January 17, 2009
Who knew that bedding so small could be so expensive! Since Nathan was spending the day with friends in Columbus, I decided to tag along and begin looking for nursery bedding. To my surprise I was shocked at how much this stuff costs. It ranges from $100-$650! After going to an upscale store and leaving disappointed I found a Baby's-R-Us and decided what the heck its worth a try. Thankfully they were having a two day sale that took an extra 75% off the already reduced clearance price of any bedding and room decor. I'm not so great at making decisions like these on my own so I bought four different bedding sets and decided we could just take back whatever we didn't want.
So I ended up buying:
Winnie the Pooh 4 piece bedding set (originally $180) for $40 and a mobile to match (was $44) for $7.
Jacks (X's Bedding) 3 piece bedding set (originally around $100) for $16, a mobile for $3 and a rug to match for $4.
Dinosaur 6 piece bedding set (originally $180) for $40, curtain valances $3 and a matching lamp for $7.
Safari 3 piece bedding set (originally around $120) for $22 and a matching baby blanket for $2.
Total: $155
I'll never forget this experience since there was another guy on the phone running around piling bedding in his cart talking to his wife on the phone as I was doing the very same thing. We kept laughing at each other as we had no clue what to buy. The employees just looked at us like we were loonies. I think he bought 6 or 7 sets! After 2.5 hours I finally left and couldn't believe the bargains I had found. Now we just have to decide what were going to keep. I'm leaning towards Winnie the Pooh and Nathan's leaning towards the Dinosaurs. I love all the bedding but am surprised were going with something more traditional since I had my heart set on a more modern type of bedding but for the price I'll definitely settle :)
Bedding Pictures Below...
My mother ordered this cute embroidered bag for me (I LOVE IT):
Renee Perry put together this cute bouquet of baby clothes & socks...so adorable!
So Emily will be happy about that! At the same time I decided to do a little messing around with some picture morphing software and see (just for laughs) what the little tyke could possibly look like. I only tried a few times....but these are what I ended up with.
So....more to come.....Possibly....we will see what Em thinks of these!!!!
Chances are most of you who read the blog already knew the going name for our "home makeover baby addition" which will come to fruition in May. Even so Emily chose to take a page out of the Weaver baby blog handbook with the ole' "Cat...Bag?" story, and mentioned his name in one of her recent blogs. Anyways...not as though it was some big surprise but the lil bun in the oven will go by Hunter Ehren Chapman, when he is not being oogeled and baby talked to being called cutie and sweetie. We did very little quibbling about what the name would be (although Emily wanted to name him after furniture at first "Ethan Allen") but more so about how we would spell it. I do not profess to be an excellent speller, in fact….any blog I type, is first written in Microsoft Word and spell checked before I ever even think about posting it, but I really think I am right on this one. I wanted something strong and with character and we both agreed on the name (AARON) but I wanted a different spelling! Em waivered a bit but started throwing out some suggestions....she leaned strongly towards erin, erinn, ehrin, ehrinne.....but I denounced them all as feminine spellings. Finally I talked her into the old English (Irish) spelling "Ehren" I love it!!!! Some may think that I am naming my son after one of my favorite things to do....this is not the case, if it were his name would have been golfer!!!! But that is not very becoming now is it.
Jacks:
Dinosaur:
