Getting the nursery ready

I've been in a bit of panic mode as the baby's due date is approaching very quickly and we are just not ready at all! First, we wanted to wait to find out whether it was a boy or girl. Then the focus was Christmas and then... suddenly we are here and she's almost here!

I knew one thing. Even if I had a girl, I wanted to redo the nursery. I was tired of the old bedding and it had a rip in the bed skirt anyway. When we found out our crib was recalled due to having a drop-side rail (they're now illegal), it kind of cemented the idea that we were going to redecorate. This time I wanted to go bright and cheery. So, I made finding a new crib and bedding my first priority.

Here's what we ended up with (I'll explain the paint in a minute.)

Next we had to find the paint. We tried several samples that were either too light or too dark (as you can see). 

So I found a place that was able to mix me something in between and we finally hit the right match. The girls were very excited to help paint. Britt was happy I didn't want stripes this time! (We have stripes in the playroom and we did several different widths of stripes in Nicole's room at our previous house.

Time for a reading break.

Of course, it couldn't be just paint! But Britt didn't seem to mind putting in a chair rail and painting the bottom white. Especially when he had this cute little helper.

So far, so good. We'll keep you posted on the progress.