Saturday, July 31, 2010

A kid in a candy store

Evan and I are in McAllen, Texas for the annual Casso family reunion. Casso is his mother's side of the family, we are about 25 and are hosted at Aunt Vicki and Uncle Dave's fabulous home.
Yesterday was the first day. It's always good to see and catch up with everyone and of course the bump got lots of attention :)
Evan's Aunt Vicki recently closed her kids clothing shop and has all her inventory set up in her craft room....including all of her left over baby inventory! I about fainted when I saw it all but then I really died and went to heaven when Vicki told me I could pick out and take WHATEVER I wanted. Seriously?! I couldn't possibly accept all of these wonderful baby clothes, but with some reassuring from Vicki that she really wanted me to have it, I happily went shopping, and walked a way with about 24 pieces of clothes in all shapes, colors, and prints for baby tummel- ranging in sizes from 0-6, 12-18 and 18-24. I'll post some pics of the fabulous outfits when I get home, but for now check out the zutano baby clothes website for a preview.
Thanks Aunt Vicki!!

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Woo hoo!

An exciting baby purchase is on its way to my house....more to come!

The Tummy Sleeve


So far my tummy sleeve has been a true lifesaver. I started wearing it around 11 weeks. It allows you to wear your regular pants aka prepregnany pants longer. So far, now that I'm 18 weeks, I have not had to buy any maternity pants or shorts.. YET. This has been especially great to wear for work with my pant suits.

Unfortunately, I'm starting to get bigger and I'm wondering how much longer my tummy sleeve will last me before I have to break down and buy maternity jeans/maternity suit pants. Currently, I can not even zip my pants, so I have to make sure I fold it ALL the way down or my unzipped zipper peeks out and it looks like I'm walking around with my fly down!
How will I ever find maternity suit pants to match all my different suits?!

I told Evan tonight that I tried on some SEVEN maternity jeans ( my fav. brand) at a price tag of $130.
His response: "Fu**!, no."
Looks like I'll be checking out Gap,Old Navy, or maybe even Target for their maternity jeans? Any recommendations of where to find cute/affordable maternity pants my fellow blog readers?

One of my many weaknesses


I can not stop by one of my regular restaurants, Square 1 Burgers, without having one of these delicious cupcakes. They come in regular size and mini, which is what I go with- 2 bites of heaven!

I think I'll order a few dozen of these when I have my baby shower...

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Trumpette Socks!


I am in love love love with these little cowboy socks! I mean his daddy is from texas, so they are appropriate!


These melt my heart as well.



And of course, if I was having a girl, she would definitely be rocking these MaryJanes.

( socks found at http://www.trumpette.com/)

New Mother to Expecting Mother

On Thursday, I had a meeting with a new client who had just had a baby boy name Sean. He is 8 weeks old and so cute! Since we met at her house, it gave me a good sneek peek at all of her baby items she has that I've been stressing over. These are the notes I scribbled down between my financial planning notes for her:
1) buy a stroller that the baby can lay completely flat in- ( yes, yes, yes, this confirms my love of the Bugaboo Cameleon with the bassinet)
2) buy the little shirts that are open in the front and tie together, for when the babys belly button thingy is still attatched . Where the heck do I find these??
3) with those shirts, make sure they have the mitten cuffs in case the baby likes to scratch himself with their uncut fingernails
4) a gym is a good place to put a baby to entertain themselves, even a newborn
5) the swing is a good place, but he hasn't used the chair yet
I loved hearing all of her tips, it really is a wonderful thing to bond over, this baby business!!

Finding my diaper bag!

Evan asked me what I want for my birthday next month, and I told him I wanted him to give me the perfect diaper baby bag- now to find one! After work yesterday, I headed out to the mall on my search.
First, I stopped by Kate Spade, and looked at this one ( in black). I really liked this bag because it looks like a purse but has all the functionality of a diaper bag. I'm just not sure if black will go with everything, or if my diaper bag should go with everything?

I also went online and looked at Vera Bradley's selections, which I also liked. The Vera Bradley bags are less, so I'm thinking maybe I can get two bags, the black one I can wear with black, and the then when I'm wearing brown or lighter colors, I can use the brown and green one.



I also went into the Coach store and looked at these: ( in black)


I'm not too sure about the Coach. I loved the functionality, all the pockets and the long strap, but I'm not too sure if I like the new "C's" they are using on this pattern. I actually prefer the Coach bags that don't have "C's" all over them.
That's what I have so far...what do you think?

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Overwhelmed


panic. i spend most of my day at work not even thinking baby. the second i walk into the door, ( ok not the second, i spend my first moments getting dinner done and eaten), i'm online reading my favorite baby blogs. i see great info. on these websites. today i read about the fuzzibunz cloth diapers. i'm already sold on trying the cloth diaper route back when i read about gdiapers. now, there is more product out there to research and see which cloth diaper route i want to go...so overwhelming!
not to mention, my current obsession with finding the perfect baby stroller. i drive the ultimate driving machine, my baby stroller needs to be the ultimate stroller machine. but, when will i use my stroller? do i want a travel system? do i need a jogging stroller? would i really use the bassinet on the bugaboo that i love? omg, the stress.
not to mention the million other baby things to buy/research. and oh yea actually reading the baby books...will i ever get this all done. am i superwoman?

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Alas!

I just thought about this. Our room is plenty big for a crib without being cramped at all. Why don't I just put the baby's crib in our room to start instead of having a bassinet and a crib that isn't being used? That way when the baby is ready to be in his own room, he will already be familiar and comfortable with his crib, it will just be a change of room.
Genius!

Now, to find the perfect crib?!

Birthday


Evan has been very hard to shop for this year. Evan is an avid fisherman so usually I can find hime something fishing related for gifts- in the past it's been Costa sunglasses or Columbia fishing gear. This year, I thought this would be perfect!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Oregon


Last week, Evan and I made the long, but worth it, journey to Oregon, for my good friend Alyson's wedding. It was AMAZING! Here is a pic from the wedding...more to come with a full recap of our week!