Little Green Baby

Yay! We're finally getting started on creating our Little Green Nursery in our Little Green Cottage. But first, some Frequently Asked Questions about the Little Green Baby. Oops. That makes him/her sound like a martian. Oh well.

How did you tell Scott?

I basically took the test early one morning, climbed back into bed with him and shoved it in his face yelling, "Do you see that line?" So much for the cute ways you read about on message boards like gift-wrapped onesies with the dad's favorite team on them etc. No creativity here.

Are you having a boy or a girl?

We have no idea, and that's just fine with us. We're planing to wait until the birth to find out. We're not pink or blue types anyway. Can you imagine a lacy pink room or a sports motif in my house? Oh boy. I have yet to hear why finding out is better than not and I think we'll stay what they call Team Green until then.

Where will you put the baby?

I'm sure most people can't tell that we have a two bedroom house since there are no door separating our bedroom from the smaller one and we basically use the spare room as a catch-all/dressing room for ourselves.  That's going to have to change. We have a lot of organizing and cleaning out to do, but the small center bedroom in our house is an actual room, and it will become the nursery.

Are you going to do Attachment Parenting?

We are not philosophy people. We have not determined a parenting philosophy by which we will make all of our decisions and allow it to guide us. We don't know if we're co-sleepers or cry-it-out parents. And I give the side-eye to anyone who claims to know at 20 weeks pregnant. There are parts of several doctrines that sound great and quite a few that sound wacky. If I had it my way I would have an excellent sleeper who loved his/her crib in his/her room from day one, and who breastfeeds like a champ, who I can cloth diaper, feed organic homemade baby food, and who has a peaceful demeanor and rarely cries. I can barely type that without laughing so I won't hold my breath. We'll do what works for the basic personality and temperament of  the baby. That's about all I can promise at this point.

When will you have another?

Again, no promises. Let's see if we can take care of one first and then we'll see.