ready, set, shop.

i've never been shy about my love for shopping, so creating a baby registry is something that i've been looking forward to with anticipated glee.  the research, the decisions, comparisons and final choices have been dancing like sugarplums in my pregnancy-addled mind, and so it wasn't until i began this enormous task that i realized exactly how overwhelming it is!

too many choices!!  tell me, little vegas, do you prefer to rock side-to-side or back and forth?  will you require a head cozy to keep your little neck straight and supported?  should i stock bottles if i intend to breastfeed?  and how many?  do you need a crib AND a bassinet?  do i need a diaper genie for cloth diapers?  and what exactly will that genie do?  how many diapers?  which car seat will best protect your precious body and lull you to sleep?  good lord, i didn't realize that the occasion to make the wrong choices for my child would begin so early!

so i figure i need some help, and if anyone out there has some personal experience or some "must-haves" then PLEASE, by all means, feel free to dispense with your advice or suggestions.  also, i've started a registry at babies r us, but if you know of a better place (for prices or choices) please let me know!

xoxoe.

settling into our space.

oh how nice it is to be home!  we've had a wonderful holiday - nearly sinfully restful - and now i'm tackling the nest.  it seems never-ending!  painting, stacking, organizing, sweeping, painting, hammering, eyeballing, sighing, grooving, adjusting, storing, putting bliss in place and just REALLY trying to tip-toe away from any signs of OCD.

our cat, stinker, follows me from room to room as long as there's a perch by the window.  she sits riveted by sparrows while i take a moment to wonder when the leaves will come out on the trees in my yard.  big trees.

vegas is feisty.  she tumbles now and then in the afternoon but saves her best tricks for after dinner.  i spend a good deal of my daydreams on designing her nursery.  i'm caught by a particular whimsical idea and if i still like it next week i hope to get started soon!  - (o! another little bird outside the window, i really must get a feeder - )

mark and i are heading to my cousin's grand opening at "hudson's" tonight, perhaps i'll see some of you there?  hope so - !

see ya later, suckers!

our dear family and friends, where would we be without you?  somewhere warmer, probably, but that's beside the point.  we'd be drowning in boxes and with our stuff strewn across two households and likely on our way to a bitter divorce if we'd had to survive this move on our own.  so - my deepest thanks, and gratitude.

and speaking of somewhere warmer, we're on our way to palm springs and mexico.  whoo hoo!  we'll be gone for two weeks, caught in sunshine bliss and entertained by bob and bev.

i'm sure i'll have lots of stories when i return - or, depending on my mood, perhaps even during the trip.  either way, did i mention that it's a girl?  yep!  mark is busy padlocking every window in the house as i type.  and so it begins.

much love, xoxoe.