Nesting

We still got a lot of cleaning to do!!! *sigh*

We plan to stay at my parents’ house by the 1st week of December.  But since my bedroom at my parents’ house has been transformed to a storage room for almost 3 years, there’s just too many stuff we need to organize, throw, clean, and disinfect.  We’ve been going there almost every weekend so we can prepare the room for when Baby Dagny comes.  So far so good.  But it looks like we wouldn’t have enough time to sort out all the cabinets and drawers.

It’s good that an aunt gave us a big plastic drawer for Baby Dagny’s stuff.  I can’t imagine putting her stuff inside the musky cabinets!  We also bought some big plastic bins we can put her other stuff.  It’s amazing how much stuff a baby can have.  We’re just really grateful that a lot of friends and relatives have contributed to Baby Dagny’s stash! We still have a couple of items in our list, though, that we still need to buy like a baby bath tub, a crib/playpen, and stroller.  We’ll probably wait for the baby fair this January to buy those stuff.

Anyway, we also need to clean our current home now to make sure that it’s baby-ready when we get back in January.  There’s still a lot of cleaning to do.  I think our problem is that we don’t have a place where we can put our stuff.  It’s an old house and we didn’t really have much cabinet space where we can put our stuff.  The cabinets have other stuff that my hubby’s family owns.

I bought a couple more big plastic bins to put some of our stuff in (I just got tons of scrapbooking stuff and other arts and crafts stuff begging to be put in their proper place).  Maybe we also need to buy some drawers and shelves.  We just have to make sure that everything has a storage box to go to.  I guess we never got around to that previously since our mindset was that we would be transferring to our condo unit soon so if we would be buying stuff, it should be something we would be using for the condo.  Well anyway, it looks like transferring to the condo would have to wait…

We also need to better utilize the other room which has become a storage space for us.  I still got a long list of things to do, but unfortunately it seems like my energy is waning as the days go by so I’m taking things slowly, lest have the baby come out prematurely.

It’s great that my hubby would start his leave by Dec. 5 and he also has a couple of leaves lined up before that as well so we still got time to do all the cleaning that we need.

Hopefully everything would be baby ready in due time.  Hold on, Baby Dagny! Don’t come out yet!!!

Prepping cloth diapers

I'm very excited to use my stash of cloth diapers for Baby Dagny! I already prepped them last weekend. Here's what I did: Inserts: - Soaked in warm water overnight - Washed with cycles detergent powder the next morning (used up my cycles sample) - Rinsed 3 times - Line dry under the sun Covers: - Soaked in normal tap water overnight - Washed with cycles detergent powder the next morning (used up my cycles sample) - Rinsed 3 times - Line dry under the sun *sayang di ko napiktyuran ng nakasampay. Anyway, here's my newly prepped stash: Current Cloth Diaper stash: 2 bamboo dappy 3 baby leaf 3 next 9 3 alva 5 happy flute I didn't fold the bamboo dappy nappies yet since they were still a bit wet (as expected. since bamboo material usually dries longer) I have 12 more Alva CDs arriving this December which I ordered through group buying. That would be a total of 28 CDs which would be enough if I will be washing them every other day. But then again, I feel like I'd still end up buying a couple more if I wouldn't be able to resist some cute designs. I'm trying to hold back on pink stuff and trying to order some neutral colors so that in case we have a baby boy next time, he'd also be also be able to use them. Anyway, I'm planning to wash these prepped CDs again when my Alva CDs arrive . They say that it's advisable to wash the nappies a couple of times to prep the absorbency of the nappies. I really hope we'll be successful in cloth diapering. I just pray that Baby Dagny wouldn't experience diaper rashing while using them.

Baby's Name

Even before I got pregnant, hubby and I have been talking about what names to give our future children. The names and nicknames have evolved over time. We would fondly call our future kids as Bochog and Dudai. We would even imagine how they would look like and what their personalities would be. Now that I’m finally pregnant and we finally know the gender of our baby, we had to finalize what name to give her. Here are our initial conditions 1. We want 2 names, one has to start with a letter J since both of us have J’s in our name. The other one should start with a letter D (since we’ve been calling our (then) imaginary baby girl as Dudai) 2. We want a unique name, unique enough to avoid getting hit during NBI clearances (hehe). Anyway, we’ve been looking at baby books and googling baby names. Finally, here’s what we have decided to name her: It’s pronounced as Dag-nee Ja-ney. I know most people have a hard time pronouncing it the first time they see it. It’s a unique name indeed and we’ve grown fond of her name. Meaning: Dagny = New day (sakto, based sa 1st ultrasound, jan 1 ang due date nya… it was also inspired by one of the characters in one of my favorite books, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand) Janae = God has answered/ God is gracious / God’s grace People would often ask what her nickname would be and would often deduce it to be DJ. Well, we’ll just call her baby dagny and let her decide when she grows up how she wants to be called (specially when she reaches her teenage years). Side note: the felt letter pillows and felt flowers were some of my DIY stuff for my birthday/baby shower :)