Registering Part 2

Saturday- the big day has come. After our visit last evening we wanted to check out a few more things on car seats before we were off. We decided on either Graco (b/c I liked the pattern) or the Chicco (the lexus of strollers according to some). We head to Humble to our nearest BRU.

I did the hard part online- all our personal info so all we needed was the magic wand and the checklist and we were off. Simon began to call things out and soon my head became filled with dread- did we need that, did we not- was that rated highly on the website, what were other people's feedback? Yikes it is all so confusing. As we are walking around I notice that half of the shelves are empty. After talking to several sales people they mention the best BRU to check out is the big one on 45 and 1960- SO YEP you guessed it, we were off!

The huge BRU was great- we had a nice "orientation' received a great book and they set us up with the stroller "advisor". We asked about the Graco one with the pattern we liked and the advisor looked at us and said what every parent fears- RECALL!!! (lead based paint)
What how did I not know I even checked out some webpages? oh great. But he re-assured us and showed us a few others. We ended up choosing the Chicco even though it is a basic pattern.

After all my recon work I knew we did not need everything on the list they give you, so I highlighted what we were after and then the magic wand really got it's workout. I watched as Simon roamed aimlessly up and down the feeding isles determined to find a "strainer"- I had no clue what they meant by the general term and decided I did not need it; however he reminded me on more than one occassion "just because we don't know what something is definitely doesn't mean we don't need it!"

We had a great time, picked out some great things for JenniAnne and we are excited.

She is starting to move around more and Daddy got to feel his first kicks recently! What a weird experience. Will write more about that and our quest to find the "perfect" daycare!

Hope you all are well.