Alaina's Temporary Closet

As you all know, we bought a house and are planning on moving 3 months after Alaina arrives. Because of the short time we'll be in this condo, we decided not to set up the nursery until we move into our new house. Alaina will be bunking with us in our room on a PackNPlay in the meantime. After my baby shower, I realized I had no where to put all her clothes! She's got so many! Our second room is packed with Alaina's stuff and both closets in that room are filled with storage stuff. I was planning on just putting all her clothes in our bedroom but she just has way too many clothes for that small available space. So, Shawn and I made a stop at Bed Bath and Beyond the past weekend and I spent almost a whole day setting up a "temporary" closet for her. We bought a temporary garment rack on wheels and also a cheap 4-drawer cart to temporarily store all her clothes and onsies. Alaina has so much clothes already, we really shouldn't need to buy any for awhile. She's so lucky to have such great eemos who bought her so many cute clothes, and she also received some really nice hand-me-downs.






Above are pictures of her "temporary" closet and drawer set. As you can see, she has tons of clothes already on hangers, and the black 4-drawer set to the right stores all her onsies. The top two drawers are literally full of onsies, labeled as 0-3 months for the top drawer and 3-6 months for the 2nd drawer. The 3rd drawer has all her misc clothes, like jeans, some pants, and other clothes that couldn't be on hangers or catergorized as "onsies". I used all the pretty storage boxes we have and put them in good use. I stored all her receiving blankets, burp clothes, bibs, hats, mittens, socks, swaddles, towels and washcloth sets in those pretty storage boxes. Wow, can't believe this is all for one baby!! I tried to be as organized as possible but I'm sure once she arrives, it won't look the same! Poor Alaina has to wait to get her full nursery, but I will make a promise that she'll get the beautiful nursery she deserves once we move.

I'm done organizing her clothes, but I still have a lot more to do. I have tons of things to still unpack and store to get ready for her arrival. I still have 2 more months to go but I just want to make sure it's all done in advance so I don't have to worry about it so close to the delivery, just in case she decides to come early. I want to make sure I have everything set at least a month before my due date. I'll be big, fat, swollen and heavy on the last month so I want to make sure I do everything ahead of time. I want to concentrate the next month on taking classes, taking the hospital tours and registering for the hospitals, packing my hospital bag and of course catching up and finish reading all my books. I feel overwhelmed with so much still left to do and some more things that need to be bought before Alaina's arrival. Time is flying by! As I get more things set up for Alaina, I will post pictures of my progress.