Nesting

I have three weeks left to go until my due date.  So with that impending deadline, Mark and I finally decided that it was time to get serious about setting the nursery up.  I’ve had a few stops and starts in the nesting department.  I had the baby furniture repainted two months ago and we did some major baby shopping about a month later, but last weekend was when we finally put everything together.  It’s been a bit of a challenge to say the least.  Shopping for baby stuff here makes me downright nostalgic for Babies R Us — a store that normally depresses and overwhelms us whenever we have to go there.  Everything here is just so much more expensive than it is back home, we need to make multiple trips to multiple stores just to find what we need, plus our American-sized crib is too big for the UK standard sized mattresses which are too small for all of our old crib sets…you get the drift.  Despite that, as of last weekend we’re pretty much all set now.

The crib, changing table, bookcase and, randomly, the high chair in the corner. Just ignore all that stuff we were trying to hide underneath the crib:

There’s a little nook in the room so Mark made the ultimate sacrifice and donated his comfy living room chair for that space (you should also try to imagine a yet-to-be-found/bought floor lamp for that corner. But imagine that it’s cute while you’re at it). Seriously, this is a chair that he spent months looking for before finding the perfect combination of shape, softness and support. Unfortunately for Mark his chair was just a bit too big for our living room after we moved into our new apartment in January so it was easy to talk him into moving it into the nursery:

We had considered painting the room but ultimately I think we both got lazy. Plus Mark found an awesome rug for the room instead — made up of felted wool balls and then individually hand-sewn together. Jae has warned me that it will probably shed like nobody’s business in the next few months but I don’t care. It’s so soft. Besides, I don’t do the vacuuming around here anyway. Here’s a close-up of its lovely poofiness:

And as for Mark’s high maintenance butt (literally), he did get a new chair out of it so happiness all around: