wow. it's been way too long. i know i promise to blog more and i keep failing at that! let me just say that moving during tax season while pregnant was a bad idea. since so much has happened, i'll start with all things baby related in this post and follow up with the rest of our life in another post later today!
so what's been going on with the Rhodens?! i'm glad you asked...
first of all, i'm so excited to share that baby Rhoden will have FOUR friends so close to his or her age. we found out in the past 6 weeks that four of our friends are pregnant and having their second child. how crazy is that?! i'm so glad that we will be close(ER) for play dates and such. i don't think any of them have announced it yet, so i won't share who, but baby Rhoden is lucky because these friends are so dear and special to us and i know their children will be just as awesome as their parents are!
i have had my eye on a particular style of a petunia pickle bottom diaper bag for a while now. i have several friends who have a PPB bag and swear by it. i knew i wanted the sashay satchel style and i had originally planned to purchase one off of ebay, since i wasn't about to pay over $100 for a diaper bag. i registered my email address on their outlet website over 6 months ago (yes, before we even decided to start a family) and kind of forgot about it. well, in early march i received an email about their upcoming outlet sale. they only do this twice a year and it took me 4 hours to finally place the order and then another two days before i got confirmation that i did in fact get my order placed in time to get the bag before they sold out of the style i wanted, but lo and behold! friday, march 16th this gal came in the mail! i got her 50% off and could not be happier! i was hoping i would find out the gender of baby Rhoden before they had an outlet sale but that didn't happen. i almost decided not to get anything since i wasn't sure if we were having a girl or boy, but later decided this would be replacing my purse and it really didn't need to match the baby, only me :) i am so happy i decided to go for it! i'm in LOVE!
i got her 50% off and could not be happier! i was hoping i would find
out the gender of baby Rhoden before they had an outlet sale but that
didn't happen. i almost decided not to get anything since i wasn't sure
if we were having a girl or boy, but later decided this would be
replacing my purse and it really didn't need to match the baby, only me
:) i am so happy i decided to go for it! i'm in LOVE! unfortunately, it's an addiction and i now want an wistful weekender. if only i could find the same one to match my (discontinued) diaper bag...wah waaah.
on march 17th, i went with my parents and stan's mom to a huge consignment sale in plano. my brother and his wife and children are coming in town (TODAY!) to visit for a couple weeks and go to brandy's sister's wedding in VEGAS and their new baby Grayson is going to be staying with my mom for FIVE DAYS! my mom has not kept an infant for five days in at least twelve years! yikes! all that to say, she needed some baby gear...and fast! she managed to find a highchair, an umbrella stroller, a few toys, some puzzles and games on the cheap at this place. stan's mom scored an umbrella stroller, some toys/puzzles, and a johnny jumper for an amazing deal.and i scored a cute tummy time mat and a baby carrier for stan (and me--but mostly stan). i found the same carrier brand new at buy buy baby for $129! i scored this bad boy for $18. well, my dad scored it for $18. i subsequently got it for free :) thanks dad!
afterwards, we stopped by buy buy baby so i could show them the crib stan and i decided on. i had originally though i wanted a simple clean lined, modern crib such as this:
but while browsing buy buy baby one day for gliders, we came across this brand new style crib from bassett baby.
i love the simple style while still being a little different. you can't tell from the pictures, but it almost looks like a gray wash over white paint. it would work well for a boy or a girl. it is also convertible. it goes from a crib to a toddler bed with rails:
to a toddler day-ish bed:
to a full size bed:
and it's from a quality furniture company so i know it will last a long time. and best of all, with a 20% off coupon (thanks buy buy baby) it is only $40 more than the simple, cheap crib from target i had been looking at! score!!
on march 29th, we had our 18-22 week appointment with our perinatologist. we actually saw one of his partners and she was so sweet. she asked us ahead of time if we wanted to know the gender and we told her we'd like it in an envelope and what our plans were and she was so nice to accommodate our request! baby Rhoden was being extra stubborn that day and WOULD. NOT. MOVE. we couldn't get baby to stay still during the first appointment and this time we needed him/her to flip over and baby would just not cooperate.the doctor needed a different view of the heart and cross-section of the stomach and we tried just about everything. she jiggled my belly with the want, she had me roll to one side and then to the other. NOTHING. in the end she was able to get what she needed i guess because she let us know we needed to look away from the screen because she was going to check out the gender of baby Rhoden. i was originally thinking we could go home later that night and watch the recorded sono and make our guesses (because let's be honest, neither of us could pick out anything except the beating heart!) but she was able to tell without a doubt after just a few seconds so i decided it was a bad idea to watch it, in case it really was THAT obvious.
as soon as i got home i hid the envelope but pretended to keep it with me at all times. when we left the appointment i put it in my planner/life binder and didn't let that sucker out of my sight so stan would think it was still in there. i know my husband and he is sneaky and this is the only way i knew i could keep him from searching the apartment for it! fast forward a week and i get a phone call from stan saying he had a confession to make. i immediately thought he found the envelope and opened it. instead he took the dvd out of my planner and watched it! the little turd...
lucky for me, the doctor picked up on the fact that i have a sneaky husband and she cut off the recording just before she checked the gender! crisis averted!!
a few weeks back living social was running a great deal. pay $25 and get $50 to spend at a local cloth diaper shop, called the nappy shoppe. even better, if you purchase the deal and then get 3 other people to purchase it also, yours is free! so i had stan purchase it, as well as my mom and dad. so in the end, i got $200 to spend at the nappy shoppe and only paid $75! we are planning to cloth diaper baby Rhoden. but before you think i'm CRAZY--know that they have come A LONG way since the days of folding and pinning and covering! it is expensive to get started (between $15 and $20 PER DIAPER) but when you compare that to how much you would spend in just the first 3 months ALONE it is so worth it! when all is said and done, i will have a pretty good start to my collection. i will have 12 cloth diapers for roughly $100. i would like to have between two to three dozen. if i were staying home with baby Rhoden, i could probably get away with only two dozen, but i would like to have a dozen that could stay at my mom's house so i wouldn't have to cart them back and forth so often. but hey--that's what a registry is for, right?! well, wednesday night my mom took me out to get an outfit for the gender reveal party and we decided to stop by and use two of our vouchers. here's a picture of two (of the six) that i purchased:
contrary to what it appears, one is black and the other is bright blue (not brown and baby blue). it was dark already when i took this picture, but i was so excited i couldn't wait until the morning when the sun was out! they are the pocket style, meaning there is an opening in the back between the inner and outer layer for a "soaker layer" to fit inside and when the diaper is wet or soiled you pull the soaker out and throw them in the washer. it is also a one-size style. all those snaps allow it to fit all the way from 6 pounds to 35 pounds! meaning one set of diapers will last until baby Rhoden is potty trained! hooray! i purchased 4 of the same style in the picture, and then i purchased two of another brand because the associate said it was especially good to last throughout the night = less diaper changes while i'm barely awake.
in WAY more exciting news, the gender reveal party is less than 36 hours away and i could not be more excited! some super AWESOME friends of ours opened up their home to host the party. how amazing is that?! another sweet friend, Elyse is going to photograph the event. i don't want to give away too much, but it will be a good time! i'll have a separate post after the event to detail everything from the party. i also have some great family members contributing food. i could not have done this without them! I CANNOT WAIT!!!
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