Shopping for Little Tyke

I've entered a whole new world of SHOPPING FOR BABY! Who would have thought that a tiny little creature would require sooooo many things? And who would have thought there would be sooooo much studying involved in choosing those things?

So I decided to cheat and have the answers given to me on-line. ConsumerReports.org has been a total time saver and I highly recommend it. I go to the product I'm concentrating on,,,say for instance DIAPERS. And it gives me:

1) a basic rundown on the differences between cloth and disposable diapers
2) reasons why I would choose one or the other
3) estimated costs of each of them
4) how many I need to start

This is all really great information for me who has never had any experience at all with baby diapering...or babies in general! :) So after lots of reading and product comparisons on ConsumerReports.org, I was able to wisely choose a crib, stroller, car seat, and a bunch of other essentials.

Whew! Well luckily TARGET has everything! I thought about registering with Babies R Us, Pottery Barn and other stores, but Target seems to have all the right items at all the right prices. No need to spend a bunch of extra money at specialty stores when Little Tyke is gonna grow out of it all so fast. We'll save the money for tennis and golf lessons...and college too I suppose! (Nope, no adventure racing for LT...too dangerous! ;-))

There's a whale in the pool!
I'm now 25 weeks into this pregnancy and about 25 extra pounds into it also. It's been rough carrying all this extra weight but swimming has helped tremendously. The more I swim, the better I feel and the stronger my back gets which helps me sleep better.

There are sharks in the kitchen!
My highly anticipated "nesting" phase has arrived but not in the form of cleaning and organizing. It's come in the form of CUPCAKE MAKING! These are my latest creations...

I guess the up side to this form of nesting is that I don't really like sweets so I don't eat them. I just make them for other people so put in your orders now folks!