Ugh, I'm so vain...but dammit, I want some new pretty and shiny stuff for this 3rd baby! Granted, everything I have from the first two babies is perfectly good and useable yet. Even if it is was old handmedowns and garage sale finds when our first baby was born 4 years ago, the $5 crib works perfectly fine, the clunky old stroller is fine, the pack'n'play is fine, etc., etc. I guess I've seen so many other people go out and have the excitement of buying nice new baby stuff, or at least NICE stuff, I wanna do it too! I know, so lame. We were POOR when Deere Boy was born, still poor when Tractor Girl came, and we're doing a *little* better now, but it's still not practical to get anything new. Waaaaaah. So now I'm just having a whiny fit. I like new things. I like shiny things that come in a brand new box. If I can't have that, I wouldn't mind some nice "new" stuff from Once Upon A Child or something. But seriously, so impractical. Especially when you consider that we'll need to pay our midwife and home birth expenses out of pocket, we need to pay off the car we have now so we can upgrade to something a little bigger, the birth pool needs to be bought, etc., etc. OH YEAH, and I want new floors in my living room and a bit of a bathroom remodel before Cricket comes. Lol, yeah, I don't ask for much... Honestly, I just need to focus on just how BLESSED we are to be gestating a 3rd time, unplanned as it is, and get my mind off the STUFF. So, yeah....

What baby stuff, if anything, did you buy new for babies following your first one?