A Wee Bit Of Organizing

After Christmas I felt like something needed to be done to tackle the large influx of new toys.  I needed a little more order and I needed to keep the amount of free floor space status quo.  Target was calling my name, and once there I saw these cube shelves on sale.  God bless my dear husband's heart, because he agreed to assemble them the day after his wisdom teeth surgery. (So let's brush over the fact that he looks a little rough around the edges with a super swollen face and messy hair, okay?)

 Sam was daddy's little helper with his new hammer from his workbench gift

I think Anna appreciated the new found order just like her mama

I am loving the shelves and wondering why we didn't do this earlier.  Sam and Anna love to pull out a cube and drag it to the living room if they want to play with the contents, and, although we've always had good clean-uppers, a specific place for everything really facilitates a speedy clean up too!

* I should add that after we figure out what works best in the bins, I plan on taking pictures of the toys and putting them on the front of the bins so Sam and Anna can self select what they want more easily.  Also, we totally have more paperback books than that, but I downsized and brought a bunch to my classroom.  I am going to rotate some in and out as their interests change and as they get older.  We also have a book bin in our living room of books.

Baby Laundry

7 baby laundry loads later this weekend... all the washable stuff we have is washed and put away!

(The plan was to do this over winter break, but then our dryer broke. It wasn't fixable. Since our microwave and dishwasher have also broken in the month or so, we got a new vehicle and bought the dressers, a new dryer wasn't an option, really. We really lucked out and got a dryer on Craigslist for $50- that actually matches our washer. After getting some baby stuff on there too- I'm really beginning to love Craigslist!)

I've been finding out that it is a little bit of an organizational nightmare to make sure we have enough clothing in each particular size and about an equal amount of each type with one boy and girl on the way. It would be sooo much easier if they could both wear every single article of clothing we have, but someone I'm guessing my husband won't let me put our son in a pink and flowery outfit. So I've made a list of what we have and what we need to be covered (according to twin books I've read) trying to balance out the number of onesies/sleepers/outfits/hats/bibs/socks/etc. by gender. I think we have newborn to 3 months pretty much covered now. Yay! We could use a few more boy outfits to make things more equal, because my coworker gave me a slew of girly outfits so that's a little off balance, but outfits aren't really necessary and we do have a few boy outfits. I'm okay with not having enough 3-6 month clothes or beyond, because I'm not really sure how big they'll be for the warmer summer months and I plan on going to garage sales this summer to help with that.

My husband also put together the two dressers last week, so it was very exciting to hang AND put stuff away in drawers. It's really beginning to feel like things are coming together. I'm itching now to buy a new window covering, since that's really the last thing the room needs. I do want a small bookshelf for books and a lamp, but those things aren't as important. I kept my husband busy this weekend: he also painted letters to hang above the cribs with the names we picked- we hung them to get the nails in place and then took them down to keep our secret until the twins' birth day!

A shot of the closet- these are only newborn and 0-3 month sized clothes that can be hung (excluding outfits and onesies):

Here are the finished quilts, as well:

Notice the fabric that is carried through both quilts. Brown and sage green are the colors of other things in the room like the changing pad cover, wall color, and hopefully the window treatment. I know I said it before, but it should be said again: I am so blessed to have such a talented friend to make our babies the quilts for us! They really help tie in the coordinating colors for both babies in the room.

Dressers Ordered, Check!

After searching the Internet a little bit today, I found the following dressers and decided to go with them for our babies' room. The shorter dresser will work perfectly for a changing table. Thanks to online shopping on overstock.com, our babies got a Christmas present today too! Hopefully they will be delivered before the end of my winter break so I can start putting things away in them.

I also ordered letters from this website for the babies' names above the crib. I liked the ability to choose between so many fonts. We chose the Tango BT font and will be painting them white. So progress was made today!