The Nursery Part 1

I have been excited to get started on the nursery FOREVER, but I have zero energy recently, so I really haven't gotten a chance to get started on anything other than looking at gorgeous Pinterest posts of nurseries.  Here are the ones I am in LOVE with:

 

 

 So, pretty much, I am in love with safari themed neutral nurseries (and apparently that giant useless giraffe + those adorable baby animal prints on the wall).  Anyways, THIS is what we are starting with:

 

 

 

Beautiful, isn't it? Clearly we have far too much crap. The future nursery is currently a catch-all junk room. It has everything from our Europe trip and awesome wedding parties this summer. It also has all my books, therapy toys, and Wayne's shoes.... Clearly, step one of the process will be to get it cleaned out. I think we'll sell the desk, and I am hoping that we can move the book shelves into the living room. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever have as much light as these nurseries, but I'm hoping I can still manage to make it bright during the daytime (and dark at night). Step two will be picking out the furniture. I'm hoping we'll be able to get a lot of it at Ikea since its cheaper... Then I can actually start on the fun part! Decorating! On a side note, I suck at taking panorama shots...

Our First Prenatal Class

This past weekend, Wayne and I won a draw for a free all-day prenatal class through Mommy Connections. It was a Mom To Be class.

 

 

I  never win anything, so it was pretty exciting! I'm definitely not used to sitting for a whole day anymore (it amazes me how quickly that skill leaves), so 9-4 was a pretty long class. It really focused on post-natal stuff and some prenatal stuff. There was a presentation on prenatal yoga, birthplans/pregnancy nutrition/duolas, developing a sleep routine for baby, car seat safety, breastfeeding, postpartum depression, essential oils, RESPs, and prenatal massage... I don't THINK I am forgetting anything. The highlights were definitely the Sleep Well Baby presentation (children in my family typically are HORRIBLE sleepers), car seat safety (super practical, and Travis brought carseats in to demonstrate and explain how to put carseats in), and the Heritage RESPs presentation (again ridiculously practical, and some of it had changed since Wayne learned about RESPs, so it was a good heads-up).

 

We got an awesome Swag Bag as well from them... Check out the haul.... Aren't those newborn diapers adorable? (I guess you can't really see how itty bitty they are in this pic).

 

 

 

On a side note, I also picked up a trial package from the Honest Company.... I've heard a ton of good things about them, so I thought I'd pick some up. The trial came with 10 wipes and 7 diapers (I know, we'll go through it FAST, but every little bit helps!). Aren't they cute?!?! I'm in love with the Bam, Whack, Pow one for some reason.

 

 

One of the books I was reading said that babies go through 80 diapers a week in the beginning! Isn't that insane??? I'm trying to stock up, but I'm not really sure how many newborn vs. size 1 to get. Any advice on getting cheap diapers? The awesome Kalee Haanen sent me the Canadian Mom's Guide to Saving on Diapers... Let me know if you have any tricks though! I need all the help I can get (because apparently on AVERAGE people spend $3,000 on diapers, which seems super ridiculous). Is it worth it to do a combo of cloth diapering and disposable? I feel like I wouldn't stick with a rigid cloth diapering deal, so I feel like it'd lose the benefit of being cheaper.... Thoughts?