggested Babyland. So I went on Monday, and as soon as I got to the parking lot I knew it was going to be great. The closest parking spots to the door were reserved for expectant mothers! So that was pretty exciting. Then, when I got in the store, they had so many cribs! They have the store set up like little nurseries so that you can see how the crib looks in a room, so I had a great time wandering around and trying to imagine Lumberjack in there. I didn't make any decisions, but a couple of days later Adam came with me and we got it narrowed down to two. Then today we went to actually buy one. It turned out that they didn't have either of the two that we picked out in stock and it was going to take 6 - 8 weeks to get them in, which would probably be okay, but we're due in 9 weeks, so that's cutting it pretty close. But the lady at the store said that they have one in stock that isn't a floor model that looks just like one of the two that we had picked out but it had a dropside. So we saw a picture of it and we decided to get that one!

I took a picture of the one that they had set up at the store. The one that we're getting isn't the same color - it's lighter by a shade or two. And it has the dropside, and I think she said that it has a drawer underneath, too. But the shape of it's the same. And now the baby won't have to sleep in the sock drawer!

I also got pretty excited at Babyland because they had a little display of baseball books and toys for kids. We got Lumberjack "Chicago White Sox 101: my first team-board-book." It's so cute! There's a page in the back where there's a picture of a White Sox hat and you can put in the baby's picture so it looks like she's wearing it. I'm pretty excited about teaching her all about being a White Sox fan.