Therefore, we hightailed it over to Ikea and selected a new bed! And by 'we' I mean Brian and Tom and by 'new bed' I mean Ikea's Hemnes Daybed. Brian and I had contemplated the toddler bed for maybe one second when we bought the crib before we even had Kate. Our decision was always "hopefully we will be using that crib for another baby by the time Kate needs a bed". So we bought a crib that is only a crib and does not convert into any sort of toddler bed or full size bed. We also didn't have much interest in transitioning from a crib to a toddler bed and then again from a toddler bed to a big girl bed, so this daybed was our perfect solution!
Three of the four sides are enclosed and it also pulls out to fit another twin size mattress. This makes it even more awesome! I can envision many-a-sleepovers in the not so distant future where Kate and her friends will fit and sleep in this same bed! This bed is also grown-up enough that we can decorate her room now and ten years from now using the same furniture (if we want to) and not have it look too childish. This bed is awesome! And by 'awesome' I mean perfect for many different scenarios so go buy one!
Our plans were not to head to Ikea this weekend, or spend the whole weekend putting together Ikea furniture, but, like I mentioned, Kate started climbing out of her crib and that is not a safe choice in our household, so we moved our trip up to accommodate our local monkey.
Brian and Tom drove down and back to Ikea on Friday night. It's just under two hours from us, right outside of Cincinnati, OH. They loaded up on lots of boxes while Mary, Kate, Jack and I hung out at the homestead. (Totally my kind of Friday!)
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| Tom - yes, Gangsta Tom - and the loot from Ikea! |
We bought this bed in the white color and chose to buy the matching dresser and nightstand and a white bookshelf as well since the rest of Kate's furniture in her room was about to be looted and moved to our spare room.
Mary and Tom returned on Saturday to help us build our new furniture. Brian and Tom spent ALL DAY working on the bed and dresser. And by 'ALL DAY' I mean they started in the morning when they arrived aroun 10 am and didn't stop until nearly 9 pm when they finished. I don't think Brian or Tom have any interest in ever building an Ikea bed again. Oh, and also, that bed won't fit through the doorway, so it's in that room for good now!
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| Kate and I played on the Ikea boxes before the building started while Daddy caught up on some zzz's! |
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| Love that little leg! |
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| The builders...realizing their undertaking. |
Once they were finally done building, Kate tested the new bed out!
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| It looks so comfy, right?! She even said so herself and that totally made us laugh!!! Love! |
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| Kate thought so too! |
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| She looks so little in this big bed!!! |
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| Our big girl in her big girl bed! |
The mattresses that we bought from Ikea have a bit of a chemical smell to them, and this really freaks me out, so they are airing out in the garage. I'm not entirely sure what that smell is, but I refuse to let them in our house or let Kate sleep on them with the way that they smell, so she's still sleeping in our bed for the time being, but at least when we are ready to put them on the bed it will be good to go. And, yes, I said mattresses as a plural because we did buy two for when we need to pull out the bottom half of the bed and use it!
Later on Sunday, Kate helped Daddy build her nightstand! Such a good helper!
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| I heart her! |
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| Such a dainty way to use a screw driver, right?! |
We spent all weekend, literally, going to Ikea and building furniture for Kate's big girl room. I am so excited to decorate again and pick out some fun things for her new room! I'm thinking a canopy with twinkle lights of some sort and lots of color!
Stay tuned! I will try to post updates as we get to them!
UPDATE:
We ended up buying completely new and a different brand of mattresses because that chemical smell never faded from the Ikea ones. I was too afraid to use them for my baby. But we have brand new ones that don't have an odor and are perfectly comfy!
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