The Cost of a Baby

Have you ever noticed how expensive it is to have a baby. Not only does it cost a lot for all of the medical treatment during pregnancy and the appointments for the baby after he/she is born, but your baby also goes through 20 diapers a day and you're constantly washing clothes and all that cost doesn't include all of the necessities you need, i.e. bottles, burp cloths, bibs, bath stuff, furniture. After all that necessary expense there's not much money left to spoil your baby or yourself with the many different baby toys/accessories that make your life easier and are just fun to get your beautiful baby. i.e. swings, high chairs, bouncers/jumpers, soothers, play yards etc. You think those diapers are getting expensive check out the prices on those items. So when my sister came down from Washington to visit, she suggested we go check out garage sales for baby things. This is what we found:

Baby Einstein Bouncer Retail Price: $89.99
My Price: $15



Alphabet Place Mat 24sq ft. Retail: $29.99
My Price $4


Graco Play Yard with Mobile and Changing Table Retail: $119.00
My Price: $20


Graco Bouncer Retail: $44.99
My Price $5


Swing Retail: $69.99
My Price $5


Kids Tunnel Retail: $29.99
My Price $3


Giant Monkey Retail: $154.99
My Price $1


Graco Swing Retail: $119.99
My Price $10


Baby Bouncer Retail: $51.99
My Price $10

The look on my daughter's face as she embraces her new best friend: Priceless

I am a newly converted fan of garage sales!

Disclaimer: We did not buy all this stuff for Addison.

Crib vs. Mommy and Daddy's bed

Well, Last night was Addison's first night in her crib. It went well I think. I put her in their about 9:00 and she slept well. Unfortunately, I didn't. First of all, we haven't found a bumper that we like yet. Second, I think that the mattress that we have might be too small for our crib. Needless to say I was a bit concerned. I was constantly asking Scott if he thought she would be ok. One conversation was like this: Me:"What is she suffocates?" Scott: "Is she on her tummy?" Me:"No" Scott: (laugh). I only calmed down and started thinking she'd be OK when Scott reminded me that if by some tiny chance that she would move to the side of the crib and somehow get stuck between the bars that her crying would wake us up before any large amount of damage could be done. (oh yeah)

Shortly after that Addison was crying. She was cold. See, we hardly ever put her to bed naked, but last night was especially hot. So after I put her in bed (with a blanket on because I figured she'd take it off anyways) Scott turned on the air. Too bad the vent points right at the crib and while the air in the room is 85 the air blowing out feels more like 50. When I went to pick her up she was only semi wrapped up in her blanket, her little arms and legs were freezing. She stopped crying immediately after I put her next to my warm body. She was still kind of whimpering though, it was really sad but way cute. So I fed her to calm her down and back to sleep she went. Scott closed the vent and I put her back in the crib, this time dressed in probably the warmest sleeper anyone has ever seen. It's not really a sleeper though, it's more like a sack with arms.

She slept soundly, occasionally fussing for a second at which Scott would get up to get her and I'd have to remind him why she was in the other room. We went to sleep. About 2 hours later she woke up to eat. I was very tired, and the walk to the crib took a lot out of me ;P. I laid in bed while feeding her and fell asleep. When she woke up several hours after that I simply turned her to the other side and fed her again. In the morning I had almost forgotten we even tried kicking her out of our bed... Almost. She did spend about 3 hours of the night in the crib. So with a combination of her hunger and my never ending laziness she won out.

We'll try again tonight...

She's Here!

Okay, so I officially suck at blogging. I'll admit to that. I tried, really hard in fact. I tried to write about our 1 year anniversary and about all the Birthday parties and my baby shower but I sucked at it. However, now I have a beautiful baby girl who is way more interesting than I could ever be. So, maybe my blogging forecast isn't so gloomy anymore.

Addison was born at 5:11 am on June 15th. She was 7 lbs 11.5 oz. It's amazing how soon the love for your child comes. She is so amazing. Today she is four weeks old. She sleeps and eats and poops all day long just like everyone says newborns do. But she also glares at us when we wake her up, sighs in relief when she passes gas, smiles while she's falling asleep, wake up the moment we leave the room, she tries desperately to launch herself off of my lap when changing her or off of her boppy, and is not content to not sleep between us. She's so precious. Oh, and she spits up missiles on her daddy. I got a ton of adorable accessories for her from my baby shower so playing dress up with her has been quite fun. Unfortunately, right now we are all pretty sick and her cute little coughs make me so sad, but they are super cute. When you're that small everything is so cute I guess, even the crying. It's probably not a good thing when your mother wants to video tape you crying because she thinks it's so adorable. All the time while I am feeding her, I am thinking that she looks so precious and I want pictures. Then, it hits me that a picture at that time would be semi pornographic and I'm quickly over it. I mentioned to two of my sisters and they said they've thought the same thing. Well, anyways I think you've heard enough of my talking about her super awesome cuteness. Now you can just see for yourself...