Cole's Room

We accomplished a lot today! Michael and I officially have stuff in Cole's room. We started getting the baby furniture last week. This week we received the final pieces. Before finding out we were pregnant we used the "blue room", as we refer to it, as a guest bedroom. After a LOT of persuading I finally got Michael to agree to make this into the baby's room. This took a lot of work on my part because this room was where all of Michael's clothing was. He has been moving his clothes down to the basement bedroom over the past week. I know this might sound like a demotion for Michael but really it isn't that bad. There is a bathroom that he has basically staked claim to. With his clothes downstairs it should make it easier to get ready because he won't have to worry about forgetting something and running through the house naked! ;)

Like I said, we finally agreed to have the "blue room" become the baby's room. I had planned on painting the room a different color but ended up keeping it the same. I really just couldn't wait for Michael to paint when I knew that we had baby furniture out in the garage waiting to be put together.

We started out our morning by calling Phil, our brother-in-law, and having him come over to move some furniture. We gave the furniture that had been in the blue room to Phil and Natalie. So Michael and Phil packed all of that in Phil's truck and then they brought in all the boxes of the baby furniture and put them in the baby's room. Michael went with Phil to help unload the furniture at his house and then came back.

I was busting at the seems to put the furniture together so we decided to start with the crib. We then spent the majority of the day putting furniture together. We started around noon or so and didn't finish until about 8 p.m. I know that sounds awful but it really wasn't that bad. We had an hour and a half to two hour break in the middle for lunch and Michael had to do some stuff for work. We also took our time and didn't get in a hurry. Most of the time it seems like we're always in a hurry to do something and it was nice to just have some time to ourselves and do something special. Around 6 p.m. Michael's parents stopped by to see the furniture and somehow Michael's dad got roped into helping us on the last piece of furniture. I'm really excited with how the furniture turned out! We still have to hang stuff up on the walls but below you can see the furniture and how the room is arranged.

ENJOY the pictures!

Michael and his dad working hard on the last dresser!

At least they are still smiling!

The rest of these are the room at the end of the evening! Remember, we still have things to hang up!

The crib and dresser. We're going to use the dresser as a changing table too!

The dresser and glider. We are really lucky because some friends gave us the glider. We've been pretty lucky because we've gotten a TON of stuff from friends for the baby! We have a highchair, swing, bouncy seat, Johnny Jumper seat, bottles, a bottle warmer, and soooo much more. I can't even begin to tell them all thank you!

This is a picture of our crib set. We have a blanket that goes with it but it was still drying when I took this picture.