Monday, July 25, 2011

Baby Harrison has furniture!

Josh and I have been on the search of baby furniture for awhile. I have had no issue with getting used furniture and we scoured Craigslist every night in search of the perfect furniture. We were not having very good luck and I started having dreams that the baby would come and we wouldn't have anything, granted I still have 23 weeks to go however, if you know us you would understand. On Saturday we decided to begin our baby registry, my mom is hosting a "virtual" shower for me when I go to visit in August and I wanted guests to have the opportunity to get something we have chosen. So we went to Target and discovered that a lot of their inventory was gone and were told that they would be restocking Thursday just in time for us to come back later to register for more things. We decided to head on up to Ikea to see if they had gotten in any new baby furniture, the style of our apartment is Ikea-ish and their furniture is affordable. We made our way to the Children's section and were shocked to find no cribs- none- they all had vanished. My heart sank a little and we asked one of the workers what had happened to the cribs. She stated that their cribs were not up to 2011 USA standards and that a new set of cribs would hopefully be in around December. Ummm... No thanks. We then ventured to a couple second hand children's shops who informed us that they are no longer able to sell cribs to to all of the various standards. In my state of shock and sadness we passed another Target and I decided that I just wanted to go in and see if they had anything. We found a crib that was more than 50% off its original price, they also offered a changing table, dresser and matching glider. But..... this store no longer had any of the furniture. A customer service rep helped us tremendously by searching all the Target's in the area for all of the pieces of furniture. We grabbed a lemonade, sat down and began making calls. Only one store had the crib, 2 stores had the dresser, 1 store had the changing table and no one had the glider. We hoped in the car and drove from Middletown to Fields Ertel collecting our pieces of furniture. On Sunday, after church and grocery shopping, in between loads of laundry we put together the furniture.


           The beginning








 The baby room setup



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