Shopping for Baby Clothes

Everyone knows that shopping for baby stuff is fun. When you are 14 days away from your due date, it is so fun, it is almost AGONIZING. Thank God we did not find out the gender of our child, or the entire mall would have been bought out by us last night. I was tempted on numerous occassions just to buy things and take them back if they weren't going to work out gender-wise.

The trip to the mall was prompted by the fact that we got another baby gift last night - the 42nd duck blanket we have received along with the 20th duck sleeper. Both cute, but given that I seriously think we have 25+ blankets (with probably 5 of them at least with ducks), we were going to take it back. However, no gift receipt so we had to do that walk of shame up to the registers at the department stores and ask, meekly, "Is this from here?" I have to say that I would just tend to keep all of this stuff, particularly when there is no gift receipt, but my husband is the one that thinks our child is going to have some fear of ducks or despise green and yellow :)

While we were at the mall, we decided to pick up a few baby gifts for everyone ELSE who has had their baby. I've been slacking on one for over a month now and we are headed to see baby Charlotte on Sunday (that is if our own baby does not arrive...hint hint...baby, get going!). Normally I would say that my husband would just be like, get whatever but last night even he was getting into it. "Honey, pretty soon we'll know what side of the stores we get to shop on!" was his cutest comment. [Responding to my annoyance that when you step in a store, you either go left for boys or right for girls. Maybe if you're lucky they'll have a green outfit in the middle.]

Even though I had already packed a few baby outfits in the hospital bag, he thought I should have picked out a boy outfit and a girl outfit at Jack and Jill that he was going to leave the hospital and pick up. So sweet, but I told him that I would rather have him just stay at the hospital. "But we have to have a going home outfit!" was his reply. If we don't have this baby soon, I don't know who is going to be more insane - he or I! :) (secretly, though, you know i love it)

13 more days!