Let the Shopping Begin

Since Josh and I announced our pregnancy to the family, my mom and I both had been looking forward to us coming in for Easter. We planned to spend all day Saturday scouting out baby items-cribs, strollers, bedding, swings. I haven't done any of that here in town because we don't have the stores that big cities do.
So Saturday morning, my mom, my grandmother, and I loaded up to tackle all the baby stores in my parents' hometown (or as many as we could get to in one day). Our first stop was at Burlington. I found a couple of things that I liked, but, as I would soon find out at every other store, most of the stuff I found was for little girls. There is just not that much stuff in stores that is cute for little boys. I kept patting my stomach the whole day and saying, "Be a girl. Please be a girl."



I'm also having trouble deciding on furniture. Do I go with crib that is convertible and will take him through his years as a baby, toddler, and little boy? Or do I go with crib that he'll only use for a couple of years? What if we have another child soon after this one? Can we use this baby's crib for our second child? We would gladly welcome any advice from you parents that have been through this decision making process before. Let us know what you did and why.

Okay, back to the shopping trip. After we left Burlington, we headed to a store called Baby World. It was very nice in there...VERY NICE if you get what I mean. A little too nice for this banker and teacher, but it was fun to look and get some ideas. Once again, we found that we were drawn to the girl things because that's all they had! They did have a really cute zoo crib set and a cute pirate crib set for boys, but I don't want to do a theme (at least right now I don't). Here are some pictures of some of the cute girl things we found. We flipped through a book and found one, yes, only one, cute boy crib set. I'm sure it would cost a fortune to order though. I've already let my grandmother know that she is on standby in case I can't find a reasonable crib set I want. She may just have to make one for me!

The only cute boy crib set I saw all day.

Our third stop was Target. I love that store, but I was kind of disappointed because they did not have very many crib sets. They did have some very nice strollers and swings though. I liked the Eddie Bauer stroller a lot. I'm ready to find out what this baby is so I can start planning and buying!