Here's our bassinet, now ready to serve its fourth baby (with hospital bag ready to go there on top):
That's right; we fit it in a bedroom that isn't even large enough for a queen sized bed!
And, here are baby's diapers and clothes. None are new; all are hand-me-downs. And yes, we ran the diapers for an extra bleach cycle before folding them and deeming them worthy of a new little bottom:
They ALL fit in the little bins beneath the bassinet. Once baby graduates to the girls' room, he can have a WHOLE drawer in the dresser the girls share. Yes indeed, we don't even have one dresser per child!
The final, and possibly scariest frontier was to scale car seat mountain. We love our Jetta TDI Wagon and are totally committed to the idea of clean diesel engines. We specifically bought this station wagon new to own for as long as possible (think: decades, rest of life, if possible). But, fitting three car seats across the back seat was looking bleak. We tried a number of brands and configurations before we found the magic three puzzle pieces:
1. Maxi Cosi Mico
2. Britax Parkway
3. Cosco Scenera
We had to order one special item, the "Booster Buckle," in order to avoid plunging our hands into the rough-edged plastic terrain between the infant seat and the bigger seat every time the oldest sits in her seat (because she uses the adult harness now) but otherwise, we were able to get all three in without making any significant changes to our automotive lifestyle. When I drive to work now, I'll be in the ultimate carpool machine!
With any luck, baby won't make his big debut for a few more days, and I'll have time to find the perfect diaper bag on Craigslist. I've been wanting a Petunia Pickle Bottom backpack one, and they're on sale at Nordstrom right now. But I haven't bought anything new for baby yet, and I'd love to stay true to that intention in every way possible.
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