I've been working on the baby's room a lot, becoming a little obsessed actually. I have at least 3 months to go, so I don't really know why I'm being so gung-ho about this except:

a. it's fun
b. I feel pretty good now and I know I won't later so I want to get it done before I'm too blimpy and lethargic
c. I want to have it pretty & perfect so I can enjoy it and anxiously await...

Anyway...here's what it looks like so far:

 


So as you can see I still have some work to do but it's coming along! (Incidentally, that was my dresser when I was a little girl. Aww.)

Anyway. It needs some personality. I've been rug and curtain shopping with not much luck. I think I might just go with plain white curtains, I found these at Target that have ruffles and swiss dots....I will probably get them. But then I found these cute dot ones...

 

As for the rug, I just don't know. Maybe dots... I found a few that are ok but nothing I love:




And then there's the wall art. Probably some letters like these for whatever his name is...(not Brendan)


Then I thought I'd take some photographs I took of my friendly neighborhood cows and blow them up and have them printed in black and white and framed...



Other than that, I don't know yet. Probably some paintings...my sister is an artist and I might ask her to do something original for him. I saw a couple online, abstract, fun cow paintings....something like that might be cute but I don't want to over-do the cow thing.

So there you have it. My latest obsession. 

So I don't blog much anymore for those who have noticed. I just am not feeling it. I feel like I am such a negative person lately and who wants to read that? I'm going to do it today anyway. If you don't want to hear me complain, you should just stop reading now. Although I might be able to muster up some fun and positivity once my fingers start tapping away on the keys. You never know...

1. WHAT am I going to do with all this stufffff? The baby's room is coming along nicely, albeit slowly. While I was in Memphis this week my sweet husband, without being nagged asked, did the following:

-painted the nursery
-brought down the crib from the attic, in 30982305838 pieces
-brought down all the newborn clothes/blankets, etc
-washed said items
-notified me that he washed them "in that baby detergent stuff", and when I raised an eyebrow because we don't have any of that "baby laundry detergent stuff", he informed me that he made a special trip out to the store to buy some. This surprised me for so many reasons, but mostly because I didn't even think that he knew such a detergent existed, much less the importance of it.

I was so moved by him doing this stuff without me asking and he laughed and said "Well I think I'm nesting."  lol. So cute.

Mom rant: for the record, I'm not a nutcase about washing all of baby's stuff in ridiculously expensive, specialized baby laundry detergent, however, I think it is vitally important at least in the very beginning to not bombard perfectly pure skin with harsh detergents, dyes and perfumes. That being said, once this first bottle of baby detergent is gone and I'm sure he has been properly exposed to all of those things, I will never buy it again and he can suffer with the Tide like the rest of us.

ANYWAY- back to my original problem of the STUFF. The baby's room was my guest room and goodfreakinglord I had a lot of crap in there....which is now spilled out around the rest of my house, and is subsequently making me want to throw myself in front of a bus. I want to have a yard sale but it's SO much work. Can't I just open up the doors to my house and sell anything and everything anybody wants?

Moving on.
2. Since my child won't eat ANYTHING I have become one of those parents-I-never-thought-I'd-be and stopped and got him a Happy Meal before I had lunch with my girlfriend the other day at a restaurant that didn't have a kids menu. (Note: he didn't eat any of the Happy Meal anyway.)

I was really annoyed when we got to the restaurant and noticed that there wasn't a toy in the Happy Meal. WTF, McDonald's? Who do you think you are? That was my plan for entertaining him at the restaurant while we ate and talked. Instead of a toy, like they have done since the BEGINNING OF TIME, there was a CD in the bag. Gee thanks. Not only was it a stupid ass CD, it was a KIDZ BOP CD.  For f*ck's sake!!!! The thing I hate most in the world. Kidz Bop. Are you freaking kidding me? Of course it was too late to dispose of the evidence, he saw it and immediately informed me that we would be listening to it as soon as we got in the car.

KILL. ME. NOW.

Whyyyyyyy why why why why is it necessary to ruin perfectly good songs by having annoying children singing them and adding random, high pitched and obnoxious "WOOOOOH!"s or "YEAHHHHHHHH!"s during the middle of the song? WHY? Parents, why can't you teach your children to appreciate music by original artists??? I would understand if it was related to bad language or whatnot, but these are just regular, G-rated songs! 

That being said, I'm not sure I'd rather listen to Fergie sing Big Girl's Don't Cry over the annoying children, but that's for another day. What am I going to do? Maybe it will get lost or broken before I have to pick him up today.

3. My hair. Ugh. Yes I am going to complain about my hair again. I had a gift card to use in Memphis and while I was there I figured I'd go get my hair done because I didn't really have the $150 it would have cost me to do it here. :-(

BIG MISTAKE. It was a disaster from beginning to end. In a nutshell:
-Appointment was made at the wrong location. When I showed up at the spa/salon location, they informed me that my appointment was at their satellite location...AT THE MALL. Oh God. I should have known to just run away then.
-The place was filthy.
-She ruined my hair.
-She spent 4 hours trying to fix it
-She didn't fix it
-She then asked for a tip

So now, instead of my really pretty light auburn hair with blond streaks, I am back to having hair as dark as night, because that was the only thing she could do to fix it, to cover up the FIRE ENGINE RED color it was when she ruined it. I am not kidding when I tell you it looked like this:



I don't know who this girl is, but I appreciate her letting me borrow her picture from Google Images, which came up when I searched for FIRE ENGINE RED HAIR.

So after she "repaired" that, now I have short dark hair. Which is not bad, I've had it this color before and it's really pretty I guess, but it's not what I wanted. So yay now I get to save up $150 to go get it fixed, again, like I had to do after that great Dora incident. At least I don't have a Dora haircut now, but that is only after I made her re-do the haircut too because it was a disaster when she originally was finished.

I have more to say but this is too long as it is. Toodles.
 

My life is boring. Nothing much to post.

My son is hilarious....some of the things he says seriously crack me up. None of which I can think of right now. I need to start writing them down as they happen.

I nearly had a nervous breakdown yesterday regarding the state of my house. I seriously cannot keep it clean, or even remotely orderly for more than approximately 10 minutes. And I have too much crap. So when I do try to clean, I have nowhere to put stuff. It's driving me CRAZY. I spent a long time yesterday cleaning out my closet and am donating a huge pile of stuff. It didn't help much, but at least I have more room to put the stuff I actually use.

The toy situation is maddening. He can't keep pieces of things together so everything just ends up a hodgepodge of tiny toy parts and it's going to be the death of me. I wonder sometimes if he would notice if I just went through them all one day while he wasn't home and got rid of 90% of this junk?

On the baby front...I picked out his bedding and decorated the nursery (in my head), and while it's not as cute as the pink and tangerine dream I had envisioned, I think it will be sweet and calm...something my house needs. Regarding names, he still does not have one. I have ONE possibility at the moment that I'm not ready to share because a) I honestly don't want opinions about it and b) It's just a "maybe" so I'd rather not discuss it at length and then have it stuck in my head and it just becomes his name as a default.  Regarding The Belly...I'm getting pretty pregnancy huge. But I went shopping for new maternity summer pants and I had to go DOWN a size from the two pair I bought in February before my cruise. I still haven't gained any weight yet my belly is getting enormous. How weird is that? By this time with Jacob I had probably gained at least 20 pounds.

Oh...and today I'm going here and will be here for the next couple of days:

http://www.goldenvalleyrentals.com/dream_angel.htm

88% of you said it was a girl, and 88% of you were...


Wrong. It's another boy.

I'm going for an ultrasound on Thursday...one of the local colleges here that trains ultrasound techs is offering free ones so I figured why not go a couple weeks early for a sneak peek? My 20 week scan at my doctor's office is in 2 weeks. Anyway......

Let's see what y'all think.

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We'll see who was right on Thursday. :)