Crib Notes

There is a crib in our house.

You know, like people with babies have.

To put their babies in.

Because they have babies.

(Oh my God, there's going to be a baby. Living. In. Our. House!)

Yes, we do know that it's ridiculously early to have a crib, but the thing is that it's the one that Shrike's niece and nephew slept in, and her sister's ex had it at his apartment, and he moved today, and it seemed stupid for him to take it to his new house and store it there, only to give it to us in a few months, so it came over here instead.

Right now, most of it is in the sunroom, and the rest in the basement, waiting for us to get the big bed out of Peeper's room.

The only catch on that is that, as much as we'd love to move that bed into the (finished) basement, and set it up down there, so we'd have more than one bed for grown-up in our house, the box springs will not fit down the stairs. They go about halfway down, then hit this part that juts out of the ceiling.

When we first moved in, the moving guys tried several different ways to get them down there, but they just won't go.

So, I think Shrike's parents are going to take that bed to their basement for us. We kind of thought that was going to happen today, but there was some miscommunication, and a time crunch, and some grumpiness and exhaustion, and the bed is still here. Disassembled, but still here.

We did move a few other pieces of furniture from that room downstairs today, so we are making progress.

We'd really like to go ahead and get it emptied completely and clean the carpet twenty or thirty times (thanks, cats) before moving the crib and other baby stuff in.

So, about the crib - It's white, has a small three-drawer dresser built in on one end, and two drawers below (I really like that, for storing sheets, etc) and converts to a youth bed.

Right now, it's set up sort of mid-way, with the crib sides off, and the dresser on, but you can get the general idea.


(The dresser comes off to make the bed longer. There's a teeny spring base and mattress that go in that spot. Very cute (see below).)

We'll have to so some assembly, putting back on the rails and the other end of the crib.

The best part?

(Other than Free Crib! For $0.00! That we didn't have to pay for! Did I mention that it was free?!)

This toy, which none of us seem to have any memory of (the last baby to sleep in it will be eight in a couple of months) but that will totally fit our "black and white and red all over" panda bear nursery theme!