I also went to the store and found a great deal on diapers. I never saw a bigger box of diapers, I'm not even sure what they were called because the big Katie box of diapers I get are called Jumbo...and these are twice as many! (edit - I just walked by them and looked - it's called "the HUGE box")
I had two options - I could get the Pampers Swaddler box for $24 and get 88 diapers, or I could get this huge box of Pampers Swaddlers for $30 and get over 180. Obviously, I went for the latter. This is in size one, so that combined with the two bags of newborn diapers should get me through quite a few weeks. This doesn't include all the diapers I had left over that I have sealed in totes. Diaper Stash - completed!
I have now received all of Will's Christmas gifts except one. I have to get him a Scout (Leapfrog) to go with Katie's Violet. The problem is, if Katie sees it she's going to go nuts so I'm waiting on that one until I can go in by myself and grab it. Everything else is all ready to be wrapped up!
I also bought a few more outfits. I know, don't I say that every few days? But I swear, I look in the drawers and the stash just looks lacking. I don't feel confident yet that I have enough. But, I'm also buying for newborn, 0-3, and 3-6, and 6 months, so I'm covering half a year of clothes here. Today I grabbed a few hats for the baby, which seems so foreign to me because Katie never wore hats past the first day. But this baby is a winter baby, he's going to need hats for when he goes places (like the doctor's) and when it's cool in the house. I also got a few more pairs of tiny, fluffy socks. I have about 10 pairs now, which I don't think is enough because they're so small and pretty much immediately get lost after the first week. I had some for Katie, but after a few times through the laundry, they just disppeared. Luckily though, as a summer baby, she never needed them anyway. The only thing left that I need ( I think, I haven't washed everything up yet) is some long sleeve swaddler shirts - which, even though they have winter suits, winter jackets, long sleeve everything and winter sleepers, they STILL don't have any swaddle long sleeve shirts.
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Besides what I accomplished so far today...I also had some moments where I was close to tears. One of my favorite maternity shirts, which I wore up until delivering Katie last time...yep, it's too tight now. SERIOUSLY? I'm 26 weeks and I can't fit into a shirt that I wore until 40 weeks last time? And my normal jeans, which are always giant on me outside of pregnancy, are now too tight. I also had to go up a size in underwear. Everything is expanding so fast now! The scary part about it is I know how my body is in third tri - all of a sudden, I gain a lot of weight and I get huge. So the fact that I'm doing that pre-30 weeks is a bit worrying! I can only imagine how huge I'm going to get by the end this time!
I had horrible nightmares all last night. I thought I was safely past the time where miscarriage dreams might plague me, but I was wrong. They're more vivid now, and they're more personal as they were about this baby. Having gone through the process made it feel so realistic and horrible and it seemed like all night long wanted to focus on just that. Obviously, I got very little sleep.
With all that said, I'm feeling better about going into third trimester next week. At least my bag and baby's bag is packed. I have the major things, like the car seat, already bought. Everything I'll need for baby is bought, I just need to do another load of baby laundry now. Christmas is 75% done, and honestly even if I for some reason wasn't able to finish up the Christmas list, Katie would have lots to unwrap and all the really important gifts are here and waiting to be wrapped next month. It's such a different feeling to be prepared in pregnancy!
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