Here's a little photo update. It seems that as Baby is nearing her harvest, there is so much to be done and so little time for lengthy blog entries. This weekend we gathered some practical nursery items, like a stuffed hippopotamus. Our awesome cloth diapers are still arriving, and right now I'm pre-washing them so they are nice and fluffy for when that cute and oh so active patooshie arrives. Adam and I went over a few folding techniques, and of course, Adam wanted to practice. He found his first stuffed animal- Snoopy, that was until this morning, nearly decapitated less a few still bound stitches which I reinforced today. Snoopy spent the latter part of the day in various styles of diapers and flashy covers and actually we decided that snoopy should model some of our other gifts and purchases as well. This gave us the opportunity to learn how to swaddle, how to wear our baby carrier, and what it's like to button and unbotton all of those tiny buttons on a baby's clothes. As far as pregnancy goes - I'm getting bigger by the minute. We had planned a camping trip for this past weekend- it was supposed to be the last hurrah before I get too uncomfortable. Yet I found that even with a decent thermarest and a couple of pillows that the belly is too big, the tent is too small and the mosquitos were too many. We were home after one night, though we still had a great long weekend prepping for Geronimo. You may ask, why so many pic's of that stupid stuffed dog? Well, stuffed animals are much cuter than a mosquito bitten, discomforted, post camp out pregnant lady. Here are some photos!
Snoopy is wearing a pre-fold cotton diaper, with a violet Thirsties cover, and warmed by a Patagonia fleece.
This was Uma Rowe's gift to the baby. Actually, the caterpillar was a pre conception gift. Truth: Adam and I hung that little toy above our bed for good luck, figuring some of Rowe's secret powers would provide. Sure enough....
Ok folks- this is an Ergo baby carrier, it puts the weight on the hips where the ladies carry it best. Snoopy didn't fit quite right in it, but he did model this car sear rather well.
A Graco infant car seat. It took us about a week to pick one of these out.
And that's how it's done friends! Also, here's is an interesting article from GeekDad on some revelations regarding Cloth Diapering. http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/cloth-diapering-goes-high-tech/#more-14474
I highly recommend trying out all of your baby equipment before the baby actually arrives. It was quite the learning experience. Okay, yes, yes, it was just a silly time waster.
Glad to hear you could make it at least one night camping. I was really hoping to do some camping this year before the baby arrived. But by the time the weather became decent, I was already way too big and knew I would have too many bathroom breaks to have any fun.
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