Baby Booty

Unnamed baby Oliver had a good Christmas.  My parents got him three months worth of clothes, a hooded towel and wash cloths, and a swing.  Grandma Tanner got him a car seat and a hooded towel and wash cloths.  Kristin and Clayton got him some clothes, a pair of shoes, a manicure set, and bottle supplies.  Cathy and Rick got him a non-electronic caterpillar toy (he got an electronic one at Thanksgiving). Ashley got him a cute sea turtle shirt.  I shopped sales, clearance, and second-hand stores and got some knit hats, sun hats, don't-scratch-your-eyes-out mittens, a couple hoodies, a boppy pillow, a bath chair, a monster hooded towel, a bottle warmer, and a breast pump (less than $40).  He's set to be fed by his mom OR dad and bathed and clothed.  Matt says it figures that I made sure that bath supplies were ready since he's inheriting a bag full of bath toys from his parents.  And now that he has a car seat, he can come home from the hospital.  Thank you to everyone for helping us get ready for our baby's arrival.

He still has no furniture.  I'm hoping that I'll get the English department web job to earn some extra money to buy furniture.  If nothing else, he can sleep in the car seat carrier, and the bath chair could double as a not-so-bouncy seat.  We also need a diaper bag, Diaper Genie, bibs, zillions of diapers and wipes, and baby wash. I plan to check out more second-hand stores and Craig's list opportunities when we go to Louisville in February for a conference that Matt's reading at.

I've been asked by several people about our nursery theme and bedding sets.  We have no theme. We are using photos, posters and prints we already own as wall art.  There's a neutral colored rug on the hardwood floor.  The crib we picked out is espresso colored.  I bought some removable wall stickers from Dollar Tree for further decorating after we get furniture: stars & planets, jungle animals, dinosaurs, and letters to spell a name when he has one.  We haven't picked out a bedding set because newborns aren't allowed to have anything in their cribs.  We did register for fitted crib sheets.  I'm not sure if we'll bother with a bedding set in several months when he's allowed to have crib bumpers.  We'll have to see if we need bumpers, and I'm sure we'll have plenty of blankets.  We live in a rental house and aren't sure how long we'll be living in this house, so it's a little hard to get too caught up in decorating.