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Once again, Target is “spot on” with their advertising!

Choosing paint colors for the Dude’s room today…

At the Paint Store

Some of you have asked about The Dude’s room, and if we have started decorating it yet.  Not yet.  But we are planning…

Ah planning…  We’ve got all our decorations picked and registered at Target.  And we are picking up the main furniture from Babies R Us on Monday (mainly because we have coupons that are good next week only!)  The furniture will stay in the garage until my Mom gets here in September and then we are going to set it all up together.  Plus Mariki is here in 10 days, and she is small, but I am pretty sure she won’t fit in the crib!

So my Dad drew up the room and furniture to scale on Auto CAD and I have to say I am impressed!  I cut out the furniture and can move it around the room to see what fits best.  One suggestion he made was to change the closet doors to bypass doors, so they don’t swing out, giving us more room.  But I think we will look at that in December, when he’s here too.

So here’s the plan so far:

Dude's Room v1.0

The only thing is, there is no room for the couch!  The green couch in my office looks HUGE compared to the other pieces.  And the spare bed that is currently in there is going to go where the couch currently is so my parents have a place to stay when they come for a few weeks in December / January.  Hmmm.  I know it will work out.  I’ve setup enough rooms and stores to know that the stuff knows where it wants to go.  You just have to figure it out.  Plus I think it will be a lot easier once the furniture is in, so we can move it in a see how it looks in actuality.

Unfortunately, when I say “we” can move it around…  I really mean Scott.

To see the room decorations / theme, click here to go to our registry with Target and search (control F) “Tiddliwinks”

I thought I would be fine in my normal clothes for a little while longer, but I was wrong.  Scott’s mom, Linda, came up from Oklahoma City for the weekend and on Saturday we went maternity clothes shopping!  First stop was Kohl’s.

After looping the store several times without finding the maternity section, we finally asked.  It turns out it is located in “Intimates” (read: underwear).  We finally found the section, and I have to say how surprised I was that it was so small!  For the amount of pregnant women, and women with small children that I see in Tulsa, you would think the maternity clothing sections would be larger.

Anyway, I was still in resistance and figured I would only look at a few items.  But then I found a 3/4 length pair of jean with the big elastic band at the top and I figured at least for comedy’s sake it would be good to try something on.  And now I am privy to another great secret of women.  Elastic pants are SO comfy!  These babies just slide right on.  No zipper.  No button.  And the elastic goes almost up to my bra line.  So comfy.

I came out of the changing room to find both Scott and Linda flipping through the clothes.  I modeled the jeans and they even looked pretty normal, until I lifted my top to show the giant elastic that covered my whole belly!  Ok.  So NOW I feel like I am showing…

Scott found two more pairs of pants for me that fit great – green cargo pants and beige cargo pants.  Very comfy.

Although he was a great help, I think Scott was relieved to go as the Intimates section turned out to be “old lady underwear” and it was full of patrons discussing the “intimate” details of size and fit.

We spent more time at the check out than we did in the clothing section.  (I’m not a big browser).  And came out with three great pairs of turkey-eating pants!

Next stop was lunch.  Of course.  Then to Target.  I got a nice blue tank top from their (even smaller) maternity section.  It is really long, and I image it gets shorter as I get bigger.

Here’s the final result:

Only a few more weeks and I can get my roots done!

So we had a great weekend of eating, shopping, hanging out and watching movies.  It went by too fast.  But it was really lovely, because I had not realized how I was taking everything so seriously for the last few weeks, and forgot to just hang out and have fun.

Today we are off to the doctor again for a checkup.  More on this tomorrow…

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