Shopping with him vs. Shopping with a her

Church is like 5 minutes from Carlsbad Outlet mall so a sunday ago, after church, Josh and I went to the mall. Josh's Grandma had given me money the day before so I could buy something for the baby. I'm thinking we'll walk around, get lunch and find something cute for baby. See this sounds like fun to any girl(especially a pregnant one). Shopping, walking, food = fun, Right? Well, not in "man", I soon came to realize. After getting food we walked into the first baby store. First thing Josh does is pick out a cute girl monkey outfit and shows it to me. I think to myself this is going to be SO fun. We are going to hold hands and talk about our future little one. I could do that for hours. What I didn't then realize is that he was thinking, "here is something she might like. We'll buy it and then we can leave." Each store we walked into after that one Josh would just stare at me as to say are you done yet? The experience was a far stretch from going baby shopping with a girlfriend or say my mother. EXAMPLE: The day I found out we are having a girl what do me and my mom do... GO SHoPPINg of course. We went to two different stores, pointed out every cute thing we saw. Looked at the baby hats to match the onesie we bought. Talked about the theme of the nursery. We shopped for two hours and only stopped because my mom had to go to work. At first I thought this is just my husband, I'm alone in this. Then I talked to my pregnant friend and found that this is a common story. She told me how when her and her husband go to Target he will put her between himself and the shopping chart, in order to keep her from the baby aisle. So the solution is simple ladies find a "her" to shop with and get him to pay for it!!!!

Nursery What to do???

I have been thinking about this one since...well, the very day I found out I was pregnant. I had everything planned for a boy. The colors in the room, what I'd paint on the wall, the monkey mobile. Everything was thought out. And since stupid me just didn't really think I'd have a girl I put little thinking into a little girls room. Now, I got to think about it. My Ideas have changed many times. I thought Peter Pan inspired Neverland theme, with fairies and mermaids. That cute, but not easy to find. It's like Tinkerbell or butterflies, No cute fairies. So I changed to butterflies and flowers but it's a little to "girly" for me. Everything butterflies is PINK and purple, bright and kiddish. I want something more famine and fancy, something SOFT.

My current Idea is to forget about themes and just pick colors and maybe a cute print. Here are the colors.

Baby Blue and a soft purple. What do you guys think? I need help so I can start registering and collecting stuff.

The Ultrasound

We went in on Wednesday June 2, 2010 9:30 am. For me 9:30 is a little early to be showered and dressed. Luckily, for me Josh was off work so I had a great alarm clock. Josh was so excited he woke up around 6:00, he so nice enough to not get me up then. When he did wake me up it was to beautiful bright orange roses. He told me that Orange meant anticipation. It was very cute. Nick and My mom went with us to the clinic. The wait seemed unending. I was feeling so inpatient; it was killing me, BOY, GIRL, BOY, GIRL?? I couldn’t take it. After a hellish half-hour, my name was called. Poor Nick had to wait in the waiting room; they would only let two people go back with me. I had crazy nerves; finally, I got to see my growing baby. I got to see if he or she was healthy and whole. All my worries would be silenced AND I would know if Monkey was a little girl or boy. It was overwhelming to say the lease. I pulled my shirt up, my preg. pants down, laid back, and got ready for the show of my life. The lady put some goo on my exposed belly-dump and the show started. It was hard to know what was what but the lady did a great job explaining everything. She showed us the little ones heart and how you could see all four parts. She showed us the tummy and said everything looks healthy. We got to see a little foot, it was amazing. Everything was there; you could see every little bone. I have never seen a cuter foot in my life. Monkey was laying with legs spread and ankles crossed. The Lady asked if we wanted to know the sex, I smiled and eagerly said yes! “See those three things there,” long pause, “those are little GIRL parts.” And with that we knew: Monkey is a girl. Josh and I are having a girl. I was shocked; I thought monkey was a boy and boy was I wrong. My little girl had both of your hands by her face. She was moving those arms. She seems calm and precious. Hopefully she will be this calm and sweet when she is outside of the womb. Josh was "not so thrilled" at first but after about an hour his whole idea changed. He talked about how much he loves his little girl and doesn't even know her yet. I think It is just now real to him. Like seeing her made him realized that this is really happened.

Here she is!! This is a picture of the profile of her face. One hand is up by her face and the other in the left upper corner and looks like she is flipping you off. She has my attitude already.

She's not an alien, just looks kinda like one.