Baby Girl Prep!

It's September.  Our little girl is due at the beginning of November.  That's two months away.

Yikes.

Two months before our son was born, we had already done this:

 

Refinished and painted a dresser for his room

Repainted his room a softer blue

Hung a chair rail, and spent hours and lots of frog tape painting and repainting stripes.

Obtained and assembled a crib

Purchased and hung a ceiling fan

Registered

So far with this baby? Zip. Nada. Nothing.

As I said, yikes.

So this weekend we are working on baby things.  For the room, we have a few things going:

Crib Bedding

I bought this at a garage sale during my first pregnancy, before I knew I was having a boy.  While I'm not a huge fan of the pink and purple, I liked the design and the price ($5 for it and a matching bed skirt).  I've hung on to it and I think it's what we are going to use.  We've decided not to paint the room, and this goes with the blue that is already on the walls.  I will probably need a few more crib sheets, but other than that, we are set for bedding.


Tissue Poms
Have you seen these?  We were looking around on pinterest for ideas and found this picture.  We found an YouTube tutorial and are thinking we will make some of these to hang over the crib and the dresser.  The room has support beams across the top so this will be a perfect way to incorporate them into the decorations.

Furniture
She will be using this crib (but with the above bedding):

And this bookshelf will go in her room (we took it out of our son's once he got a big boy bed so that there was no danger of him climbing on it while we were not in the room):

The only thing we need is a dresser.  We opted to go with a dresser instead of a changing table with our son because a dresser is so much more practical once they are out of diapers.  We have looked on craigslist.com, but so far we've come up with nothing.  We'd like to stay with white, and every time I think about a dresser for her room, I picture this one that I saw at Ikea:

It is perfect and exactly what I want.  But even if we could afford the $250 price tag, we can't get it because Ikea doesn't ship and the closest ones are Denver, Chicago, and Dallas, which I believe are all roughly the same distance away.  We haven't looked in any furniture stores yet, but I'm guessing anything we find that we want would be more expensive, not cheaper.  Oh well - we'll figure something out.

And, um...well, that's it.  We already have a swing, a double-stroller, an activity mat, and oh yeah...CLOTHES!  I have two giant tubs full of clothes through 18 months that I probably paid a grand total of $20 for.  My mom and some friends have also contributed. :)

There are a few things I would like to have for her:

• Bouncy Seat: the one we had with our son was worthless - I sold it at our garage sale.  We ended up borrowing a friend's Fisher Price Kick & Play bouncer (pictured).  It was perfect because it lit up, played music, and vibrated.  Our son was mesmerized.

•  Medela breast milk storage bags: I am not kidding you when I say we went through nearly 400 breast milk storage bags.  The Medela brand ones were the only ones that didn't leak consistently.  With Lansinoh, about 4 in every 5 leaked, and with NUK, about 3 in every 5.  The latter were obviously cheaper, but definitely at a cost.  That stuff is like liquid gold, and when you see it pouring out of the bag into the sink or onto the counter top, the least of your concerns is the mess.  These don't often go on sale, but I have found eBay is a great place to buy them at a discounted rate.

Hmm...I think that's really it!  We will obviously need diapers and wipes, but I think all the rest is covered!   Now we just have to get to work preparing the nursery.  I'll put pics up when we get there. :)