Nursery musings

We had our last two homestudy appointments this weekend...one yesterday, one today. Which puts the pressure on me to finish paperchasing some items I've been putting off. Her report on us now has to be finished two weeks from today!

After our social worker left, Corey decided that it was "okay" to go to Babies R Us and look at cribs. He isn't anywhere near the buying stage...I figure in about a year we may be there...and when I told him about all the issues we need to think about regarding cribs, he thought this was way too early to think about all that. But at least he went and it was his idea.

The crib situation is different for us since we aren't going to have a newborn. Our daughter will be around a year old, we think, so she will still be in a crib for a while, especially because it will be what she is used to, but she is going to be closer to toddler bed age than she would be if she were a newborn just home from the hospital. We will probably want her twin bed, when she gets to that age, to be a trundle bed...so we don't really need a crib that converts all the way to a twin or full size...we just need crib to toddler.

We looked at crib sets a little bit. I am working on that little crib-sized quilt I posted a while ago and was thinking of doing her whole crib set to match. I like the bright "Barbie" colors of it. But I don't know. I saw a reeeeeeally cute ladybug set. A lady I know is selling a ladybug crib set that is very nice, but it is mostly green, and since the walls of the nursery are a medium warm green, I don't want a primarily green crib set.

But then we saw this set. The picture isn't great, but it is a ladybug set that is primarily pink with red ladybugs and green accents that would match the green paint very well. I really like all the pink. (My girl will be a girly girl as long as I have any control over it, for the first few years, at least, LOL!) The crib quilt has some minky fabric in it and some sort of ridiculously soft chenille stuff. It feels divine. And there are some flowers. This would go reasonably well with the bright pink, green, black and white shower curtain I got for her bathroom. (Cuz you know her bathroom, which is a jack-n-jill setup, has to match.) It's really a pretty perfect set. I'm torn. There is a cute little matching lamp and the whole shebang. I can still use her other quilt as a go-anywhere quilt, so I don't have to have the nursery match it. I'm torn. I'm afraid if I wait too long, this will get discontinued, with hard to find pieces. There was another ladybug set there in more pastel colors, but we didn't like that one. Corey is okay with this one.

Corey really liked the sets with animals on them...and to be honest, I had always sort of planned on doing our nursery in bright colors with ABC's and animals and there was one set that was pretty much dead-on to what I have had pictured in my head for 10 years. But it isn't pink and now I'm pretty set on my girly girl nursery, so who knows, maybe something like it will be around if we ever go for a boy.

And then there is this set...ladybugs and dragonflies....very elegant, but would require repainting the room...not too crazy about that...

And then there is this, with more green than I really want and not as visually interesting for an exploring toddler as the first set...

And then there is the fact that Corey likes the animal prints, like the ABC one above or this one:

As much as I love the idea of accomodating Corey's animal wishes, I think he is going to have to wait for a boy. And besides, I'm the one who has been planning nurseries in my head for the past 10 years or more. He thought about it all for the first time today and I'm pretty sure the issue has already been tucked away in the nether regions of his brain. I think this is one issue where mommies can't help but trump daddies. I'll let him choose when it is time to get her a car. :-D