time warp
So somehow, I got sucked into the time-warp that is Babies R Us. I don’t know how an hour+ can pass so quickly but that always seems to be the case when I look at baby things. Part of my problem is that I don’t know what I need or what the baby needs. When I shop for myself, I usually have a good idea of what I want - whether or not I can find it is a different story ;) But shopping for someone I haven’t even met… no idea. We have some clothes already. But maybe we need more sleepers. And what sizes? And why does each brand seems to be a slightly different size??
And then there’s the whole swing/bouncer/exersaucer dilemma. I’ve heard that some kids prefer one of those items and hate the others, or maybe like all of them at different stages of development. Or maybe, they only ever want to be held (please, no!). We don’t really have the space for all of those things nor am I really interested in buying them just to try out. Why can’t the baby tell me what he wants?!
Now that we’ve finished with our childbirth classes, I feel like now we should finally be ready for this baby. Except we aren’t because the car seat isn’t installed and I haven’t packed our hospital bags and we don’t have a baby thermometer or diapers or a going home outfit. (And of course NONE of this kept me awake last night… because something like that would NEVER happen.)
In theory, we have 5 more weeks. That seems like a long time but I’m sure it will pass too quickly - and that’s even assuming I’ll hit my due date.