Yesterday on our way home from a Wedding in the Niagara Region, Rob and I decided to stop at Babies r us and set up our registry. My best friend Jess is already in the process of organizing a baby shower for sometime in November, and wanted to include the registry number on the invitations that she will be sending out in the next few weeks.
After being assigned a number, given a list and being passed a magic wand (scanner) that would add all items we pointed to onto our registry we set out amongst the aisles to load up on baby items.
The first few clicks were easy. We scanned a crib and a change table, easily picked out the bedding theme and decor items. Thinking to ourselves that this was easy, we continued down the list onto other major items. We found a stroller travel system, a play pen and a high chair. Thinking the most difficult decisions were behind us, we headed to the front of the store where things drastically took a change.
Bottles.... we stand staring at a wall that appears to go on forever, jaws dropped, in stunned silence. How can there be this many options? How are you suppose to choose? Plastic or glass? Vented or Angled? Silicone or Rubber nipples? Natural touch or Eco Friendly? Playtex or Avent or Nuk or Tommee Tippee or Mam?? The choices really were overwhelming. Same goes for pacifiers. All we really could do was scan a few different brands and different type varieties and hope we made a decent choice. The baby is really going to be the one deciding in the end.
We moved on, trying to recover, to clothing. It was hard not to buy everything we touched. The clothing options were just adorable! The only hard part here was trying to find gender neutral items. Even though we plan on finding out the sex of our baby, we still want to try and keep the majority of items gender neutral in case our second child is the opposite sex of our first. We really don't want to be buying another stroller or playpen if we happen to have a boy first and a girl second.
After scanning at least 165 items we decided to call it a day. We handed in our scanner and the associate printed out our list and gave us a gift bag. It was filled with 2 types of bottles, some soaps and baby creams, tons of coupons and samples of diapers and wipes. We have officially started stock piling for the baby. I just really hope we don't run out of room before he/she gets here!
