Registering....

   Friday night rolled around and as I skipped out of work I had the bright idea that Mason and I should go and start our baby registry this evening since really, what else is there for us to do!  I ran that idea by him and he thought it was great. 
   Now, a little background.  We have registered once before for our wedding. We each got a gun and scanned until our little hearts content.  That is the reason Xbox Live ended up on our registry as did Bluetooth video game headsets.  But really, who cares about a wedding registry?  If you only get 3 of the towels you registered for then you alternate those 3.  Only get 5 plates, perfect, you have enough to have 3 people over.  My point being, I don't think very many people go out and "complete" their wedding registry because they don't have the money and its just not that big of a deal.  Welllllll, I felt COMPLETELY different about this baby registry.  For me, the scariest part of having twins is not the raising them part its the paying for them part. Daycare alone will be more than our mortgage payment so I am all about maximizing our money at this point.  People have offered us things and we have turned NOTHING down. We bought our cribs on sale and our biggest expense for the nursery will really be new carpeting as there is currently nothing but concrete because one large, white pitbull ATE the carpet in the room.  So to me, we need to get most everything on our registry so we don't have to come out of pocket for it later....However, I guess I never relayed these feelings to Mason. So he approached baby registering with the "get whatever" attitude that we approached wedding registering. I, however, had a checklist, a pencil, and my phone handy to look up customer reviews.  I had also put a post on a multiples website asking for suggestions and I have pinned 576968 different posts to Pinterest about "surviving twins" or "10 things you must have with your twins" or "3 things that saved me from going insane with twins" etc...so this was a MISSION for me.  All I needed was a sweatband and water bottle really. 
    We arrived at Babies R' Us and I should have known I was in trouble when the lady asked if we each wanted a gun.  It was like in the movies we said "no" and "yes" at the same time...I was the one who said no if you were wondering.  Well, he was having none of that so we took off with our individual scanners and our checklist and we headed to the first aisle.  Let me also stop here and point out that Babies R' Us is what I imagine hell must be like.  It is overwhelming and it makes me feel like a bad mom and my kids aren't even here yet.  So, anyway, we are on the first aisle. I am reading the top of the checklist and musing out loud of where we should start and I hear the scanner dinging. I look up and Mason is holding a sheep/lamb combo of some sort  saying "look its a gift set" and I said "whoa whoa, whoa, a giftset of what" and he replies that its the lamb that makes the womb sound that you can put in babies crib.  I thought that sounded nice so I looked a little further and found just the lamb for half the price and I suggested that we get two of those instead.  As the words are coming out of my mouth, the gun is still dinging.  Long story short, our registry currently has NINE different lamb/sheep/lamb sheep combos/womb sound machines on  it and we had been there for 5 minutes.
     Next, we moves onto the breast feeding aisle.  I knew I needed several things there so I was going about looking at the difference between disposable nursing pads and washable pads, lanolin vs. other creams and THE GUN IS DINGING FROM THE NEXT AISLE.  What is HAPPENING?  HE IS NOT FOLLOWING THE CHECKLIST OR THE FLOW OF THE AISLES AT ALL? I know I am very Type A and I need routine and a spreadsheet and a schedule etc. to feel comfortable and Mason IS NOT, so I cautiously called out "babe, what did you find" and I think he yelled something like "Boogie Wipes" or something and I politely suggested he join me back on this aisle (as to get back on schedule). I hastily scanned a bunch of crap for breastfeeding because he was ready to start on bottles.  He felt very strongly we needed to use Dr. Brown's bottles which is fine because I have read up on them so we read on the checklist we need a starter kit so we found two of those.  Then I tell him we need different nipples and he says "why" and I told him they might chew them, they get lost in the dishwasher etc. and the difference between slow flow, medium flow and as his eyes glazed over I just pointed at what to scan.  We began scanning a million nipples and then realized they were 2 packs.  So yes, we are the people that registered for 20 bottles and 65 nipples...its fine. 
    Then it was time for the bath aisle. This happens to be my favorite and its what I give the most at showers.  I like to buy the bath tub, the baby washes, the washcloths and the little robe and give it as a gift.  So I tell Mason I am going to scan the lavender nighttime bath wash and lotion because I love the smell and he says "I like Burts Bees....".  I replied that Johnsons is $4 a bottle and the Burt's Bees is $14.99 and that when we run out of the 1 bottle of Burt's Bees on the off chance someone gives it to us, I am coming back and buying Johnsons because we can get 4 bottles of that for the same price as the Burt's Bees.  Johnsons made the registry list.  I could go on and on because we were there for hours and we really barely scratched the surface and our registry has like 219 items on it.  But I learned a lesson...when its time to go register at Target I am taking my Sonic drink, my yellow memo pad and my pencil and going ALONE!!!  Mason is a wonderful husband and I know he will be a great dad and really, what was most shocking of the evening was that he had an opinion.  Usually, he feels strongly about so little that he just defers to me....maybe I've gotten used to that! But, lets be honest, when he is changing a diaper and putting cream on a behind he won't care/know the difference if its Boudreaux's Butt Paste or Desitin!  Such fun Friday nights we have!
   Saturday was my sister and Ted's couples shower.  It was so cute and Katie did such a great job on it. They got lots of great stuff and I know they had a blast because there was football!!! Afterwards, we ventured out to the fair with my brother and sister-in-law and it was AWFUL. I LOVE the fair but I have never been when it was this crowded and it took all the fun out of it.  The food lines were 30 people deep, you couldn't even walk down the main walkways you just kind of oozed along with the crowd.  We were there maybe an hour...enough to eat a corn dog, a caramel apple with nuts, and look at the cars.  It will be interesting to see how we do the fair next year since we will have
6/7 month olds and I think that's too young but we shall see.
    Sunday, we ate Babe's for lunch where I ate all vegetables because its all I care about these days. Afterwards, Melissa and I ran around and did some Christmas shopping and finally came home where I cleaned out my kitchen in preparation for our garage sale on the 1st.  Needless to say, it was HARD getting out of bed this morning. 
   I laid in bed last night OBSESSED thinking about closets...specifically the twins closets.  We are cramming two babies in one room with one dresser so that translates to...the closet must be a ninja organized masterpiece. I am trying to get my thoughts under control but lets just say I did some closet planning online today and it brought about a sense of calm that is so sad to get from a closet. I wish it was free...
   Here are a few pregnancy updates:

*  I still HATE meat and crave salad and fruit and carbs.  I am going to start adding protein powder to my strawberry smoothies this week because I know I need the protein.
*  Lots of lower pelvic pain these past weeks.  I am told its because my ligaments are stretching to make room for the babies...
*  I am still sleeping sort of on my belly. I lodge my boppy pillow up under my stomach and prop myself against it but it is starting to not be as comfortable which is a MAJOR bummer because I am all sorts of a belly sleeper with one leg hanging out of the covers.
*  Pregnancy dreams are INSANE and what is even more insane is I can remember them pretty vividly when I wake up...crazy.
*  I really hate eating. Those who know me well know this is not me AT ALL.  But things sound good for a fleeting moment and if I don't get whatever it is pretty quickly...I'm over it.  I really do try things with meat but they just don't sit well.  The saddest part is, Mexican is just not my friend...this is a problem.
*  I may have a popsicle addiction.  My record is 4 before bed last week while watching TV, poor Mason kept getting up and bringing them to me until he finally just looked at me and said "really" and I took that as my cue to stop for the evening.
*  The only drink that sounds any good to me most days is water and I HATE water...what are these children doing to me!?

  In 4 short weeks I will be about halfway done with this pregnancy and that is AMAZING to me! We head back to the doctor on the 3rd of November for our gender scan and to check for more stuff that could be wrong and is gonna scare the bejeebies out of me until then. I am looking forward to them being able to hear and for me to start feeling them move!  Thanks for reading and have a great week!!!