Yesterday Jon and I made our first non-onesie-or-t-shirt baby purchase: a crib mattress! Saturday Jon's mom told us she found a good crib at a garage sale of a friend of hers and asked if we were interested. Of course! Used baby furniture is the greatest thing ever. So I drove up to Greeley and helped her disassemble the thing and put it in my car. On Sunday Jon had to go to a street festival to work a booth for his shop, so I stayed home and washed and reassembled the crib in the baby's room-to-be. The room is coming together nicely. We even got rid of the extra coffee table we were using to stack junk on. Now the only things in the nursery (haha, that word is so silly) are a guest bed, which is staying, the CRIB (how awesome is that), a bookcase with Jon's albums that we haven't figured out how to store, and miscellaneous knitting and other stuff. It's fabulous. We won't be able to decorate it like a really baby's room since we are renters so I'm trying to figure out ways to make it look nice. I have no good ideas yet. Perhaps I will pull out my trusty sewing machine and make some curtains or a valence or something.
After the festival (the 4-20 festival...sheesh) we went to Baby Depot, bought a seemingly fine crib mattress and all-natural, hypo-allergenic mattress pad. Jon's mom had bought a crib sheet already, because she's cool like that. Now the crib is all set up, with a mattress and sheets and everything. We put Sophie in it as a test run and the thing didn't fall apart, so that is a good sign. The ends of the crib are solid pieces of wood laminate that Jon is going to paint something on once we find out the gender. I have requested no skulls, but he has made no promises. The man loves to paint skulls...
So I feel like a mom, getting ready for the baby. It's very fun and a little scary. There are approximately 5 million things that we need to buy between now and September, but yesterday was the very first purchase.
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