Plus, we are about 12 weeks away from Miss Maisy Kate, and there are only about a few hundred things to do. Goodness.
What's been going on?
My last post mentioned how our due date is moved to New Year's Day. We are super excited about this and it's made things speed up just a little bit. I am in the third trimester, I will be 28 weeks on Friday, and Maisy is moving around a lot. We can feel her and see her move. Baby kicks are my favorite part of pregnancy.
We have had a slight debacle with her crib. What had happened was...
Before we were even trying to get pregnant the first time, I was still nannying and the lovely family I worked for mentioned they were selling their very nice crib and crib mattress. Not wanting to seem crazy, I asked if they would be willing to sell it to us. We knew we wanted kids in the pretty near future and it was a very nice crib! They were overly generous and gave it to us for a fraction of what it was worth. I wrote about this here.
The crib is pictured below. The first one was the picture I took of the crib in their garage so I could show Aaron. The next one is the crib set up in Graeme's room!
So, you may notice the folding down piece up top? In the first picture it's folded down. And in the one of his room it's folded up. For the past two years, I haven't thought much about it. I know other cribs don't typically have it, but I didn't think it made a difference in the size of the crib.
Oh, but it does.
When we began looking for Maisy's crib, I was very confused why all of the cribs seemed so small and short. After looking at Babies R Us and Target, I decided to dig out the papers for Graeme's crib and see if I could figure out what kind it was.
I found the name of the company and looked them up. They didn't make his exact crib anymore, but it didn't take me long to find a similar one. And then I realized the reason I wasn't finding a crib like his was because this company was the only company that made these cribs. They are called "safety gate cribs" and they add an extra five inches to the depth by latching the top gate. And I also realized that the pennies (exaggeration, but really, we paid a fraction of what it was worth) we handed over for his crib paled in comparison to it's actual cost and we in no way could afford this crib that cost more than most of the other furniture in our house.
I called my mom and told her about my first world dilemma. "Oh don't worry about it. We can help you if you need it." While this was a super generous offer and much appreciated, we still could not feel right about spending that much money on a crib. (Although it converts to a toddler bed and full size bed too!) The next day, we started browsing Craigslist for something else, and I said, "Hey, just type in that crib just to see if we get lucky."
Lo and behold, up popped a listing for Graeme's exact crib in white. And it was less than half the cost of a new crib from the company. It seemed meant to be. Aaron quickly emailed to make sure it was still available. The next day he talked to the man on the phone who gave him some more information and said he would hold the crib for us while he went out of town over the weekend. One slight inconvenience was that he lived in Winston Salem, but this was definitely not a deal-breaker as it would save us hundreds. Aaron made the drive to pick it up last week.
It was in great shape, but the "white" wasn't technically "white"...it was more of an "antique white." We decided we would like it better if we painted it. Since my parents were already coming to paint Maisy's room this past Saturday, we declared it "Paint Day," and Aaron set out to paint the crib.
It was a bit tedious, but it made a huge difference (you can see the white next to the not really white) and we loved it even more.
We are still extremely close with the family I nannied for and had been keeping them up-to-date with our crib saga. Rodney, who had now put this exact model together about three times (he put Graeme's together for us too!) generously offered to come put it together on Sunday afternoon.
In anticipation of helping him out, we retrieved the plastic bag of hardware the Craigs List seller guy gave Aaron with all of the crib pieces. We pulled out the directions from Graeme's crib to organize the hardware. And then we realized something was amiss. We dumped out the bag of random metal scrap parts and discovered not one of them went to the crib.
We are still not sure if we were purposefully duped or if it was an accident.
Alas, to avoid a trip to Winston Salem and out of the wonderful, kind generosity of our good friend Rodney, it is all being taken care of. Rodney made a list of what was missing (we did have some of the pieces that were still in the crib) and said he would just take care of getting everything for us. He is well aware of our total lack of handyman knowledge. We really can't thank him enough.
Hopefully, the crib will come together in the next couple of weeks and we can laugh at our misfortune/fortune.
Despite this slight setback, Maisy Kate's room is coming together. Her walls are "Charming Pink" and she has a dresser and bookcase. We are probably going to move Graeme's gray chair over to her room, but we feel a bit bad about this because he loves to sit and read so much. We will probably make him a cozy reading corner out of beanbags and pillows to make up for it.
In other news, I am still feeling great. So great that I am crazy and just might attempt to potty train Graeme this weekend in a three-day blitz. Yikes. We aren't going to push it, but we both think he can do it and it would be SO nice to not have to buy diapers for two kids. He picked out underwear at the store last weekend. To Aaron's dismay, he wanted Thomas the Train and not Batman. Uh oh.
I'll keep you posted!
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