GIRL!!!! Much to my surprise, but not to Kevin's we are expecting a baby girl in August! We are thrilled, over the moon, and slightly overwhelmed. In my last post I mentioned that I had to bring the ultrasound pictures revealing the gender home in a sealed envelope. Upon opening that envelope I handed Kevin a picture, as well as had a copy to look at for myself. The problem was, I had NO idea what I was looking at!!! Kevin blurted out, "Its' a girl!" and I responded, "How can you tell?" The word "Girl" was typed on the picture, Duh! I debated for a short minute as to do something creative and cute to reveal the gender to our families, or just call them. I've seen all the hype on Pinterest about gender reveal parties, photos, etc., but after the two weeks we had just endured, I decided my creative juices were dry, so we opted for phone calls and Face Time. Needless to say the families are just as excited as we are, a few of them even might be slightly more. (for example, my sister who loves to shop!) I don't think two minutes has passed and we received a dress in the mail from my mom!
Now the fun begins with planning things such as the nursery and names. The room for the nursery doesn't have much in it besides a bed, so no big deal there, we did manage to empty out the closet in that room, and refill it with all of the wonderful baby items we've been handed down from friends near and far. (Which I'm eternally grateful for!) Names on the other hand are a bit more of a challenge to tackle. Did I mention that we've always known what we would name a boy? Unfortunately there is no way to take that idea and make it into a girl's name, so we are starting from scratch. We've managed to go through a loooong list of girl names only to still not have decided on one. I'm not concerned, we have plenty of time, however now that we know she's a girl, it would be nice to refer to her by a name other than, baby girl or our daughter! I'm sure we'll find a few we like and narrow it down, and pick the perfect name by the time she arrives in August. Does anyone else out there feel like it's a lot of pressure to name someone for the rest of their life?
Yesterday we decided to venture out to the baby stores just to take a peek at things and begin thinking about a baby registry. OVERWHELMING!!!! Two things are very clear... 1) Why didn't I think of some of this random stuff that people spend way too much money on? and 2) Babies really do NOT need ALL of the random stuff displayed in cute little packages! Needless to say we did some price comparisons at two major stores on larger items, only to come home and find them much more reasonably priced on Amazon. Who knew you could create a baby registry on Amazon? Well, now you know and I would encourage you to at least go there for larger ticket items because it's a significant difference! Seeing how our families will have to ship items anyway, Amazon seems like the better option for us, at least for major things! One other tidbit about going to these stores, while there were plenty of "sales" people around, they were not the slightest bit helpful! I had a rough idea of "What to register for", however there are so many different kinds, sizes, etc. in things that it's overwhelming to decide what you truly need and what you don't! Once again, I was grateful for my friends who have recently had babies before me to help me figure this all out! It's not rocket science, however I don't want to buy unnecessary things, and I certainly don't want to get home with that baby and have to send Kevin out looking for something we need!
