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Lol, now we're throwing everything back into the closet!

@mrschickpea: Wow!! That looks amazing!

@mrschickpea: Beautiful!

@agold: I've had a couple friends register at baby list,and it seemed to work out!

@agold: I totally went overboard on some expensive stuff for DS. We practically bought out the entire PBK . It's part of the FTM fun. And now for this baby I'm all like, "Bring on the $8 Target sheets!" LOL.

@T.H.O.U.: Yep, great advise. I am really cutting back on all the things I have been thinking that I needed to have. (i.e., stokke steps system.) I think we may get an expensive car seat that we will have to pay for ourselves because of where its bought, but otherwise I'm trying to put reasonable items on my registry and hoping it all gets bought! But I'm keeping very real expectations and bracing myself for receiving tons of ballerina pink onsies. So my husband and I have been graciously accepting hand me downs. I think sheets and car seat will be the pricey things that we need to buy. I also need to look into breast pump situation.

@agold: You can always exchange those onesies for store credit :). Most people around here tend to buy stuff just from Babies R Us. We returned a ton of things from our shower that either weren't our style or were the wrong size/season.

PSA: We just got his Hemnes dresser to use as a changing table for DD. Just found out it's on sale if you're an IKEA Family member, which is free to get.

Normally $249. On sale until May 24 for $211.69.

WOOT!

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40239274/#/10239280

@T.H.O.U.: Thanks! Should add that we bought it right before it went on sale when we went the other day to buy the cubed storage, too. Realized the cubed unit would ultimately be WAY too big for her room with the long dresser and the crib, so I went back today to exchange that for 2 4-cube pieces instead. And then I noticed that the dresser was on sale, and they do price adjustments for 90 days. Was so happy!

@T.H.O.U.: Yup. We had purchased the 4x2 Kallax and planned to put it the long way along the floor because that's what we had done for DS. However, DS also had a shorter dresser, and I wanted a long one this time for more room to put the soiled diaper, new diaper, and change of clothes. Their rooms are similar sizes, so I should have realized that having 2 long pieces just wouldn't work. So I bought 2 of the just 4-cube ones and will put one out in the room and probably the other at the bottom of the closet.

@pregnantbee: I love that dresser! I've seen so much done with it, like different paint colors and different knobs. But it seems great as is! I am really going to have to go look at my local ikea. And thanks for telling us about "family member"!

@agold: Me, too! I saw a mini-hack where the owner changed out the standard knobs for "crystal" ones, so that's what we're doing. Looks amazing. You can see 4 knobs in the bottom drawers in the pic I had posted. The only prob. is that the screws are too long so there was too much room and the knobs slide around. I found a better length online, so will be switching the screw out again.

@T.H.O.U.: Hmmm. I'll see if I can try them later tonight or tomorrow morning and will report back.

I have a double pump I got last time and used probably less than twenty times. I think I'm just going to order membranes and such for it, although I would be eligible to get a new one through insurance. That just seems wasteful though.
Anything I'm not thinking about here?

@stratosphere: I've been MIA but wanted to tell you I love your nursery! it looks so relaxing. I really like nurseries that aren't crazy overkill on cutesy; yours hits such a nice note. Glad to hear this about the Graham glider (esp since I will take all the tall-people advice you want to give) I actually had ordered one and then cancelled it to get the Monte Luca glider instead, which is smaller and doesn't have that high back with wings for resting your head. I liked that the Luca wouldn't take up as much space in our bedroom, but it really wasn't as comfortable as the Graham--the seat felt too shallow. Think I'm going to bite the bullet and re-order the Graham after reading about how much you liked it. @pregnantbee: I think I'm going to get an ikea dresser, too (although a 3-drawer one for my teensy space). they're really reasonable and not badly made.
@agold: ohhhhh god, I didn't realize anthropologie sold baby stuff, I am going to go broke, dude. is that crib that you're getting the one from babyletto? I was thinking about getting that or the hudson babyletto. seems like both of them are just half-price ripoffs of oeuf cribs, which I am totally on board with I was doing some lite shopping with a girlfriend last weekend and got some Auggie crib sheets on mega-sale with little dogs on them.

@agold: You have excellent taste. I love Anthropologie and can't wait to shop there post-baby.

@agold: Um. That's gorgeous. Too bad we all have to be adults!

@agold: you know, even though babyletto should be ashamed of themselves for being ripoff artists and all that, I actually think the one you got is more appealing than the oeuf classic crib. I love the legs on it! a word to the wise, though: my friend got a babyletto crib and dresser. the crib is perfectly nice, the dresser was a TOTALLY flimsy piece of particle board shit--they literally couldn't put it together because it was such a mess and so badly done, and they ended up sending it back to overstock or wherever they got it as a broken stack of boards.
and thanks, my work life is exploding right now and I haven't even been stalking HB--hoping it settles down soon. glad to see everyone is doing so well

@agold: If it makes you feel better, we purchased a really nice set nursery set for DS, meant last his entire childhood. And I kind of regret it. Yeah, it's beautiful and all, but we want to make a long distance move and it's a bit of an albatross. It was so expensive I don't feel like we should get rid of it. And I like it a lot less as a bed than I did as a crib. So for DD we decided Ikea all the way, lol.

@ShootingStar: That's in interesting point you made. Also, my current home is not my forever home, and its hopefully smaller than my next home. So anything i would have picked for current home might not have been an appropriate scale for next home. And maybe getting better furniture for the set that comes after the crib is a good idea.

@T.H.O.U.: That's exactly what I'm hoping for! That this crib will hold up a few years to get me through my first and hopefully next (and maybe next after that ) children.