Making a list, checking it ....more than once

I've got to say, for somebody who's not even here yet, brayden has definitely made his presence felt. Not that our place is all that big, but we are wall-to-wall baby gear. In fact, I think our apartment is being classified as a satellite store for babies R' us. With somewhere around two weeks until Brayden's arrival, stephanie and i have been accumulating a lot of the "necessities" for our new life +1. And although we seemingly have everything you could possibly need, i'm sure there is something we're overlooking.

I suppose one of the first things we're going to need is some means of transportation to get him home from the hospital, I hear the food is pretty nasty so i'd prefer to not move in. I've also seen the "bed" that i'll be "sleeping" in at the hospital, if you can classify a recliner built for an Umpa-Lumpa a bed. Assuming i can figure out how to get this thing secured in the car we should be ok (where's brooke and her 4 day class on how to install this thing when you need her).


I guess we'll need to dress the kid, for a couple of different reasons, not that there's anything wrong with being naked, but.......Anyway, we've got plenty of little clothes that'll most likely be worn about 1 or 2 times before he outgrows them.



From what I hear Brayden's not going to be doing all that much in the first couple of weeks of life but sleeping, which we've got him covered there. Depending on where we put him in this bassinet, that last statement might be both literal and figurative.


I hear he's going to be going through a lot of diapers. we've got a stockpile of about 300+ diapers, which i hear is good for about a week or so.


We'll probably want to feed him too, so he can get to outgrowing the 0-3's. We're going to give this breastfeeding thing a shot, and since this is a PG-13 website, we're going to be skipping that picture. We can, however, show you the reserves that we have built up for stephanie and myself in anticipation of brayden's arrival.

In case you were counting, its 3 containers of ice cream (mint chocolate chip, moose tracks, and coffee), 4 boxes of ice cream sandwiches, 1 box of klondike bars, 2 flav-o-ices, and 1 superman stick. I'd like to say that this constitutes stephanie's pickles and ice cream pregnancy craving, but in reality, about half of that stash is mine and its just barely above par (although we usually have some frosty-paws in there for the dogs).

Along with all of that we've got all kinds of hooded towels, receiving blankets, lotions and creams (my favorite of which being Boudreaux's Butt Cream), thermometers, clippers........you name it.....we've got it. The only thing we don't have at this point is a baby. So to quote the great Rod Roddy, "Brayden, come on down!!!!!" (although most people would think that was Bob Barker, it was actually the announcer Rod Roddy and his eletrifying jackets who should receive the proper credit for that classic quote).