Baby Registry

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This morning i had to take my car into the shop for a recall. apparently the bolts on the windows have been breaking and they had to be replaced. so while we were waiting for the car max and i hit the big Target out at Short Pump to register.

let me say, we were pretty lame at registering. first off, we have a lot of stuff already. so we don't need: boppy, vibrating baby seat, infant car seat, infant bathtub, jumperoo/exersaucer, baby bjorn, play mat, baby swing, taggie ball, or bebepod (with tray). Thank you very much to our older siblings and their children for donations to Babe. max's parents have graciously ordered us a crib and my parents are graciously providing a rocker. then we have the dresser already so we're set for furniture for the most part.

So we got in there and we have the gun thing and we have the checklist.... and well, half the stuff i just can't imagine buying or owning. They have the list divided into areas of the baby's life and then MUST HAVE and NICE-TO-HAVE. and most of it we decided we just didn't need. we may, in fact, be proven wrong but if that's the case then we'll just go out and get what we need.
as it is i am still completely clueless about nursing supplies and am completely overwhelmed with diapering options. both of those things will NOT be on the list because i just can't imagine sending max's friends out to buy nursing pads for us. plus i'm thinking some specific shopping trips to the diaper store and out with my mom for nursing things will do the trick on these things.

so what i think we ended up with were: some cute baby clothes and maybe a teething toy and a changing pad thingy to go on top of the dresser. we also will eventually need a stroller and a high chair but we were not at all impressed with the plastic offerings at Target and will have to do more research.

i was kind of hoping this process would be more like when you're getting married and you can go scanner gun crazy and who cares if you register for crazy items because it's for the rest of your life. but it really wasn't. we just kind of scanned for a few things and then didn't go so nuts. we just assume that if people want to get gifts for us they'll get us what they want to get and the registry is a guide but who knows what we'll end up with.
along with Target we're also registering at Amazon.com for some things, and i'll probably get around to a cloth diaper registry eventually (hopefully). then i hope to organize it all onto one easy to look at page. but since the shower that is planned is for couples our age i have a feeling most everything we get will be bought off the Target registry on the morning of the shower


Plus in all honesty i don't feel that people need to buy us gifts to begin with. the reason to register is that people tend to insist on buying things, at least this way they have a guide to what we want. i'd be just as happy if they bought baby supplies to donate to a local food shelter or women's shelter in Babe's honor. who knows.