nursery continued...

Saturday we went to IKEA. We'd been alerted to the fact that one of the dressers we'd registered for was out of stock in Seattle and cost $300 to ship from another store. For an $80 dresser, that seemed a bit much. So we planned a trip to IKEA with the original intent of choosing a different furniture set. Well, a little bit of early birthday money got the better of us and we purchased both the 5-drawer-tall dresser we'd also had on our registry and also a 3-drawer-tall, 2 drawer-wide dresser. turns out the other piece was indeed in stock, but what with all these showers, we were beginning to understand we needed a little more storage space than we had originally thought! So that was silly, but very exciting.

Sunday morning we woke up and had a fun breakfast of waffles and choc croissants and cheesy scramble. Darren had spent the night (okay, used our place as a closer-than-mom-and-dad's place to crash) and I like to use guests as an excuse to have a fun breakfast. So we made banana choc chip waffles and enjoyed ourselves. Then Mom and Dad showed up with the cribs in the trunk, which we unloaded and then zipped off to church all together. After church we went to brunch in Seattle at Gordon Biersch where they had a special brunch menu that included monte cristoe sandwiches which are my birthday favorite. 3 of us ordered the monte cristoes and they were quite excellent!

Then it was back home for some furniture moving!

Step 1: The boys moved the futon downstairs (which was nice and easy, they didn't even have to take it apart)
Step 2: Open Dana bday presents!
Step 3: Stack one dresser on top of another in our room.
Step 4: Move the large dresser to the newly vacant spot.
Step 5: Move desk 1 from the soon-to-be nursery downstairs so it would be out of the nursery way and so that we'll be motivated to get rid of it because it is still in the middle of our living room...
Step 6: Move desk 2 into our room where the large dresser used to be.

About this point we lost Dad. We later found him here:





(it is a very comfy couch.)









But Mom, Darren, Blake, and I pushed on. We pushed on w/ a run to QFC first for ice cream and brownie mix by darren, but then he returned so fast (we do live just half a block away) that he had already returned before I said "and triscuits and sharp cheddar cheese" so blake kindly ran and got those too! meanwhile, mom and I sorted floss (thread) for the stitcheries I'm going to work on... just as soon as they put me on bed rest. which so far they have not, which is good, but I'm mildly worried about when I'll do these stitcheries if I work right up to delivery! but anyways, soon darren was making brownies, we were all eating triscuits, and then we started in on crib #1. It wasn't ridiculously hard, but at one point (after we ate the brownies and ice cream) Darren disappeared and we later found him downstairs, near dad...





(that is not nearly as comfortable of a place to sleep I must say. so he had to be pretty tired...)






And, to be honest, while I had not disappeared downstairs, I was lying on the floor of the nursery myself. still talking, but if there had been fewer drill noises, I might also have drifted off...

So when "we" finished that crib we went downstairs, snapped those pictures, and then woke Dad and Darren up and they and mom headed out to dinner - it was about 7:00 at that point. Blake and I headed upstairs and took a nap. We woke up to eat a little food, and then went back to sleep for the night. It was a very full day! Lots of furniture got moved, and crib #1 was built.

Hurrah to us!