Diaper Bag!

Y'all, it might be kind of silly, but I'm super excited about my diaper bag! I haven't had a chance to put it into practice yet, but I did SO much research and looking around online before deciding on this one. I mean, it's basically going to be my purse for the next several years, so I had to find one I knew I would love! I found this one on Amazon a while back and I loved all the pockets and such that it had (I mean, just watch the video)! I did NOT love the colors and patterns. I was on the hunt for a super cute bag that was just as practical. 

We're going to cloth diaper, so a small diaper bag just won't do. I needed something that I could pack enough cloth diapers for 2 kids in and still have room for an overnight trip. I needed something that was cute enough to replace my purse. Obviously since I didn't want to carry a purse and a diaper bag, I needed something with my own compartment. I didn't want anything with animals or whatnot on it. It needed to be easy to clean.

I found one. It was more than double the price though. The Ju-Ju-Be Be Preapared in Duchess. I justified it by thinking it would literally serve 2 purposes for the next...I don't even know...4 years? So of course, I needed to love it. I loved this one. But the price tag hurt. I mean, at the end of the day, I'm going to be putting clothes with spit up and wet bags full of dirty diapers in this thing. Did I really want to spend that much on it? And it didn't even come with stroller straps, so you're talking another $20. No, I didn't want to spend that much on it (and I didn't want Josh to either), but I put it on the registry anyway, you know, in case I didn't find anything else I liked or if it went on sale for like 75% off or something.

Well, fast forward to when we were working on our registry at Babies R Us and I saw the Skip Hop Grand Central in a print I hadn't seen before! And I loved it! (Extra plus, Josh didn't hate it). They had a print called French Stripe that I liked SO much more than the other prints! No black on brown! AND it's Gray! It comes with the stroller straps, so it's ready to go and a much better deal than the Ju-Ju-Be. I added this one to our registry too! 

Now I was stuck between the 2. The one thing I really liked better about the JuJuBe was the way it opened. Most other differences weighed each other out to me. But was that worth over $100? No, probably not. I watched so many YouTube videos of people comparing these 2 bags and that didn't make the decision any easier. So on the registry they both stayed. I talked to Josh about the pros and cons of each bag, but so typical of me, I basically refused to make a decision.

As I mentioned in my 27 week update - Josh bought this for me for Mother's Day! He made the decision for me and I'm thankful for that. He read a bunch of reviews and while there are some that mention some of the threads not holding up (I had read the same ones), Skip Hop's customer service is supposed to be great and it should be no problem getting it replaced if that does happen. This one is also lighter weight than the JuJuBe and is supposed to fit on and under the stroller quite a bit better, so those are pluses as well! I don't have the JuJu Be one to compare it to, but this one fits on and our stroller great,without being too bulky.  Of course, the price definitely won on this one. Thanks babe for buying my purse for the next few years!!! I can't wait to stuff it full of all the baby things!

Crazy Pregnancy Dreams

Everyone has heard about crazy pregnancy dreams. How vivid they are and how little sense they make. For whatever reason, I haven't included any of these in my weekly posts, so I figured I would do a separate post about them. 

I've had a few, but there are 3 that stand out that I don't think I'll ever forget. 

The first one was the pedicure dream. I was with some friends (no clue who) and we were going to get pedicures. I was not super obviously pregnant in the dream, but you could tell if you paid attention. I picked out a color and the salon employee looked and me with the most cheerful face and said - "That's a great color to wear for your miscarriage!" Ummm...WHAT?!? In real life, I probably would have just walked out of the place. In the dream, I didn't know what to say and I just went along with it.

The next dream is a little better - the cruise dream. I had this one shortly after we decided to go on a cruise. In the dream, I was right before the cutoff date of when I could cruise (24 weeks), so I would say around 22-23 weeks pregnant, and I delivered the baby! The baby was fine, but tiny. We were able to go home the next day (yea, right), so we decided to go ahead and go on our cruise with the baby. Obviously, there were lots of baby items that we didn't own yet, so we had to improvise and make our own. We didn't have any clothes that would fit, so I basically just swaddled the baby in tiny cloth pieces. We got our stuff together the best we could and headed off for our cruise. With all that was going on, what stuck out in my mind most was that I forgot my nursing cover at home, so I had to figure out a way to nurse the baby so it could eat and get stronger and bigger. Weird. 

The happiest, but possibly weirdest dream was the baby face dream - Josh and I were laying in bed, just watching my belly move and such. At some point, this knot just formed in the side of my belly. We decided the knot had to be the head. So cool, right!?! Well, the head started to move upward and outward and we could start to make out the facial features! For whatever reason, we were not weirded out by this at all, we were just so excited. This continued on until the baby was all but out of me. It was kind of attached to my torso like a little infant Siamese twin. We just kept laying in bed, talking to the baby and snuggling with it like this was completely normal. 

It's so weird how these dreams happen. I saw the baby clearly in both of these dreams, but I don't remember how it looked at all.