Buy buy buy

Now our baby girls have entered the stage of viability! It is a huge relief. Pregnancy is much like flying. Taking off requires a strict safety protocol and is nerve wrecking. Once it reaches a cruising attitude and the captain has turned off the fasten seat belt sign, everyone can start to get a little bit comfortable. However, it is always advisable to keep the seat belt fastened as an unexpected turbulence could occur. We hope it continues to cruise for the time being and reaches our destination with safe and smooth landing. It took us almost 6 months to get to this cruising attitude and we finally can unbuckle to shop and buy in full swing. 

Preparing for a newborn can be overwhelming, not to mention that we are first time daddies and dealing with two. Everything is so new and doubled. Making a list of what we really need is actually more challenging than we have thought because there are tons of accouterments for babies begging to get a share of our wallet and so many of them are just too cute to resist. If we think hard (and able to resist the temptation), there are not much necessities to buy. Other than clothing and diapers, we came down to four items that we really need - car seats, a stroller, and where they will be sleeping (bassinet, crib, or playard) and feeding (bottles and formula). The rest are just options to make our live a bit easier (e.g., diaper genie) and babies a bit happier (e.g., swing). After reading what we need and don't need, we are not even going to make a nursery. We realized that babies need more attention, love and affection than they do stuff.

Since we started paying a lot of attention to baby stuff, we are surprised to see how much pink stuff are for girls and blue for boys. I can't remember how many times a sales person asked "is it for a girl or a boy" as the first question to help. We feel gender neutral color is the way to go and want them to have all colors. If it turns out pink is their favorite color, they can have everything in pink. 

We got them each a dress in rainbow colors from Cambodia and can't wait to see them in these dresses. Their clothes and stuff (a suitcase we brought back, remember?) are filling the closet we have set up for them. 

Grandparents have gotten really excited and gone on a shopping spree. Too pinkish maybe?