When I was pregnant with Harry, my dad bought this gorgeous stained pine wardrobe for his nursery. It has 2 rails for clothes, shelves, and large drawers..... a really lovely piece of furniture.
When we moved into this house, his new bedroom already had a built in closet but because we loved the wardrobe so much we took the doors off and the shelf out of the closet, and put the wardrobe into the alcove where it's sat looking glorious ever since.
The nursery doesn't have a built in closet, so G decided that we would take Harry's wardrobe down there, and then put the doors and shelf back on the built in one in his room. I reluctantly agreed.
Yesterday then, G starts to move the wardrobe down there. It is extremely heavy and large and obviously I'm not doing much in the way of lifting right now, so he had to struggle with it on the dolly thing ..... it separates into 2 sections. He managed to take the lower half down on the dolly and place it in the rom. The upper half (considerably heavier) he had to wheel down next doors drive and in through the playroom doors on the lower floor. Then into the hall and down to the nursery - in theory.
In practise it ended up getting stuck in the doorway. No amount of maneuvering would get it through that door and around that corner so G then had the bright idea of taking out a window in one of the other rooms and lifting it in that way. One smashed window later and he finally gave up on the idea and decided that we would buy a new wardrobe for the nursery. Which is what I wanted all along but the process of getting there was not ideal, LOL.
Ended up getting one from IKEA which would not be my first choice for furniture but after spending gazillions already G vetoed the $700 one I wanted from the local furniture store that I like and said we would get something at Ikea. It's nice, mind you. It's white - which all girly furniture should be. She currently has a pine crib and drawers but when she's big enough for a proper bed she'll get white... so a white wardrobe it must be.
G had some weird throwing up bug yesterday morning and then I had it this morning - well I threw up around midnight last night then again at 4am then felt dire for a couple of hours before feeling remarkably better - which is the same path his followed...... so he stayed home for a couple of hours this morning while I recovered and he put the wardrobe together. Harry helped, making sure that he had his 'bang' (hammer) with him at all times.
Harry is very funny about the nursery - he keeps identifying things like the crib, the drawers, as his. Of course to him they ARE his..... and he won't have it any other way. He keeps asking to get in HIS bed. I also bought for the baby a pink rabbit cuddle blankie thing, which is very similar to something Harry cannot go anywhere without - his being a green frog cuddle thing which he calls his 'baby'. Seeing the pink one in the nursery he immediately identified it as a 'baby' and demanded to hold it and announced that it was HIS.
Posted by katie at April 23, 2007 03:43 PM