Week 7 -- Day 5

5:19 p.m. AWESOME day today! Woke up early, cleaned up a bit around the house, had a great job interview for a mortgage company and then went to tarjay (target) for a new wardrobe. i know i'm not quite showing yet -- well, to kent and my parents i am, but if you've never seen me, i don't think you would think i was pregnant -- but i'll need to have some maternity clothes stashed away for the future. i read on babycenter.com that when you hit seven weeks, you should start taking photos of yourself each month because you start popping out fairly quickly. i'll probably take photos each week though because a month from now is too long to wait! boy, i can't believe how fast time is flying. my mom and i scoped out the cribs today at target as well. so cute! my aunt sylvia offered to purchase the crib for us and i couldn't be more thankful. actually, my entire family has been just wonderful with my pregnancy. i'll have lots o' helping hands when the little tike plops out. (haha, "plop." i WISH it were that easy!) anyway, i found a nice espresso colored crib that folds out into a daybed and eventually a full bed when the time comes. gees. i couldn't stop staring at the crib and thinking about how it will eventually be my daughter's bed when she hits the right age. what is the appropriate age to sleep in a bed anyways? 4? 5? i would think 3 is still too young right? hmm. i sure as hell can't remember when i started sleeping in a bed. well, actually i remember being in a bed when i was in kindergarten, so i must have been what? five years old? yeah i think that sounds right. my mom and i also checked out the baby blankets and shoes and stuff. the little duck already has her first pair of shoes. they're white with stripes on the sides like big kid adidas. they're adorable! they also have a picture of a little train on the sides. i told kent that i didn't see why we couldn't put train shoes on a girl. those shoes were the first baby thing that kent and i bought. they've been hanging from my rear view mirror for months now. in regards to outfits, i'm not what you would call a "girly girl." i never have been and never will be. i'm your average down-to-earth, likes to get dirty but cleans up nice type of person. i told kent that i didn't want to dress baby quack in pink frilly stuff. i want her to wear fashionable stripes and animals and teddy bear things. so far, her wardrobe is sticking with that style -- earthy. pretty greens and blues and yellows and whites and grays. we laughed about how our baby was going to be sexually confused if it turned out to be a boy because we've been calling it she this whole time! i took a sociology of gender class back in high school, and they touched on the way parents "shape" their children since birth into being the typical guy or girl. parents will buy the boy trucks and legos and footballs and give the girl tutus and barbies and play kitchen sets. kent and i want to expose our children to all types of toys. i mean i wouldn't buy my son a barbie doll to play dress up with or anything, but i'd definitely be okay if he wanted to play "chef" or something. same goes with the girl. if she wanted a train set then hey, more power to her, right? i had a train set and lincoln logs and a big wheel when i was growing up and i couldn't have been a happier child.
i tried on some maternity clothes today. they have such cute and inexpensive stuff at target. i made out like a bandit, or rather, my parents made out like bandits. they were so generous to offer to buy me some new clothes. i was just going to use my "fat" clothes for when i started to show but this is even better! i couldn't believe that they actually had x-smalls in the maternity section. i guess that makes sense though. there has to be short, petite women out there like me who are pregnant. even 4'10" women! i saw a really, really short woman today at magnolia (a really delicious local restaurant) who looked like she weighed about 200 lbs! i felt bad because i couldn't stop staring at her. all i could think of though was "dear god! i hope i don't gain a lot of weight. i don't want to accumulate that much fat on my body!" so far all the weight has been mainly in my stomach. i read in a book by jenny mccarthy, which was surprisingly funny and semi-intelligent, that the first few pounds you gain and the "baby bump" you get are really a baby cushion around your uterus. i'm lucking out that the fat seems to be going all towards the baby cushion and not to my face, arms and back. whew! time to eat! (hahaha.)
i'm starving. gotta go eat.