i don't know how this is possible. oh wait, yes i do -- i'm addicted to buying baby clothes. i began the process of organizing Audrey's closet and unpacking and organizing clothes last night to start baby laundry. Will's mom also asked me to do inventory and see what size we should start shopping for next...i think we both have an addiction! after an hour of pulling off tags and piling everything together in the crib, i started to run out of room. the crib was overflowing so i had to start using a hamper for the last few things.
i think it's safe to say that we don't need anymore blankets, newborn, 3 month, and 6 month clothes! it actually works out pretty well because her 9 month clothes will fit her next summer so hopefully i'll be able to stock up now that all of the summer outfits have started going on clearance. 12 month clothes will fit her next fall so i can just pick those up when all of the new collections come out!
i'm glad i'm starting on the baby laundry now while i still have the energy! pregnancy insomnia has slowly taken over my life. what started out as just a few occurances, has turned into a nightly problem. i can't get comfortable and i hear every little noise. i tend to sleep best after 4 am, that is until the neighbor's dogs wake me up. she has three boxer/pit mixes that she keeps in a small pen in her backyard. every morning at 8 am she brings them outside and puts them in the pen for the remainder of the day. it wouldn't be a big deal if they didn't bark constantly. they bark and everything. cars, each other, and i guess the air because it just never stops. this 8 am rude awakening even happens on saturday and sunday mornings. there is no escape. a few weekends ago after a particularly rough night, i woke up to 'bark! bark! bark! bark!' as usual at 8 am. i got up, put on jeans and a t-shirt, and left without saying a word to Will. i walked up to the neighbor's front door and knocked on it very calmly. then.... i unleashed the wrath of a tired, cranky pregnant lady. it went a little something like this...
"hello. i live next door and i don't know if you realize this or not but your dogs wake us up every single day at 8 am. they bark constantly. we've lived here for a while now and we've tolerated it so far, but this cannot go on. in two months we are going to have a newborn baby in our house and if you cannot get your dogs under control and keep the noise down you're going to have some serious problems. waking me and my husband up is one thing, but waking up our new baby is quite another. i will make calls, and i will not stop until the barking stops. sleep deprived parents will be your worst nightmare."
i then turned around and walked away. she didn't even have a chance to speak. could i have handled it better? probably, but that is what awesome husbands are for. things were better for a few days after that but then it started up again so Will went over there to try a more civil approach, and also apologize for his crazy wife's behavior :)
but as it turns out, i'm not the crazy one! the woman is in some paradise of denial because she told Will that it wasn't her dogs that barked like that, it was the dogs across the street (wrong). she said that they are good dogs and never bark so we are complaining to the wrong person (again, wrong). she then changed tactics and begged him not to get her dogs taken away from her (which is not our intent, we just want some bark collars and discipline please!) because they are her watch dogs. she told him how her husband committed suicide a few months ago but people believe that she actually was the one who killed him, so her dogs protect her from her accusers (from their pen in the backyard? hmm). Will was very patient and tried to reason with her, but gave up after thirty minutes or so. she must have taken to him more than he intended because a few days later a love letter showed up at the house from her asking if he would be the positive male influence in her and her dogs lives that they so badly needed since her husband is no longer around. she has yet to receive a reply :) we are still trying to be patient but she is still continuously violating the noise ordinance for the town we live in and i will not tolerate anything disturbing Audrey's sleep patterns when she arrives. any suggestions on how to handle this without drawing enemy lines would be appreciated!
Will is in Pennsylvania this week and i am in baby project heaven. it's so much fun working on getting things ready for her and it's also nice for Will to come home and see the progress made instead of the mess that i create along the way. i've never looked forward to doing laundry before and all of those teeny tiny clothes have somehow made a big laundry pile!
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