rambling and shopping

*I started my registries (yes, already). One on Babies R Us and one at Target. I have no clue what all we will need. Also looking at strollers and becoming overwhelmed, but found a really good deal at Smartbargains.com on this one that I like


*We went shopping this weekend. Looking for a new computer. And we went to a couple baby stores and freaked out over the cost of cribs. This is what I want....



*Matt also freaked out over the cost of breast pumps. First he said "well when you go back to work at 12 weeks, you won't breast feed anymore will you", and I told him that YES I planned to still breast feed, therefore needed a pump. And then he said I could buy a used one, which totally icks me out. So no. I told him we would SAVE money on formula, but still, Mr. Frugality freaked. He wants to get *everything* used. Which, really isn't bad. But this is our first baby. And I plan to have more...so it isn't like we will use this stuff and discard it. And if you can find *nice* things used, then sure, I say totally go for it. No point in paying full price for everything. But, like last night we went to his friends house (they just had twins) to get some used stuff for us. And some of it was fine. But some of it was stuff you couldn't even sell at a rummage sale. And he wanted to take it ALL. We will have showers where we will get nicer things....and I don't want to have a lot of stuff laying around that we will never use. And, I know I am being picky here, but I would like some new stuff for the baby. I just know that buying EVERYTHING is going to be a fight with him. He doesn't care what something looks like, how good it is, what the quality is, how old it is, as long as it is cheap, cheap, cheap. I am, obviously, not the same way

*Matt likes to play with baby toys. We got a toy xylophone from my aunt and he spent over an hour playing songs on it and making me guess what they are. It was funny. He also had his first baby dream. He dreamt that we had a baby girl, 7 lbs 6 oz on FEBRUARY 23rd. Only a month and twenty days late. I assured him they wouldn't let me go THAT late.

* I have also become and ebay ADDICT! It is insane. In the last few days I have won:
Maternity Gap Long and Lean Jeans (my non maternity jeans like this are my favorite)


and
This Maternity outfit:


and these



*I saw my sister in laws pro wedding pictures this weekend. It it made me think even more that I can totally do this. There pictures were good...but not all of them were GREAT. And their photographer was good. And EXPENSIVE. But I kept thinking, I can totally do this. Now to convince Matt of that.
*I am going to Chicago this weekend! I am so excited. Leaving work at noon on Friday and staying until Monday. Talia is going to meet me there and we are staying with my cousin.Yay, I am so excited.

*Baby is so active now. All the time. Just a-moving away. On Friday night Matt put his hand on my belly and said he wasn't moving it until the baby kicked. And baby obliged for him. I could even see my belly moving this weekend a couple of times when he/she kicked. And is moving around a lot this morning.

* Had a very odd dream last night, in which I had twins. At home. Alone. The birth was very easy. But I was freaking out about the babies, which were both boys, by the way. I had them upstairs in their cribs and they were both crying so hard, and one of them was SUPER tiny, and I kept forgetting to support it's head. And I just couldn't figure out how we had twins, since we had seen the baby so many times and there was only ONE baby. I think the head thing came from a comment that Matt made the other day about worry about the baby and it's head and hurting it, for some reason.

So, I took 22 week belly pictures last night. Can I just say....I am really not enjoying my body right now. I know it is a "beautiful" thing, and it is for a good cause...and I have always thought that pregnant women were ADORABLE. But...my boobs have stretch marks and look horrendous. My stomach just looks ODD. It is so weird to have my body doing all these weird things. Not that I would change a thing, it is just that it is taking me way more getting used to than I thought it would. I feel incredibly frumpy and unsexy. Oh... and people are starting to REALLY notice. I mean, people were noticing before of course, but now people who didn't KNOW I was pregnant are asking me if I am. And, hopefully, they wouldn't ask that unless I looked QUITE pregnant. So, pictures. No face...because I looked horrible last night. And I was trying to be arty. heee.








and speaking of pictures, I am searching for someone to take maternity pictures of me. There aren't a lot of options, and the ones I do have are PRICEY. Not that I mind paying someone for TAKING the pictures, it is paying so highly for prints. I don't really want to pay $5 or more for a 4X6, when I know how much they cost to print.

Oh, and last night while taking pictures I took some the baby clothes I have bought, have been given. There are not a lot of gender nuetral options out there, I am noticing. And what there is, is mostly cutesy ducks, etc. as you can see. I was bored...what can I say?



Oh! And I was 22 weeks yesterday. yay. Only 18 weeks left. Both a long time, and a not so long time at the same time. I get kind of worried when I think about labor/delivery and actually having a newborn, so I am focusing on now. I mean, I am so excited. And yet, at the same time I am panicked.

I have been thinking about opening up a journal again on LJT. I miss it. But... I really don't miss some of the people on there, and I don't want to have to deal with them and there excessive smilies in my journal. I dunno. I wouldn't until after we get a new computer anyway...otherwise I would never be on. We will see.