Preparing for baby...

So prepping for baby has led us into a frenzy of registry preparation and reorganizing the house to make it less "chaotic" for when baby T arrives. Donna has spent most of her free hours after work and weekends trying to accomplish this main objective. She has a long list of "to-dos" and like Donna's belly, the list seems to keep expanding.

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One item on the list was purchasing a glider rocker. At first we didn't think we wanted one, since they don't really go with our decor, but once Donna sat in one, she realized that she wanted to get one. After spending a few days on craigslist we hit the jackpot! We saw an ad that was offering two for $40, so we went and looked and offered $20 for one of the chairs and the guy said, "no, I will take $15". So, no fighting from us, we willingly paid $15 for a glider! Donna took this glider from dull to doable by using fabric from our old duvet cover and made new cushions. Voila! New and super inexpensive glider! Below is the before and after. Ahh, love the lighter colors and plush cushions! Super comfy and perfect for when baby comes! Here is one belly pic for those who would like to see the progress! Week 30! You can go and look back at the last blogs and Donna is pictured wearing this same shirt—you can see the definite change in size through these last 3 months! Along with getting a glider rocker from craigslist, we also scored an AWESOME chair for baby. This is very much like the Stokke chair but this one was used and from the UK (according to the seller). We love that this chair can transition from being used by infants to toddlers to kinders all the way up to being used by adults (because of the adjustable components). We thought it was a worthwhile investment. We will be refinishing this to match our kitchen chairs, but since we won't be using this until Faye is 6mos we are going to focus on other priorities. Right now all the kitties love the chair. They rotate who sits on top throughout the day. It is pretty funny. Our largest update for this post is that we got a new family car! We traded in our beloved little yellow Beetle for a 2009 Jetta Wagon. We did much research and test driving and decided on this guy below. (tons of storage space for baby accessories!) Our only pic was with Donna's phone and the "photographer" was the sales guy who obviously was too excited about the recent sale he made to care about centering the picture! Corey did an amazing job working an incredible deal for this car, he had Donna fooled on his little show that he put on through the buying process (that lasted over 5 hours)! He got it down to below bluebook used price (though this was a new car)! Nice. One of our favorite features thus far is the seat warmer on the passenger and driver seats for our cold Eugene morning commute to work/school.