A Baby is Going to Live Here!

We are pretty much as ready as we are going to be for Miss Luna! On Friday we went to a shop in Sint Truiden and made the owner's day by spending an astonishing amount of money (no really, take whatever you imagined and then triple it, we both nearly had heart attacks) getting the remaining things we needed. They delivered all the packages to our house, everything except the stroller system, which we had to order and will not get before the end of next week. I'll definitely post pictures of the stroller when it arrives, its very European, nothing like the stroller systems we have at home. Its more like a modern pram.

We have been working very hard all weekend, and as of about six o'clock this evening, we are finished! The baby stuff is all assembled and her room is put together! I do still have more laundry to do before all of her clothes and blankets are clean, but laundry is slow when you can only do one load a day. Both G and I are so proud of how it turned out, we both expect to keep peeking in there every ten minutes. After all, its not only adorable, but its the only room in the house that is put together!


Here are a few pictures, more can be found on my Photobucket page. The crib went together relatively easily (G barely swore at all compared to the last piece of furniture he had to assemble), and the bedding set looks great with it. For those that haven't seen it, this is the rocking horse that was mine when I was a child. My dad refinished it for Luna. He also refinished a cradle that was mine when I was a child, it looks lovely. Its not in these pictures because it is in our bedroom, where she will sleep in it for the first couple months.

The "changing table" is a cupboard my grandfather made me many years ago. It has been spruced up with some removable stickers and a changing pad has been placed on top. We didn't have anything for her clothes other than some plastic drawers, so I dressed those up with stickers as well - I may no longer be living in Maine, but I haven't lost my Yankee ingenuity. And finally, the light fixture G picked up and installed yesterday. I just love it!

Having her room completed is making this all much more real for both of us. Tomorrow I will be nine months, and before we know it, our little family will be three!