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@agold: Totally stalking this board, but man, Anthro is now selling baby stuff? I've already pinned a bunch of it to my Baby Dos board on Pinterest. I don't have to buy a lot of big stuff, but this kid is getting the lemon towel and probably some of the floral sheets if it's a girl.

Back to lurking.

@agold: I made H's crib skirt and it would go with these sheets.

@agold: uh, I haven't actually bought a single thing yet except baby clothes, whoops. planning on doing all that stuff in the next few weeks. is your furniture already in place?! (and if so would you post a picture? )
our nursery is tiny tiny tiny and I'm not sure if it'll fit a dresser/changing table yet, hopefully it will, but if not a changing table might have to go in our bedroom (as will the glider), in which case it'll be tiny and I'm going to get that peanut thing that @stratosphere: mentioned. you sound so organized!
also was looking at blogs and found the crib that your babyletto crib was ripped off from, it's not the oeuf, it's the caravan crib. pretty, but not worth the extra $700... where is the eye-roll emoji.

@LCTBQE: @pregnantbee: @avivoca: anthropologie is having 20% off everything online and in store this weekend. I'm pretty sure it includes the baby stuff.

@LCTBQE: thanks for telling me what my baby's crib is a ripoff of! I'm sure baby girl won't mind and will be happy with what I did with the money I saved by not purchasing the caravan crib and she won't care if her changing table falls apart at anytime in the future. Hopefully it makes it past the first day unlike the identical changing table that your friends got. I did love love love the caravan crib, though. I really like the toddler bed that the caravan and oeuf classic turn into. Not hot on traditional crib toddler bed options. But I'm praying I'll get another baby quickly before I need to use the babyletto toddler bed option for baby girl #1. And no, nothing is set up in the room yet except the glider. I'm slightly dying over the cheap ugly closet doors in baby girls room. I just don't know if I want to spend $400 or $500 to get better looking cheap closet doors to replace what's already there. crib and changer were back ordered. It was actually hard to find since apparently ripoffs are popular! I hope to get it at the end of this month but also don't mind to wait until way later since I'm not ready!!

@LCTBQE: Oh you are funny! Not obnoxious at all!! I love the glider you got. I think mine is a Monte. Totally more than I wanted to spend, but my mom bought it for me and I figure its a piece of furniture that we can have for many many years. Hopefully! Its great you got it on sale and I love that you bought it from a local shop. Good find!

@ShootingStar: That is adorable! I think your baby girl should wear that gold crown every day!! Is the gold crown for the photo shoot? Can you tell me what kind of photos you are planning?

And AFM - I ordered my crib bedding last night! Phew. What a load off. I can't believe I made it such a difficult decision and, in the end, went with something I liked from the beginning. Next up, nursery art. I think i may go for those little animal pictures.

@T.H.O.U.: Yep, its so hard to know what to spend money on. Would you price it out again and see if it makes sense to do it this time around? Would you consider your rocker something you'd like to keep in the house for years to come? If its just for another year or so to rock this new baby, then I'd say its still not worth putting extra money into.

@T.H.O.U.: I'm laughing with you on that because I can absolutely imagine how tight money is going to be for me with my second (or third! ) child if I'm so lucky as to get either. Laughing in a delirious way, of course.

@T.H.O.U.: I was just talking to my mom while I was driving into work about two of my friends who are both pregnant with their 4th child!! We were saying that hopefully those families have really all they need. Both girls are SAHMs. So maybe they need a bigger car, but otherwise they won't need much if anything. I just laughed out loud when you said baby #3 will play with spoons!! I'm hoping my child can get by on such minimal play toys. My house is too small for much more than spoons!! And yes, job promotions help, but child care bills. Yikes. I'm desperately hoping to avoid that. Although, I like preschool for 3 year olds and that gets pricey, too.

@agold: ha, totally agreed about spoons. I seriously want my kid to play with our tupperware and cardboard boxes because I hate all that plastic shit and we have NO ROOM in our tiny NYC apartment for toys. also with you on feeling so blessed about #1 and hoping we are lucky enough for more

@T.H.O.U.: day care in my neighborhood is $1900/month for one baby I swear this is why everyone in NY puts off having kids until they're 40.

Our infant cost will be ~$1370 a month. Which isn't terrible, considering. But it's not like it's a super fancy daycare. I love the teachers and how small it is, so for us it makes up for the non-fanciness. There's one across the street from my office that is really really nice and it's $1900 .

We pay about $1200 for our toddler right now. Luckily he'll move to the preschool room this summer and his tuition will go down $100/week. And then they'll give us a 20% sibling discount when Lily starts. So that will bring our grand total up to about $2100 for both kids. Ugh.

@LCTBQE: with my LO, we literally just had an activity mat that she played with constantly, and she had a few little toys on it - like a rattle and whatnot. we did not have any toys that took up room until she was 10 months and we left the city! and she was plenty entertained we had lots of books, that was it. and yea, NYC child care is RIDICULOUS. $1900/month isn't bad at all for NY!

@Pirouette: Do you recall what activity mat you have/had for your LO? I was considering one of those, too, since I also don't want any toys that take up space.

@pregnantbee: I was so sad that my girl will likely be born before the September 1st cutoff date for starting preschool because she will be the youngest in her class. But then I thought, phew, saving on one more year of paid-for preschool! Although, my school district does offer transitional kindergarten if she happens to be born after September 1st but I don't think its a full day of school.

Speaking of "full day of school", its nice that kids aren't stuck at school all day long, but when they get out at 2:30, who picks them up? Not the parents who have to work until 5. ugh. problems I will face down the road.

But one problem I don't have anymore is crib sheets! Finally ordered them!

@ShootingStar: Aaaah! So so cute!

@agold: we had this one for my lo when we were in a small apartment. It's not big and was great for before she was mobile! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000067K0L/ref=s9_zwish_hd_bw_bDIwz5_g75_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-9&pf_rd_r=01VBJB2F66CC2EYTGGQ1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=c0e737d4-a975-514d-813a-70e6b20e0f4e&pf_rd_i=196609011

My daughter, as you know, is teeny tiny, and she was a Dec baby (our cutoff is 12/31). It sucks that so many people hold their kids back these days so she'll be the youngest by a lot, but at the same time, she's totally the type to be motivated by being with bigger kids and will likely do better being the youngest.

@LCTBQE: I have the cruz and love it. It's known as the Alta in Oz and the vista wasn't available when we bought ours. I think the main difference is being able to add a second seat. My husband is tall and has no issues with the cruz.

@LCTBQE: I always thought it was easy to fold. Only thing is the seat needs to be removed to fold if baby is facing you, when baby is facing out it folds in one piece, which might be a pain carrying upstairs

@Silva: That's why I bought all the fun stuff first