Baby Furniture

After finally making the decision to stay in our basement apartment (where we feel God calling us to live the next several months until we buy a house this summer), we ordered our baby furniture. We didn't know where we were going to put it all, but we decided that we better buy it before we become a one-income family.

Gene has been great at helping me see that, even though a one bedroom apartment is not where I desire to be right now, God is providing for us in unique ways. And, what hilarious stories to share with our child some day! ("Yes, my son/daughter. It's true. Daddy and I had to use one of the shelves in the closet as your make-shift crib until we moved out of our apartment.") haha....Luckily it's not quite that cramped in our apartment right now. In fact, after Gene put together the chest of drawers and the changing table that we ordered, we found out that both of those pieces of furniture fit perfectly in our bedroom next to my dresser. Our bedroom is actually pretty large, so it worked! (And the thing that surprised me the most was that the baby's furniture is actually almost the same color as our bedroom furniture, so it doesn't look completely awful in the room together.) The only thing that's sad is that we have no room to put together our crib, so it will remain in the box. BUT, Gene's mom is giving us the cradle that was Gene's as a baby, so we'll have that to use for now.

Anyway, here are some pictures of my wonderful husband getting a good use out of his new tools.


First Project: Assembling the Matching Toy Box

Second Project: Assembling the Chest of Drawers

Third Project: Assembling the Changing Table and Hanging the Hungry Caterpillar Painting

Gene couldn't resist adding this alligator hamper to our furniture order.