Cracks

The funniest thing the other day: We were over at some friends' house and their 5 year old was talking with me. Her mom told her, "Becca has a baby in her bellly." The little girl then took my hand and asked me if we could take it out right now. Her mom and I laughed and told her the baby wasn't ready yet. Then her mom said, "her belly has to get much bigger. Remember when my belly was really big?" (She has two younger siblings). The little girl thought for a minute, then ask me, "do you have cracks?" Not sure what she meant I asked a her to explain. She proceeded to comment about her mommy's "cracks" on her belly. Her mom and I both were amused as we realized she was referring to her mom's strectch marks!

Oh joy...well I don't have any "cracks" yet, but I imagine there is still plenty of time for them to come. :)

Sick and tired of being sick!

Why is it that someone with a relatively great immune system has been sick for a good portion of this pregnancy?! And I'm not talking about morning sickness...Started off the pregancy with bronchitis and now am trying to get over my second cold...this is crazy! Isn't this the time in one's pregnancy they should be getting the most sleep? I am waking up almost every hour and I know it will only get worse (my ability to sleep that is) do to being uncomfortable and then having a new baby. I just want to sleep now!

Babies R Us

Babies R Us...let me just say, prepare yourself before enterin! It probably doesn't help that our Babies R Us here is the Superstore so it's 2-3 times bigger than normal stores. I've been in this store a few times by this point but it's so overwhelming every time I even enter. Where does one even start? I figured that before going I actually have to have a mission otherwise I will get lost, feel overwhelmed and leave. 1st mission - Bio-Oil, 2nd mission - get an idea of bedding to try to figure out colors for a nursery, 3rd mission - just look (I left exhausted), 4th mission - take husband to look at cribs. The funny thing, by the time I'd gone in a 4th time with my husband to look at cribs, I was ready to venture into other isles and look at other items like car seats and strollers. But my husband was definately not in the same state of mind. Just walking into the store was like going into a foreign country, and once we looked at cribs, he was ready to move on to the next site. Odd thing happened this day; we went into several different stores to get a good idea of cribs and what we wanted. By the last store we were both pretty exhausted and honestly my feet hurt so bad i was ready to go. But my husband was on a mission, let's do as much looking as possible. Well, I think his mission changed a little, or included some sort of detour becasue we entered Sears in th tool section and low and behold looked longer at power tools and table saws than we did at cribs while we were there. I guess I will have to prep him for car seat searching like I did for crib searching. :)

Crib conclusion: crib shopping in stores was a great way to get a "good idea" of what we wanted. That coupled with a wonderful mother-in-law who did some research on Consumer Reports, and a lot of internet searching on my end equaled a crib purchase on amazon.com

Ahh one task down, how many more to go...?