Bargains And daycare

G started a new daycare and it's going really well, she loves it! Im so relieved, that I've tentatively returned to work four days a week to see how it goes. And at daycare she is getting So grubby, food and paint etc. her clothes may not last as long as hoped, especially as she has leaned up now and I think she will probably be in size ones for a year vs the days of 000 where they lasted two months!

I was super happy when I stumbled upon the Cotton On Kids sale where tops and leggings were $5! $5!! I got two smocks and two pairs of leggings. No more dresses for awhile as she is not walking yet make crawling very awkward..

I love having a baby daughter

Though I am looking forward to having a little boy one day, I am SO glad I got my girl first.  I love dressing her up and buying her pink stuff.  Although I no longer put headbands on her (soft crochet ones that didn't squash her head people!), I am now obsessed with clips, and being the good girl she is, G leans her head forward when I put clips on her - she totally loves it.  If and maybe when she starts pulling them out, I am totally fine with that and will stop putting clips in her hair.  Until then I will clip away!  Also love these shoes, still trying to find her Minnie Mouse ones in her size... Hopefully her Daddy never finds out these baby shoes cost $40!

Presents!

Fun at the Zoo and presents for 1st Birthday

why is it so hard to find toys

I guess all the toys got bought up at Xmas!  I went looking for a water activity table and a plastic baby doll for G.  Cannot find either anywhere.  Seriously I can understand the water activity table dilemma - but a plain plastic baby doll??  I ended up buying this tiny plastic baby doll for the bath.  Sigh.

Am having major dramas with toy clutter.  We have a small house, and her room is upstairs so it is impractical to continually store things in there and pull them out every day.  She doesn't even have that many toys, I wonder what other parents do. I am thinking of buying big storage clear plastic boxes and putting big labels on them like, wheels/cars/trains etc, balls, blocks, rattles.  I think I just have to resign myself to the fact to live in a clutter free nice home I will just have to be super organised in putting things away for G and getting them back out. It would probably only take three boxes to actually store everything away under the stairs.

Adventure at the Zoo

We took G to the zoo. I was hoping that she was old enough now to enjoy it, and she loved it! The giraffes were her favourite, it was very cute. And in the gift shop I finally found hand puppets, I have been looking for some for ages! They were only $12.95 and they had a huge selection but we went with the giraffe and the kookaburra.

One Year Old!

G is one! Wow, time just flies :-). This time last year I was overdue and had given up hope that I was ever having a baby. I also didn't know if I was having a girl or boy (though I was pretty sure it was a girl). We are taking the little tike to the zoo for her birthday. Next birthday we will do something more extravagant with other little kids, but this year it will just be us.

Luckily we found a replacement portacot pretty quickly, babies r us had the Gosafe Portocot on sale for $59 save $30. We tried it instore and it unfolded and picked up easily. It looks exactly the same as the target lemon one but actually works!

Sometimes cheap things are not bArgains

The portocot I bought from Target turned out to be a lemon.  It was really cheap ($59) and it was supposed to be so easy to set up and pack up - just snap up and snap down.  Except things wouldn't snap and it was SUCH a pain, that when visiting relatives for Xmas we just left it there, lol.  So now we need to find another portocot, so annoying!  I have no idea where to start looking for one and really cannot be bothered.  I guess we will venture out to baby stores and make sure we can set one up and pack it up before purchasing :-).

I also really really want the City Baby Jogger Versa pram.  The pram we bought for shopping is totally fine, a little annoying but G loves it, but the outside pram is crap - its hood does not protect G at all from the sun!  So I will continue to save my pretty pennies for this pram, everywhere is out of stock until Feb 13 anyway. I cant even find a cheap USA deal, like I did with the City Mini - they are $750 everywhere (noting that our last pram cost $300 and the City Mini  cost about $260 though we made $200 on that when we sold it).  At least I know the resale value will be good based on how much we got for our City Mini when we sold it on Gumtree. But like the post title implies, sometimes you just need to cough up the big bucks to get the right thing.