Baby Registry Take 1

Lauren and I are spending the entire week in Columbia, SC for the Thanksgiving holidays. For the past month or so, we have been planning to use the first few days of this week here to start our baby registry. It's just been too busy for us this fall to go on the weekends in Miami, plus our desire not to fight the overcrowding of stores there.

So, yesterday we ventured out to Buy Buy Baby with Glenna to start our registry experience. Buy Buy Baby is a newer chain of baby stores by the same people who own the Bed Bath & Beyond stores. Several of our friends with little one's have recommended this store over Babies R Us due to their selection, helpfulness and a better return policy. Plus, they are pretty generous in accepting coupons for their store and the Bed Bath & Beyond coupons. We will also register somewhere like Target for those who do not have a Buy Buy Baby near them, but this is where we started yesterday.

Lauren and I have joked that we have no clue all of the things we need to register for.

There are the obvious things (car seat, stroller, furniture) but there are also things I never thought of until yesterday, like a wipe warmer (I know they didn't have these when I was a baby, but apparently now it's a "must have" item for the nursery) and many other things. Also, baby monitors are now much more "high tech" as there are now video monitors instead of just the audio monitors. Who knew!

We received a full store tour of all the different departments with the staff pointing out all the various things we could possibly need. It was a little overwhelming but was definitely a good start for us as we begin to pick out all the things we need/want for the nursery. I think we were there for nearly 3 hours and registered for close to 40 items. We also have a list of things to research over the next few weeks. Go check it out on the Buy Buy Baby website.

Several people have asked if we have a theme for the nursery and we have decided to use a beach/ocean theme. Since we are currently in a rental house, we aren't sure how much decorating we will be able to do, but we are going for colors along the lines of aqua, light blue, white/off white, etc...anything that has a beach feel to it.

Now comes the interactive part of the blog, where we need your help. All of our friends and family who have found our blog, please leave us a comment with any must have items or things you found helpful. Or if there are things we should avoid or really do not need, fill us in. A few have already sent us suggestions via facebook or email, but we welcome all of you to share your thoughts. It will definitely be most helpful to us!

We wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and hope to see you soon.