We found a crib! [23w]

More garage sale success this weekend! We drove by a couple of garage sales in Laf yesterday (so worthless!) and then gave up and went to Sam's Club to get a membership. We figure we'll save enough in diapers alone to pay for the membership! We did some shopping and then decided we would check out some of the West Laf sales that mentioned baby items even though it was after 10am by then. So we dropped off groceries and went exploring. The first one we stopped at had a crib, but.... it was at least 10 years old, you had to use two hands to put the front down, and the woman had at one point spray painted it and it was chipping in some places. They only wanted $50, but I just couldn't do it. They also had an awesome changing table/dresser for $25 that had already sold. Drat! So we went on to another. It was way out of town in a fancy little subdiv. As we walked up the driveway, the woman says "I still have the crib and dresser if you want to see them!" We say, "actually yes!" She said she saw my "little belly" and thought we might be looking for the crib. Well, it was much better than any crib we've seen garage sale shopping. Most cribs have been 10 years old and I am just not comfortable with that age on a crib. This crib was three years old, obviously in beautiful condition, and the little girl never slept in it once she figured out how to get into her parents' room. :) They also had the toddler bed kit and the full bed kit to change the crib into a bed once snowpea gets bigger. She wanted $45o for the crib with kits, armoire, and dresser. Brian asked if she would be willing to split them up and sell just the crib since we live in an apartment and don't have much room. She said she guessed but she would still want $200 for the crib since it would no longer be a full set. After talking about it, I decided that the crib, two conversion kits, AND a sealy mattress was worth the $200, so we gave her $50 and promised to be back with the rest within the hour. We disassembled it, brought it home, and it's almost all put together now. We are missing two screws for the crib (it was set up as the toddler bed, so we didn't make sure we had all the hardware for the crib) so we need to find replacements for those before it is completely ready. Here's a picture of the crib model (we got it in white, don't have the pull out drawer) so you can see what it will look like. The front does not come down because the curved front is supposed to make it easy enough to lean over and take baby in and Also, those mean old missionaries visited us and convinced us to go to church today, so we took my belly pic for 23 weeks while I was dressed up. Snowpea heard the "din of babies" (Brian's words) during church and decided to join in by jumping all around. Also, whenever I stop singing, he jumps around, so with three hymns, he was having a little dance party in there. My ankles were starting to get sore from sitting with them straight on the ground though. Anyway! We have to go check on Brian's test at the lab again, so that is all for now.

Oops! Forgot this last picture. We are (Brian is) slowly learning about all the places we cannot put snowpea, for storage or otherwise. Here's the latest: (Yeah, that's a rubbermaid bucket...)