35 Weeks and All is Well

I missed my 34 week pregnancy update and picture and now we are just two days away from hitting 36 weeks. I'm really okay with it and don't feel an ounce of guilt for missing that one. We have seen the 35 weeks down/35 days to go mark come and go and I am on the edge of my seat with anticipation for the arrival of our baby girl #2.

Life has been busy, so incredibly busy. But it has also been FULL. An unexpected overflow of joyful days that are filled to the brim with meeting new friends, snuggles with Grace, working side by side with my husband, and stuffing my brain with more Arabic than I thought possible.

Our mornings start out slow, as Grace has taken to sleeping in now. Or, I should say, she's stopped letting us know she's awake. She's perfectly content to wake up, sit or lay and her crib, and just stare at her pacifiers for an hour or more on end. And we love her for it.

Occassionally she'll stand up and stare out her second story window that overlooks a road. When the large trucks go by we may hear her yell "Beep, beep! Beep, Beep!"

Or, we may not, depending on our level of consciousness at the time.

We both try to get up at 8 am, so that the entire morning doesn't feel wasted. Or rather, my internal alarm wakes me up at two minutes until 8 every day, and I wake up Ian. We sneak quietly into Grace's room to see what she's up to, then smile and laugh as we pick her up. She immediately does the sign for "food," nods her head emphatically, and says "Yes!" Every. Time. It melts my heart.

We walk down the stairs together, put her in her high chair with a pile of cheerios and a cup of milk, turn on a show, and get our own bowl of cereal while we check emails and eat on the couch. Sometime around 8:30 we let Grace down from her high chair and play with her, while we take turns going back up stairs and showering for the day.

Grace goes down for a nap between 9:30 and 10 and will "sleep" until noon. We use this time to work. Ian goes off to his office and I start a load of laundry or do a chore around the house before settling in for some study time.

Grace's wake up routine for nap time is much the same, with both of us wanting to see what she's up to and her immediately asking for food. We don't usually let her watch any more tv in the day, and if I've planned ahead enough, we'll all sit down for lunch at the same time. Often, I couldn't wait until noon for lunch so I've already eaten, and will sit with my little family and read to Grace from a storybook while they eat.

12:30 to 2:30, Grace plays and bee bops around. She usually gets a box of raisins or a bag of salad chips (not as healthy as they sound, trust me,) around 2. She constantly drinks milk during the day, about 20-24 oz a day! During this awake time, we try to get chores done around the house or take turns working/studying while the other watches Grace. If we have nothing else planned for the day and Grace is stir crazy (still over 100 degrees here with a heat index close to 130 most days,) I'll run errands at this time to get her out of the house.

Nap time begins again at 2:30. I had been trying to use this second nap time as another study period but this last week or so of pregnancy has knocked me out during the afternoon. I kiss Ian good night and head up stairs to nap while Grace naps. Ian works during this time and usually gets Grace up at 4 or 4:30 and lets me sleep until 4:30 or 5.

Dinner time prep and play time ensues and Grace eats dinner in her high chair around 6. I'd like to say that we all sit down for dinner at the same time, but it doesn't happen very often right now. Usually I am not pulling dinner out of the oven until right at Grace's bed time.

Sometimes dinner gets delayed as I take Grace to go visit our neighbor ladies. Mostly not though, as I can't seem to figure out their evening schedules yet. Hopefully I will soon.

After Grace eats, some days I take her outside to play in front of our house. Our shared driveway with three other villas is a common play area for the neighbor kids, and Grace loves to play with the toys they leave strewn about. I try to bring out a few of her "outside" toys every once in a while, but they take a beating by the kids when I do. It's hot and humid during that time of evening and we usually only last 20 to 30 minutes before Grace is running for our front door asking for something to drink, with pink cheeks and a sweaty little head.

My mind is usually filled to the brim with the Arabic I just had to use with 3-8 little kids and so I happily bid adieu to the kids and explain, every time, that Grace sleeps all night long. And that no, she can't come out to play with them at 11 pm that night. Sorry.

Maybe a bath will follow, but usually not, as Grace's eczema does best when she doesn't get a bath every night. It's been alot better since we moved here, because there is humidity in the air, where before we lived in a dry desert city.

Bedtime routine is pajama time, followed by teeth brushing (she'll say Ahh and stick out her tongue when we ask her to, but mainly she just likes to suck the toothpaste off of the brush!) We snuggle and pray together before turning on her night time music before she lounges for her bed and her 3 pacifiers. Yes. Three. One in her mouth  and one in each hand. We turn and walk out and that is it for the night for Grace.

We spend our evenings eating and cleaning up dinner, skyping with people, watching tv, on our computers, or running errands. Alot of the household repairs can only take place at night, so Ian has spent alot of our evenings running here and  there to pick up the repairmen and bring them to our house. This week's big repair: fixing the small electrical fire damage that we had in our kitchen last week. No biggie.

I said our days or full to the brim, and this may sound like a pretty relaxed schedule, but this only happens in complete days like this 2-3 times a week. The other 4-5 days are spent going on play dates, doctor appointments, Ian driving all over  the country working on visas or going to meetings, and exploring our new city.

I know that all of this will look completely different in 2-4 weeks, when Sophia joins us, but for now, I am savoring these sweet, simple days filled with family time. We aren't sure how long Ian will be working from home this much but we love every minute of it and cherish our time together.

I am feeling pretty good. I still have alot of pain in my hips but I have learned to cope with it and have figured out some things to help me sleep better and avoid the beast known as insomnia. I see my new doctor (my old one just moved back to the States last week,) in a week or so, and look forward to hearing if baby girl is making any progress. Ian's mom comes for an extended visit at the end of September and we are all over the moon excited to see her (her first time meeting Grace AND she'll hopefully be here for Sophia's birth!)

35 weeks, and all is well.

*Edit* Can I just say, after I wrote this, it kept coming to my mind how blessed and fortunate we are to be able to spend our days as a family. So many of you have husbands who aren't able to work from home or be around for chore time or even bed time routines. I hope you know I don't take it for granted and that we are so thankful for this part of our life. The life we are called to, being so far away from friends and family, in a land where we are the foreigners, presents many challenges, but by far the biggest blessing is our time together as a family.

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35 Weeks and All is Well

Home Tour: Living Room

We've been living in our house for over a month and a half now. We've been all unpacked since the end of week one, but I've been waiting to share pictures until we got all of the curtains up and bought a few pieces of furniture or appliances that were missing.

Our house is such a blessing to us. In fact, it's not just a house, it truly is home now. Our last apartment was never "home." It was a place that was picked out for us, with someone else's furniture, and a space that did not work right for us. We lived there for two years and made some great memories and tried to make it as "homey" as possible, but it just never happened.

This house fell into our laps, has great neighbors, is in a good location, and has my biggest prerequisite- LIGHT!

The other major feature of this house is the layout and size- it uses every square foot to its advantage and uses the windows and the tall ceilings (12-14 feet in most places,) to make the space feel HUGE.

It's so huge, that we aren't able to fully furnish this house. We are pretty positive that we will only be in this house for a year for a number of reasons, and we are okay with that. But, keeping that in mind, we don't want to invest the money for furnishings and decorations in two of the rooms that we are fairly certain we won't have in our next home.

And that brings you to the first room you see when you walk in our front door: The living room!

It's a circular room which we (dorkily) call "The Rotunda" or the front room. But really it's a formal living room space.

Or, honestly, it could be called the "orphaned furniture," room.

We weren't able to sell our couch and book shelf from our last apartment so it made the move with us. We weren't sure what we were going to do with them, but they fill the space nicely and give a little purpose to the room.

The four curtains cover three giant windows and help keep out alot of heat right now. They are usually all closed, for cooling purposes and for privacy purposes. Because honestly, our neighbor kids would be found with their faces pressed against the window watching what the "strange Americans," are doing, if we didn't have the windows covered. I'm hoping that we can start leaving them oopen more often because the sunlight is beautiful!

The far left corner of the curtain wire is broken but we have to borrow a ladder before we can fix it- until then it works just fine and Grace loves playing hide and seek in the curtains!

Our book case is my favorite piece in this room. I didn't really want it to sell and am glad it didn't! In this book case, I specifically put "conversation pieces." Our framed wedding invitation, travel books, photo albums, and souvenirs from our world travels. There is a framed picture of a beloved little boy, but I really want to use that frame with an antiqued map of the UAE (where we live now.)

Opposite of the couch is our staircase, leading up to the second floor (duh.) Underneath of the stair case is this amazing storage space. If I had the time and resources I would hang a fun, angled curtain and make it into a play area for Grace. Like I said, I don't think we'll still be in this house for her to fully enjoy it so it's not on the top of my to-do list right now, and instead holds some odd items that we are using alot as we move in, like tools and arts and crafts things. Those will all be moved to a closet within a month or two though. Grace's outside toys will be stored here, for easy access when we go outside.

That's it for this time. This room doesn't have alot in it but it actually gets used every day- Ian likes to nap on this couch and Grace likes to ride her little car in this room or play on the couch or in the curtains! I'm glad we didn't sink alot of money into this space but I'm also glad it's not sitting empty and unused!

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If I Had the Time....

Life has been pretty busy lately, which, if I was honest with you, I really enjoy. But it has been so busy that I have even been skipping my afternoon nap! Which is saying alot, since I haven't missed this many afternoon naps in almost 2 years. It got me thinking...

If I had the time, I would

Finish Reading: The Three Musketeers- I am loving Alexandre Dumas' book. It's a bit of a behemoth though, which can be a little overwhelming if you let it. I like it because each chapter is an adventure in its own and leaves me wanting to read the next. I get in one or two chapters at night before I call it quits but I'd love to have an afternoon to myself to just sit and read and make real progress.

Begin Reading: It Happened in Italy- I saw this in the Kindle store one day and it really sparked my interest. I have always loved reading stories about Holocaust survivors and the resistance movement, so this book is right up my alley.

Watch the TV show: Downton Abbey, season 2. I borrowed season 1 from a friend last winter and loved it! I like historical pieces and I really like when dramas are very well done. It's a mini series but the episodes are like movies and the characters are really intriguing! I'll probably wait to buy the show off of iTunes until after Sophia is born and I am glued to the couch, nursing for half of the day!

Rent the movie: The Hunger Games. I read the trilogy before the movie came out and even got Ian to read them. I really enjoyed them and wish we had been able to see the movie in theaters, but it was not possible at the time. To do before baby comes: Date night in with husband!

Play: Monopoly! This should go right along with my date night, though I don't like to play games while watching a movie for the first time, because I like to have my focus fully on the movie. I LOVE playing Monopoly and was overjoyed to rediscover our own game in our crate!

Talk to: my sister, my mom, my friends! Alot of people. It's really hard now that school has started back- my family and friends are all busy and because of the time difference (we are 8 hours ahead of the east coast,) most people can only talk on Saturday morning their time! I can usually only fit in one or two conversations a week then, because there isn't enough time talk to everyone in one day.

Cook: a lasagna. I'm not really sure why, but lasagna has been on my mind alot lately. I haven't had a really good lasagna in years and I might be craving it. It just takes so long if you make a really good one! I miss frozen lasagnas- they are good to me!

Bake: Chocolate Chip Cookies! I could bake and eat these every day for the rest of my life. I LOVE cookies more than almost any baked good. I've got a great recipe that turns out perfectly, but I would really love to learn to make chocolate chip cookies like Subway cookies :)

Clean: Our windows! Since moving in to the house, we have not cleaned the windows and the desert sand is everywhere on them! It's so hot outside that I don't think I could handle cleaning the outside though, so I have put off cleaning the inside because, well, what's the point cleaning one if the other is going to be caked in sand?

Visit: the salon. I desperately need a haircut but I haven't found out where a good salon is here yet. My hair needs to lose about 3-4 inches for it to be healthy again. I stopped trimming it on my own about 5 months ago, thinking I would get a hair cut back in June, but it just hasn't happened yet. My curls will look so much healthier as soon as I can get it chopped. And while I am at it, I'd love to get a pedicure and a massage too. Hey, a girl can dream!

Create: a nursery! I've sorted through Grace's baby things and have piles of stuff that is just waiting for Sophia's furniture to be put into place. After that, I can add a few cute touches, but first, I need to find some time to do all of that!

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{Freezer Meals}

Freezer Meals:

It seems like everyone is talking, pinning, and trying this method of in advanced meal prep.

I first tried freezer cooking a couple of months before Grace was born at the end of 2010. Our freezer was tiny but I was able to keep it stocked with plenty of meals and it came in handy, particularly after we became first time parents.

It wasn't all successful though. I learned a couple of lessons on what can and can't (or shouldn't) be frozen. There was a Tortilla Chicken Soup incident that I don't think Ian or I will ever be able to forget. Turns out, cilantro can go rancid when frozen and then thawed.

Lesson learned.

My taste buds will never forgive me for that one.

We have a much larger freezer now and I have officially started freezer cooking for after the arrival of our second baby girl, Sophia. I thought I would share some of my favorite freezer recipes. Even if you aren't expecting a new arrival, freezer cooking can be really helpful, especially as the months of the busy holiday season approach.

There are several different ways to freezer cook:

Batch Freeze Cooking- where you stock up and spend a whole day or an afternoon cooking several meals to freeze.

Crock Pot Freezer Cooking- Where you slice and prepare all of the ingredients ahead of time but do not actually cook the ingredients, simply freeze them together so that you can put them in the crock pot on the day of cooking.

Single Meal Freezer Cooking- Prepare and cook a meal for the sole purpose of freezing it.

Double (or Triple) up Freezer Cooking- My personal preference. On the day that you prepare a meal for your dinner, simply double the ingredients and, in turn, double the results. One meal goes on the table, one goes in the freezer!

You can do whatever way you want, but I usually double or triple my recipe and freeze the extras because I feel that it is most cost effective AND the least stressful. Only one set of dirty dishes, the same amount of prep work (approximately,) and you get to actually eat the food that you prepare on the day that you do the work!

The first freezer meal I have made in the new house is:

Li'l Cheddar Meat Loaves

Now, I know meat loaf isn't everyone's favorite, but I l-o-v-e this recipe. It's got enough other flavors that makes it not too much like just a loaf of meat. It's moist, cheesy, and a hint of sweetness.

A little meatloaf back story. I whole heartedly believe that you love the type of meat loaf that your mom made. My mom makes a mid western style meat loaf and I love it. Ian's mom makes a Louisiana/Southern style meatloaf and he loves it. When we got married, I knew that I would never be able to replicate his mom's meatloaf and I also knew that it wasn't really fair to just keep making my mom's meatloaf (which I couldn't get quite right anyways.) SO, I set out to find our own meatloaf recipe!

I found this recipe on Tasty Kitchen. It is originally from Julie's Eats and Treats and we honestly look forward to this meal every time it comes around.

The directions are for doubling up and freezing one half (one normal portion) of the recipe. Pictures are on the owner's site of the preparation process.

• 2 whole Egg
• 1 1/2 cups Milk
• 2 cups Cheddar Cheese
• 2 cup Quick Cooking Oats
• 1 cup Chopped Onion
• 2 teaspoons Salt
• 2 pounds Lean Ground Beef
• 1 1/3 cups Ketchup
• 1 cups Packed Brown Sugar
• 1 tablespoon Prepared Mustard 

1. In a bowl beat egg and milk.
2. Stir in cheese, oats, onion and salt.
3. Add beef and mix well.
4. Shape the mixture into 8-12 loaves; place loaves in a greased 13x9x2 inch baking dish.
5. Combine ketchup, brown sugar and mustard. Spoon over loaves.
6. Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes or until meat is no longer pink.
7. With remaining meat mixture, spoon into greased muffin tin and cook at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes. Do not cover with sauce. Will make 12-18 additional loaves (for freezing!)
8. Eat and enjoy the 8-12 loaves for dinner,  let muffin tin meatloaves cool for 30 minutes, then place in a freezer safe container and freeze for later use.

If you have extra sauce, you could always freeze it in a baggie, or you could make another batch of the sauce (ketchup, brown sugar, and mustard,) at the time of reheating the frozen meat loaves.


I tried freezing the sauce in individual disk shapes, thinking it would be easier to grab one or two per loaf if I was only heating up a loaf or two, but it didn't freeze very well.

When using the frozen meat loaves, thaw, top with sauce, and cook for 20 minutes at 350 degrees F. You can reheat them all at once or just a few at a time.

I've also prepared this meal for freezing and not baked them first. They turned out fine but I am choosing to cook things thoroughly this time around, just to be safe.

We love this meal with mashed potatoes, green beans, yeast rolls, and sauteed squash!

Stay tuned for more of our favorite freezer meals!

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Good/Great Day

You know it's going to be a good day when you wake up at 3 am (hats off to you, insomnia,) and think "YES! I get to eat Papa John's today!

And yes, I did enjoy myself some pizza. Delicious!

The day continued in full blown wonderfulness with Grace being adorable, followed by a super hot and long shower, and a peach that made my heart sing. And all before 11 AM. Then it just went into a frenzy of amazingness, as our DRYER was delivered!

I have not owned a dryer since we lived in Vancouver, over 2 years ago. It hasn't been horrible, but it is much more convenient to dry towels and sheets, underclothes and t-shirts, in a dryer than having to hang all of those things up.

AND we got it used for 50 dollars. It was a steal.

And if I thought my day couldn't get any better, I was wrong. The minute the dryer delivery was over Ian's phone rang from our fridge delivery guy. Yes, he was supposed to be delivering between 5 and 9 pm, but we took the 1 pm delivery with a smile. You see, we've been living with a dorm fridge for almost 6 weeks now.

Our Fridge

Our Fridge with Grace for a height comparison.

And although it worked just fine, it was so tiny, and our condiments took up so much space, that I had to run out and go grocery shopping every day. We were trying to find a good used fridge (Abu Dhabi has a great Classifieds website, similar to, but, in my opinion, better than Craigslist,) but it wasn't working out. So we went to an appliance wholesaler and got a great deal on a brand new, gigantic LG fridge. And a free microwave.

My first fridge. And microwave. And washer. And dryer. And stove. That we've ever owned. All at the same time.

To put the cherry on top of the epically amazing day, I finally entered the nesting stage of this pregnancy.

At exactly 4:30 pm today.

Yes, I know the time. Because at 4 pm, I was perfectly content to sit on the couch and not work on anything, and by 4:30 pm I was up and going, making list, and sorting things into piles.

Bring on the nesting!

Ian and I spent the rest of the evening, cuddling on the couch and watching rugby.  A good day that became a great day!

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My friends just back to the States after being gone for nearly 3 years and they have boon posting facebook statuses and pictures showing their joy in the little things of life. Mostly food related, but still. Chick-fil-a, pork products, Wal-Mart, family, etc. It makes me SO excited for our trip to the States next year.

Home Girl, rocking her first pair of real shorts! She looked so grown up!

I'm really eager to redesign my blog, but am not wanting/am not able to spend anything on it right now. I also don't have time to do it myself. I don't suppose there is a really professional blog designer who reads this and wants to do some charitable work?

And yes, I just referred to myself as a charity case.

I'm totally okay with that.

We're keeping pretty busy here, but we like that! I can't believe we are 6 weeks from the due date for Miss Sophia!

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32 Weeks

Sundays have unofficially become "Sophia Sundays" on my blog but before I do a pregnancy update I wanted to say "Happy Birthday!" to my Grandma! Grace colored a card for her Great Grandma, that is, before she tried to eat the crayons.

I don't think she's ready for crayons yet.

So, Happy Birthday Grandma! We love you and miss you!


Today marks 33 weeks in this pregnancy. I can NOT believe we are 7 weeks or less (probably) from meeting our Sophia Anne!

These past four weeks have flown by. I said it on my last mini update two weeks ago, but I am significantly more uncomfortable with this pregnancy. I have had some lower abdominal pain (erm, "some" is really a loose term,) but I have a couple more days until my next doctor's appointment. It makes it difficult to walk, climb the stairs, carry Grace, and, oh yeah, sleep.

I had my first Braxton Hicks contractions at 32 weeks and 6 days. I never had any with Grace and it was really unsettling, even though I knew they weren't real contractions. They kept me up all night but by morning, I had realized that I was just a little dehydrated, and with some extra rest and plenty of fluids, they stopped about 12 hours after they started.

The belly is straight out, which is both good and bad. Good, because I often feel leaner than I did with Grace. Bad, because I need a pillar to support the belly.

My skin is starting to clear up (finally!) and my acid reflux doesn't seem to be as bad. Both are major answers to prayers!

We  got to see our Sophia girl at our 31 week appointment. I was suddenly measuring alot larger than I had been, so our doctor just wanted to check and make sure everything was okay. She looks wonderful and is in perfect health. The radiologist was able to confirm that she is definitely a girl (they weren't very sure at our gender ultrasound,) and even did a measurement of her (they've never done that at any of my ultrasounds before.) Sophia was weighing in at 4.2 pounds at 31 weeks! We're praying that the measurement is wrong, because that means she would be a pretty large baby 9 weeks later!

Look at those huge chubby cheeks!

We finally have a plan in place for when and how we are going to get ready for Sophia. I'm pretty confident it will come together in the next couple of weeks. For now, we're "preparing" Grace for having a baby around. We don't think she is really aware enough to understand, but she will be aware that our focus and her home environment has changed. We do alot of playing with a baby doll, making it cry, swaddling it, feeding it, finding it, etc.

"Where's the baby, Grace?"

She just started doing "Where" hands- I love it!

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32 Weeks

Getting Ready and Our Wish List

I've officially had that moment.

That moment when I realize my baby could arrive here in four weeks and the doctors wouldn't stop her!

That moment when I realize Sophia could be joining us in ONE MONTH.

That moment when I walk into her room and see nothing done. Nothing set up, nothing bought, nothing washed.

That's right. I'm almost 33 weeks along and have not done a single thing for baby girl #2 and her arrival.

Hi, My name is Brittney and I am a terrible human being.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: It really shouldn't take us that long to get her room ready. I have everything planned in my head but I haven't actually gone out and found anything.

Mostly, because the few things that we actually need (crib, changing pad, and sheets for her crib,) cost money, and all of our money is going into furnishing our new home. The things that we need to do before Sophia's arrival (for her, not just for our house, ha!) are:

1.) Buy an entertainment center, so that we can move her dresser out of the family room and into her room.
2.) Wash and dry the container of newborn and container of 0-3 month clothes from Grace.
3.) Wash and dry the container of baby/infant linens.
4.) Put said clothes and linens into dresser that has been moved into her room.
5.) Use frames (that we already own,) and make some art for her room.
6.) Buy and set up changing pad, cd player, and lamp

If that's all we got done before she arrived, I'd be happy. We'd be able to easily access her clothes, use her linens, and change her diaper. If we hadn't gotten around to buying and setting up a crib, we have a pack n play with an infant insert that we could use for awhile.

See? It's a really easy list. I could have the entire thing done in a day, no problem, since I have already chosen the entertainment center and it can fit in our car. I'm just procrastinating because life has been so full and busy lately!

Another reason that we haven't gotten much is done is because the things that we want are just that, wants. I'm not a particularly frugal person. I have no problem spending money on things. The problem is, the things I like are usually very good quality and therefore very expensive. Here are a few of our "Wish List" items that we didn't have room for in our old apartment, or we didn't need:

The Graco Sweetpeace Swing (really, I'm okay with any old swing, this one is just impressively high tech.)

 

 

 

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Baby Monitor- our last apartment was so small that we could hear Grace even when she was just stirring in her crib. In this house, the walls are so thick and we are much more spread out, meaning that we can't even hear her crying in her room from our bedroom! Not to mention if I am downstairs while she is sleeping. We really need a monitor (or maybe two?) that can pick up sound (I don't need video) and transmit through these thick concrete walls. Any suggestions? I think we probably also want the receiver to be rechargeable, as I would need to move it from our bedroom to downstairs with me.

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An unstructured baby carrier- we borrowed our friend's infant carrier but we didn't use it very often. Now, with Grace on the move, I would love some way to hold Sophia while still doing things with Grace. Plus, this might help us with our stroller situation (more on that to come.) Suggestions? K'Tan? Moby Wrap? Something different? We have a Classic Boba, which we love, but it is a soft structured carrier and is meant for a baby 15 pounds and above, so we want something for a small baby.

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A double stroller- there aren't many options out here for double strollers. I'm not a fan of umbrella strollers (at all) because of their propensity to flip backwards and you can't really have an infant in one anyways. I'd love to be able to move Sophia's car seat from the car to the stroller. AND I want a more compact stroller that isn't too wide (can't fit through aisles at stores,) or too long (can't fit into smaller elevators- believe me, I've seen it happen.) All of this to say, I LOVE this stroller but it is a total dream item: a Phil and Teds Dash with a Double kit. I can get one used here for about half of the regular price, which is nice, but even still, it's expensive!!

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There are a few more small items but that is the extent of our big Wish List items. They probably will never happen, but I'm keeping my eyes open for good deals on these things!

Perhaps in the next week or two we'll be able to start moving on getting preparations for Sophia's arrival. I think the first purchase will be a pack of newborn diapers!

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Getting Ready and Our Wish List