Nursery update: back in Spain

Last Friday we made it back to Spain without any major problems. The only issue we had was being the last people off the plane in Madrid and being left on the tarmac for a while in the heat and sun while a bus came took a load of passengers to the terminal and came back for us. At least we got some cool pictures outside the plane.

As exhausted as we were, we had our niece Eva's baptism the next day in the afternoon. I may have mentioned this before but baptisms tend to be a pretty big deal here in Spain. It was nice to see all of Jose's family again and I know they liked seeing the girls. We went to the mass and then all had dinner together.

Since then we have been working on unpacking our suitcases (we brought back four!!) and getting our lives reorganized. The girls are on a different schedule so we are trying to adjust but more on that in their six month update.

 You can check out other nursery posts here and here. 

 We bought a few new things for their nursery while in the States and put the second crib in there for them to be able to finally sleep in two different cribs and in their own room. They did so for the first time last night and it was a success. I am posting a few pictures below of how it looks now more complete.

Here is the corner where the cribs are in an L shape. I am going to have to figure out a way to hook them together because I have recently seen an article about a twin who was trying to climb to his sibling's crib and got stuck between them. I know that someday we will wake up to find both girls in one crib. It's just a matter of when. We also added new photos on the shelves above.

Not much has changed at this angle.

Here you can see the changing table where we have finally gotten a cover. 

Here you can see part of the reason why we had four suitcases to bring back. We got a lot of books while we were back home.




So there you have it. Now both girls are crying so I have to go!

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