Mission Accomplished: Baby Furniture Selected

At the set out of this weekend, Mike and I declared that we were bound and determined to have purchased baby furniture by the end of the weekend. We didn't make it out to do any shopping yesterday, so that left today. In the end, after three hours of roaming around a gigantic baby furniture warehouse, we were successful! The owner of the store was incredibly helpful and put up with all of our waffling and comments like, "I don't really like that set. I don't know why. I just don't." (Of course, comments like this were always from me.) But we had to put up with his idiosyncrasies as well. He was quite a talker, launching into a 20 minute tirade at one point about how there really is no danger at all to using crib bumpers and there's so much incorrect information out there that just ends up terrifying new parents. Through all of his talking, he ran us all around the store from crib to crib, dresser to dresser, giving us all of the details on each one. In the end, he helped us find just what we wanted. Ultimately, our only small concern is that we chose a crib and a dresser with hutch from two different brands, so we're hoping the colors coordinate well. They seemed to match very well in the store (much better than in the pictures below), so hopefully they will when the actual pieces arrive in our house as well. Either way, we keep reminding ourselves, it's just baby furniture. The baby will have no idea whether everything is the perfect shade or not. All that really matters is that everything is very safe and well constructed -- which the pieces we chose are. The pieces we ordered are shown below. Our next task is to clean out the nursery (currently the office) to prepare for the arrival of all this furniture. The crib will go in our bedroom for about the first six months, but we still want to have the nursery all prepared for the little one's arrival in February so that we're not scrambling to put it together once the craziness of life with a newborn begins.