Shopping for baby-stuff (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach
Our little girl's expected to "arrive" at the end of September, so time is of the essence here. We only have three months left to get everything in order, which at times can become a little panic-inducing.
Yesterday we went on our first shopping trip, to order things that will take a lot of time in arriving. We headed over to
Baby Dump (yes, it's a truly odd name if you think about it) who're very close by, in Utrecht. To get our bearings we made our rounds through the store, not focussing on anything in particular. Funnily enough I immediately stumbled upon a cot that would be ideal for us and Marli agreed. So that's one down!
The cot is part of a rather beautiful bedroom set, called
Turijn. Matte white, mixed with mahogany accents and silver handles. Were it not for the silver handles, it would fit perfectly in with the rest of our deco :) Anywho, the whole set costs a whopping 1100 euros (down from 1600 on a sale! WTF!) and we refuse to get the whole set. For starters, we'll be getting a comode for free, since it's the old one that Marli and her brother were changed on 28 years ago. Aside from that we also refuse to pay close to 500 euros for a cabinet, which can be had at Ikea for a fifth of the price!
Now, I mentioned "panic-inducing" before didn't I? The sheer amount of prams, pushseats and carseats is exactly what did Marli in. I have to admit that it all looked quite confusing and none of them looked the same. How on earth would we find the right one?! Well, it turns out that each row actually consisted of only one specific model, with different cots on them ^_^ That takes care of the confusion!
Given Marli's height we immediately settled on a pram by
Mutsy, since their handlebars are very easily extendable and they reach to the proper height. In the end we went for a
4-Rider, which in my eyes is a marvelous piece of technology. These days a tech-geek won't have to be bored in a baby shop! There's so much cool stuff in there and it's almost unbelievable how much things have changed in the past twenty years! :)
Anywho... We ordered the cot and
Mutsy and they'll arrive in a week or four. In a few weeks my mother will be visiting the Netherlands again and we'd love to take her on another shopping trip! I gather that she's looking forward to that very much and I would really appreciate her input ^_^ I also can't wait to show the
Mutsy to her, so can tell if our judgement was alright.
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