Only Us
December 28th, 2008
Ho ho ho! We’re back in VT, awaiting the next onslaught of family members on Thursday, leaving us with a grand total of three days of relative peace and solitude.
We had a wonderful holiday, as I hope you did, and despite my family being very … TOGETHER in nature (as in, 24 hours a day of Together Time. It’s very sweet, but can be stifling at times), there was only one incident of Bloody Beef, when during a conversation with a longtime family friend, I realized that I kind of only have two months and change left in this pregnancy before another PERSON shows up and I … I had a panic attack. I really did. There was heaving sobbing and heavy breathing and everything (I’d locked myself in the bathroom for Maximum Effect). This was followed by an entire Christmas Eve AND Christmas Day of Braxton Hicks and weird pains that convinced me that I didn’t even have two MONTHS, but in fact only had TWO HOURS.
Contributing to the irrational hysteria was the fact that another family friend recently got a new dog and they named her … our daughter’s name. And these are people I will see OFTEN. I’m not changing it, however, so for the rest of her life, my daughter will be able to pose with her namesake, a toy poodle.
Clearly, I did not give birth over the holiday, nor did I do so on my birthday which, speaking of, was fabulous, and Adam gave me a delightful gift of a video camera that records in high-def. Which, uh, yeah. There are, thus far, several videos that will never, ever see the light of day, as I am of the lumbering triple-chinned sort captured in EXTREME DETAIL, and I don’t yet know how to work it, but we are ready for baby! Or at least ready to record baby. And her pores and hair follicles all up close and personal-like.
I was over my Bloody Beef by mid-Christmas Day — it turns out that what was stressing me out was that we did not have the STROLLER finalized, because we cannot bring a baby into this world without a STROLLER OH MY GOD WE ARE NOT READY WHERE IS THE STROLLER THAT THE KID WON’T EVEN USE UNTIL SHE’S A LITTLE OLDER? Hormones are weird, man. When in doubt, buy baby gear.
Anyhoo, I was even able to enjoy opening many baby-related gifts, including this little gem that made me cry, because could you DIE? My mother, Ms. Crafty McCraftpants, made these for my sister a few years ago, and this year, we got our own, because we are finally going to be three:
She should open her own Etsy shop, yes?
And finally, my daughter is already amassing quite a wardrobe, which is to be expected, as everyone is VERY EXCITED about pink things, and we’re so completely and utterly screwed if it turns out to be a boy. S C R E W E D.
And yet, we still need basic newborn things. Oh, and please note bear-footed pajamas. O.M.G.
Happy Monday! I hope you’re all still relaxing and egg-nogging.
*Peter Gabriel
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19 Comments Add your own
1. Angella | December 28th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
PINK THINGS ARE SO FUN.
(Says a Mom who got a girl after two boys)
If your Mom opens an Etsy shop, I AM ALL OVER IT.
2. Kelley | December 28th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Seriously, I think I just ovulated looking at all those pretty pink clothes.
Still relaxing. Hoping to do it till next year!
3. Trina | December 28th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
So cute! I want a little be-hatted bowling pin family of my own! Guess I’ll have to get adopted into your family and then knocked up. Or you can convince your mom to go the Etsy route, and be sure that eventually she’ll have a sale from me!
And don’t stress the pink. My nephew Liam – who is a quintessential boy’s boy – loves nothing more than to try on and wear his big sister’s clothing (especially dresses). And if I put some of my lipstick on her, he also must have some. Besides – if it somehow turns out to be a boy, won’t it be fun to dress him in those clothes and then give strangers hell for their color-based gender assumptions?
4. clickmom | December 29th, 2008 at 4:22 am
The dog name thing, HILARIOUS. We named our first dog after my husband’s best friend and our recent dog after a snarky host at our favorite Indian restaurant.
Both names were meant to take the original name owner down a notch.
And here I am telling this to the very pregnant woman who just admitted to being less than rational. I am a real winner.
5. Jess | December 29th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Oooo I can’t wait to find out the name! Also, want baby. Just for the clothes.
6. jonniker | December 29th, 2008 at 5:59 am
Trina: I always thought they were snowmen, but I never thought to ask. HA!
Clickmom; In all fairness, we’ve told no one about our name, so the family didn’t know. Ergo, eh, it doesn’t bother me THAT much.
7. birdgal | December 29th, 2008 at 6:02 am
Don’t go bloody beef on me Jonna, but after thinking we were having a girl (ok, so the doctor said a 95% chance because the little booger wasn’t cooperating), we had a boy! And we had no clue until he was BORN! Ahhahaaaha..hmmm. But in all likelihood, you had a better ultrasound than we did (my doctor’s ultrasound is a little dinosaur-like) and had a much better view
. Luckily, we were pretty much depending on using all my daughter’s old clothes so we hadn’t gone out and bought (and washed!) a bunch of new pink stuff, which, THANK JEEBUS. Eh, so he wore some pink stuff when he first came home, he didn’t care! (but I must say thank god for grandparents!)
8. H | December 29th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Those snowpeople make me smile.
9. Kristabella | December 29th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Girl clothes are so much better than boy clothes. My niece has more clothes than you could imagine. Because all of us in the family can’t stop buying pink things and girly dresses.
I went a little bloody beef on Xmas too because TOO. MANY. PEOPLE. And it was so effing loud and everyone was talking at the same time and everyone in my family talks SO LOUD! There wasn’t enough wine to keep me calm. Plus I had to drive.
Your mom should totally open her own Etsy shop! Those are so cute!
10. Christine | December 29th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Snow people are so cute! Yes! to the etsy shop idea.
Also, I had my own “bloody beef” incident at 4ish in the morning on Christmas, as I believed without a doubt that my contact had rolled to the back of my eye instead of just falling out. I was seriously entertaining thoughts of calling an ambulance.
I personally cannot wait for you guys to be three, if only so I can find out the name.
11. TwoBusy | December 29th, 2008 at 8:18 am
They named their dog Barbarella? Wow… you’d think the odds would be really stacked against something like that, and yet it happens. Remarkable.
12. Style Bard | December 29th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Aww, what IS it about footed PJs that are so darn ridiculous cute?
Those skinny snowpeople are, too. This whole post is just too cute!
13. anne | December 29th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I have a name that is often a dog’s name (Annie) and honestly it really is not a bad thing. It doesn’t bother me and people find it “cute” whatever that’s worth.
14. Sadie | December 29th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Don’t worry, toy poodles only live like 12-15 years, tops. So your daughter will win in the end.
15. Anyabeth | December 29th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Am ridiculously excited that I noticed many things hanging there that my daughter has (or has outgrown). Let me assure you that they are even cuter on actual baby.
16. Lippy | December 29th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I love the snow people, I would totally buy those on Etsy. Pregnant hormones are crazy. I am currently wanting to clear out the entire house. Too much clutter.
17. Jakki | December 30th, 2008 at 6:27 am
I adore those pajama’s….
18. Michelle | December 30th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Love the bear-footed pjs. We have them and it looks like about half of the other clothes in your closet:) Girl clothes are insane! My mother and mil have already outfitted my daughter with a complete summer wardrobe. I pretty sure it would not have been the same if I had a boy.
19. Leane | December 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
We had a dog–that we loved with a name–that came from a family member..and then years later when we named my son we wanted that for his middle name. (the dog was no longer with us)..It all works out in the end. You will feel SO much better in a few months.
I promise.
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