A crib for Ashlyn!

Since arriving here we’ve been borrowing a "Pack n' Play" for Ashlyn to sleep in. Lately I’ve been feeling bad since the mattress is so thin; it can’t be very comfortable for her. So, since she has an up and coming birthday we decided to use it as a good excuse to go crib shopping!

About an hour from us is a road with shops all along it selling hand made, wood furniture. It is pretty fun place to visit. The shops are just extensions of the people's homes; it is really impressive to see how they make everything!
After awhile of driving around to different shops everything started looking the same. But then we found a crib we liked…it has two wooden drawers on the bottom and one side of the crib unlatches and folds down. It also has a canopy that is removable. Pretty snazzy! I’m imagining hitting my head on the canopy, so we’ll see how long it stays attached.
Not only was this the crib we liked the most, but it was the least expensive one we had looked at!

Ashlyn really seems to like crawling around in it and "walking" herself around by holding onto the bars. Tomorrow we are going to buy a mattress for it and pick out some fabric to have sheets made. The crib mattresses here are just thick pieces of foam. After purchasing the foam you take it to the tailor and pick out fabric for the sheets. Then the tailors sew a whole mattress cover as a sheet with a zipper to get it on and off the foam. I’m excited to pick out fabric for the sheets and start to make her room a little more “homey”.