Baby gifts

Since Quint is only 19 months old, and the same gender as my baby due in just 6 weeks (AKA ten years), I'm not at all surprised or hurt that I haven't received a baby shower or any baby gifts yet. And there's very little I NEED for the new baby. But there are several things I would like. But I don't feel comfortable dropping hints in person to any of the likely candidates for second baby gifts. Seems a bit grasping... And these are things that I can afford, but someone (cough..cough...Sis..cough) might really have fun shopping for a couple of these things.

I'd really like a new special outfit to bring home our new cutie-pie. Ten years from now, I don't want to rely on my outfit or haircut to determine which baby I'm bring home in the pictures.

I'd like a brand new, monkey plush blanket of some kind to be just his very own blanket. A non-hand-me-down, since nearly everything else will be a hand-me-down.

I do actually need some new plastic backed bibs. The old ones are falling apart mainly because the label clearly said not to put them in the dryer and they've been through the dryer approximately a hundred times.

And if Quint is any indication, I will need a bottle of mylacon drops the first night we're home from the hospital.

I don't think I'll need a second baby monitor, but I'd love to hear advice on that.

And here is the ever present blog page for our second son's wish list, recently updated.

I've got the double stroller, a second pack and play (one upstairs, one down) with them set up and nearly ready to go. I got the boppy and bouncy seat out of the attic today. I have newborn and size 1 diapers. I have all the clothes, blankets, and burp rags washed, folded and put away. We have not put the car seats in the cars yet, but I'm still 6 weeks from my due date. For feeding, I've got my boobs (obviously) and I need to dig out my "supplies". I haven't packed my hospital bag yet, but I've started to pack Quint's overnight bag in case he needs to spend a night at a friend's house. To my surprise, I've found that most of his things will have to be packed at the last minute seeing how he uses them every day (teddy bear and special blanket) or I don't want to take them out of circulation this early in the game (favorite books, movies, and clothes) so perhaps that will have to wait a bit.

Am I forgetting anything?

This may be a bit controversial, but I've bought a baby doll to help Quint in the coming adjustment. I'll be playing with it much more than Quint before the birth and he's been interested in my "play" so far. Put the baby doll in the bouncy seat. Hold the baby a lot. Swaddle the baby. Put the baby in the pack and play, etc. That and lots of conversation and books have Quint so far understanding so far that his brother is in my belly and he's going to be a big brother.

I can't think of a conclusion for this blog, so BYE!

Baby registry fun

Ok, so this blog is poking fun at my wonderful husband, but let me just say at the beginning here, that I'm sure I'm making an equal amount of naive comments that other moms are hearing me say and snickering into their hands.

We went to Target and got the wonderfully fun baby registry gun. Here are just a few comments and exchanges that happened while we were registering.

Hubby: I already scanned a package of burp cloths.
Me: Do you really think we're only going to use 4 burp cloths in a week?

Hubby: He already has a bunch of socks!
Me: Really? How many does he already have?
Hubby: Three.

Hubby's eyes light up and he says with a smile "I'm gonna be a Daddy! Is that what all this stuff means?!" Then he grins, pats my belly and scans yet another baby blanket without being told.

Hubby: We won't need bottles if you're breastfeeding and pumping.
Me: How do you think the pumped milk gets into the child?
Hubby: Oh.
But I'm so overwhelmed by an entire aisle of baby bottle options that we register for none of them. I must do research.

Hubby: Oooh pacifiers. Let's get lots of those.

Hubby: So we should register for like 8 packages of diapers, right?

Me: Let's try to find a cute snot sucker, not this plain one.
Hubby: there is no such thing as a cute snot sucker.
Perhaps he's right about that.

Hubby: Why can't we just use towels that we already have?
Me: Because these fit the child and are cute.
Hubby: He then picks out a duck hooded towel and scans it without delay.

Hubby: Geez! We've registered for 116 items?!
We were halfway through the baby section at that point.

After we had finished going down every aisle in the baby section:
Me: OK, now we need to go through the toys and furniture.
Hubby: Toys! Do we really need toys!
Me: Yes honey, children need toys.
Hubby: But at the beginning, isn't he just going to be a pooping machine?

About here, I tell him that if his mother had an audio recording of this whole process, she would be weeping with laughter.

Looking at an infant toy with about 20 little colorful plastic rings to connect, chew on, and shake:
Hubby: We don't need those. Those are a lot like hair bands and we've got tons of those for the cat.
Me: OK, #1, hair bands could choke the child and #2, we're not giving our child cat toys to play with.

I love my wonderful husband very much, and we both have a lot of learning to do about babies in general and our little boy in particular. His comments were sweet and clueless, but mostly excited and enjoying clicking away at stuff.