Expanding My Wardrobe

Whoever designs maternity clothes is blind in at least one eye, I'm pretty sure.

I was on a mission today, completely unrelated to clothes for me, when I figured that since I was in Burlington without Josh I could just as well look through their maternity clothes. I'm not buying pants until I absolutely have to, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to see if they had any cute shirts.

I would much rather shop for swimsuits, even though that's pretty hard on the ego. This was worse. I felt like I'd happened upon a garage sale of really ugly tents and thought it would be fun to try one or six on. I also learned that, apparently, pregnant people like ruffles and crap like that on their sleeves. Gross. Almost all of the shirts I tried on were so tight in the arms that I am pretty sure if I wore them for more than an hour, my hands would go numb. In shirts like this, you resemble a beached whale with sausages for arms.

Eventually, I left there with 2 shirts of the same style, just different colors. Basically, they're t-shirts.

I figured it couldn't get much worse if I stopped at Old Navy (I was pleased to find that their clearance stuff is all 50% off, which made the ego thing hurt less). There, I didn't feel like I was trying on various ugly tents, at least. Still didn't find anything amazing, but I wasn't really expecting to. I got lucky and found a not completely hideous white collared shirt that will work lovely for working at JoAnn's, since I'm reaching the point where I'll very soon outgrow the white polo that I have been wearing.

I left Old Navy with 4 shirts. My total spending on today's adventure to both stores was $25.

I am not excited at all for pants shopping when it comes to it. I think I shall make Joshua join me in the unawesomeness of that one....then it'll take 10 minutes before we both give up and pick up whatever and leave the store.

The Inevitable

This morning was an adventure getting ready for work.

I went to put on some pants (which I'm pretty sure I haven't worn since before Christmas) and they wouldn't button. Good thing my ego is pretty tough, because when I showed Josh, he laughed at me.

Oh well. It's a good reason to go shopping! ;)

Heartbeat :)

So last post I mentioned that we(I) had gotten a fetal heart montior/listener. I got it in November after seeing one on a website of baby stuff. I was fascinated by the thought of being able to hear the baby's heartbeat whenever I wanted to.

When I got it, I was convinced that it would work right away since the doctor had been able to find a heartbeat so easily. Who cared if the back of the box said that it works best when you're 22+ weeks along? Who believes what the box says anyways? I got all amped up and believed that it would work right away and was sort of disgusted when it didn't. I contemplated returning it but wasn't quite ready to give up hope that it would work.

It finally reached the point where I was past the 60 day or whatever window that I had to return it in. Good thing it was cheap.

I've been messing with it once a week or so, hoping that it would magically just work. Imagine my surprise when last night it pretty much did magically work. Usually there was a lot of other noise and I knew that (according to the directions) the heartbeat would be quieter than the rest of the sounds that I heard. Last night there was no other noise but the heartbeat. It was crazy. Granted, maybe I'm just easily entertained, but I giggled when the baby kicked where the monitor was and the thing jumped. I think it was a protest.

So today, I recorded the heartbeat to my laptop but am sad that I can't post it to our blog. Instead, I just emailed it to some people.

A day of baby stuff

Yesterday was a fairly productive day. I guess we're going to redo the shelving in the closet in the baby's room and so we spent a good amount of the day looking at various shelving ...types? Units? Whatever they're called. I think we've decided on shelving (now I just need to move the boxes of books out of the closet....) and then Josh can install it. I'd offer to help, but it involves power tools and he gets a little nervous when I start messing around with those or anything sharp. I am pretty sure that I've also picked the paint colors for the room, I just need to get slightly different versions of the ones that I had chips for after we found bedding and stuff later in the day.

My parents stopped by with the rocking chair. I've test drove it a couple times since they dropped it off and haven't slid off it yet! ;) I will have to post a picture of it because I'm pretty sure that it's my one of my favorite pieces of furniture that we own.

After my parents left, we went in search of crib bedding. No small task in this area. It wasn't made any easier by the fact that I sort of knew what I was looking for and just couldn't actually find it. As we were shopping, it dawned on us that my parents were in town and could very well be shopping in the same store and happen upon us while we were looking at anything gender specific. Good thing most stores smoosh all their baby stuff for both genders together. We just had to walk that middle line.

Just shopping for that stuff was an adventure in itself: Josh says "all baby stuff is so.....froofy." I don't exactly disagree. The only bedding he liked had Looney Tunes on it and I'm pretty sure he only liked that because it had Taz on it. Eventually we found some stuff elsewhere that we both agreed on.

Since we haven't taken our Pack N' Play out of it's box yet, we sort of test drove the one at Burlington. I'm pretty sure I looked crazy, dragging it out into the middle of the aisle and messing around with all the stuff, but oh well. At least I didn't go in search of a doll or something to use in our test drive!

Awhile ago, out of curiosity, I picked up a fetal heart monitor thing. It sounds fairly medical, but really it's a cheap version of the doppler that the doctor uses to find the baby's heartbeat. The one that we have, has the capability of recording the heartbeat to a computer. One of these days, now that we've been able to determine heartbeat from all the other random noise, I will have to record it to post.

Almost 55% done!

We are officially past the halfways point! Actually, we were at that point 2 weeks ago, but I'm just now getting around to pointing it out to the rest of the world.

This baby is an active one! I also think it plots against me since as soon as I decide to go to bed or take a nap, it becomes active.

It's been a week for baby craziness. A friend from college and his wife had their baby ~ a boy, named Liam. He's still in the hospital, as he was born with pneumonia and now is having other issues :( Hopefully he gets out soon, my fingers are crossed for him! Another friend, with a 3 month old, had gone shopping in town yesterday and some random lady tried to take her baby out of it's carseat. She informed a security guard and by that time, the random lady was trying to leave the building with someone else's baby! Craziness. (On a happier note, the cops were called and crazy lady went to jail.)

Ultrasound

I was not prepared for awesome the ultrasound would be. If the whole baby thing wasn't real before, it sure is now! Or rather, now the baby itself is more real to me.

I told the ultrasound tech that I was pretty sure she had the coolest job ever. The baby measures a little bigger than normal for this week of development, but the doctor says we will monitor its size and maybe do another ultrasound later on. This could also move up my due date. We shall see.

*My threat to anyone that tells my dad the gender of the baby still stands.

Favorite Movie

Josh and I were watching "How I Met Your Mother" and two of the characters were talking about how one's fiance' had never seen his all time favorite movie, Star Wars. His friend was telling him how he couldn't marry a girl that had never seen his favorite movie and that the relationship wouldn't last because she may not like Star Wars.

Josh's favorite movie is Smokey & the Bandit. Mine is Empire Records. He was telling me that I don't like Smokey & the Bandit because I don't understand it. I asked him what was there to understand about "stupid cops, fast cars, and really ugly mustaches." He rolled his eyes and says, "Just for that I hope it's a GIRL and I hope she LOVES Smokey & the Bandit and wants to learn all about cars!!!"

I guess he's not so attached to the boy idea anymore?