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I love this room! I especially love how the white stripe serves as the focal point for any artwork or shelves you hang on the wall. Perfect!

Very nice change! I love the gray countertop against the white cabinets. Great job modernizing the space for just a few bucks!

Very nice space! I bet your kids adore it. You can never go wrong with an Expedit for storage in a kid's room!

I love everything about this room (especially that awesome bed!) except the lack of a bedskirt. Something about an exposed box spring mattress just bugs me. Maybe it's a regional thing!

I just can't imagine any reason why I would ever hand over a piece of equipment worth hundreds of dollars to a small child that may chew on it, shake it, throw it, etc. Just not worth it to me.

Love this idea!!! My 2-year-old son is really into his play food right now, and I think being able to shake "spices" on it will just thrill him!

Love this color! I'm thinking white furniture with pale yellow bedding/accents.

Happy birthday, Lincoln! Great photos!

Kathleen...same thing here. I think I ended up giving away 30 flannel receiving blankets that I had received as gifts and never used. Same thing with washcloths. Babies don't need 15 washcloths!

Diapers and wipes were our favorite gifts. We didn't have to buy any diapers or wipes until our son was 3 or 4 months old.

We really appreciated (although maybe not at the time) receiving white onesies in larger sizes. We like to layer our son's clothing, so those larger-size white onesies really came in handy when he started outgrowing his cute newborn onesies (which was very quickly!) Everyone always wants to buy cute little newborn outfits that make them say "awwww!", but white onesies are a very practical gift. Maybe not for a baby girl, but it's something to keep in mind.

Another thing we got a lot of use out of was a "baby first aid kit" put together by my friend who had a 3-year-old. It contained diaper rash cream, rectal thermometer, infant tylenol, things like that. We got a lot of use out of it in his first year, especially when he was teething!

I had one for my son until he was about 2 months old. Once he got to a size 2, the diapers were just too big to fit many of them in a Diaper Genie. We just throw his diapers in the trash can now, which we really could have done from the beginning, and we take the trash out every day or every other day. Occasionally there will be a funky smell in our kitchen (where we keep our trash can), but that's easy to fix. :)