I'm QBert's Dad

Nuff said.

Babies R Expensive!

Hello and welcome to our blog!  Tom and I are so excited to be welcoming our first baby, fondly called "Qbert" until further notice.  Now that we are approaching our second trimester, we thought it would be fun to start blogging about our baby adventures.  We are due 7/18/08.  Yes, we do plan on finding out the sex, but we won't know until the end of February.  No, we're not sharing the name until Qbert arrives!

 Tom and I just returned from our first baby shopping extravaganza.  This was mostly a fact-finding mission.  After traveling for the past week we couldn't think of a more relaxing way to spend the last day of the year, then in baby superstores.  We started at Baby Depot.  The store by us is fairly rundown and jumbled together.  We spent a long time looking at strollers, car seats, cribs and bedding.  I actually started tearing up at some of the infant clothes --- I blame the hormones!  We found a few things we liked - most notably a high chair and a glider.  We decided to check out Babies R Us as well.  Their selection was far better than the Baby Depot and I quickly went into product overload.  I did, however, find a crib and bedding set that I really liked.  Tom is holding out for a dinosaur bedding set, but I like the animals!

We spent a while looking at strollers.  The big fancy ones look great, but I can barely lift them and can hardly imagine getting them in and out of the car every day.  We found a smaller one that would probably work well, but we still want to do more research.

At some point I just hit a wall and told Tom I was done.  As we were leaving he asked me what we learned today.  I replied "Babies R Expensive".