1) I'm a planner. A bit obsessively. (uh, hello? I was an event planner in my past life. It's what I do.)
2) I'm cheap.
Because of these two things, sleeping arrangements for the kids once Thing 3 arrives have been weighing heavily on my mind.
The most long-term cost effective solution would be to buy bunk beds that can be two twins and move Thing 2 into a big boy bed. Howwwwwever, as cheap as I am, I'm also quite fond of my sleep, and considering he only started sleeping through the night in his crib not two months ago, I'm hesitant to mess up what we've got going by moving him to a bed he can get himself out of. So, then I thought, we'll just get another crib and move Thing 2 into Thing 1's room in his current bed. But, my inner tightass screams IT'S A WASTE OF MONEY TO BUY A SECOND CRIB. On the flip side, though, it would be cheaper in the short-term than buying a bunk set and mattresses. Conundrum, no?
I had an epiphany this morning. We have, in our possession, a $100 credit at Target, thanks to the recall on our first crib (it used to be a much bigger credit, but our front room needed some love from my most favorite store). So, I realized we could get a crib for REALLY cheap.
Then I got to thinking about what we'd do for a dresser. Thing 1 still has the chest that matched his crib, but it's cherry and doesn't match anything else since I want to do white in the new baby's room. And Thing 2 has a nice espresso crib, but I want to move that with him since it matches his bed and will match the bunk beds I have picked out.
And then I realized I could PAINT it! I've been wanting to paint a piece of the kids' furniture a fun, bright color.
But that brought me to another problem. We're not finding out the sex of this baby. If it's a boy, we'll reuse Thing 2's adorable bedding, which is light blue, white, brown and orange. If it's a girl, we'll get bedding and I was thinking I wanted black/white and lavender. Lord knows I won't have time to paint the crib after the baby's born, so what color could I paint it so that it would work for either?
ROBIN'S EGG BLUE!
Ka-ching!
I'm FINALLY getting excited about getting ready for the baby (I know, I know. I'm only 16.5w pregnant. I have plenty of time. But, I was way further in the planning stages with both boys by this point. And, I'm just gearing up for my busiest time of year with my business and then we have the holidays and the boys' birthdays, so I really don't have all that much free time).
I found some really cute bedding at Pottery Barn Kids that would work perfectly with blue.
Then I had another epiphany.
Robin's egg blue with RED accents for a girl!
Lovedy Love Love.
So now I just have to keep my peepers peeled for stuff I can put in online shopping carts and order if we end up with a daughter. And for new little touches for if it's a boy. Gotta make it the new baby's "own," ya know.
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