Sexist Remarks

Ok so we did some major damage at the Super Target last night. We bought a buttload of christmas prezzies for HP. My major weakness is the dollar bins, I love them. Well this week the have pretend food for kids. I bought $15 then Steve made me stop (party pooper) before I bought it all. Only problem is that HP doesn't have a play kitchen. My mission tonight was to go to BJ's and buy a play kitchen (oh and the new collapsible rubbermaid storage containers, btw they rock!). The kitchen at BJ's was HUGE and almost $200. About $100 more than I want to spend. Plus I don't think a pretend kitchen should be better than my real kitchen.

Somehow I managed to get Steve to trek over to Toys R Us. They only had 3 options. The same really expensive kitchen, a grill lookin' kitchen and then a Cook N Clean kitchen set. There was a woman looking at the same kitchens. She mentions that her daughter wants a pink kitchen and she looked miffed that all the kitchen sets were neutral colors. Steve pipes up and says "Yeah we're looking for a kitchen for our 3 year old son". She gets a really shocked looked on her face and says "Oh well I think you should get him the grill and cook, it would be great for a boy".

Okay people currently I'm 8 months pregnant and really hormonal. I snapped back that I didn't ask for her opinion and boys can cook too. She left rather suddenly. We got the Cook n Clean set, it comes with an iron and built in washer/dryer.



Seriously what is wrong with people? Do they not watch TV? Some of the best Chefs are MEN. Hell's Kitchen is one of my favorite reality shows and I would do naughty things to "Good Eats" Alton Brown. I'm still miffed, I really shouldn't be but golly. We already bought the kitchen but my mom said that Kmart has a smaller one for half the price we paid. I just might go and check it out, as I saw online that they have working- with water and everything washer for only $25.


Super cool. The way I figure the more "real" stuff I can get him to do the less work I'll have to do around the house. He's already pretty good with the swiffer and knows the right settings for the dishwasher. Not only that but he likes to be paid in fruit snacks.

Making Room

Aiden's room is coming along nicely. It's been freshly painted, I've hung up the vintage newspaper, spurs, bits and wall hangings. Steve started on the wood floor this weekend. He worked on it all day Sunday and got three rows done. He really sucks at home improvement and he's first to admit it, he wanted to have Lowe's install the floor and I insisted that we could do it. At least he tries and tries hard. Hopefully (fingers and toes crossed) my dad will help get it finished he's a true handy man and it shouldn't take more than day to get it done. Then I'll be able to get the crib out of storage and I can actually put away all the stuff that's sitting on the futon in the picture. It's a tiny room and the only storage is located in the drawers under the crib and attached changing table.




We're going for a vintage cowboy theme. Lots of blue and red. Hopefully he'll like horses and cowboys, if not, well then too bad.




The bits were from the horse I used to own (and I might add try to kill me more than once). The spurs used to be Steve's dad when he was kid. I picked up a vintage newspaper from the 1800's era- Town of Deadwood. The front page proclaims "Wild Bill Shot in Deadwood, Aces and 8's Deadman's Hand". It's super cool- thanks HBO for getting us hooked then cancelling the show.

I still have to make a name wall hanging. I've got a great idea to use a lasso and bend it into Aiden's name and hang it above the crib. Nothing says love like strangling hazzard.



I also picked out his take home outfit. The women in my family have this problem with buying clothes that match the decor of the room. My mom bought a super cute gown and matching hat with little rocking horses and kinda of cowboy themed- which is what I picked as the take home outfit. My sister bought out Toy's R Us' line of cowboy stuff. Complete with two pairs of little cowboy boots for infants. I can't wait to use the blanket she got, it's super soft and has the most adorable stick figures of a cowboy and pony.

Ultrasound

I'm such a bad blogger. I blame it on my computer. It's old and only has 2 USB ports, in the back of the cpu. Which means my big pregnant belly is not about to try and crawl under the computer desk to hook up the camera port. Anyway maybe tomorrow I'll venture into that as I have a bunch of great pictures from the past couple of weeks and some knitting stuff to show off.

As of today I am 33wks and couple of days. Two weeks ago I had my 4D done at Prenatal Impressions. It was awesome!! I couldn't have had a better experience. They even had a "Kiddie Room" where HP played while we had the 4D done. I received over 80 pics on disc and a really cool DVD. Aiden however did not want to cooperate. The first 30 minutes or so he spent with his hands and FEET covering his face. After rolling around on the table he finally moved but the pics still weren't optimal. The owner had us go to lunch then come back for another hour to get more pictures. I can't praise them enough. If you're pregnant and want super cool pictures before your little one is born go there.

Here are a couple of pictures of Aiden. Chubby cheeks, looking like quite a porker already. I'm scared.

Here's a full shot of his face

Yawning

And a smirk

I don't know where the butt chin comes from, must be Dana.

Oh baby

I know I'm a bad blogger. I've been severely lacking recently. Being a full time mom takes up more time than a "real" job. Haven't even gotten any knitting in. Anyway I've been doing some work at a photography studio and they were kind enough to take some pregnancy photos. I would just like to say, dang it was cold in there. But the photos turned out smashingly. Enjoy.