Baby and Christmas shopping

After securing our U2 tickets we went baby furniture and Christmas present shopping (we had the day off - yay!). We started at Ikea and saw a nice single seater couch for the baby room as well as a cot, change table and cupboard which would fit well in the little one's room. After that we went to a couple of other baby places and despite being overwhelmed by the variety and prices we managed to retain our sanity and not actually buy anything - it was really only intended as a bit of a fact finding mission - just to see if our budget was going to be adequate.

I guess the scariest thing is prams - you can spend $900 on a pram! Is it just me or is that ridiculous? Needless to say that one isn't on the list. Most of them seem to be in the range $250-$500 or so dollars for the three wheeler ones. I guess we'll get one somewhere in the lower range. Does any one have any advice out there? Feel free to leave comments!

The other bizarre thing is baby seats, they all seem to have this incredibly plush dark material in them. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't baby vomit white (at least initially) and therefore will show up even more, not to mention the fact that being dark fabric is going to make it incredibly hot in summer.

Aside from being concerned by prices, we had a fun day shopping for baby stuff and finished our Christmas shopping, so that is a relief!