I just need to talk to people who share my interests. Someone who will not be annoyed at my incessant conversations about All Things Baby. Luckily, I have an angelkatharine and she is quite thrilled to hear my baby-related babble. It’s great!
Yesterday was an errand-running day and she came with me! I went to Ikea to find picture frames (I actually like the super cheap ‘clips’ ones) and to restock on candles. I had a great time discussing decorating choices in the display rooms. Noah isn’t interested in doing that with me. 🙂 Then we went to Target for non-stick skillets which will allow Noah to make me breakfast with greater ease. 🙂 I found some clothes and I am quite thrilled about this. Lately I’ve been wearing two pairs of low-rise maternity pants and about five shirts over and over because other stuff isn’t fitting. Oh sure, I can keep wearing the generic stretch pants I had for maternity, but they wear out and aren’t real flattering. I really want to put maternity clothes away so that they aren’t worn out the next time I get pregnant. This is complicated by the fact that while yes, I now have jeans (w00t!) I had just uhm expanded into this size before getting pregnant so I have very little clothing in size 14. Noah is challenging to live with if you want to not gain weight. I apparently can’t stay thin. All of my size 14 stuff is work clothing and I don’t really want to lounge around the house that way.
So new clothes! Yay! I also have the new constraint of nursing accessibility. Whereas I don’t have a problem with raising up the bottom of my shirt (I don’t care who sees my stretch marks) it is a lot easier to have boob access from higher up. Raising a t-shirt in the wraps is kind of a pain then we get all sweaty together and I don’t like that feeling. So yay for shirts that lower for boob access. I also found some cute jammies cause I don’t really have any. I mostly have nightgowns and nothing is more fucking pointless than having to raise the bottom of a nightgown from your knees to above your boob for nursing. (Ok, there are probably more pointless things…) So now I have two-pieces and I’m happy. I also found two dresses that are nursing compatible. One is even cute and not black so I can wear it to the wedding next month. (It’s grey, but I’ll take that as good enough.)
And Noah got nearly drunk last night. It was very amusing. 🙂
Much celebration is felt. And now I sit very still and pray that the munchkin goes to sleep soon for a really long nap cause she was up longer than is strictly speaking awesome yesterday.
I hear you.
I have a number of dresses I haven’t worn since before Kidlet. They fit, but they’re not nursing-compatible.
It’s kind of funny. I’m packing things away hoping that in a few years I will go through the box ad get excited about clothes feeling new-to-me again. 🙂
Yeah for weddings, I get to squeeze me some Krissy!
Speaking of free, are you available either the evening of the 28th or the evening of the 30th?
Yes, ma’am. 🙂 Both are free.
Most excellent! I’m at work with limited communication, but I’ll try to touch base with you later on tonight to discuss details.
*squee*
Ok, yes I’m excited.
Not boring, not at all.
Some of us are vastly interested in all things baby, even in spite of many other things to think/talk/read about…
Yay, dressing for easy access! 😉
I like reading your posts about baby stuff. It makes me feel like I am missing less of your life (and Shanna’s life), even though I am far away now. 🙂
Yay for new clothes. I have a huge percentage of clothes from Target. I like to go there around Halloween because they always have cool clothes with Halloween theme stuff on them. Last year I got candy-corn leggings. And orange and black striped socks. Yes, I am a dork.
Nick is very amusing drunk, too – he gets very cute and flirty. It’s adorable.
I guess I’m just the crouch to nurse type, especially since I’m not going to bring a boppy to someone’s wedding, and my boobs are nice and baby-stretched out :-P, so I have all two piece fancy wear now.
I wear nursing bras… at least when I leave the house… and I find that it’s easier to deal with them with tops that have access from the top.
And I’m not bringing the Boppy with me to Portland. 😛 I’m traditionally a really light packer and I’m debating if I can handle the bulk of traveling with cloth diapers.
Yah, I guess I just got used to unclipping them from the bottom, I’m gonna be sticking my hand up there to get my boob out anyway, and I don’t like stretching out the necks of my t-shirts? I dunno. Different habits.
Anyway, I know you use cloth diapers, but I found some half bags of size two and three disposables that I was wondering if you wanted? I don’t know if you do any switching back and forth when you go out and such.