Preparations for a new baby in the house

First, I can't even believe that I'm pregnant. Yes, I'm 31 weeks, however, the idea just hasn't quiet sunk in. We are so excited and nervous and a whole bunch of other emotions that's it's hard to pinpoint one feeling accurately.

The other day, it hit me, "Oh my! I'm 30 weeks pregnant and we haven't done a thing to get ready for this baby! I don't have any nursing bras, nursing night gowns for the hospital, bedding for the baby bed or a baby bed!!" I began to obsess to my precious patient loving husband and his response was immediate action. For any of you who know him, this isn't surprising. He began to scour the city looking for the "right" baby bed, going to the paint stores, and cleaning out the baby's room.

Finding a baby bed in our city is quit the feat, if you're like me and really want a nice tall, American standard baby bed. There are many beds in the city but all of them are about 2ft in height and the width and length wouldn't be conducive to bedding from America.

I know that most of these things are very minor, but for me they're major. The first two times that I was pregnant the baby wasn't planned and I didn't have many options. We were poor and we were very very young. Most of the things for the boys were hand me downs. Now don't get me wrong, I was very grateful, but this time it's different. We planned this baby, we're older and are more capable of making purchases and choosing things that we like. SO! the race began three days ago.........

On Friday, I ordered my bedding that my dear friend is sending over for me. I've chosen Jungle Safari! And yesterday, we found a shop in the city that customs makes beds for you. The beds that they have available are from Japan but their factory is here in Thailand so you can order the bed to the length/height/width and color that you prefer!! WE WERE ECSTATIC WITH THIS DISCOVERY! Well, i shouldn't say "we" I was ecstatic and Clinton was relieved........ ; )

Poor guy had to listen to me for the last four days. One of the things that was the trouble was that I knew there were American size baby beds just across the boarder in Malaysia, but Clinton didn't want to go to Malaysia. The expense just to get there would have been about $200(we have to get a re-entry visa, pay for Malaysian car insurance, gas etc..) So i pouted for four days. So our discovery took so much pressure off of him and made me very very happy! They told us the bed would be ready by Feb 21st. Prayerfully the bedding and the bed will arrive at about the same time.

In the midst of all of my obsessing, a friend of mine from America wrote to me and said she wanted me to register and she was going to send out invitations to all my friends in America! I WAS BLOWN AWAY!! I wasn't sure if I was going to have a baby shower or not. I do have friends here in Thailand, but things are always so busy and it hasn't been mentioned so I just dealt with the fact that I might not have one, but my God is so good! When i was pregnant with Colton and Chase they didn't have baby registries. So this was a whole new experience for me. I spent hours online at BabysRUs picking and choosing things for our baby. I had so much fun. Now my friend will have everyone ship the items to her and she'll send them to me!! God is sooo good!!

I mentioned to Clinton that I would love to have a big tree with jungle animals painted on the wall.... and he's already drawn an example on a sheet of paper and has the tree sketched on the wall! He's soooo wonderful! Did I mention that he's SOOOOO WONDERFUL!!! We picked out paint yesterday and he'll start the project next weekend. ; )

As the we progress I'll post pictures! It's gonna be so much fun!! WE'RE GONNA HAVE A BABY IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!