One difficult thing about wishing, hoping, and waiting to adopt is the whole putting together a nursery and layette. I mean, on one hand, you don't want to be caught completely unprepared. But the flip side is that it can get depressing looking at a baby room that is entirely complete, minus the baby, for a year or more. Our caseworker recommends that couples do not decorate a baby's room. We have a room set aside for the baby we hope to have, but it's pretty generic. It contains the crib and baby toys we still have from when my boys were babies. I'm pretty sure I haven't bought any girl baby clothes yet because I figure I can do that in a short amount of time, and who knows how old our baby will be? While we would prefer a newborn, we might get a 6 month old. So, that's hard to predict. But now that my friend Lisa is starting to close down her online baby clothes store Bugaboo Park , I may have to break down and buy some stuff.
I really want to have a cute room put together at some point. I've bought Disney paint called "A Wave of the Wand." I have butterfly wall appliques. I even got an adorable crib mobile with a princess/butterfly theme. But they are all put away in the closet until we get that magical phone call.
One thing I don't have is a changing table. I had one, but Daniel tried to climb up on it, just for fun, when he was about six. That changing table had a weight limit of about 20 lbs. The shelves crumbled. So, I was shopping for a new one at sears.com. I found the craziest changing table with stairs! If I had owned a changing table like this one, Daniel probably couldn't have broken it.
When I saw this changing table, I couldn't stop laughing. Aside from the fact that it costs over $500, I was just thinking, who would buy this? Maybe if you owned a daycare. Or if you had twins or triplets. I remember the days when I was sure that my boys would never be potty trained, and it might have been nice to have this then, just so I knew I was going to be ok if they were in diapers until they went off to college. But seriously, I don't know many kids that can safely navigate stairs and are still in diapers. And you probably shouldn't need to wear a special apron (like the woman in the picture) to change a toddler, although it could be incredibly helpful when changing a baby boy.
This reminded me of the time when Daniel was a toddler, and he was out in the hall with Wayne at church. Daniel suddenly came running into the Sunday School class I was in and announced, "Mom, I need a clean diaper! Can you change me?" Initially, I was a little embarrassed. I quickly became more embarrassed when someone said that anyone old enough to ask for a clean diaper was old enough to be potty-trained. But Daniel was less than 2 years old!
This reminded me of the time when Daniel was a toddler, and he was out in the hall with Wayne at church. Daniel suddenly came running into the Sunday School class I was in and announced, "Mom, I need a clean diaper! Can you change me?" Initially, I was a little embarrassed. I quickly became more embarrassed when someone said that anyone old enough to ask for a clean diaper was old enough to be potty-trained. But Daniel was less than 2 years old!
In the end, I will probably get a changing table that is a little cheaper and more traditional.
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That's a crazy amount for a changing table. Anybody that knows Daniel knows that he was probably speaking Latin by 10 months, and shouldn't judge if he asks for a clean diaper:) lol. People can be so rude! Yeah, even having twins, I wouldn't buy a table with stairs. That's funny.
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