The past couple of weeks I've been going crazy with pulling out all the baby gear we have and cleaning it up for Squirt's arrival. Some stuff was a lot easier to deal with than others. The clothes and blankets went into the washer. The chew toys I soaked in bleach water to kill off any germs for now. But other things I had to soak in the bathtub because there wasn't another way to wash them. I did this once before with a stroller I bought at a consignment shop and the water ended up almost brown the first go around. I also did this with my military gear when I had to turn it in and make sure it was clean. I've also done it with parts of Little E's car seats to clean them.
Yesterday I spent about an hour cleaning the pack n play that we had. I received this from my mother while pregnant with Little E and was informed it was cleaned. Of course, I thought with her OCD she really scrubbed it, so I didn't do any further cleaning (plus I was working 12+ hour days). We only used it once for maybe 5 minutes with Little E however before packing it up and storing it away in his closet.
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| This was not a clean pack n play |
Even though I had scrubbed all of Little E's baby gear before storing it, I've been washing it again after pulling it out. So yesterday I soaked the pack n play. I filled the tub with hot water, added some Tide free & clear detergent (I know other people use this special stuff or oxyclean but we had neither and I didn't want to spend money on anything new). I then put the pack n play in the tub and swished around a little then let it sit for about 30 minutes. Since the entire thing didn't get under water I ended up flipping it over and doing the same. Then I scrubbed it with a wash cloth (you can use a cleaning brush but we didn't have one of those either) and the water was a definite shade of yellow. Not brown like the stroller, but still enough to tell me it hadn't really been cleaned.
After scrubbing I just drained the tub, rinsed the pack n play off, and it's been drying over night in the tub.
A few days ago I had set up the room (but tore it down to clean the pack n play) and it's been a challenge to say the least. There's not much room in 1 room so we had to get creative on how we would store Squirt's things.
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| We had to get creative and still have more to do |
So far the pack n play will fit next to the bed and by the dresser, we have a shelf case in the closet to organize some of Squirt's things, and his clothes are either in a box in the closet (the bigger sizes) or hanging on a clothes hanger that we found at Target. I still have a lot I want to do in there. On top of the dresser in a basket are burp cloths and receiving blankets. Then his swaddlers and swaddling blankets are on the dresser, as well as the protector pads (like a mattress protector just a lot smaller) and his diaper caddy. I'm thinking when I move the every day items out of the shelves I'll put the wipes and diapers in there (they're currently in a dresser drawer) and put the swaddling stuff and pads there instead to clear up some more room.
We've also talked about getting a mini crib instead of using the pack n play, so if we can get the 25% off from the trade-in even at Toys R Us (they take the baby items too and there's no Babies R Us here) it'll be worth getting. Though I keep going back and forth on whether I really want to spend the money on one. It would be nice to have an actual crib, and our full size crib from Little E has a broken slat most likely due to him kicking it. So while I'd feel safe with using it as a head board for a bed for Little E, I don't feel safe using it for a baby no matter how much Big E says he can fix it.
As much as I can go on about this stuff, I think I'll end it here. Until I update again.
Jalee
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