Separate Cribs!
I can’t believe it: this week our babies started sleeping in separate cribs. I remember their first night home from the hospital, when we put them in the co-sleeper in our room, and they were so tiny I figured they’d never grow out of it. Not only did we have to graduate them to a crib in their own room by two months, but this week Julian started scooching around so much at night that he was shoving Eloise aside and knocking her head into the crib rails. The choice was clear. Another milestone passed.
While it was slightly bittersweet (in the sunrise, sunset kind of way) to put them in their own cribs, I mostly just thought it was pretty cool to see them there. It really drove home to me how much they’ve grown (notice that I do not say how fast they’ve grown — that first night home from the hospital seems like an eon and a half ago). So much good stuff is ahead, and it finally seems as though we just might get to it someday.
By the way, Julian continues to scooch. And last night, suddenly the sound of the mobile music came over the monitor. He’d turned himself sideways and had managed to kick the button that starts the mobile, waking up Eloise but not himself.
Decorated
Hey, so, when you have babies, turns out you need a place to put stuff. Also, turns out there’s tons of adorable stuff out there to decorate a babies’ room. It can be a little overwhelming, which is why it took us forever to get the room put together. Of course, now that it’s all set up, we have nothing to do but sit in there and say to each other, “When are the babies getting here?” I suppose we should enjoy that “new room smell” for as long as we can.
A tour? Sure!
We never got around to picking a theme for the room. Well, that’s putting it mildly: we spent hours at Babies “R” Us arguing about which bedding set we should get, and whether we needed a bedding set, and whether any of the bedding sets would match our paint color, and whether we should buy a set (because did we really want the crib bumpers?) or just individual sheets (but are they less cute?), and debated the names of patterns long enough that “Bunny Meadow” stopped sounding ridiculous. Finally, we remembered that we’re not really “matching” people. Our home decor can probably be generously described as “eclectic” rather than “well-thought out,” or “coordinating,” or, you know, “tasteful.” It’s fitting, then, that our babies’ room reflects our hopes for them: adorable, but a little crazy.
The toughest decision, furniture-wise, was a changing table. We spent quite a bit of time going back on forth on our options here (and by this I mainly mean walking back and forth between showrooms at IKEA), and finally decided that the changing tables, per se, were not the best option for us. Instead, we got an IKEA HEMNES dresser, plopped a changing pad on it, and hung an IKEA LACK shelf above it for supplies and things:
The bins are from Land of Nod, and, of course, no changing table is complete without a giraffe to watch over the scene.
Other highlights of the changing table area include Jefe the Heffalump and Chippy, my stuffed chipmunk whom I’ve had since I was three, and these awesome nightlights Andre and Meghal got us. (And seriously, how awesome is that giraffe?)
Let’s talk about these cute cribs (thanks again to Rachel and Liz) now all decked out with monkey decals, and monkey sheets, and a rather spectacular mobile:
We’re going to put them in the same crib to start out, and you can see the little “sheet saver” pads we’ll park them on to sleep.
The glider is from Dutallier, and is ridiculously comfortable. (The handmade quilt is from Rachel’s college roommate, Liz):
Other décor highlights include these cute nursery rhyme thingies from Rachel’s mom, four incredibly cool prints from Etsy, and some kick-ass parachuting sheep decals. Yes, parachuting sheep.
Oh, and look who wandered in! It’s Rachel, at 34 weeks pregnant!
So, that’s the babies’ room. (There’s more detailed notes on some of the pictures if you click through to Flickr.) Stay tuned for breaking news about the twins’ arrival date…
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