Nursery, Phase 1

After coming home from New York and having a wonderful Christmas with both sets of families, Project Getting Ready for Baby officially began.

We had decided, after some debate, to convert this room:
into the nursery.

As you can see, it's over-ridden with junk. Over the past three years, this room became the catch-all, and it served its purpose well until now.

We cleaned out, moved the furniture, and created quite a garage sale pile in the process.

Once the room was empty, Trey started painting! He did such a good job. He bought the low fumes paint that cost way too much. He spent so much time prepping the room by stripping all the old caulking around the room and re-caulking everything. He patched all the nail holes and a crack in the wall by the closet. He even took time to clean the window, and since we have old storm windows, that was quite a chore. He even painted the closet for me-so sweet. He ended by painting the trim and the baseboards.

Once we got it painted, we had to put the crib together! At this point, this is what we have.


I don't remember the name of the paint color, but I think it turned out really well. The crib is a cherry finish, and it converts later if we want to do that. Right now, a changing pad is in there (thanks to Kristin and Tyson Wallis!), but a mattress is coming soon. Obviously, we need the rest of the furnishings, but we're working on that. I think my mom is going to make some curtains, as well. Hopefully, phase 2 will be published shortly!

We put the teddy bear we bought baby boy at FAO Schwartz in the crib along with a little doggy snuggly that my mom bought him for Christmas.

We also spent some time putting the things we do have for him into his closet. It was nice to get all of his stuff out of our room and into his.

For now, we're storing his clothes in the sweater storage hanger. I think I'll leave it in there for blankets, onesies, etc. His little hoodie that Lauren and Jason gave us looks pretty cute hanging there. You can see some of our jackets on the left. Those will have to stay for now because we don't have any other closet room, and we figured he won't need the whole closet for a long time. On the top shelf we have a little bear pull toy for him, an elephant bank that Katie gave us, and a ceramic school bus that was in Trey's room when he was little.

Hopefully, we'll have more to put into his closet after the first shower this weekend!! It'll be very fun, and I'm excited to see my old college roommates and family!

This little guy will be here before we know it, and I'm excited to see him in there finally!