Does everything for a baby come with a strap, a cover and a net?!?

Oh the joys of registering! Jeremy and I had an absolute blast on this
adventure. However, I will say we learned a few things along the way.
First of all, becoming parents suddenly removes you from the world of
confident, intelligent adult, to wandering, blabbering idiot. One foot
in the door at Baby's R Us, and even those armed with chapters of
information on good brands of cribs, car seats and pack n plays can be
brought to their knees in insecurities. Second of all, 8 pounds of baby
requires more stuff than we needed to fill our house when we registered
for our wedding!

Our adventure began at Baby's R Us. We filled out a sheet, were given a
booklet and handed a scanner. The lady suggested we register in two
trips. One for all the big stuff like car seats, and another for all
the infant care stuff like diapers and bottles. I know she knew what
she was talking about, but we were prepared. It couldn't possibly be
that bad! We skipped off as she mentioned something about "Most first
time parents spend at least 3 hours putting together their registry." It
wasn't long before I realized just how right she was. Somewhere between
crib sheets, crib pads, changing pads and changing pad covers we had to
do a sanity check before moving onto the bigger stuff. The real brain-numbing issues popped up when we went to register our car seats. We thought if we registered our stroller/travel system and the bases, we'd be good to go. Oh contraire. You should also plan to have a convertible car seat. I am still not 100% sure I have the rules about rear-facing, forward-facing, booster seats figured out, but after walking around aimlessly for 30 minutes, we broke down and asked someone. I think she got everything figured out for us. When she was done I asked her to point to what she recommended and we'll scan it! Dangerous I know. But I was swimming into the waters of hysteria. I swore I was going to have a nightmare about car seats marching in a line through my living room. Okay okay. So it wasn't that bad. But I was happy to leave the car seats and go do something less safety oriented and more fun! Onto the play gyms and toys we went. We registered this adorable play gym by Baby Einstein. It's an ocean adventure one. It matches nothing of our other items, but it had the coolest features! At any rate, by the time we left, we hit all the major players on the registry list.

We recharged with some fuel and enjoyed a fabulous dinner at TGI Friday's. Gotta love their green bean fries. If you've never had them, you gotta try them! By the time we left we had regrouped and were ready for Target. With the holidays around the corner we were able to stay till they closed at 11pm. Nearly 2 hours later we had wrapped up the registry list at Target. Jer was most excited to register the hooded towels. (This all began from an episode of Jon and Kate Plus 8. One of the girls ran around in a frog hooded towel saying Ribit! Ribit! Jer and I about fell out of bed laughing at her. So cute hooded towels had to make our list!) We found an adorable one that looks like a shark. It has the teeth and everything! I think I fell in love with him all over again just watching him flip out over how cute the towels were!

All in all, registering was a wonderful bonding experience. We are more excited than ever to meet our little wonder. Both lists still need some fine tuning and updating, but they are getting there!