Mini Cribs

Ryan and I live in a small apartment. Honestly if I had seen this apartment when I was in college I would have been surprised people settle for such a limited amount of space. However, when I was in college I would have also fainted at the price tag for any DC apartment no matter what the size or location.

This apartment is larger than our NYC studio or our first basement apartment in DC but it is still only a one bedroom. And that bedroom is mostly full of our bed. One of the first discussions when the baby came on the scene was where to put it. We were slightly concerned but figured if others have handled it so could we. Then we went to the baby store and saw a full size crib. By DC standards they are huge and there was basically NO WAY we were going to be able to fit one of those in our bedroom. Maybe if we moved our bed into the living room which honestly was a fairly lengthy conversation which ended when we decided that WE were the grownups and we should be able to get to sleep in the bedroom.

Then I remembered the power of Google. What are all those other metro mommies and daddies doing in their tiny NYC and DC apartments? The answer according to Google was mini-cribs. (a second answer was co-sleeping but Ryan nixed that one) After some shopping around we have chosen this one (below) and I ordered it today. VERY EXCITING!

So baby will be in our room, in a mini-crib for at least the first little bit. Now we just need to find some mini-crib bedding that isn't pastel.