Baby on Board

I truly hate these signs.

I hated them before I got pregnant and I still hate them now.

I know hate is a strong word but it is appropriate because I do hate them.

Why?

Well it is like stating-

My car is more special because I have a baby!

I mean we do not Wife on Board Signs, or Sister on Board Signs, etc.

Why don't we all just drive normally, and respect every form of life-

whether it is baby or adult. 

Urrrrrr....

This brings up another topic that has grown particularly frustrating for me. 

My only complaint about being pregnant is talking about being pregnant. 
Don't get me wrong, I am happy being pregnant and have been so fortuante to be surrounding by loving friends and family but I am a person who happens to be pregnant- not a pregnant person. 

I want to talk about normal stuff life books, TV, shopping, etc. 

It amazes me how everyone wants to know how I am feeling, etc. 

I get this asked at least 10 times a day.

Thank God Joe has learned that asking me how I am is my least favorite question.

I am great! 

Which is what I would be if I were pregnant or not pregnant! 

I found myself at a party the other weekend and of course I am introduced to the other pregnant woman there and she was so happy to talk about everything pregnancy while I wanted to scream....

"Please can we talk about anything else.."

Some might take this as not being excited to be pregnant and I have had a couple people ask me if I really am excited. 

I am- I am so excited. 

But I am also not consummed by it. 

So please...

Do not asking me how I am feeling...

=0) 

The small stuff....

With the crib on back order and the painters not coming till today
(we opted to have a couple rooms painted in our house and since Joe has no extra free time right now our baby splurge was paying to have someone paint) I am left waiting to do things. 
That being said I have tried to keep myself busy with small stuff.  

Working on our will, scheduling classes, figuring baptism stuff, finalizing our registry, etc. 

One of these small things was finding bins to place in the closet that
Joe put together two weekends ago. 
I wanted something yellow which to be honest made my job a little harder than I thought.  

Yellow is not a easy color to find things in I am finding out. 
But thankfully I found yellow bins at the Container Store which worked perfectly. 
So we stopped by on our way up to Bethesda this weekend to have dinner with friends.  

We opted for the Small Gingham Storage Bins in Yellow.

They also offered a larger size but being Laura I measured prior to go to look at them and the large bins would not fit.  

We decided to purchase 3.  

$12.99 each

Happy with the end product!
I might go get another one to use as a diaper caddie on the changing table. 

Coming out of the Closet

A couple of weekends ago while I flew down to St Augustine with one of my besties I left my husband with a long honey do list.   The major thing on the list was to install bug's closets.

We have two closets in Bug's room which up to this point just had one shelf for hanging stuff on it.

We decided to make one of the closets a functional closet where we would keep closes, toys, etc and the other closet a storage closet to eventually keep the bins of clothes.  

So a couple weekends ago we head to HomeDepot to get the stuff we needed.  

We decided to move the self in one closet over to the other closet so it would have two selves and then buy a kit for bug's functional closet.  We looked at the kits- ranging anywhere from $55 dollars to $400 dollars.  After a short discussion we went with the $55 one because after all this is a closet we are talking about.  We picked up some white paint so Joe could paint the closets since they are all marked up from the previous owners- we opted for a gallon of cheap white paint which came in at $9.30.

So when we got to the register and the closet kit rang up $8.23- Joe and I looked at each other and decided today was our lucky day.  We headed home with paint and a closet set for less than $20!

Seriously how lucky are we!

I was worried it would be missing pieces or something- but everything was normal!

So last weekend while I was away
(because I have learned this is always the best way to let Joe do his projects)
Joe went to work on the closets.  

Closet the way it was previously-  Joe painting them white.

 Both closets while Joe was working on them..

 What happens when you are occupied with working on closets and 

Clemson gets a hold of a stuff animal.

Final functional closet.

All in all I was happy with our less than $20 project!

Ralph Lauren Style

One thing I will say about finding out I was having a boy- 

I was a little sad with regards to clothing.

Boy stuff is terrible!  

Unless I was to import all his clothes from Europe- OMG there stuff is so cute!  

I have totally thought about doing this with one of my besties living in London,

I do not want my child in monkeys, or in stripes like he belong in jail!

I dislike shirts that say Mommy's Little... 

Really our men can dress well with some help and so can little boys!

 

Before we found out what we were having I gave Joe warning that if it was a boy it was going to be the preppiest boy ever!

Which I think was ok with Joe because deep down inside he felt the same way I did. 

I love everything Ralph Lauren when it comes to everything boys!

So what does the best husband ever do....

 He took me out to buy his coming home outfit which is ADORABLE!!!  

Thank GOD we live far away from the Leesburg Outlet Mall where there is a Ralph Lauren Baby because I would be in trouble.  

Cribs... MTV style!

Ok well not really. 

The show CRIBS on MTV came to mind while we were listening to a sale rep tell us about the tenth crib my mother and I looked at.   Yes all the houses on CRIBS are cool but they are houses- my thoughts on cribs.

Yes there are so many different types of cribs and brands but they are all cribs and if they are safe and serve the purpose then what is the big deal. Right?

A couple weekends ago I went out crib shopping with my mom. 

My parents are helping us out with bug's crib which we are so thankful for, so I wanted my mom to be involved in the process. 

3 hours later my brain was fried!

We went to Buy Buy Baby, Babies R Us and Baby2Teen in Manassas. 

I was on crib overload. 
And who would have thought that there would have been 5 different shades of white.
White is white damit!

The only thing I really had set in my head was

1) We wanted a convertible crib that made into a toddler bed AND a full bed

2) We wanted a white crib

3) We did not want to break the bank!

So my review on the stores:

Buy Buy Baby

Springfield VA- 

Small selection in store. 
I think we counted about 15 cribs.

Very helpful staff

Honor 20% coupons on furniture.

$100 for delivery up to 5 pieces

$30 to assemble the crib

Spent 20 minutes in the store

Baby2Teen

Manassas VA- OVERWHELMING

If I had to do it all over again, I would not go here.

They have about 50+ cribs. 

Cribs randing from $1300 was the most expensive we saw to $250.  CRAZY!

The cribs here were by far the most expensive when you compared to the other two places and this place does not have a tendency to have many coupon offerrings. 

Very helpful however, really did not have anything that I liked. 

$140 for delivery and assembly

Spent 20-30 minutes

Babies R Us

Chantilly VA

Again small selection in store- 15-20 cribs

Had a Babies R Us crib magazine with all the cribs in it which included colors, sizes, etc- this was very helpful.  Difficulty finding a staff member to answer some questions but once I did very helpful. 

$75 delivery fee,  $30 crib assembly fee. 

Honors coupons on furniture and often has crib specials. 

Spent 20 minutes- most of that was waiting on the sales rep to ask questions

After spending 3 hours between three places I came one with three "favorites" as I would call them. 

We measured first to see how they would fit in the room- yes the cribs were different sizes and also the dressers varied significantly.  The actually brought the "favorites" down to two as one of the dressers was too tall for me to use as a changing table- yeap I am short! 

So then what does my husband do- he figures out the area to price ratio of the cribs and the dressers. 

Seriously, I wish I could have recorded this for bug to see one day. 

Totally made me laugh. 

Then pulled out the saftey rates on both- both good. 

After about 15 minutes of discussing- we had picked our crib. 

 Baby Cache Heritage White Convertible Crib from Babies R Us

 What it looks like in an actual room.

We went into order both the crib and the dresser and the crib is on back order until Mid to Late November which means they won't even let you order it.

So we decided to also wait on the dresser as well.

Hopefully by the end of this month they will be ordered .