The Hood Experiment - Part I (pre-baby) - Baby Registering and Morphing

Registering:

So things are coming along with us and all seems to be going well and everyone is feeling good.  Baby is growing and we assume this because my belly button looks like it might pop out very very soon.  Brett finds this absolutely hilarious and I do NOT, as belly buttons, along with toes and veins really creep me out! I might have to put a bandaid over it for the next few months :(

We realized the other day that this pregnancy is already half over and February 28th is going to be here before we know it, YIKES.  We weren't sure where to begin this process of preparing for a baby but since some baby showers are marked on the calendar, we thought it would be best to begin registering!  The city of Chicago seems to only specialize in expensive boutique baby stores so drove to the burbs and hit up one of the big baby superstores.  Neither of us had any clue what to expect, all we could relate to was registering for our wedding, but even that is different because we had a better sense of what we needed.

What I had learned from wedding registering is that Brett LOVES to register and loves the price gun, so of course, when the  gun was offered, he grabbed immediately and headed towards the first aisle.  He had lots of fun and just about scanned everything!!!!  I would walk away for a bit and all I could hear was that scanner working over time.........thank goodness registry lists can be edited online.

The aisles just seemed endless, neither of us realized how many things there are for babies.  We got to the bottle aisle and were both totally overwhelmed, there are seriously a million different types of bottle brands to choose from.  Then there were wipe warmers (really?) and aisles of blankets and bibs.....who knew there was a receiving blanket (I still don't know what this is) and a stroller blanket (this one I can figure out).  Oh well, we tried our best and hopefully did ok.  Worst case scenario, after baby girl is born, one of us might need to make an emergency trip to the store to get something we forgot.  Thanks though to a very good (and experienced) friend for reviewing my list and making some helpful suggestions, she may have had a good laugh at some random items :)

Morphing:

We had asked our parents to send us baby pictures from the day we were born, as it is always fun to imagine what the baby will look like.  Well after receiving both pictures we got a very good laugh at baby Crissy and decided we hope baby girl takes more after her Dad than her Mom:) Of course then I had to go one more step further and use a morphing website.......well you can see the result of that baby below also.

Baby Brett (very angelic)

Baby Crissy (hmmm)

Morphed Baby (hahaha)