Joe and I visited the Seed Factory yesterday and did our registry. The store has some of the coolest baby stuff ever. Everything is nice without frilliy bows and pink and blue are not mandatory. The most fun part of the entire trip was thinking about our little person wearing or playing with the items we have registered for. All of our registries are bare bones and are filled with items that will not only fit our busy lifestyles but also our one bedroom condo. No we aren’t moving anytime soon so don’t ask.  Companies like Skip Hop and Haba make great toys and diapering items that don’t cramp your style or lifestyle and I love them.

We really liked the Dwell Studio line of items. The pattern we chose worked well for both a boy or a girl and was covered in owls. While we won’t do everything in this patttern, we will combine it with solids, it isn’t too obnoxious.  And who dosen’t like owls??

Hambone at 20 weeks

My initial bout of nesting has passed. I think it has something to do with the fact that Joe completely rearranged the bedroom which also means it is cleaner. The move allows for more floor space on my side of the bed so I will be able to nurse easily if we decide to have Hambone sleep in the same room as us. We are open to whatever works best and think we have made room for all of those options.

I am doing my best to keep up with my cardio. Sunday morning I made it out to walk at Piedmont Park for 2 miles. Trying to keep healthy, eat healthy, and gain the right amount of weight before each doctors visit isn’t easy. I am trying to never “get hungry”. Before I got pregnant once I got to a point where I felt hungry I knew I had a very small window in which to eat before I got crazy and migrainey(I know that is not a word). I really don’t want to get that way with baby so I always have crackers or a granola bar stashed in my purse just in case.

Hambone enjoys kicking and Joe has been able to feel some big kicks. After looking at the ultrasound I felt bad for how cramped it appears the little one is in there. In the above picture there knee was actually bent up to their nose. Oh well, the big stretch out comes in December. Speaking of, I am currently wrapping my head around meditation, breathing and all of the tricks of natural labor. I think the most important thing to know is that this will a feeling like no other and the reality is I am squeezing a human out of me. It will not be a walk in the park!!

I have become a nesting freak. To my, and my husbands dismay I have becaome a bit crazy about getting things ready for Hambone’s arrival this December. It is sad. It is a sad sitation as I look at every little thing that I want to be this way or that and it drives me crazy. Apparently this phase begins some where around 5 months and mine began right on time. I actually found bliss and join in emptying an entire package of Mexican Coke’s into the fridge and taking all of the subsequent cardboard down to recycling. That was at 7:30 this morning.  It felt like a major achievement.

On a brighter note the baby is in major kicking mode now. Joe got to feel a big kick last night ans it was awesome to share that moment for him. I am sure it felt more real to him as not only has he seen it on the ultrasound screen; but he has also felt the force of the baby with his own hands.

I would love to know who buys some of the awful baby items Joe and I have seen in the last few weeks. We went to Gerorgia Baby and Kids and it was incredible how much fluffity crap they sell. Joe could only figure it was for moms who did not get enough time playing with their dolls when they were younger. Here is an example of what you will find there:

The most garish furniture money can buy!
Forgive us minimalist folks who would much rather put our money into something a little more timeless. Although we are in our one-bedroom right now, when we do expand we were thinking something a little more like this:

Call us weird for having such subdued tastes but when furniture looks as if it belongs on a Mardi Gras float, it dosen’t belong in our home.