Registries!!!!

We have been wanting to start our registries for some time now...we have decided to register at two places because of out-of-town guests, cheaper prices at certain stores and just the logistics of all the stuff we need, I thought it would be easier. But we were waiting to find out the sexes to really get started, even though  have been looking at baby gear and baby stuff for as long as I can remember...I guess ever since I stopped looking at wedding stuff (after the wedding).

So, we have decided to register at Target and Babies R Us!

Some things were clearly cheaper at Target so we registered for those things there, but Target didn't have everything I wanted so we had to do two stores. I really hate that I can't touch and feel things and pick it up and look at it, shopping/registering online, which Target doesn't have much baby supplies and stuff in the store, so it sucks to pick out things online (and not to mention boring and no fun what-so-ever). I guess if I was just having one baby, maybe, but let's be honest I need to look inside a diaper bag, look at compartments and see the sizes, see if it's big enough to pack for three babies...ya know things like that!

So Tim was less then thrilled to go to BuyBuy Baby, Great Beginnings, Babies R Us and Target (we hadn't decided at the time where to register, other than Target) but he sucked it up and got into it, just like when we registered for the wedding. He LOVED registering for the wedding gifts and this baby stuff just intimidated him a little but he really got into it!

Babies R Us was packed with new parents with their little bundles of joy and pregnant mom's to be with not-so-excited hubby's following along. I bet some of the people watching me scan 10 of things (like bottles, nipples, diaper packages, bibs) were thinking, what is that woman doing...but hey, I AM HAVING TRIPLETS! We registered for so many things and hadn't finished yet when our scanner said "registry full"...LOL, so they had to upload it and we begun again loading it up!

I am glad to say that we finally finished it and kept it as budget friendly as possible, because I am always looking for good deals and ways to save, even if other's will be buying some of these things...I want people to get a good deal and know that I spent a lot of time researching where things were the cheapest! For example, the car seats that we have decided on for the girls are $114.00 dollars at Babies R Us and $80.99 at Target! Umm, hello! Also, the snap-and-go strollers were almost $15.00 dollars a piece MORE at Babies R Us than at Target!

I did a little research about some things, but to be honest, everyone has a "favorite" bottle, binki, nipple, breast pump, car seat, and frankly, something works for everyone, so I didn't feel it was necessary to have the best of the best, but more what works for us, our babies and what I have seen work for the families that I have nannied and babysat. I don't need Dr. Brown's bottles, a $250.00 dollar infant car seat or a $500 dollar crib...just all unnecessary in my eyes! I wouldn't have considered these things even if we were just having one baby. It just isn't me!

It's really difficult because we need to put all the babies in one room and even though the room looks big empty, when we started measuring for the super over-sized cribs, things got tight, quick!! I was worried, and still am that everything isn't going to fit, but we have come up with some good ideas to fit everything (which will be discussed in the Nursery part-one post...coming soon). So originally the cribs I wanted, would just barely fit but logistically if we wanted to turn the cribs (long-ways out), we wouldn't have been able to (see below to understand) so we changed the cribs to another, but there is one that is cute too and it's 3.5 inches shorter in lenght..and cheaper, so we'll go with that one! I didn't care for the crib too much plain, but there was a photo of it all decorated in a nursery and it was super cute!

Also, I did not want the cheesy themed bedroom set...ya know the ones that come in a big bag...just not me. I like simple and elegant, so even though I have picked lilac and light blue for the bumpers and the walls, the bumpers might change...just don't know at this point.

This is the one I originally wanted:

Or this one:

But, here are some of the things we registered for:

The cribs will be this:

Madelynn and Claire's car seats (which I hate pink, but there are NO purple ones made by Graco, oh well):

Jackson's car seat:

High chairs (conserving space):

The pack-n-play:

The swings (2):

Glider (not super happy with this but oh well):

Bathtub:

Bumpers:

Strollers: