Mom woke us up to a birthday breakfast for Eric. And she made him a fresh pot of coffee in her new coffee maker. I had already bought a brew making kit for Eric a couple weeks ago. That was to be his birthday gift from me. In fact today is the day he is making his first batch, which I believe he dubbed the "Birthday Brew". Who knows.
Anyway, we decided that since I am in my 30s now, that today would be a good day to go and finally register for baby stuff at babies r us. I have not been able to do any baby shopping this entire pregnancy. So I am so ready. Plus we figured if I went in to labor, well I would be in Lansing by the hospital already. So who cares. hahah
So we got there and then I had to be put in a wheel chair of course. And this thing was so granny as it had a basket attached. Thats not embarrassing at all. haha Then we made our way to the registry desk. The lady got us all in the system and handed Eric the gun. She gave her quick tutorial, handed me a list of what to register for, and we on our way. Well she told us to stop at the furniture first and then make our way to the front. I asked her if it was tacky to register for a crib. She said no, everyone does. So off we went.
Eric and I have had our eye on this one "baby italia" crib that we wanted so bad. Well we came across this one The Heritage Lifetime Crib in Oak Chestnut instead....OMG....we have to have this one. I will die for it. hahah
Tell me that is not beautiful Crib ever. So that was our first item on our registry. I think it is well worth the money because it converts to a full size bed that he can have all through high school. Its so beautiful. So then we were looking at the bedding that they had set up in this crib and we both loved it. But I said we need to keep an open mind and go look at everything. You see this bedding was animal print. Most of you know, I was so anti-animal print. I wanted him to have a room that he could grow in to. And I didnt want to have to worry about taking down baby looking things to give him an older room. But we couldnt resist. In the end the animals won. I kept thinking I wanted trendy prints only. But Eric had to let me know that it was okay to go for the feeling of baby. So we chose this cute safari type print. It is Dark Brown with Green. It looks so cute. It has monkeys, lions, girraffs. Things like that. I cant wait to put it all together. I already have an idea for the paint and deco of the room. So we are in business.
All in all it took us about 2 hours and one pee break to register. Not so bad considering Eric and I have the worlds worst bladders. The whole time Eric would register for something he would just marvel in disbelief that this was for "our baby", and that we would really need this stuff. It was fun. We even got to park in the spots designated for those that are pregnant. Eric was irritated that this one lady used one of those spots and she clearly was not having a baby. haha Oh well. And we used up every inch of the scanner. The very last item we were registering for beeped and said we were now at our limit. We did pretty good. Especially since when she told us to register for at least 200 items, we thought she was insane. But of course Eric knew that an 8bit gun would only hold 256 characters. Who knows this stuff? haha
We only ended up skipping 3 categories they told us to hit. One was the Glider/furniture area. I decided to go with one from my Target registry. These were more affordable. The ones at Babies R us are like $500.00, even I wouldnt pay for that. They are worth it I am sure. But that is too much. And I knew I could find a cheap/affordable one at Target. Then we skipped the battery section....odd, but it is on the list. And last we skipped the exerciser area. The one we chose at Target is way better than ones they had at Babies R Us.
So with that we were done, but we were hungry. So we headed over to Arts Pizza. However, it was no longer Arts Pizza. We had not been there in years, but we loved their subs. We got in ordered subs and salad. It was super good. So even though it wasnt Arts, we were still satisfied.
Now as I type this, Eric is whipping up his Birthday Brew. And I am laying down where I should be. And the baby is kicking up a storm. Maybe he wants attention. So I am going to sing off for now, and rub my buddha belly.
Happy Birthday to one of the loves of my life.
Ciao
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