The Trips Nursery

The surprise of the triplets made us rethink the entire location of the nursery.  Where would we fit three cribs?  The room that we planed to be the nursery for our "second baby" has a large window and double door closet that didn't leave much wall space for three cribs and a changing table.  Plus, it was currently occupied by our Great Dane, Maynard.  The futon that he claimed as his bed was in this room.  We were already concerned about taking his favorite bed away to convert it to a nursery, but now with three babies coming we really hated to take his refuge away.  We had to come up with a new plan...

So we moved our office into Maynard's room and kept Maynard's bed in there as well.  Maynard loves hanging out with anyone who is working in the office.  Derek now uses the new office all the time, which is funny because he never used the old office.  The location, layout, and size is all better than it was before we moved it.

The old office space became the trips nursery.  It has more wall space, it's next to our bedroom, and it's farther away from Ben's bedroom (although the babies have never woken Ben up in the middle of the night).  It's still not a large room so we opted for convertible mini cribs that will convert into twin size beds when they get older.  Mini cribs are awesome because they fit through door ways.  For the first few weeks, we moved one of the cribs into our bedroom, so the babies could sleep comfortably in our room at night.  We quickly moved them to their nursery at night.  It's hard to sleep with three babies making their little noises at night.

Mini crib bedding on the other hand is very difficult to find.  It's either very plain or very expensive.  Luckily, our friend's mom gladly agreed to custom make bedding for us!  Teri and Connie even went shopping for the fabric and would bring samples by my house while I was on bed rest.  I can't thank them enough for their beautiful work!