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January 20, 2006

23 Weeks, 5 Days

I went to the doctor on Tuesday and it was the awesomest of awesome visits ever. Why?

So on to worrying about non-medical baby stuff. Like registering... OMG! There is so much crap to buy! We went to Babies R Us last Saturday, filled out our form, got our gun and were turned loose on the store. We just stood there, dumbly, for a minute or so with NO CLUE where to start. It is completely overwhelming. We did manage to register for crib bedding, blankets, a bathtub, some toys, a mattress and some random other stuff that looked cool. We go back on Saturday, now that we've done some more research on car seats, high chairs, strollers and the like. It honestly makes your head spin.

Teh Registry

So after three hours, that's all we had registered for. We were both so babied out it wasn't even funny.

In other baby-room related news, we get carpet in our bedroom tomorrow, which means within a week (once it stops smelling enough for me to sleep there) we can move our bed and stuff up into our actual bedroom (YAAAAAAAAAAAY!) and begin work on painting the nursery. Darren got off easily. Nursery Plan #1 was lavender with a little darker lavender in geometric - probably circular - designs on the wall. That got scrapped in favor of Nursery Plan #2: Making the room look like a child's drawing, complete with fluffy clouds, a house with a chimney and smoke, stick people family, birds, sun, a tree with that hole in it, and maybe some flowers. Too much work, so we went for Nursery Plan #3: Light sage green with a white chair rail and white trim. Right above the chair rail would be sponge painted flowers. The actual nursery plan is not much different than that. Nursery Plan #4 (the final as of right now) still has the white chair rail and trim, but there is a border that comes with our crib bedding and matches our crib bedding, so that will go up above the chair rail. The room will either be green or yellow, depending on which looks better with the crib bedding. We will have to get samples and bring them to the store to match them up with the stuff we registered for.

And then there's the furniture. My sister-in-law was nice enough to give us the crib she used for her two kids. It's a really really nice crib. So at Babies R Us, there is some furniture that kind of matches - a dressar and a changing table. I was fine with that. It was cheap. Just to humor Darren, we went to the store where the crib was purchased to see the furniture that went with the crib. It was considerably more expensive but it was SOO NICE! So guess which furniture we're getting. Of course, it will last until the baby moves out, because it is that quality furniture, whereas the other would only probably last a few years. So I was sold on the good furniture.

That's all for now. I have a doctor's appointment in 4 weeks but I'll probably post before then. Probably to complain about the amount of stuff we have to register for.

Edit: (a little later in the day) I called the pediatrician I want to use (who used to be my pediatrician) so we're all set up with that. Yay! Another thing to cross off the list. Woo Hoo to the third!

Posted by Terri at January 20, 2006 11:25 AM

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I tell you, you 2 are team organized.

Posted by: Ari at January 20, 2006 05:39 PM

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