Baby Furniture Outing and My Pillow Husband!

I am just going to throw this out there.... peeing in my panties... not fun! The most recent prego symptom. If I laugh hard, sneeze, or don't go right when I feel the urge, boy do I pay with some dribble! Dear God, please let my bladder return to normal once Easton is born. We continue to have the nightly pillow battle in our queen size bed. This is so not sexual so get your minds out of the gutter! ;) The pillow battle involves me strategically placing three pillows so I can sleep comfortably. One between my legs, one for my head, and one for my belly/boobs. Poor Josh must sleep around all three and has sacrificed bed space for my pillows. Oh, and once they are positioned he dare not move them! I honestly do rip his head off! Thank you real life husband for allowing my pillow husband to join us every night in bed so I can sleep comfortably!

So this past Sunday was a very eventful day for us. We ventured out in search of baby furniture. Wait... I better give you some more details. I had originally ordered some very cute bedding from Babies R Us only to be disappointed when I got it. It wasn't what I was expecting so I returned. So not only are we in search for baby furniture, but we are also back on the hunt for baby bedding. Oh, and if I don't make up my mind soon, I do believe our little girl will be growing up in a pink John Deere Room. The afternoon began at USA Baby. Holy crap they have a lot of furniture, mobiles, bedding, letters, borders, strollers, car seats and so much more crammed into that store. I am sure we looked like a couple rookies in awww! We cruised up and down the aisle only to leave empty handed and hungry. After a cheese hamburger and chocolate milk shake we headed to Nebraska Furniture Mart. Land of Furniture opportunity! After strolling through the baby section once we went back through it and picked out our favorites. While standing in front of one of the cribs we liked our conversations went something like this:
Me: Josh do you like this one?
Josh: Yes, ummm... I like that other one too.
Me: Well which one do you want to buy?
At this point we must had overwhelmed rookies written all over our face, because an older couple began laughing at us and our inability to a make a decision on a crib. We left NFM with the new Easton Corbin and Jason Alden CD and no crib. We completely underestimated the while baby furniture buying process. This coming weekend our goal is to 1. find, buy, and stick to baby bedding 2. register for baby items at Target and Babies R Us and 3. decide on baby furniture. Wish us luck....

So we stopped by Books A Million Sunday so I could pick up nursing books. While checking those out I found book called "Life Lessons on Raising a Girl" I opened it up and read a couple of pages and got all teary eyed. Josh came back over from the children books section and I showed him the book. We got it and he ended up reading half of it that night. It isn't like a novel. It has one to two liners on each page about raising a girl. Josh read them to me all the way home and when we got home. He even folded the corners of the ones he liked! Some made us laugh, some made me tear up, and some made us think about Easton as a teenager. It was one of our great Mommy and Daddy moments that I love.

This past Sunday evening I had one of THOSE moments! You know the ones you say to yourself Awww... Shit.... All I could think was Josh and I really don't know what we are in for with this baby! What brought this about you wonder.... I was reading one of my two breastfeeding books and just read the part where the baby will need to nurse every two to three hours. Hello moment! Oh, and the hours do no start when you finish feeding, but when you START feeding! Holy shit we may end up divorced! Every two to three hours... I need sleep! Josh needs sleep! We can get pretty nasty when we don't have our sleep. To some of you this may sound ditsy that this is such a shocker to me, but seriously I don't have any kids so how the heck would I know this tid bit of information? Don't get me wrong I knew Easton would have to eat, but I guess I just didn't realize how often it was. Have I mentioned we have NEVER had a newborn?! So if you come and visit us, call, or text and I seem to bite your head off or be kinda snippy, moody, or whiny, please forgive me. Oh, and if Josh seems to be a jerk, just let it roll off your shoulders because we will (like many parents) be running on very few hours of sleep! So that was my Holy Crap moment where I officially realized Easton would forever change our lives! Oh, and I am currently accepting any tips or advice from those Mom's out there that have nursed.



I am going to leave you with some of Josh's favorite lines from his father to daughter book:

• Let her sleep on your chest when she's a baby. This is when the world begins to make sense.


• Tell her to believe in true love, just not in junior high.


• Show her how to throw a right cross. That will stop any boy from picking on her.

And his all time favorite: Dance with her always. She'll never be too young or too old.