Pics of My Picks

So it's decision time, count-down time, time to prepare for Little M!!!

I have decided on bedding, stroller, baby carrier and bottles...

I might just meet my little girl 4 months from today. That's my prediction anyway. My hope, my dream is to travel on 12/9 and meet her on 12/13. Of course, we don't know for sure and won't know until October or November for sure. But we were told we are on track to travel in December. The December board meetings are 12/2 and 12/16 and we hope to be at one of them.

Now on to my picks and pics...

The bedding is pink elephants with pale green polka dots. We love it. It has an underlying Thai theme without screaming Asian silk (which I think is lovely and almost went with). This is not Little M's room - just a web pic of the bedding.

















The stroller is so cool. I had so many strollers with my boys. Traditional, Jogger, Sit-n-Stand and 2 umbrellas. We almost always used the umbrella strollers. My only complaints were they didn't recline, have a basket or a canopy. So... I bought a hi-tech umbrella stroller that has all the features I was missing. It's chocolate brown so she'll look adorable in it (dressed in pink, of course). And best of all, it drives and steers like a sweet little sports car.


















The baby carrier - I've really struggled with this purchase and am trusting my new web friends that I'm going to actually use it. It's the Chocolate Ergo. I carried my kids and had amazing biceps when they were toddlers so this is going to be new and I hope I love it as much as everyone else does. It will be wonderful for bonding, the car rides in Thailand (yikes they don't use car seats) and our time in Thailand when a stroller is just not do-able. So for that alone - it's worth it.













My boys were off the bottle before one. Matt was 9 months and Mark was right at 1 year old. So this "baby older than one on a bottle" thing will be new to me but I'm looking forward to feeding her a bottle and having that eye-to-eye bonding time and know that is very important so I'm good with it. I chose the Born Free bottles (plastic BPA free). They have good reviews and they sell multiple sippy cup nipples for the bottles so I can use them longer. I considered glass but I know my house and the thought of a broken bottle at 2 in the morning is not something I want to experience. No picture of those - they are just bottles.

Next up on the list is - I think I've picked the furniture but what color furniture? I was set on Espresso or Cherry but I keep seeing white or off white with bright colors for little girls and love it. I haven't completely ruled out the life crib so add that to the lists of Aug decisions to be made.. I guess I'll go ask how long delivery will take so I know when I need to make a decision. We are buying a booster rather than a highchair. Little by little marking things off my list - she'll be here before we know it.