Thank you all SO much for your feedback on the bed choice for Jasper’s room! I decided to go with the tide of popular opinion and get the full size bed in Navy, which thankfully is being discontinued and on clearance for $439. They totally get you on shipping/delivery though, charging a mandatory “in home delivery” fee of $125 AS WELL as a $50ish fee for “shipping and processing” (??) and all that is BEFORE a mattress which we have yet to purchase.

I actually called the store to see if those fees apply if you purchase in store rather than online and she told me that they could have it shipped to the store where we could pick it up (yay!) so I drove over the bridge to the Westchester Mall Pottery Barn Kids to go place my order Saturday morning. I needed some groceries too, so I figured we could kill two birds with one stone and hit the Whole foods next door afterwards.

Let me just insert two facts here:

1) Jeff is away on a business trip and

2) I am getting BIG really really fast. At only 18 weeks I’m already feeling discomfort doing things like putting on my socks, picking things up off the floor – stuff I don’t remember feeling uncomfortable doing until the 3rd trimester with Jasper.

For reference, see last weeks belly picture taken at 17 weeks:

So I’m big and flying solo and to be honest, I’m usually just thankful to have something to do to get us out of the house to pass the time when daddy is away.   But I wasn’t taking into account the fact that a trip to Pottery Barn Kids is not much different than taking your child to a toy store – i.e. last place on earth you want to go with them.

While we were walking around the store Jasper attached himself to a child sized wheelbarrow…which was super cute when he was wheeling bear around in it, but the cuteness wore off when he threw a fit when I wouldn’t purchase it for him!  I’m a huge pushover, and if it were not $69 and virtually impossible to get back to our car I probably would have given in but I couldn’t.  So as I was ordering his bed he proceeded to bring over to me at least 7 other toys that he wanted and I finally had to just buy him an $8 bath toy just to  keep him quiet!

So, imagine my annoyance when I go to ring everything up and find out that they will not ship the full size bed to the store!!!!!! Like I said, I called to ask but no one ever said twin size beds only. Grrr. So in the end I could have just shopped online and saved myself the trouble.

At least we got our groceries – and they even had a cute “make your mom bath salts” craft at Whole foods that Jasper really enjoyed. The  downside is that it’s sooo hard for me to lift  Jasper in and out of the carts now – not too mention carrying all the heavy grocery bags.  I’m torn between wanting to be really cautious about what I do physically but also wanting to do as much as I can NOW before I’m REALLY huge and useless!

While at PBK I ordered (well,back-ordered) their cute grey chevron sheets which combined with the  left over fuchsia pom poms have given me an idea for the girls’ nursery:

Something like that anyway!  We put the pom poms in the girls’ room for storage but I realized how great the color looked with the springy green walls.

I love banners and want to do one for each girl’s name. This cute burlap one is from this etsy seller: http://www.etsy.com/shop/MirtilloShop?ref=seller_info

And the frame of course is from the Organic Bloom – this is a Lucy double stack with Mint on the outside and French Vanilla on the inside.  Here’s another mock up from OB baby room wall guide:

I can see the green being the base that I can use several different pinks to accent with, and the silvery grey from the sheets will just be a nice neutral anchor element.   It’s not necessarily the color combo I would have gone with if I were starting from scratch, but the room color is pretty – or at least pretty enough that it doesn’t seem worth the effort of changing it.. what do you think?

Hope you all had a wonderful mother’s day!

 

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