ELO

I can't believe I'm halfway through my pregnancy. I never thought I'd get here. At the beginning of my pregnancy, I could have told you how many weeks and days I was pregnant. Now its hard for me to remember the week. I guess with the horrible morning sickness I was just counting down the days til I got better in that magical week 17. The deadlines that I looked forward to at the beginning were so close because I was always wondering if I would make it to the next day and hoping that today would be the last day I was sick. I'm losing track of the weeks now because I'm waiting for that day that seems so far away, August 2. All I have to look forward to now are doctor's visits and registering for baby stuff at Babies R Us and Target.

But I'm keeping myself occupied by trying to get the nursery in order. I didn't realize how far behind I was until I noticed that a friend of mine already had hers completed a few weeks ago, and she is only a month ahead of me in her pregnancy. During my lunch break, I pore over everything on the BRU website, reading reviews and wondering if people actually register for some of the stuff that BRU tells you to register for. Some of it seems so embarrassing that I would much rather buy it for myself. My brother has promised to get me that kind of stuff though, so no need for me to worry I guess.

As I'm registering, I constantly wonder who came up with the stupid idea that girls have to wear pink and boys have to wear blue. Adult women wear blue and adult men wear pink. Why can't they do it as babies, too? And why do all of the clothes for girls have flowers and butterflies on them? Anyone who knows me knows that I would have a hard time putting something like that on my child, yet I know I'm gonna receive stuff like that for her. But my mother reminds me that it will be better to put my daughter in pink clothes, otherwise people will think she's a boy because you can't tell what a baby is just by looking at it.