To buy or not to buy

One difficult thing about wishing, hoping, and waiting to adopt is the whole putting together a nursery and layette.  I mean, on one hand, you don't want to be caught completely unprepared.  But  the flip side is that  it can get depressing looking at a baby room that is entirely complete, minus the baby, for a year or more.  Our caseworker recommends that couples do not decorate a baby's room.  We have a room set aside for the baby we hope to have, but it's pretty generic.  It contains the crib and baby toys we still have from when my boys were babies.  I'm pretty sure I haven't bought any girl baby clothes yet because I figure I can do that in a short amount of time, and who knows how old our baby will be?  While we would prefer a newborn, we might get a 6 month old.  So, that's hard to predict.  But now that my friend Lisa is starting to close down her online baby clothes store Bugaboo Park , I may have to break down and buy some stuff.

I really want to have a cute room put together at some point.  I've bought Disney paint called "A Wave of the Wand."  I have butterfly wall appliques.  I even got an adorable crib mobile with a princess/butterfly theme.  But they are all put away in the closet until we get that magical phone call.

One thing I don't have is a changing table.  I had one, but Daniel tried to climb up on it, just for fun, when he was about six.  That changing table had a weight limit of about 20 lbs.  The shelves crumbled.  So, I was shopping for a new one at sears.com.  I found the craziest changing table with stairs!  If I had owned a changing table like this one, Daniel probably couldn't have broken it.

When I saw this changing table, I couldn't stop laughing.  Aside from the fact that it costs  over $500, I was just thinking, who would buy this?  Maybe if you owned a daycare.  Or if you had twins or triplets.  I remember the days when I was sure that my  boys would never be potty trained, and it might have been nice to have this then, just so I knew I was going to be ok if they were in diapers until they went off to college.  But seriously, I don't know many kids that can safely navigate stairs and are still in diapers.  And you probably shouldn't need to wear a special apron (like the woman in the picture) to change a toddler, although it could be incredibly helpful when changing a baby boy.

This reminded me of the time when Daniel was a toddler, and he was out in the hall with Wayne at church.  Daniel suddenly came running into the Sunday School class I was in and announced, "Mom, I need a clean diaper!  Can you change me?"  Initially, I was a little embarrassed.  I quickly became more embarrassed when someone said that anyone old enough to ask for a clean diaper was old enough to be potty-trained.  But Daniel was less than 2 years old!  

In the end, I will probably get a changing table that is a little cheaper and more traditional.

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

Hope you all had a great day full of love!  We had a whole weekend of it.  Wayne and I went to dinner at Tepanyaki's on Friday.  Afterwards, we went to see "April Ann" at the Hale Center Theater.  Very cute play.  The kids in it were adorable.  Wayne's mom babysat, as she usually does when we go to plays at the Hale Center.

Here's our cell phone pic from Tepanyaki's:

  

Earlier on Friday, I helped out in Benjamin's class at school.  I was in charge of the craft, and we decorated pencils.  I figured the kids needed a craft that wasn't loaded with sugar, considering how much of it they were going to get at the party anyway.  We also helped the kids pass out the valentines.  That was challenging on a number of levels.  First, just interpreting kindergarten handwriting.  Second, some kids have really unusual names these days, and even though I have volunteered in Benjamin's class a few times, I couldn't  figure them all out   Luckily, Benjamin knows all the kids in his class, so he helped me out a lot.  And I really couldn't blame the moms who obviously wrote out their kid's valentines themselves, or left the "to" section blank.  It made my job easier.

On Saturday, Wayne and Daniel went to the BYU basketball game for their "Daddy Daniel Date."  Benjamin didn't want to go.  He loves participating in a variety of sports, but he doesn't usually have the patience to watch them.  Instead, he wants to go ice skating next week for his "Daddy Benny Date."   Daniel and Benjamin have been doing special one-on-one activities with Wayne every month or two since they were very little.  The love it.  Basically, they choose an activity and a place to eat, and Wayne takes them.  Sometimes Daniel and Benjamin both go, but usually they prefer individual time with Dad.

Today was much less exciting, especially since I spent most of the day in bed with a migraine.  I wasn't eating breakfast, so Wayne brought me a paper breakfast in bed.  The black strips are "bacon" and say "sorry I burned the bacon."  That's my silly, adorable, creative husband.  Joining in the fun, Benjamin made me a paper lunch in bed, including a pop tart.  And everyone was amazingly quiet so that I could rest until my headache went away.  I have the best family.

 

We love Valentine's Day!