Horton Hears a Who

Last fall when I was pregnant, I started purchasing sale items at GAP as early as 12w! I figured whatever gender I did not have, I could give the stuff to my multiple friends who were all pregnant (Plus it was a 90 day return policy back then, not 30 days). This time, being more cautious, I've not indulged and bought any clothes. However, with my u/s within the 30 day return policy of the store, and feeling more optimistic...I've caved and bought something.

Many months ago, before I was even pg. Dooce posted in Daily photo the cutest ever Horton Hears a Who pink onsie. She said she got it at Costco, and I was not foolish enough to even attempt to check the 2 Costcos here. But I adored the onsie and did a few google searches for a boy and girl one of it, but never found it.

Today, while wandering through GAP, I saw this onsie. Not quite the same, but I love Horton Hears a Who (loved Jim Carrey's protrayal of Horton in the movie) and decided to buy it. Unfortunately it had hit the sale table, so I only got 10% off vs my regular 50%. boo. I walked to the boy side of the infant section but unfortunately they did not have anything close to the same.

So I've "cracked" the seal and bought my first pc of clothing for this baby. I tucked the receipt away, bc at 17w, I'm now more thinking I'll have to return it bc we are having a boy vs losing the baby.

I also took on the task of sorting through N's packed up clothes the other night. She has 3 huge bins, and I mean HUGE. I can't even lift them once they are full. Anyway, I decided to go through and see what I still liked and what I wanted to sell. I managed to get through 2 of the 3 bins and get it sorted (lesson learned, do not pack stuff up all willy nilly :P). The last bin is newborn stuff (when I was sound of mind and packed it by size, not just tossed it in), which I decided to wait until after the u/s to sort through. Most of it is all neutral colours as we did not know N's gender, so I'll probably keep quite a bit of it. If this little guy is a boy, I'll have a lot of photo taking and clothes to sell! I will definitely be keeping a few favourite items though as keepsakes.

In other exciting news, my poor little naval has stretched out already. It's not popped out, it is just stretching and flattening out like it did when I was pregnant with Tash. On the plus side, there is no room for lint or dirt to hide. :P

I'm still a bit nervous though. I'm now entering (soon) the 'danger zone' as I call it. It's typical between 18w - 21w for one's cervix to start to shorten OR start to funnel if you have IC/WC. So that has me a bit scared. I felt so happy when I hit 14w and no bleeding started and then 16w3d and my waters did not break. I'm scared now that a cerclage (which I'm trying so hard to avoid) will be in my future or full on bedrest. I'll definitely get a cerclage if my doctor recommends it, but I'd rather try bedrest first if that's possible. sigh.